"I'm here to take you home." Yan Ting's eyes swept across Zhu Xia and others in the room, and finally fell on Li Zhao: "Let's go."
"How did you know I was here?" Li Zhao smiled and bent down to put on his shoes. Yan Ting stood at the door and looked at him: "Sister Xia told me."
Li Zhao put on his shoes and said to Zhang Xiaoyuan on the other end of the phone: "Brother Xiaoyuan, my buddy is here to pick me up, you don't have to come."
"I'll go to your house to find you." Zhang Xiaoyuan hung up the phone in a hurry.
"You're in such a hurry, is there an important collaboration?" Li Zhao turned around and said goodbye to his friends: "I'll go back first. Come to my place for a barbecue tomorrow, don't forget."
"Okay, okay." Zhu Xia and others nodded in agreement.
After Yan Ting and Li Zhao left, Zhou Ming asked Zhu Xia: "When did you contact Xiao Yan?"
Zhu Xia laughed dryly and said nothing.
"Something happened to Zhao Zhao." Zhu Linlin was replying to her friends' blessing messages with her mobile phone when a push notification popped up. She clicked on it and her face turned pale with fright.
"What?!"
Several friends were shocked. Didn’t Zhao Zhao just go out? How could this happen?
"Zhao Zhao's past...was dug up by the paparazzi."
What happened in the past?
Zhu Xia took the phone handed to her by Zhu Linlin with trembling hands and saw a photo that made her heartbroken.
That was ten years ago, when Li Zhaogang was exposed to have been abused, and these are the photos taken by reporters. Although the eyes were blurred, she could recognize at a glance that this was Li Zhao's appearance as a child.
The article describes in great detail the abuse suffered by Li Zhao and even takes photos of the old house where Li Zhao lived before he was ten years old.
[The illiterate Mr. Li didn't know that beating children was against the law. After he was put in jail, this poor family lost its labor force. His two biological children were also laughed at by their classmates because their father was in jail. They didn't even go to high school and went to work in big cities. 】
[The reporter asked Mr. Li if he regretted what he did that year. The old and tired man was silent for a long time before he said that if he had known that so many troubles would arise, he should not have taken the child home out of a moment of weakness...】
"How can these beasts, these beasts, confuse right and wrong like this?!"
Before she finished reading the article, Zhu Xia was already in tears and yelled, "For this little bit of traffic, they don't even want to be human?! Why don't these bastards just die!"
After she finished scolding, Zhu Xia covered her mouth and choked up: "If Zhao Zhao saw this kind of article, he would be so sad. These people are heartless and not human."
Many people have dug up news online about a child named Xiao Ming who was rescued by the law ten years ago, video interviews with school teachers and villagers, and photos of the child who was beaten so badly that his body was bruised, his head was abnormally swollen, and his forehead was covered with scars.
Li fans don't want to admit that this "Xiao Ming" is their baby. They can't imagine that the baby, whom they hold in their hearts, had to go through all these in his childhood. However, being familiar with Li Zhao, they can recognize at a glance that the child with mosaics on his eyes is a smaller version of Zhao Zhao.
There are always some people in the world who can't help but have a saintly mindset when they see others suffering.
Some people saw that the family who had abused Li Zhao was living a miserable life, and felt that they had at least saved Li Zhao's life and had been punished, so Li Zhao should learn to let go and forgive.
forgive? !
lay down?
Just a little kid was almost abused to the point of losing his life. Why should people forgive these stupid saints?
That was a human life, a ten-year-old child!
Pear fans were so heartbroken that tears came to their eyes. These saints actually sympathized with the perpetrators?
Their name is Zhao Zhao, and they were almost beaten to death, but the perpetrator spent a year in jail, so the perpetrator should be pitiful?
Pear fans, who usually act like anti-fans, went completely crazy tonight. Almost all of their forces were mobilized, not only scolding the paparazzi who broke the news, but also scolding those saints who were generous to others.
They are not afraid of what others think of them, but they cannot bear to see their children suffer such injustice.
