Threat
Tao Chu thought all night about how to make this leverage work to the fullest extent.
When Li Yuzhi got up, she saw her flipping through old photo albums at home.
Tao Chu turned around and called out to her, "Grandma, I'd like to use your phone."
Tao Chu glanced at the news online, focusing on her car accident late at night while driving a luxury car, and wanted to dig deeper into the Wen family behind her.
Li Pengcheng and his son silenced Cen Le, and then used their influence to drag Wen Tao and his son into the mess, thus suppressing public opinion surrounding the old case revealed by Cen Le during her live stream.
The Wen family is preoccupied with their own problems, and bringing up old cases would be of no benefit to Wen Tao. Remaining silent to protect themselves is the best course of action.
He found himself caught in a media storm, labeled as a "power-for-sex" man, and universally condemned; no one believed what he said.
Once he finds another opportunity to get rid of himself, Li Pengcheng will have no more worries.
They really had a brilliant plan, but the one thing they didn't foresee was her determination for revenge.
Perhaps the high-speed chase on the elevated highway only made Li Yue think that he had gone crazy and lost control for a moment. He probably didn't expect that she had the idea of dying together with him.
She only refrained from crashing into Li Yue's car from the rear because Wen Yunsheng was in the same car.
Tao Chu took photos while a nostalgic smile appeared on her face.
The photos include Xu Weirong's ID photo, a picture of the mother and daughter snuggling together, a candid shot of her tutoring Cen Le, and a family portrait of the three of them taken at the park entrance...
They killed her closest relatives and friends, destroyed her and Cen Le's family, how could they dare to harbor any illusions and hope that she would be afraid of power and violence and let them slaughter her?
Tao Chu registered an account, uploaded photos, edited the content, and then showed it to her grandmother.
Li Yuzhi took the phone, put on her reading glasses, and read it carefully several times: "Too much information at once, let's break it down. We don't need to tell you too much information—the news reports from back then are all there, and interested people will dig them out themselves."
Tao Chu was about to take the phone to make the changes, but Li Yuzhi didn't return it to her.
She stared at Tao Chu: "Think about it again, have you considered everything thoroughly?"
Tao Chu paused for a moment, then voiced her concern: "This matter involves the Wen family. I should have informed Wen Yunsheng first, but..."
"Are you afraid Wen Tao will stab you in the back?"
Tao Chu nodded: "After all, he did this before."
“The matter was accomplished in secrecy, and you’re not wrong.” Li Yuzhi handed the phone back to her. “Deciding not to tell the Wen family after consideration is different from not considering it at all.”
Tao Chu understood that her grandmother was afraid that she would resort to any means necessary and disregard Wen Yunsheng, who had risked his life to help her.
"Once the news gets out, I'll find a chance to tell Wen Yunsheng."
Li Yuzhi looked at her with satisfaction: "To get things done, you need to have the means, but you can't be without principles, otherwise no one will help you a second time."
Tao Guohua stayed at home for three days, afraid to go out. He took sick leave from school and didn't dare to answer a single phone call.
But I couldn't help but go online to search for news. I saw that Xu Weirong and Tao Chu's information was thoroughly exposed, and news reports and photos of the mother and daughter from back then were circulating wildly online, with a barrage of insults in the comments.
Every time Tao Guohua sees his name or photo mentioned in the photos, his heart skips a beat.
Xu Jing was furious when she saw him scrunching up and smoking one cigarette after another.
"Look at you, bringing that jinx into our home! Now look what you've done, you've 'become famous' too! How could I have married such a spineless man like you!" she cursed bitterly.
Tao Guohua was still angry and didn't want to argue with her. He pretended to get up to go find an ashtray, but Xu Jing continued to nag behind him.
Suddenly, he heard someone using a key to open the door.
"It's almost nine o'clock, why is Mom coming so late..." Tao Guohua muttered as he walked towards the door, only to see Tao Chu slip in sideways.
"That damn jinx is back again!" Xu Jing couldn't help but widen her eyes and curse in her dialect.
Tao Guohua also stopped in his tracks and asked, "You... how did you get here? Didn't you run into any reporters or anything?"
