"It's not good to talk while standing in the corridor. Let's find a place first." An Meng said.
"I'm not Teacher Sun." Sun Juan shook her head and wanted to move on.
"Teacher Sun," An Meng said in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft, "Before you did this, did you ever think about what kind of situation Iris would be in?"
Sun Juan looked at her as if frightened and slowed down her pace.
"I..." she stammered, "I don't know what you're talking about."
[He still refuses to admit it! ]
Qian Duo was so angry listening to this that she stood up and said, "Sun Juan, I am Iris."
“…” Sun Juan stared at the woman who called herself Iris, her lips turning slightly pale.
"Are you really my reader?" Qian Duo asked, suppressing her anger. "Have you ever thought about what the consequences of doing this would be? What damage would it cause to my interests?"
Xie Yun coughed, signaling Qian Duo not to be impulsive, but the latter completely ignored him.
Qian Duo stared at Sun Juan's indifferent face and lowered her voice slightly: "When have I ever offended you?"
Sun Juan was unmoved by this. An Meng patted Qian Duo's arm and said to Sun Juan, "I know you are doing this for your daughter."
Sun Juan's eyes lit up, but she quickly became flustered: "Let's...let's not talk about this here."
An Meng smiled and nodded obediently.
Sun Juan's daughter Feng Miao was still in high school when a boy named Zhao Ya showed her affection. Over time, Feng Miao also developed a crush on him.
[But I didn't expect Zhao Ya to be such a scumbag. He didn't want to date Feng Miao at all. Instead, he asked Feng Miao to meet him with his friends and violated her.]
After Feng Miao woke up, the first thing she wanted to do was call the police. However, Zhao Ya threatened her that if she did, he would send the video to all of Feng Miao's friends and family, and post it online, ruining her reputation for the rest of her life.
Feng Miao was too young, fearful, and ashamed, so he hesitated and missed the perfect opportunity to call the police. After Sun Juan learned the truth, she was filled with remorse and repeatedly went to Zhao Ya's home and his father's company to cause trouble, demanding the deletion of the videos and photos, but was always turned away.
Zhao Ya's father, Zhao Yu, treated Zhao Ya with such utmost care that over time, Zhao Ya became spoiled. Zhao Yu repeatedly ordered Zhao Ya to delete the video, but Zhao Ya, in his rebellious phase, simply refused to listen to his father.
As luck would have it, Zhao Yu worked under Huo Minxuan. During a social gathering one evening, Zhao Ya got drunk and accidentally told Huo Minxuan about this matter that had been bothering him for a long time.
When Huo Minxuan heard that Feng Miao's mother, Sun Juan, was a teacher at No. 17 Middle School, he immediately came up with an idea—
Qian Duo suddenly felt a chill on her back. How could this be such a coincidence? Life is so unforgiving!
Xie Yun looked at Sun Juan expressionlessly, pursed his lips, and then lowered his head to stare at his fingertips for a few seconds.
As expected...are you still going to do whatever it takes?
They found an empty meeting room, and An Meng explained the whole story and asked Sun Juan, "Am I right?"
Sun Juan's eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and she kept asking, "How did you know?"
An Meng curled the corners of her lips and looked at her silently without saying anything.
Sun Juan twisted her fingers tightly, feeling guilty and anxious: "I really don't want to, I..."
She subconsciously looked at Qian Duo, then quickly looked away as if she was burned.
Tormented by a huge sense of guilt, Sun Juan hesitated and said, "I didn't want to do this either. I tried everything, even going to Zhao Ya's house and Zhao Ya's father's company to make a scene, but it was useless. Miaomiao... after that incident, she stayed home from school. Her mental state got worse and worse. She screamed all night and even started... self-harming. As a mother, seeing that, it was heartbreaking. I..."
Although Qian Duo's expression softened a bit, her tone was still stern: "You are miserable, yes, but no matter how miserable you are, you shouldn't sacrifice others to achieve your own goals!"
Sun Juan felt a lump in her throat and was about to burst into tears: "I'm sorry, I'm really sorry, I was desperate and lost my mind, I..."
She couldn't say any more and moved her trembling hands down from the table.
She is indeed a loyal reader of Iris, but when comparing the suffering of her daughter with the author she likes, which one is more important, I believe every mother has the answer in her heart.
Qian Duo swallowed uncomfortably and fell silent. She was clearly in the right, but now she seemed to be clinging to him and not letting him go.
"What did Huo Minxuan promise you?" An Meng asked, tapping the table with her fingers unintentionally.
——She didn’t realize that her little actions at times were becoming more and more like Xie Yun.
Having reached this point, Sun Juan was completely disheartened. She gave up and said, "I actually don't know who Huo Minxuan is. At the time, a man who looked like an assistant came to see me. The Mr. Huo he mentioned must be the Huo Minxuan you're talking about."
"That assistant said that if I did what Mr. Huo said, he would be able to make... Zhao Ya," Sun Juan's tone turned resentful at this point, "make Zhao Ya delete... those... videos of my daughter."
"Then you believed him?" An Meng asked.
"What else?" Sun Juan began to get emotional. "You know that bastard Zhao Ya is still harassing my daughter! I failed to report him to the police and didn't bring him to justice, but now I want my daughter to be haunted by the shadow of death for the rest of her life because of that video!"
"That's true," Xie Yun suddenly interrupted, "Huo Minxuan does have the ability to make Zhao Ya compromise."
What exactly is this skill? Xie Yun did not elaborate.
An Meng's scalp tingled and she looked at him worriedly.
[Oh my god, don't tell me you and Huo Minxuan have a mutual sympathy? That's not good for learning!]
"I don't ask for anything else. As long as Zhao Ya can delete those things, I will take my daughter away and leave this place completely." Sun Juan said.
Qian Duo got angry again when she heard this: "What about me? With public opinion now in such a mess, what about me and my work? Your daughter wants fame, but I don't want it too?"
She spoke faster and faster, like popping beans: "Who has it easy in this world? I just negotiated the copyright for 'Blue Shirt' with Mr. Xie, and everything seemed to be going in a good direction, but now it's all over. Do you know how much time and energy I put into writing 'Blue Shirt'? Now it involves such a big issue, involving the education sector and fan circle behavior. To be frank, if public opinion continues to ferment like this, I might even be banned by the higher-ups!"
Sun Juan listened in a daze, her whole body trembling violently, and tears dripping onto the table.
It is always difficult to have everything in this world. If you want to gain something, you have to give up something.
Between her daughter and Qian Duo, she ultimately chose the former.
"Who are you crying for?" Qian Duo growled angrily, but didn't say anything else.
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