Whether on the Internet or in real life, the majority of people have normal values. Even passers-by and netizens couldn't stand it and felt that Li Zhao's fans were right.
Fans who usually call themselves fans of Pear and Pear, after reading the paparazzi's revelations, couldn't bear to add insult to injury at this time. Although they have fan status, they are still human beings.
In particular, in the interview video with the villagers, the villagers said that Li Zhao was often beaten, chased and bitten by his younger brother's dog, kicked down from the slope by his adoptive father, breaking his leg, etc.
"We couldn't bear to watch it. The child was very well behaved. Many people in the village secretly gave him food."
"Old Man Li is fierce and unreasonable. No one can afford to offend him."
Some people think of the scene in "Return to the Mountains" where Li Zhao told Zhang Kui that when he was a child, he was chased by a dog and he finally won the argument with the dog. At that time, Li Zhao said it was a joke, and the audience never took it seriously and were even amused by Li Zhao's words.
Thinking back on it now, I feel so sad.
A child of seven or eight years old is a treasure in every family. What kind of life does Zhaozhao lead?
What he said was that he saved Li Zhao's life. This is not the feudal era with an incomplete welfare system. A normal person's first reaction when seeing a child abandoned is to call the police. So why did this old man Li secretly take the child back without saying a word?
At first he said that the child was born to his wife, but two years later, after his own child was born, he said that Li Zhao was adopted.
Some netizens even suspected that Li Zhao was abducted and sold by the old man Li.
The internet was in an uproar over Li Zhao's matter. Li Zhao, the person involved, knew nothing yet and was taken by Yan Ting to the lake for a boat ride.
Antique lanterns are hung on the boats, and on both sides of the lake are brightly lit coffee shops, tea houses or bars, creating a unique sense of comfort.
Li Zhao yawned and carefully looked at Yan Ting, who looked normal. "Tingting, are you in a bad mood?"
Otherwise, why would you come here to swim in the lake?
Yan Ting shook his head.
Li Zhao turned his head and glanced at the driver who had boarded the boat with him. The driver was sitting at the stern and had no intention of coming up to disturb him.
The oars paddled the lake water, making a gurgling sound. Li Zhao took out his cell phone and wanted to take a picture of the night view of the lake.
A hand reached out and took Li Zhao's phone.
"Tingting?" Li Zhao felt that Yan Ting was a little strange tonight.
The cell phone was put into Yan Ting's coat pocket. Yan Ting and Li Zhao sat side by side, and his eyes looked like an old father comforting his son who failed the college entrance examination.
"Sit with me for a while." Yan Ting lifted the gauze curtain hanging on the boat. The lake was sparkling, and the hustle and bustle of the lake had nothing to do with them.
"What's wrong with you?" Li Zhao approached Yan Ting with concern in his eyes: "Tell me if you are unhappy, and I will cheer you up."
Yan Ting turned his head and looked at him for a long time, then suddenly reached out and hugged him in his arms.
Li Zhao was inexplicably hugged, and was stunned for a moment, then he reached out and patted Yan Ting's back: "Don't be sad, don't be sad, I'll be with you if anything happens."
As a human being, we all have our weak moments, and good friends should understand each other.
I wonder how much pain this body, which exudes youthful vitality, must have suffered when it was young?
Those scars, those bruises...
The moment he saw those photos, Yan Ting went crazy.
He held the child carefully, unwilling to hurt him in the slightest. Why should he suffer so much?
"Zhao Zhao." He wanted to hug him like this, but he didn't dare.
He was afraid that he would let out the madman in his heart and add more harm to the child's already miserable life.
"Yeah." Li Zhao was still patting Yan Ting's back from time to time.
"No matter what happened in the past, your future... will have me."
Although the world was so noisy and boring, he couldn't bear to leave Zhao Zhao alone to face the world's malice.
He wanted to protect him, to protect this only ray of color.
"I'll be with you." Yan Ting let go of Li Zhao and looked into his eyes: "No matter what happens, I'll be with you."
Wow.
The oars cut through the surface of the lake, shattering the moonlight on the water and scattering the starlight.