Seeing the couple's tense demeanor, Tao Chu smiled, took a few steps forward, and threw the file bag in his hand onto the coffee table, causing cigarette ash to fly from the ashtray and land on the carpet.
Xu Jing yelled, "Are you trying to die?!"
She rushed over and picked it up bit by bit, tidying it up. Tao Chu, seeing her making such a fuss over such a small thing, couldn't help but mock her:
"I suggest you check what's in the bag first; you might just knock over the ashtray yourself."
Tao Guohua couldn't understand Tao Chu's cold and sarcastic expression, and thought the child had been driven crazy.
Until Xu Jing shouted, "Tao Guohua! Get over here and take a look!"
Seeing his hesitation, Xu Jing threw the paper in her hand at him.
But the thin piece of paper was so light that it didn't fly very far before it swayed from side to side and fell down.
Tao Guohua grabbed the paper from mid-air, flipped it over, and saw the words "DNA Test Report from Gene Identification Institute" at the top. He was a little stunned.
What kind of DNA testing is used to identify the deceased?
He carefully examined the basic information of the person being examined and found that his and Xu Lingling's names were prominently displayed on it. His doubts immediately turned into shame, annoyance, and anger.
He turned and glared at Tao Chu: "What are you going to do?!"
Tao Chu still had a smile on her face: "Please do me a favor. I know that I can't ask you to do this just because of our father-daughter relationship—after all, you have more than one daughter, so I have to think of a way."
Tao Guohua took two steps toward Xu Jing, instinctively trying to distance himself from Tao Chu.
He sat on the sofa with his legs apart, slamming the report aside: "You want me to ask Sui Liyong for help?"
Xu Jing quickly sat the report under her bottom, then lifted it up slightly, and quietly pulled it out from behind her, crumpled it into a ball, and stuffed it into her pocket.
Tao Chu noticed her subtle movements: "I have as many copies as you want, including electronic versions. Do you want one?"
Xu Jing's face immediately turned ashen, and she slumped back on the sofa in a huff.
Tao Guohua impatiently pressed, "What exactly do you want?!"
There was also a photo in the file folder.
Tao Guohua shook the bag, and a group photo of four people fell out.
He pursed his lips tightly and didn't speak. Xu Jing peeked over, but he nudged her back with his elbow.
He snatched the photo away, glaring angrily at Tao Chu: "Where did you find this? What good will it do you to find it now?!"
“I want you to hold your ID card in one hand and a photo in the other, and make a formal complaint against Wen Tao for perjury, to clear my mother and Uncle Zou’s name.”
Tao Guohua chuckled as if he had heard a fairy tale: "Why should I..."
“I contacted Fei Xun today and asked for his email address under the pretext of transferring my student status. Since you filed a formal complaint, Fei Xun’s email address will receive my student status materials. Otherwise, this report would have been sent to his email address at midnight tonight.”
Xu Jing jumped up, pointed her index finger at Tao Chu, and was about to start cursing, but Tao Guohua stopped her.
Tao Chu's move struck his vital spot.
For university teachers, being exposed for marital infidelity and having an illegitimate daughter is not a big deal.
It is not uncommon for teaching staff to have poor personal ethics. No matter how much public opinion stirs up, at most they will receive a public reprimand.
The perfect coincidence is that Jianglin University is directly under the jurisdiction of the Provincial Department of Education...
Fei Xun is a leader in the Provincial Department of Education. He would often go to the old lady's place to say that he wanted to see his daughter. If he knew that Xu Lingling was not his biological daughter, wouldn't he tear Tao Guohua apart?
They will use every method, both overt and covert, to remove Tao Guohua from his post; he might even lose his teaching position as well.
But if we follow Tao Chu's advice and file a formal complaint, it would be like openly brandishing a knife at Wen Tao and Zhou Bingcheng, practically sounding the charge to our deaths.
"Like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, utterly ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth!" Tao Guohua was both angry and flustered, and couldn't help but spout a literary phrase.
Tao Chu was disgusted by his profound cultural background, too lazy to continue persuading him, and turned to leave.
Seeing how decisive she was, Tao Guohua felt even more uncertain. He stood up and said "Hey, hey" twice, but he couldn't stop Tao Chu.
The door was slammed shut, and he slumped onto the sofa, staring at Xu Jing.
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