When Shen Yu and Uncle Zhang arrived, the scene was already crowded with reporters who had heard the news.
Seeing Shen Yu in a wheelchair pushed by Uncle Zhang, the crowd rushed forward like hungry tigers.
Fortunately, Uncle Zhang arranged Shen Yu’s bodyguards in advance. Before the crowd could approach Shen Yu, the bodyguards came forward to protect him, forming a tall and thick wall of people around Shen Yu.
The reporters were not discouraged, while struggling to resist the wall of bodyguards, they extended their microphones towards Shen Yu.
“Mr. Shen, have you made up your mind to adopt the child of the Tang family? Nowadays, it is rumored that the child is at the center of the struggle between you and Elder Shen. What exactly is the truth? Please let us know.”
The question was posed by a female journalist who looked sharp-toothed [1]. She raised her hand over the bodyguard’s shoulder and almost pinned the wireless microphone to Shen Yu’s face.
When Uncle Zhang saw the situation, his face turned dark and terrible. He grabbed the hand of the female journalist and exerted a slight force. The female journalist felt it was so painful that she could not scream out, and her expression became distorted.
“Clap” a sound rang out.
The wireless microphone that was originally in the hands of a female journalist landed on the ground.
People crowded around and nobody could tell who stepped on it, but the wireless microphone, which looked so hard, broke into pieces.
The female journalist looked down at the microphone, her whole face turned to a pig’s liver color, the pain in her heart seemed to condense and spill over into her eyes.
She looked up sharply, and at the next moment she turned her gaze to Uncle Zhang, who was already in the middle of the storm. She was suddenly stunned and shivered in fear. Her lips hung slightly open, but she could not produce a single sound.
“Reporters should report the truth and seek that truth from facts, not just rumors and nonsense. What’s more, it’s not your right to provoke drama between Mr. Shen and Elder Shen.”
Uncle Zhang did not deliberately lower his voice, so, many people that were crowded around them heard the words.
They seemed to be a little afraid of Uncle Zhang’s anger. The original noisy atmosphere gradually quieted down.
At that moment, Shen Yu, who had been silent, suddenly said, “I want to clarify two things to you.”
Hearing this, the reporters immediately aimed their lens and microphones at Shen Yu.
Uncle Zhang, pushing his wheelchair, also stopped.
After a pause, Shen Yu went on to say, “Firstly, I volunteered to accept Tang Li, which had nothing to do with my grandpa, and I get along very well with my grandpa, I’m sorry to disappoint you with this news. Secondly, I have no intention to adopt Tang Li for the time being. His custody is still in the hands of the Tang family. Maybe after today, his guardian will become his grandfather.”
As soon as this remark came out, the press group started to make a fuss again.
A reporter asked, “Since you chose to accept the child, why haven’t you planned to adopt him for the time being?”
Shen Yu told the truth: “Tang Li’s relatives are still alive and have the ability to raise a child. From the legal point of view, I can’t get custody of Tang Li.”
Another reporter quickly asked, “So what you are doing now is all in vain? Or is it for another purpose?”
Shen Yu turned his head, raised his lips and smiled at the reporter. However, there was no smile in those beautiful peach blossom eyes.
The male journalist was uncomfortable being directly stared at by Shen Yu, and tried to divert the topic to ease the tense atmosphere. He heard Shen Yu ask him, “Do you know what I’m doing here today?”
Such a straightforward remark stunned the male journalist and he blankly answered, “Aren’t you here to bring a lawsuit against the child’s relatives?”
“And then?” Shen Yu’s eyes grew colder and the corners of his mouth tinged with sarcasm. “Why are we suing?”
Faced with Shen Yu’s aggressive attitude, the male journalist immediately felt like he was being played with, and his anger shot up.
But he dared not speak in anger.
The reason why they dare to ask all kinds of bitter questions to important men like Shen Yu is that they depend on being part of a crowd.
However, at this moment, Shen Yu’s spearhead is directed at him alone.
The male reporter was so nervous that a cold sweat slowly flowed from his forehead. He felt sympathetic eyes from all sides. He hesitated for a long time and did not know how to answer Shen Yu’s words.
He had no idea what kind of lawsuit Shen Yu was bringing.
Don’t mention just him. It can be said that more than two-thirds of the journalists here don’t care about the content of the lawsuit.
They only came for Shen Yu, and the outcome of the lawsuit was entirely beyond their concern.
“So, you don’t even know what I’m doing here.”
Shen Yu was very angry and laughed bitterly. His light brown eyes were covered with a layer of frost. At this moment, it seemed that even his breath was cold.
After a moment, he murmured, “As a man of the media, you should dig out the unfair, unjust and deliberately hidden truth of this society. Now there is a child abuse case before you. You don’t even look at it. Instead, you are trying to pull out some insignificant personal gossip from me. Are you worthy of the press sign hanging around your neck?”
Shen Yu seldom loses his temper.
But now…
He was really miserable.
He can understand that journalists dig up gossip from him in order to boost their sales, but what he can’t bear is that they ask these questions to him under the guise of caring about Tang Li. They appear to report the progress of the lawsuit, when in fact, they don’t even know what the lawsuit is about.
Shen Yu felt extremely irritable at the thought that these reporters were profiting from Tang Li’s misery [2].