Yan Ting’s eyes were beautiful. Li Zhao saw the moonlight and himself in his eyes.
I was in the moonlight in his eyes, as if I was wrapped in the most gentle light in the world, protected from the night and the cold wind.
"Is there something wrong?"
Yan Ting drooped his eyelids slightly and said nothing.
Li Zhao smiled. This is what a person who can’t lie is like.
"Bring it here."
"What?"
"Cellphone." Li Zhao stretched out his hand and hooked his finger.
The black and gold cell phone was placed in his palm.
"It's not your phone, it's mine."
Yan Ting touched Li Zhao's phone and had the urge to throw it into the lake. But under Li Zhao's gaze, he still put the phone in Li Zhao's hand.
He has arranged for people to remove the trending searches, key search terms have also been blocked, and even major popular platforms no longer push news related to this matter.
But this matter spread too widely. Even if Yan Ting blocked the news from various channels, he could not stop the news from spreading, nor could he stop others from tagging Li Zhao and leaving messages to Li Zhao.
The moment Li Zhao opened Weibo, it froze.
"Stuck again?" Li Zhao, which artist is getting married or divorced again?
After repeating this two or three times, he finally managed to log into Weibo. Li Zhao saw countless messages of comfort and hugs under his Weibo.
When I clicked on a Weibo post that tagged him, the smile on his face slowly disappeared.
The pleasure boat moved into a shadow area, but the phone's screen was still on.
"Zhao Zhao." Yan Ting put his hand on Li Zhao's wrist.
"I'm fine." Li Zhao put down his phone and chuckled, "Since it has already happened, I'm not afraid of others knowing it. Don't worry, I'm not sad."
The pleasure boat stopped.
Yan Ting once again took Li Zhao into his arms.
"But I'm sad."
There was a very clean and light fragrance on Yan Ting's body, and Li Zhao could hear Yan Ting's heartbeat.
Plop, plop, plop.
He felt surprisingly calm, probably because he had someone by his side. The past seemed to be separated from him by a layer of transparent glass. Although he could see it clearly, it could not hurt him.
Gou Er is a paparazzi with some fame in the circle. He has exposed a lot of secrets about minor artists over the years and also gained some bad benefits. Since there has been no big news recently, netizens' attention to him has begun to decrease.
Without attention, there is no traffic. How can he make money?
What paparazzi rely on to survive? Of course, attractive and big news.
It was purely accidental that he found out about Li Zhao. If he hadn't helped his parents clean up the house and found some old newspapers from ten years ago, he wouldn't have known that Li Zhao had such an experience.
You don’t know until you check, and you’ll be shocked when you do.
This abuse case caused quite a stir in the local area ten years ago. I heard that in order to protect the child, the local government not only changed his name but also moved his household registration.
Who would have thought that the poor abused child would become a popular star.
He asked someone to check Li Zhao's background. Although he was valued by Strawberry Entertainment, he did not have a big background. Even if it was exposed, it would not offend any big shots.
He revealed the matter without much hesitation.
In fact, he is also helping Li Zhao to gain fans. Having such a miserable childhood experience will definitely attract countless people's sympathy and attention, which is great.
After the news broke, the studio’s phone almost exploded with calls from people who wanted to find him for information.
He proudly sold some photos and news to them and made a lot of money.
Just as he walked out of the bar triumphantly, he was dragged into a car.
"What do you want to do?!" Gou Er looked at these men in suits in horror. Did these people know that he was the famous whistleblower on Weibo?
Impossible. He has always attached great importance to privacy in his life because he is worried about retaliation from the person he exposes the information about. His life had been going smoothly over the past few years, and he didn't believe anyone would find out.
However, these people ignored him and directly dragged him to an abandoned construction site and started beating and kicking him.
"You should be thankful that our boss is a law-abiding person." The man in a suit wearing sunglasses and a mask said coldly, "Otherwise you would not even be alive."
Gou Er lay on the ground, not daring to talk back. He was afraid that these people would really turn him into a concrete pillar.
