7
As the company was developing better and better, my partners and I decided to move to a larger office building. We had been busy with the move for the past few weeks.
After being busy for about half a month, one day Amy suddenly came to me with a mysterious look.
“Ms. Yang, take a look at this. Isn’t this your father?”
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I took the phone Amy handed me and my eyes widened instantly.
On the screen was a livestream. Robert, completely different from his usual proper appearance, now had unkempt hair, drooping eyes, and was wearing tattered clothes from who knows where. He sat awkwardly on a worn–out sofa.
Standing beside him, talking animatedly to the livestream audience, was none other than Autumn, who had just gotten out of jail and married Robert!
At this moment, Autumn was denouncing me, her stepdaughter, for how I mistreated my own father, looked down on her as a stepmother, and used all sorts of means to suppress and frame her.
Un Autumn’s words, I was money–hungry, sharp–tongued, and like a leech trying to suck every last drop of blood from my biological father.
Even Robert’s lack of girlfriends for the past decade or so was attributed to my possessiveness and selfishness as a daughter.
“Ms. Yang, if this livestream spreads, it might negatively impact our company, Amy reminded me carefully.
I handed the phone back to Amy. “This kind of thing should be handled by the lawyers. Why are you bringing it to me?”
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Amy immediately acknowledged and left with the phone.
I thought for a moment, found an empty room, and called Robert.
After a while, Robert finally answered.
“What’s the meaning of this livestream?” I frowned and asked, “Are you trying to smear me online?”
“Honey, you can’t say it like that,” Robert’s voice was unusually hoarse after not having contacted him for so long.
“You won’t release your Aunt Autumn, you’ve locked the credit card, completely disregarding the kindness of your father who raised you for so many years. Dad has to think about the future, right?”
There was some rustling on the other end of the phone. I found a tablet and switched to the livestream. Sure enough, both Autumn and Robert had left the camera frame.
“What do you want to stop spreading rumors online?” I suddenly softened my tone. “Dad, I’ve never stopped you from finding a wife. I even bought her a Chanel bag when I first met her. But she not only looked down on it but also humiliated me in every way! The second time we met, she wanted to set me up with her divorced nephew, and then she stole my jewelry… Dad, throughout all of this, you never said a word to defend me!”
“Don’t talk about useless things!” The phone was suddenly snatched by Autumn, and the woman’s sharp voice came through.
“One million dollars. You give Robert one million dollars now, consider it buying out your relationship. After that, we promise to keep our mouths shut about you forever! Otherwise, hmph, you big boss better get ready to be cyberbullied!”
I held the phone away from me a bit, making sure the entire conversation was recorded.
“You want money?” I chuckled. “That’s not impossible!”
On the other end of the phone, Autumn’s excited voice quickly came through. She must have thought their threat of smearing my name online was effective.
I laughed a couple of times and slowly said, “I’ll burn it for you in ten or twenty years!”
After saying this, I immediately hung up the phone and sent the call recording to my lawyer as evidence.
What Autumn said couldn’t stand up to scrutiny. With multiple pieces of evidence including the call recording, surveillance video, and police reports, I reported Auturnn’s livestream channel for defamation.
Her livestreaming career ended there. Not a drop of that dirty water touched me, and some enthusiastic netizens even discovered something
new.
