Hold on, the system and I have never been angry

Chapter 52 Confrontation in Public

Outside the gate of Ji Lian’s manor.

"What an unfilial adopted son! He made a lot of money but didn't come back to honor his parents, leaving them to wander the streets in the coldest days of winter! Come and have a look, my fellow journalists! He lives in a mansion and drives a sports car, but he won't give us a penny. We've raised him for more than ten years, but he turned out to be an ungrateful person!" Wang Fangfang wailed as she knocked on the door, tears threatening to fall from her face.

The security guard on duty couldn't stop so many people, so he used the intercom to call for help urgently.

Lu Jinzhao sat in the car and drove to the gate leisurely, with a faint smile on his face: "Uncle Li, let them in."

Sui Ruling had already explained that in their home, Lu Jinchao enjoyed the same treatment as Ji Lianhuai, so the security guard did not dare to neglect him: "Okay, Master Jinchao."

Ah Shen came out of the main house and saw everyone rushing towards Lu Jinzhao after he got off the car. He quickly stepped forward and opened his arms to block Lu Jinzhao: "Please don't come any closer. If you have anything to say, just ask there."

Zhou Hongda was isolated outside and pushed Ah Shen. "Who are you? Why should I listen to you?"

Ah Shen did not retreat a single step. He grasped half of Zhou Hongda's hand with one hand and folded it in the opposite direction. Hearing Zhou Hongda's screams, his face remained calm. "This is just a warning. No one is allowed to take another step forward."

It really scared off the reporters who were about to rush forward. After all, the guns and cannons they were carrying were very valuable, and if they were damaged in a fight, they would not be able to afford the compensation.

"You! You unfilial son! You actually asked your bodyguard to beat your father!" Zhou Hongda took a few steps back and cursed at Lu Jinzhao with his other uninjured finger.

"What do you want to talk to me about? Just tell me directly." Lu Jinzhao closed the car door, scratched his left eyebrow with his fingers, and smiled helplessly: "Isn't it too much to call so many reporters?"

Zhou Hongda took the printed materials and handed them to the reporters one by one: "Come and take a look. He drives such an expensive car, but his parents are starving and freezing! He makes a lot of money but doesn't support his parents! How can this be justified in the world!"

Reporters were discussing: "Is what's written here true or false? The car that Lu Jinzhao drives seems to cost more than 20 million yuan. If he is so rich, why do his adoptive parents dress like this?"

"It's hard to say. It's not like we haven't seen similar things before. Irresponsible parents see their children making money in the entertainment industry and then go to our peers to discredit their children just to get money. Have you forgotten what happened to the actresses named Z and M?"

"That's true. I heard that the young lady of the Ji Lian family is actually the daughter of the Zhou family. Since they can give away their biological daughter, then they shouldn't be very kind to their adopted son, right?"

They did not deliberately lower their voices, and everyone present could hear them clearly.

Wang Fangfang was furious when she heard those words. She pointed at the reporters and yelled, "What are you talking about! It's obviously the son who is unfilial, but you turn around and scold us as parents?! We asked you to come here to ask you to uphold justice for us, not to ask you to frame a good person!"

One of the female reporters forced a professional smile and said: "Of course we will uphold justice and report fairly and impartially, but the prerequisite is that you are indeed a victim."

Chitose licked his paw and said, "I didn't expect these reporters to be sober and not to believe in one side."

"After all, I've seen too much of the dark side of human nature in this line of work."

Lu Jinzhao took a stapled document from Zhou Hongda and glanced at it. The content was nothing more than nonsense like how much money they spent on adopting him for more than ten years, how he kicked down their door, kidnapped their daughter, and never spent a penny of the money he earned after going to college on them. It was not much different from what he had seen before and he couldn't make up any new things to say.

Zhou Hongda held Wang Fangfang and began to cry, "Ah Chao, my parents are really out of money, and the debt collectors are pressing us. Please be kind and give us some money. I heard that you can make hundreds of millions a day now. My parents don't want much, they just want to have a full meal."

Wang Fangfang also started crying when she saw this: "Yes, Ah Chao, please give me some money. They say that the grace of raising a child is greater than the grace of giving birth to you. Although I didn't give birth to you, I have raised you for more than ten years. We ask ourselves if we have ever done anything wrong to you. Now that you are rich, you don't send a penny home. You watch your parents being chased for debts while you live a carefree life. Do you think this is reasonable?"

The reporters recorded it all truthfully, and one even broadcast it live, with a straightforward title: "Popular young actor Lu Jinzhao and his adoptive parents quarrel over a big fight."

It soon attracted a large number of audiences.

Lu Jinzhao crossed her legs, leaned against the car with her arms folded across her chest, and patiently watched Zhou Hongda and Wang Fangfang perform for a while. Suddenly, she asked, "Why didn't Zhou Chen come?"

Wang Fangfang paused in her fake crying, her eyes moving quickly: "Your brother is ill. If he wasn't ill, we wouldn't be able to pay for the surgery, and we wouldn't have brought reporters to see you..."

"Really?" Lu Jinzhao smiled.