It seems that there is a rush of fiery rage in Shen Yu’s body and no exit can be found.
The male journalist and others were shocked by Shen Yu’s stern appearance. For a long time, the scene was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. After some time, the male journalist blushed and stammered, “Yes, I’m sorry, Mr. Shen, I admit that I was negligent. I apologize to you.”
Shen Yu quickly calmed down and smiled, “I’m sorry, but I don’t accept your apology.”
The male journalist froze on the spot, his face turned green and white. In front of his peers, he felt as if he had been slapped by dozens of people in one breath, and there was hot pain on his cheeks.
The rest of the people groaned and went as quiet as clams.
No one thought that Shen Yu, who had been discarded in the rumors, was so terrible when he was angry. Even though he was still sitting in a wheelchair, the low pressure emitted around him still made everyone gasp for breath.
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It was not until the court session began that Shen Yu met Tang Jia and Yuan Yunping, as well as 78 middle-aged men and women, who presumably were relatives of the mother of Tang Li.
They sat in the defendant’s seat, pale and desperate.
When they came in just now, they were undoubtedly surrounded by the group of journalists who were outside, so the court was packed to the rafters [3].
Perhaps it’s because of Shen Yu words just now. In regard to Tang Li’s relatives, reporters made every effort to give full meaning to the words “tough and mean”. The male journalist who was personally confronted by Shen Yu, pulled out from Yuan Yunping’s own mouth, that he had abused his niece.
Their words and deeds, without omission, were clearly photographed by the cameras around them.
Finished.
It’s all over now.
Yuan Yunping was in a trance, as if he were still dreaming.
He couldn’t figure it out. Not long ago, he lived an enviable life as a rice worm [4]. He didn’t need to work or socialize. He only needed to look for his brother-in-law for money. However, in a twinkling of an eye, his brother-in-law died in a car accident, and he and his wife were sitting in the defendant’s chair for a case of child abuse.
All this is brought on by Shen Yu!
If it hadn’t been for Shen Yu suddenly taking Tang Li away, there would not have been so many bad things happening.
Yuan Yunping hung his head, his eyes are like sharp needles quenched with poison. He stared at Shen Yu, facing him fiercely. The ferocious hatred almost gushed out of his chest.
But it was no use.
Glass stones can’t break boulders [5], even if so many of them unite, they can’t harm a single hair on Shen Yu’s head.
For Tang Jia and Yuan Yunping, even with the air conditioning in the room, sweat from their faces and necks kept spilling over, soaking their temples and shirts.
The more backward you go, the more desperate you become.
Until finally, a middle-aged woman seemed to be overwhelmed by her psychological burden. Her eyes rolled back, and she fell directly from her chair.
Shen Yu looked at the reaction of all the people facing him with an air of composure. The irony and ridicule at the corners of his mouth never disappeared.
These are the relatives who brought up the villains in the original plot.
They abused the villain and as a result, distorted the three views of the villain, making the villains grow up into a problem teenager suffering from depression and mania.
Shen Yu remembered the small villain’s obedient manner in front of him. He had immediately become soft-hearted remembering Tang Li and in turn, complained more fiercely about the group’s atrocities.
Fortunately, after crossing through the novel, he had met the little villain before he blackened.
Regardless of if Tang Li was the little villain, there is still hope.
Two hours later, after the court hearing ended, the judge sentenced Tang Jia and Yuan Yunping to two-to-three years of imprisonment and stripped Yuan Yunping and his wife of their custody of Tang Li.
Although the judge said that the defendants could file an appeal, everyone knew that it would be futile for the defendants to struggle in the face of such hard evidence.
When the judge left the room, Tang Jia and Yuan Yunping hugged each other and wept bitterly.
Shen Yu did not look at them again and left with Uncle Zhang and bodyguards.
Just as he got in the car, Uncle Zhang’s cell phone suddenly rang.
All this time, the mobile phone was being held onto by Shen Yu. He took out the mobile phone and looked at the screen. It was Elder Shen.
After answering the phone, before Shen Yu even had the chance to speak, he heard Elder Shen’s boisterous laugh coming from the mobile phone: “You’re on the news Little Yu. I just saw your interview clips. It’s good! You deserve to be called the grandson of Shen Kui, not giving those people any room to breathe.”
Shen Yu did not ask Elder Shen how he knew that he was the person who answered the phone, but said, “I thought you were praising me.”
“How can you say this? I was praising you.”
Even through the phone, Shen Yu could imagine the lively expression of Elder Shen as he spoke.
He couldn’t help laughing: “Good…”
“By the way, I almost forgot to tell you.” Elder Shen coughed twice and then openly said, “Come back whenever you have time, and bring the Tang Li boy with you. I haven’t seen Tang Jian’s son yet.”
[1] 牙尖嘴利, meaning 'sharp tooth”. This means a person is eloquent or clever when they speak.
[2] The original says, “profit from eating Tang Li’s steamed buns.” Which means to profit from him, but I thought it sounded too much like “eating his tofu.” Which is…different.
[3] 三层外三层, meaning “Three Layers Outside of Three Layers.”
[4] Meaning someone that only eats and sleeps. Well taken care of and lazy.
[5] 胳膊掰不过大腿, literally meaning “arms can’t break thighs”.