Chapter 92 Zhou Yaya's Public Apology
Apology, compensation?
When Wen Ning heard these two words, he felt only mockery.
At that time, she was framed and full of grievances, but no one understood or trusted her. She was the one who was in pain and despair.
She was locked up in a sanatorium as a mental patient, enduring insults and beatings from those people every day, and her physical and mental health were on the verge of collapse.
Can all that she had suffered in the past be erased?
It's impossible. No matter what kind of apology or compensation, it's all hindsight to her and has no effect at all.
But when she met Zhou Qinghe's nervous and anxious eyes, it was like a warm current moistening her long-dried heart.
Her brother has always been consistent and has been doing his best to protect her.
Wen Ning curled his lips slightly, "Thank you, brother."
Hearing these five words, Zhou Qinghe's eyes became sore and tears flowed out uncontrollably.
He quickly turned his wheelchair around, facing Wen Ning sideways, and after catching his breath, he spoke in a hoarse voice, "This is what my brother should have done a long time ago. Okay, I have to go out for something. You should rest well at home."
Wen Ning hummed softly.
Zhou Qinghe pushed the wheelchair downstairs in a panic.
It was not until he walked out of the villa and was blown by the cool night breeze outside that Zhou Qinghe finally let the tears flow down his eyes.
When I discussed this matter with Zhou Donghai in the study.
Zhou Donghai disagreed at first. If this matter was exposed now, Zhou Yaya's reputation would be ruined, which would affect her engagement with Shen Xufeng and also tarnish the Zhou family's reputation. No matter how you look at it, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, so she asked him to put the overall situation first!
Zhou Donghai gave two reasons.
Firstly, Wen Ning's external identity was just an adopted daughter with a mental illness. After she committed that crime three years ago, they didn't put her in jail. Instead, they paid a high fee to send her to a top-notch sanatorium for recuperation. This matter received a lot of praise three years ago.
Second, this has already happened and there is no way to reverse time, so there is no need to mention it again.
For the first time, Zhou Qinghe had a clear understanding of Zhou Donghai's coldness and ruthlessness.
In his eyes, Wen Ning was like a commodity. As long as the commodity was beautiful and luxurious and could decorate the door lintel, it didn't matter whether the commodity had been wronged or was unhappy.
No, it wasn't just Wen Ning, he was the same. He also began to suspect that Zhou Donghai was fully aware of the car accident and the poisoning of his legs, but he felt that he was just a useless sickly person who was useless.
So Zhou Qinghe told this matter.
Zhou Donghai and Zhou Qingci were both shocked for a moment, but before they could discuss the issue.
Zhou Qinghe said that since he would be a disabled person for the rest of his life and his sister had become mentally ill, the two families had abandoned their son and daughter, so he decided to completely leave the Zhou family.
Of course, after they break away, they will definitely expose the truth of these things. At that time, no matter whether the Zhou family wants to kill them or not, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, the two of them are not afraid of anything as long as they die.
Zhou Qinghe had no other chips in his hand, so he could only choose this method of dying in glory rather than living in disgrace.
But what he was betting on was not Zhou Donghai's change of heart, but the value of the interests involved.
It is better to push Zhou Yaya out to bear the bad reputation now than for Zhou Qinghe and Wen Ning to be killed in a fight and completely destroy the reputation of the Zhou family.
Therefore, Zhou Donghai finally agreed to sacrifice Zhou Yaya.
However, the next day, Zhou Yaya did not come to apologize as promised.
Instead, Zhou Qingci came over and said that he would take some time to hold a graduation banquet and a family reunion banquet. At the banquet, he would ask Zhou Yaya to apologize in public, which would appear more sincere.
The graduation banquet was naturally to celebrate Wen Ning's high score of 701 in the exam, which made him the top scorer in the liberal arts in the province.
As for the family recognition banquet, what kind of family recognition is it?
Zhou Qingci seemed to have not slept all night. There was a dark spot under his eyes and his face did not look good at all.
"Ningning, you were wronged back then. I know you're angry, but we were also deceived. Now that we know the truth, you're asking Zhou Yaya to apologize to you immediately and to reveal your true identities. What else do you want?"
The impatient tone was exactly the same as when he accused her of being unreasonable three years ago.
Wen Ning's eyes were filled with a hint of sarcasm as he retorted, "When I was abducted, I had no choice. When I was wrongly accused and drugged, you didn't give me a choice either. I've always been forced to obey you. How do I live my life?"
Listening to the girl's cold and sarcastic words.
Zhou Qingci couldn't help but recall the scene where he personally forced Wen Ning to go to the sanatorium.