Chitose pouted, "Are you sure it's not because his acting is so bad that he won't cooperate?"

One reporter couldn't help but stretch out the microphone to ask questions: "Excuse me, is what your adoptive parents said true? Have you really not given them a penny since you went to college?"

Lu Jinzhao nodded: "It's true."

The reporter holding up his phone had a barrage of comments in his live broadcast room: "No, how dare he admit it in front of so many people?"

"Oh my god! I just heard that he makes hundreds of millions every day, but his adoptive parents are dressed like this? They look pale and skinny, like they haven't eaten for many days."

"I can only say that you can only know a person's face but not his heart."

The reporter asked again: "Then may I ask what your adoptive parents said about you taking their daughter away and never returning? Is this true? Did Zhou Xuan really enter Ji Lian's house?"

"It's true too."

"Oh my goodness, so this guy is selling his sister to the Ji Lian family and relying on the Ji Lian family to rise to power, right?"

“So don’t trust the characters in the domestic entertainment industry too much.”

"I think this should be banned, right? For a public figure to have such a scandal exposed would have a huge impact on social morals."

"I feel sorry for Director Hu. I heard that the filming of the third male lead is more than halfway through. Now they have to reconsider the candidates. The ones who have been filmed before will either have to have their faces replaced by AI or be re-filmed. One person is a drag on the entire crew."

"Am I the only one who thinks he's weird? Why doesn't he even try to explain himself in front of so many people?"

"You all heard it, didn't you? He didn't support his parents! He didn't fulfill his obligations as a child!" Wang Fangfang looked at the reporters present in agitation, "He admitted it himself!"

"Since you don't have any new information," Lu Jinzhao walked to the passenger seat of the car and took out a laptop and a folder: "Then I'll reveal the rest."

He picked up the A4 paper on top: "This is the severance agreement that I spent yuan to buy out the parent-child relationship between you and my sister on the day you wanted to sell her to someone else as a daughter-in-law. Oh, yes, it was the signing fee given by Sky Eye."

"You forged this! I never signed any agreement to sever ties with you!"

Zhou Hongda was about to rush forward to grab it, but Ah Shen restrained him and pinned his hands to the ground. He shouted in panic, "Let me go! Let me go! You little bastard!"

Lu Jinzhao was unmoved. He handed the A4 paper to the reporter and took out another report: "This is my monthly income from working and the bank statements of transfers since I dropped out of school. I made and you want to take . Also, why did I drop out of school? Do you dare to tell them?"

Wang Fangfang helped push Ah Shen aside. With their strength, they were no match for Ah Shen. She was so anxious that she yelled, "We raised you. Isn't it natural for us to give us money? What's wrong with taking some money from you? Our family is struggling to make ends meet. We have no choice but to ask you to drop out of school and work!"

Lu Jinchao looked at her coldly: "Didn't you just say that I never gave you a dime? Now you say it's natural to take my money, huh."

He did not give Wang Fangfang a chance to continue speaking, and directly began to pass around the information: "This is the loan certificate that the Zhou family used my identity information to borrow high-interest loans after they lost money in their business."

"This is the chat record of Zhou Hongda trying to sell me to a coal boss because he couldn't pay back the loan."

"This one is a chat record where I received a 1 million yuan bonus and Zhou Hongda threatened to smear my unfilial behavior in front of the media if I gave him the money."

"This was after I was admitted to Didu University. They opened an account on the short video platform as successful parents, using the popularity of my debut to talk about family education and earn millions of dollars."

"This is my medical record showing how many times Zhou Hongda beat me and sent me to the hospital, as well as a photo of me before I had scar repair surgery. Both sides are here." He turned to Zhou Hongda and said, "You beat and scolded me and my sister every day, so much so that there is not a single piece of healthy skin on my back. How can you have the nerve to say that you have never treated me harshly?"

Chitose: "Scar repair surgery is not as effective as scar repair medicine. It's expensive and painful. Your ability to lie with open eyes is getting better and better, haha."

The reporters passed the information around, and each took a copy and started to look at it together.

The comments were full of excitement: "Point the camera at that information! I want to see it!!!"

"Damn it, I took a quick look and the total amount of money they took from Lu Jinzhao directly or indirectly is more than three million. How dare you say that you didn't give them a penny..."

"Great! Luckily I was recording from the beginning!"

Zhou Hongda was pinned to the ground and couldn't move. He gritted his teeth and said, "You made all this up!"

"Really? You can make up text, but you can't make up videos," Lu Jinzhao took out a USB flash drive, "This is the surveillance video of you using fake black material to threaten my boss to take two million in cash, a house, and a place for your son in No. 1 Middle School."

"And you followed your brother-in-law to gamble, lost all your money, refused to sell your house and car to pay off your debts, and used my name to mortgage the loan. The bank recorded the entire process."

"Not only that, this USB drive also contains videos of you beating me and my sister. Guess who secretly filmed this video?"

Lu Jinzhao inserted the USB drive into his laptop, found one of the videos and clicked to play it.

