"Dad, I was wrong, I was wrong..." Zhou Zhifei covered his swollen face and wailed, repeatedly admitting his mistake.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
As soon as Zhou Zhifei finished speaking, he was kicked twice more by his father.
The two kicks were very powerful, and Zhou Zhifei screamed in pain.
"Dad, I...I really know I was wrong, Dad, please, please don't hit me anymore, it hurts...Waaah..." Zhou Zhifei pleaded, sobbing uncontrollably.
"Dad, please stop hitting him. We can't afford to hurt him." Just then, Zhou Haixia ran out of the house and pleaded with Zhou Zhiguo.
"You unfilial son! I'll beat you to death!" Zhou Zhiguo roared angrily, and after saying this, he raised his right leg to kick Zhou Zhifei.
"stop!"
At this crucial moment, Zhou Haixia shouted.
Zhou Zhiguo was stunned when he heard Zhou Haixia's words. He knew that his daughter had recently suffered a mental breakdown and was usually indifferent to such matters, only intervening when something happened. But now she had stopped him from killing this beast.
"Haixia, are you...are you alright?" Zhou Zhiguo asked, looking at Zhou Haixia. Although he was ruthless, she was, after all, his only biological daughter, and how could he bear to hit her?
After hearing Zhou Zhiguo's words, Zhou Haixia slowly turned around, stared at her father for a moment, and then said, "Dad, if you want to hit him, hit me. I forced him to kill someone. He's just a child. Don't blame him."
"What? What did you say? You told him to kill someone?"
Upon hearing Zhou Haixia's words, Zhou Zhiguo's face showed an expression of disbelief, and he stared wide-eyed at his daughter, questioning her.
When Zhou Haixia saw Zhou Zhiguo questioning her with a look full of doubt in his eyes, she felt confused. Then she said in a puzzled tone, "Yes, I didn't tell him to kill Wu Zhenxiong's son, so why would I tell him to kill you?"
"Are you crazy?" Zhou Zhiguo almost fainted from anger after hearing Zhou Haixia's words.
"I'm not crazy, I'm perfectly sober!" Zhou Haixia shook her head and said.
"You...you're simply outrageous! How could you let him kill someone?" Zhou Zhiguo glared at Zhou Haixia and said. He had to get to the bottom of this matter. Wu Zhenxiong's identity was special, and if Zhou Zhifei killed Wu Zhenxiong's son, it would definitely cause trouble.
“Dad, don’t worry, I won’t let Wu Zhenxiong’s son die,” Zhou Haixia explained.
"You..." Zhou Zhiguo was speechless after hearing Zhou Haixia's words.
He didn't understand why Zhou Haixia would say that. According to Zhou Zhiguo's original idea, since Zhou Haixia knew about this matter, she should take the blame herself or let Zhou Zhifei take the blame for her, and then there would be no problem. But he never expected that Zhou Haixia would say that she had a plan to prevent Wu Zhenxiong's son from dying.
Zhou Zhiguo took a deep breath, suppressing his anger, and said, "What's your idea?"
“My idea is to tell the police about this and send Wu Zhenxiong to prison,” Zhou Haixia said.
"Foolish, foolish! How could you do this? How could you tell the police about this?" Zhou Zhiguo was even more furious now. He had already guessed what Zhou Haixia was planning to do, so he shouted at her sternly.
“Dad, have you forgotten how much money our family owes the Wu family? If it weren’t for our family, how could the Wu family’s money have been frozen by the bank? If it weren’t for Wu Zhenxiong’s corruption, how could the company have gone bankrupt? If it weren’t for Wu Zhenxiong, how could Xiaowei have become a vegetable? How could our family have fallen to this point?” Zhou Haixia retorted.
After hearing Zhou Haixia's words, Zhou Zhiguo fell silent. Over the past few years, Zhou Haixia and Zhou Zhiguo had been talking about the same few things. Every time, Zhou Zhiguo was in the wrong, so he couldn't defend himself. However, these were Zhou Zhiguo's sore spots. Every time he heard Zhou Haixia mention them, he would become extremely angry.
Just then, Zhou Zhiguo's wife, who was standing to the side, suddenly said, "Haixia, this is not something your father did. It's Wu Zhenxiong's own doing. Over the years, your father has been trying to find a way to repay the Wu family's debts, but unfortunately, Wu Zhenxiong simply doesn't agree."
“Yes, Haixia, I admit that your father has been helping our family through the crisis these past few years, and even lent us a lot of money, but he also has his reasons,” Zhou Zhiguo’s sister-in-law, Zhang Huiping, chimed in. She was quite friendly to Zhou Zhiguo and his wife, Zhou Zhifei.
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