At that time, Wen Ning knelt beside his legs, begging him again and again with a sad expression.
She said that she really did not drug Shen Xufeng and that she was wrongly accused. She could call the police and have them investigate, and they would definitely clear her name.
She also said that after she went to college, she would work hard to earn money and return all the money to the Zhou family. She could go back to live in the welfare home and would never cause trouble to the Zhou family again!
But what he said at that time was that he acted like an older brother and said that if you do something wrong you must take responsibility and you cannot evade responsibility!
In the end, he even felt annoyed by Wen Ning's unrepentant attitude, so he pinched her neck and threatened her to shut up and not make any sound!
Recalling what happened that day.
Zhou Qingci felt as if his heart was being cut inch by inch with a sharp knife.
He clenched his fists, his voice a little dry, "Ningning, don't be like this."
Wen Ning smiled. "Three years ago, you were the ones who didn't want me to recognize my ancestral roots. Now you're the ones forcing me to do so. I want to say, please stop doing this."
Zhou Qingci was humiliated by Wen Ning's few words.
In the end, he could only leave a sentence, "It will definitely be a good thing for you to be registered in the Zhou family. Think about it carefully."
After saying that, he left in a somewhat embarrassed manner.
Over the next few days, servants from the main house came over and delivered a lot of things, including food and useful things, most of which were things that Wen Ning was not worthy of three years ago.
Wen Ning looked at the box full of gifts and felt numb.
As the saying goes, belated love is cheaper than grass.
Looking at these two gifts now, they look like weeds on the roadside.
A few more days passed like this.
The graduation banquet was held grandly in the Zhou family’s main residence.
Many of the Zhou family’s business partners were invited to attend, as were several teachers from University A, but for Wen Ning, the most important person was Gu Boyan.
"The adopted daughter of the Zhou family is amazing. She scored 701 points in the college entrance examination. This score is not something that ordinary people can get."
"Hey, this girl isn't an adopted daughter. She's the Zhou family's biological daughter who's been living away from home. Zhou Yaya is the adopted daughter!"
"Also, the drugging incident three years ago wasn't done by Wen Ning. It was done by Zhou Yaya, who framed Wen Ning."
"The Zhou family are a bunch of fools. They actually allowed their adopted daughter to harm their biological daughter like this."
Those present today are all the powerful and wealthy people in City A.
The richer a family is, the more they value their bloodline and offspring.
Therefore, when the story of the fake daughter framing the real daughter was exposed, the upper class circles, which had not been lively for a long time, became lively again.
Although today is just a small graduation banquet, many people came to attend it just to get a better understanding of gossip at the venue.
Zhou Yaya hid behind the curtains on the balcony, listening to everyone's discussion at the banquet, feeling so angry!
Originally, she planned to pretend to be unconscious to avoid Zhou Qinghe, and then go to the Zhou family to play the victim, maybe this matter could be let go.
But she didn't expect that when she woke up after pretending to faint, she received many greeting messages. Without exception, they were basically asking about the incident three years ago where she staged and staged the drugging and framed Wen Ning.
The most hateful thing was that Shen Xufeng actually called her to question why she had wrongly accused Wen Ning and why she wanted to separate him and Wen Ning!
But it was obvious that she had carried out this plan with Shen Xufeng's tacit consent!
Zhou Yaya immediately vomited blood in anger.
That night, Zhou Donghai came to her again and said that he would hold a graduation banquet for Wen Ning in a few days and asked her to apologize to Wen Ning in public at the venue!
After hearing the news, Zhou Yaya was so angry that her heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys were blocked and she couldn't sleep all night!
However, there was a benefit to not sleeping all night, because she thought of the only way to break the deadlock.
At this moment, hiding on the balcony, Zhou Yaya suppressed the anger in her heart and made a phone call, "Hello, Dean, are you here?"
......
Wen Ning was still in the villa at this time.
She had no expectations for the graduation banquet.
The two cooks were the ones who had more thoughts. Sometimes they were worried that Wen Ning would be bullied when he went to the main house, and sometimes they were worried that there were too many people inside and they wouldn't be able to eat.
So I made a lot of delicious pastries in the kitchen in advance so that she could fill her stomach first and avoid being hungry later.
Coconut purple sweet potato cake, pine nut milk pastry, candied lotus root, glazed eight-treasure cake...all kinds of exquisitely shaped and sweet-tasting cakes filled the small square table.
Wen Ning did not refuse this kindness. He ate several pieces of cakes and drank some pear, lotus root and lily soup before preparing to leave for the main house.