In the video, Zhou Hongda was yelling at Zhou Xuan, "You can't even do a little housework, what's the point of having a money-loser like you! You're worse than that jerk I picked up on the street, he was in elementary school and could cook for me!"

Zhou Xuan's body was covered with red marks from the belt. He curled up in the gap between the coffee table and the sofa, hugging himself: "I was wrong! I was wrong! Dad, please don't hit me anymore! I will learn to be a good person!"

When Zhou Ye came home from school, he saw his father beating his sister. He dropped his schoolbag and stood in front of his sister: "Don't hit Xiaoxuan! If you want to hit someone, hit me!"

Zhou Hongda sneered: "Okay, since you want to be the hero, then you should take it for her!"

The video screen turned, revealing Zhou Chen's greasy face. He laughed heartily: "Did you see that? I am dying of laughter. These two idiots got beaten again. I feel really good when I see them getting beaten every day. My dad never wants to beat me."

There are hundreds of similar videos, and each one ends with Zhou Chen's sarcasm and gloating.

Some reporters have already started to get angry: "Look at this comparison, the two children are skinny, but the son is fat and plump. The two children are beaten every day, but the son claims that he has never been beaten. What a double standard. How dare he say that he has never treated them harshly?"

"This couple is really shameless. They even had the nerve to ask us to come to their door to expose the secret. Isn't this just suicide?"

“That’s right, I’m speechless. And this little brother is really a born bad guy, right? His older brothers and sisters were beaten, and he was laughing like that?!”

"What a scumbag family! I'm speechless! No wonder Brother Chao wants to take his sister away with him!"

Hearing this, Zhou Hongda struggled even harder: "What do you know! What's wrong with me beating my own child? Haven't you ever been beaten by your parents?!"

"That's right!" Wang Fangfang echoed, "What's wrong with us disciplining our own children?! And who knows if this video was fabricated by you! But I heard that you big cities have advanced technology and can even swap faces in videos!"

Lu Jinchao guessed that they would say that, and said with a smile: "You don't know that Zhou Chen bought a new mobile phone without telling you, right?"

He placed his notebook on the hood of the car, picked up his cell phone, flipped to the serial number in the settings, and took out Zhou Chen's purchase records on the official website, serial number query records, as well as the bank deposit slips and money transfer records from the folder.

"This phone was bought by Zhou Chen with my money. I took it back. The videos were all taken by him personally. You can take it to a professional for identification."

Chitose put his hands on his hips and said, "Hehe, these are all copied by me when the host restored the phone to factory settings!"

"I'll remember your great achievement."

Lu Jinzhao was well prepared and delivered a powerful blow. A large amount of information stunned the reporters and the audience in the live broadcast room. He stood up straight and looked at the camera seriously: "You can take all the information away for verification. I will send the electronic version to all my social platform accounts at the same time. Pick it up if you need it."

Siren whistled from far away, and the police car stopped beside the crowd. They restrained Zhou Hongda and took him into the police car. "Someone reported that you were gathering and causing trouble at the door of a resident. Now follow me."

Wang Fangfang stepped forward and beat the police: "Why did you arrest my husband? Let him go!"

Because they attacked a police officer, they were put into a police car together.

The farce was over. Lu Jinzhao waved his hand and turned to walk towards the main house: "Uncle Li, close the door and send the guests away."

When they returned to the main house, Sui Ruling was pacing anxiously at the door. When she saw Lu Jinzhao, she rushed over immediately and asked, "Azhao, are you okay? Do you need our help?"

Lu Jinzhao shook his head: "It has been solved."

"That's good, that's good," Sui Ruling breathed a sigh of relief, "You've suffered so much over the years, I'll cook for you right now!"

Ji Lianhuai paused while typing on the keyboard: "Mom, you'd better stop causing trouble for others."

Ji Lianqin also echoed: "Yes, wife, don't let Xiao Lu go to the hospital."

Sui Ruling walked over and looked at them with a smile: "What do you mean? Are you saying that the food I cooked is poisonous?"

Ji Lianqin immediately backed off and quickly covered his face with a newspaper: "I dare not, whatever my wife does is right."

Qiansui leaned on Lu Jinzhao's shoulder and said with emotion: "Their family atmosphere looks really good. It seems that our sister will be very happy in the future. You can rest assured."

"I hope so."

"Eh? From your tone, it seems like you have other opinions. What do you think?"

"Sui Ruling has been a rich girl since she was a child. She was spoiled and pampered. She met a husband who loved and respected her. She was well protected and always kept a naive part in her heart. She really likes Ji Lianxing. But Ji Lianhuai is not like that. He is a business emperor who has fought in the business world and the family for more than ten years and got his current position with his own ability. How could he care so much about a little girl he has known for less than half a year? And my case is the same. Although I am the top anchor of Tianyan, there are no less than a hundred top anchors in each division. Is it necessary for the big boss to take action personally? If he says he has no other purpose, do you believe it?"

Chitose: "...When you say that, I feel a chill running down my spine. Do you know what his purpose is?"

"There are a few speculations at the moment, but there is still a lack of key evidence to support them. Let's wait and see what happens."

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