As soon as these people left, he listened to the whistling wind around him and the dilapidated unfinished buildings, and took out his cell phone to call the police.
The police arrived quickly, and before Gou Er had time to be happy, he was arrested for extortion.
Over the years, he relied on the material he filmed to make artists spend money to buy it, but finally he got the backlash.
Although he didn't understand why these artists would rather risk the news being leaked than put him in jail.
Is there a big boss backing him up?
Who is playing tricks on him?
"Damn it!" Xu Bei was so angry when he saw the news that Li Zhao was abused as a child that he smashed all the cups in the room.
If he didn't know that Li Zhao would never reveal such news himself, he would almost suspect that this was Li Zhao's self-hype.
As soon as the show "Return to the Mountains" aired the content about a mother looking for her child, it was revealed that Li Zhao was actually an abandoned child. He was abused by his adoptive parents when he was a child and almost died.
Li Zhao is beautiful, strong and miserable, and Strawberry Entertainment also strongly supports Li Zhao.
How can actors of the same period play this role?
They all became Li Zhao's foil!
The news that Li Zhao was an orphan in his previous life was never revealed when Li Zhao was engaged in his acting career. It was not until Li Zhao's death that this matter was mentioned in the memoirs written by his good friend for him.
It was so hard to have a chance again, he didn't come to see how Li Zhao would change his ways to walk the flower path.
Clicking on the video of Li Zhao being treated, Xu Bei couldn't help but curse: "Why wasn't he beaten to death when he was a child?"
It was reported that it was a teacher at the school who discovered that Li Zhao was being abused. Because Li Zhao had a severe fever, the teacher wanted to use alcohol to cool him down physically, only to find that he was covered in wounds and his entire calf was swollen.
Under the dirty hat, there was a bloody wound.
After Li Zhao was sent to the hospital, the hospital found that all the wounds on his body were man-made. Finally, the school and the hospital chose to call the police.
Some people who couldn't stand it posted the news online, which attracted a lot of attention. Then this child abuse case became a big deal.
After learning about this, the local authorities provided assistance to Li Zhao and sent Li Zhao's adoptive father to prison.
The sensational child abuse case ended with the victim being sent to an orphanage. Most of the netizens who had expressed support for the victim online at that time are now middle-aged and have almost forgotten about the incident.
The old story was brought up again, and the memories of countless people were awakened. In their hearts, Li Zhao was not only an artist, but also the child they had protected by mobilizing public opinion.
Those so-called remarks of forgiveness were blown to pieces by these successful older brothers and sisters with outstanding logical thinking.
"Forgiveness for a disagreement, why didn't the thunder kill such a person?"
"I beat you half to death, can you forgive me?"
"How can you be so ungenerous that you talk back when I say something to you?"
Most middle-aged people are mature and stable. Generally speaking, they will not quarrel with others easily. Only when they quarrel with others will you know what it means to call them "big brother or big sister". They are always your big brother or big sister.
Those people whom Li Zhao should learn to forgive secretly deleted their Weibo posts and dared not show up again.
After scolding these internet saints, these older brothers and sisters came to Li Zhao’s Weibo and instantly turned into gentle brothers and sisters.
"It's great that my little brother has grown up healthily."
"My brother is 181cm tall now. It seems he eats on time every day."
"Keep living happily, the future will be better. Don't worry about how the garbage you have thrown away rots. Brother, be happy."
"When my brother was ten years old, I was in college. Now I am a pregnant woman. I hung my brother's photo on the wall. If the baby is a boy, I want him to be as handsome as you. If it is a girl, I hope she will look at more handsome guys and have higher standards in the future."
"Brother, look at my cat. Isn't it cute?"
"Keep working hard, little brother. Your brothers and sisters are here to protect you."
The gentle messages full of blessings merged into the warmest stream, carefully protecting Li Zhao.
"I really cried when I saw these messages. Li Zhao is great, and those who have helped Li Zhao are also great."
“The world is really beautiful.”