Zhou Qinghe just happened to come out of the room, so Wen Ning went over to help him push the wheelchair.
Zhou Qinghe was the first to think of saying, "When Zhou Yaya apologizes to you later, you don't have to give her face. If you shouldn't forgive her, then don't forgive her."
Wen Ning agreed, but he was also thinking in his heart that Zhou Yaya might not apologize obediently today.
After a while, Zhou Qinghe remembered and said, "Oh, Teacher Gu, the main residence should have invited him as well. Have you contacted him? Will he come?"
Wen Ning nodded and said affirmatively, "A Yan will come."
"Ayan?" Zhou Qinghe, who was always as gentle as jade, couldn't help but lose his composure when he heard this name. His voice suddenly rose, "Why do you call him Ayan?"
Wen Ning explained, "Now that the tutoring period is over, our teacher-student relationship has ended, so we just call each other by our first names."
In fact, a few days ago, Wen Ning was not used to calling Gu Boyan's name directly.
But these days, the two of them talk on the phone almost every day, and every time she calls the wrong name, Gu Boyan will remind her to change it.
So, as the name was changed more and more, it became more and more convenient to call him Ayan.
So at this moment, he could naturally blurt out the two words "Ayan".
Zhou Qinghe's face was stern. "What did he call you?"
"Ningning." Wen Ning replied naturally.
Zhou Qinghe's face flushed instantly.
It was a pity that when the Zhou family pressed him about the relationship between Wen Ning and Gu Boyan, he had a little doubt in his heart and felt guilty for such a long time!
Now it seems that I feel so guilty!
This guy Gu Boyan definitely has ulterior motives!
What the teacher-student relationship is over? It’s all a lie to the little girl!
Zhou Qinghe took a deep breath and said with a serious face, "Ningning, we must remember to respect our teachers!"
Wen Ning nodded seriously, "I know. If A Yan hadn't helped me review and make up for the lessons during those three months, I definitely wouldn't have gotten such a high score."
Zhou Qinghe hummed and continued to express his views, "Once a teacher, always a father. Since Teacher Gu was once your teacher, he will always be your teacher..."
Just as he said this, a low and magnetic voice suddenly interrupted Zhou Qinghe.
"Ningning, Mr. Zhou."
Wen Ning looked up and saw a tall, mature man in a black suit. He called out with some joy, "A Yan!"
Gu Boyan explained with a smile, "I just went to the main house and didn't see you, so I came here to look for you."
At this moment, Bo Lu, who was standing aside, rolled his eyes when he heard this and thought to himself: Gu Boyan is such a liar. He clearly rushed straight here as soon as he entered the Zhou family and didn't even look towards the main house.
Wen Ning hummed, "My brother and I are just about to go. A Yan, let's..."
I heard them calling each other "Ayan" and "Ningning".
Zhou Qinghe's temples were throbbing, and he couldn't help coughing. "Cough! Cough! Cough!"
Wen Ning immediately asked with concern, "Brother, what's wrong? Are you cold?"
Zhou Qinghe said with a stern face, "It's okay, let's go, Teacher Gu!"
The last three words were spoken in a harsh and stern voice.
As if to emphasize something.
Gu Boyan curled his lips helplessly, then glanced at the man next to him.
Bo Lu was forced to stand up and said, "Young Master Zhou San, it's been a long time since we last met, Mr. Wen."
Wen Ning still remembered Bo Lu and greeted him politely, "Hello, Teacher Bo."
Zhou Qinghe was stunned when he heard the surname Bo.
The surname Bo is not common. As far as he knows, there is only one bloodline with the surname Bo in City A.
Could the man in front of me be...
Bo Lu seemed to see the confusion in Zhou Qinghe's eyes and took the initiative to introduce himself, saying, "I'm Bo Lu. We met at a charity dinner more than three years ago."
Zhou Qinghe then remembered.
More than three years ago, Wen Ning returned to the Zhou family and carefully took care of his body. That period was also the time when his physical condition was the best, and he was able to go out and participate in some activities occasionally.
Zhou Qinghe took the initiative to extend his hand, "Mr. Bo, nice to meet you."
Bo Lu also extended his hand to shake hands with him, and then started chatting with him naturally.
Gu Boyan and Wen Ning also walked aside naturally.
Gu Boyan mentioned, "I'm afraid that fake daughter won't apologize honestly later."
Wen Ning hummed, his expression calm, "She only has those tricks."
But when they arrived at the banquet hall of the main house.
When Wen Ning saw the middle-aged man standing in the middle of the banquet hall and greeting everyone, and several familiar boys and girls standing next to him, he clenched his fists in anger.
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