PFC Chapter 217 Standing on the opposite side of the Zeng family?
Chapter 217 Standing on the opposite side of the Zeng family?
With that, the phone hung up.
Zeng Nian sighed helplessly.
He knew perfectly well how much his son liked Ji Ran; such an innocent child must be hurt terribly.
Well, let him vent his anger...
He intended to leave the study, but as he reached the door, he habitually rubbed his thumb and only felt the burn mark, then remembered that his ring had been taken off.
Somewhat uneasy, he returned to his desk, opened a drawer, and took out the box containing the ring.
*
After Zeng Yichen hung up the phone, his expression had already returned to seriousness.
An Lian reached out and turned off the stereo in the living room, then turned to look at him.
"Are you really going home?"
Zeng Yichen paused for a moment, then nodded: "I have to go back."
“But he suspects you, and it might be dangerous for you to go back,” An Lian advised.
Zeng Yichen took a deep breath.
“He suspects me, but if I don’t go back, his suspicions will be confirmed immediately. What will he do next? We will be in a very passive position.”
An Lian couldn't refute it either, and helplessly lowered her eyes.
A moment later, her phone rang.
It was her father.
She just sent a message asking her father to help investigate specific information about Nansha Tower.
It should be my father calling to question me right now.
"Hello?" She answered the phone.
"Lianlian, are you really sure the An family wants to stand against the Zeng family?" the serious voice on the other end of the phone asked.
“It’s not the Zeng family, it’s Zeng Nian,” An Lian replied firmly.
There was silence on the other end of the phone, and after a long while, the question was asked again:
"Do you realize how much risk this could pose to Anjia? Are you really sure?"
An Lian felt a sudden pang of pain, as if she had been stabbed in the heart.
"...I'm sorry, Dad."
Seeing his sister-in-law like this, Zeng Yichen felt very bad and wanted to say "let it go" several times.
The person on the other end of the phone sighed, their tone serious yet filled with heartache for their daughter:
'Fine, let's do it this way.'
Perhaps he himself was also angry about the Zeng family's behavior towards his daughter.
Over the years, the daughter has never told her family about her situation; they all thought she was doing well in the Zeng family.
Moreover, what Zeng Nian did had already crossed the line of what is acceptable for a human being.
They all knew about Anjia's generation to some extent, yet they consistently shielded Zeng Nian, who was their in-law.
The retribution, however, fell upon their beloved daughter.
Consider it an act of atonement to...that person.
As An Lian listened to her elderly father's compromise, her heart was already filled with guilt, and tears couldn't help but slide down her cheeks.
"Thanks dad."
After hanging up the phone, she raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face and nodded to Zeng Yichen:
“My father agreed.”
Zeng Yichen didn't even have the courage to raise his eyes and meet her gaze. He simply took out a tissue from his pocket, pulled out one, and handed it to An Lian.
An Lian accepted it without hesitation.
Every polite word is imbued with sincerity, which is then incorporated into the actions.
An Lian suddenly remembered the trending topics again, and she looked at Zeng Yichen with concern:
"Yichen... Don't think too much about Professor Ji's matter."
I believe she's not that kind of person.
Mentioning Ji Ran, Zeng Yichen felt a little relieved. He smiled, but with a hint of bitterness.
"Of course she's not that kind of person, but I have no right to care about her affairs."
An Lian was somewhat surprised, "You...you've let it go?"
Zeng Yichen nodded very easily:
"Well, after letting go, she actually didn't hate me as much anymore."
What’s more…”
It turns out that she and... Commander Qi liked each other.
They were like a match made in heaven; even though they were born in different times and spaces, they were still able to meet and fall in love.
What ability does Zeng Yichen have to destroy a relationship that even time and space cannot stop?
"Besides... what?" An Lian pressed.
Zeng Yichen shook his head. "It's nothing."
Seeing that he was unwilling to say more, An Lian stopped asking.
In any case, seeing that he had come to his senses, she, as his sister-in-law, was genuinely relieved for him.
Meanwhile, on the internet...
Public opinion regarding academic fraud by a professor at Peking University is intensifying.
Rumors flew everywhere.
Many of the projects Professor Ji worked on have been dug up and analyzed one by one.
This includes her lectures, public courses, and academic papers, etc.
Everything was thoroughly exposed.
But to everyone's surprise, no matter how they analyzed it, they couldn't find any problems.
This, on the contrary, has made many people have great awe of Ji Ran's intelligence.
……
'No, is this a human brain?'
Compared to her, I feel like my brain is still at the paramecium stage of evolution.
'I've been following her for a few days now, because her latest ABanimal research project is absolutely amazing.'
"+1 to the comment above. This completely surpasses the previous top-tier cloning technology. I originally thought it was a pipe dream, but it has completely shattered my understanding."
"My God, what kind of divine being is this? Top-tier beauty and top-tier intelligence in the same person? This is so unfair!"
……
Of course, there were also quite a few sarcastic and cynical remarks.
'Pshaw, that animal project of theirs hasn't even produced any results yet; it's just a pipe dream.'
'Exactly! How can a little girl be so amazing? Stop the hype and marketing, isn't it funny? This ridiculous praise is laughable.'
'That woman has absolutely no knack for science; how could she possibly have achieved all this? Are you kidding me? She's certainly good at bragging.'
'Exactly, if it were that amazing, wouldn't it have gone viral online already? How come it's only being exposed now?'
'It's because of the scandal that it was exposed. Family members, don't forget, this woman is a mistress.'
'I can't forget one thing: her methods were so sophisticated. No wonder she managed to hook up with the richest man.'
……
Aside from netizens' inherent hatred of evil, their own jealousy, and their desire to fill their own boredom by expecting others to suffer misfortune, this is also a factor.
It seemed as if there was a driving force behind it all, and the topic's popularity skyrocketed, becoming a topic of conversation for almost everyone in China, and even attracting reports from abroad.
As a result, the network crashed.
The president of Peking University, the dean of the School of Life Sciences, and Professor Liu were all in the president's office, pacing anxiously.
They originally wanted to speak out and seek justice for their child, but this lousy website just shut them down.
So they brought in all the hackers on campus and outside, and they are working urgently to suppress those trending black topics.
The result was the same for all the hackers:
No, the network is down and I can't operate it.
The three old men gritted their teeth in anger: What use are you!
The next day.
Zeng Yichen returned to the Zeng family home reeking of alcohol and was just about to go back to his room for a nap.
When passing through the corridor.
"Yi Chen." Zeng Nian's voice rang out from behind as expected.