"Zhao Zhao, don't be sad. The brothers and sisters who cared about you back then are still protecting you. Although I have never been involved in your past, we will accompany you in your future."
"Baby, cheer up, we will walk this star-lit road with you."
"How happy I was when I watched "Retreat to the Mountains" before, how sad I am crying now. Do you remember the episode in Qingxi Village, when Zhao Zhao was holding two children, and the children asked Zhao Zhao, "Will your parents not come back for the New Year?" When Zhao Zhao said no, there was sadness in his eyes! Because he didn't have a father and a mother, no one would accompany him for the New Year."
"And when Xiang Zhen mentioned his child to Zhao Zhao, Zhao Zhao listened very carefully. At that time, I thought he liked children. Now thinking back, maybe he was fantasizing that if he had a father and a mother, he might treat him like Xiang Zhen did to his own child."
"And in tonight's episode, Zhao Zhao tried very hard to comfort the older sister, saying that the child would definitely be found. I was really sad, even sadder than when I was heartbroken. Where are Zhao Zhao's parents? Have they been looking for Zhao Zhao?"
"Brothers and sisters, please don't mention these things in the comment section. I'm afraid Zhao Zhao will be sad if he sees them. Please post something happy in Zhao Zhao's comment section."
"good."
Whether fans or passers-by, they all tried to create an atmosphere in the comments of Li Zhao’s Weibo, as if nothing had happened and the world was a beautiful place.
Even many fans of rival groups secretly went to the comment section to supervise and see if there were any ignorant fans of their own who were talking nonsense.
Even if what they can do is limited, it is worth it if they can make the child who has been abused and grown up seriously a little happier.
In the painting boat, Li Zhao looked at the messages in the comment section with care, a smile on his face.
"Tingting." He put away his phone and said to Yan Ting, "Let's go home."
Yan Ting stretched out his hand: "Give me your hand."
"ah?"
"I'll hold your hand so you don't get lost while looking at your phone."
Li Zhao: “…”
He is a grown man, why is it that he is being led by someone?
Yan Ting grabbed the other hand and said, "Come on, I'll take you back."
Thinking of Tingting, who usually didn't like to go out, and who came to the lake to comfort him, Li Zhao could only let Yan Ting lead the way.
"Tingting."
"Um?"
“I’m not really that sad, actually.”
Yan Ting turned around and looked at him.
"The world is so beautiful, and there are so many lovely and kind people. I am such a lucky person."
Yan Ting didn't say anything, but just held Li Zhao's hand tightly.
When he got home, Li Zhao found the satisfying aroma of food and the table was filled with delicious food.
All the food that the butler usually didn't allow him to eat at night appeared on the table. The table is full of dishes, which can be called a combination of Chinese and Western cuisine, a full banquet.
"Zhao Zhao, are you hungry? Eat something first." The housekeeper took Li Zhao to sit at the dining table, wishing he could feed Li Zhao with his own hands.
All the aunts in the room were surrounding Li Zhao, and even Yan Ting, the real person, was forgotten.
When Zhang Xiaoyuan arrived, he saw Li Zhao sitting at the table eating heartily, with a room full of people standing beside him with loving smiles on their faces.
It's like a large-scale scene of grandparents spoiling their children without any limits.
Before he could speak, Yan Ting spoke first: "Wait until Zhao Zhao finishes eating."
Zhang Xiaoyuan nodded subconsciously, always feeling that if he didn't nod in front of Yan Ting, something big would happen.
Yan Ting looked at Li Zhao with extremely gentle eyes, like a bear parent who was infinitely tolerant of his child.
He asked Yan Ting in a low voice: "Mr. Ting, Zhao Zhao...doesn't he know about what happened on the Internet yet?"
"He knows." Yan Ting stood up from the sofa, walked to Li Zhao, and wiped the corner of his mouth.
Zhang Xiaoyuan looked at Yan Ting, then at Li Zhao, and always felt that something was wrong.
The author has something to say: Tingting baby possessed by the second-year syndrome: If anyone hurts Zhao Zhao, I will break his wings.
May the world treat everyone kindly.
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