Ye Shilong was furious.
"It’s bad enough you plagiarized someone else’s work, but to copy from Ye Yuning’s studio? Are you just asking for her to settle the score?"
"You worthless thing! If you can’t do it, why even try to show off?"
To Ye Tong, these words felt like needles piercing her heart.
Zheng Cai had also been reluctant to blame her at first, but upon thinking about what Ye Tong had done, she too felt angry.
Thus, as she listened to Ye Tong’s low sobbing, she didn’t even offer a single word of comfort.
「Half an hour later!」
Only after Ye Shilong had finally tired of his tirade did she tentatively ask, "Alright, what’s done is done. We should think about how to handle this now."
"Handle it? With just the Nanjia Peak project, how many companies has she offended? How can we possibly handle it?"
As soon as handling it was mentioned, Ye Shilong’s barely suppressed anger flared up again.
He felt he had completely lost face.
When he went out, the way people looked at him had become strange. They would say he had a good daughter.
Some good daughter indeed!
Hearing such words now, he found them incredibly ironic.
Zheng Cai, seeing him flare up again, couldn’t suppress her own anger. "So what should we do? Do you want to drive our daughter to her death?"
"I’d rather she had died out there and not come back! She’s utterly disgraced us!"
Her already pale complexion turned ashen upon hearing Ye Shilong’s ruthless words.
What did he mean? Was he disgusted with her now because she had shamed them? Did she do it on purpose? Wasn’t it because she knew how much they cared about face that she’d frantically tried to surpass Ye Yuning? Now that things have gone wrong, is it all her fault?
Ye Tong glared at Ye Shilong hatefully, unable to utter a single word.
Zheng Cai was also shocked, never expecting Ye Shilong to say such harsh things.
Seeing Ye Tong trembling all over, she snapped, "What nonsense are you spouting? This is our own daughter!"
"Our own daughter, ha!" Ye Shilong scoffed.
In his eyes, she wasn’t even as good as Ye Yuning used to be. Before their falling out with Ye Yuning, wasn’t he always praised for having such a good daughter whenever he went out? Now, thinking about the looks people gave him when he returned today, he wished he had never found Ye Tong.
Hearing his scoff, both Ye Tong and Zheng Cai’s expressions froze.
Without waiting for them to speak, Ye Shilong went straight upstairs.
Zheng Cai called after him, "Where are you going? What are we going to do about this? You have to tell us how to handle it!"
The Xiao Family would definitely demand an explanation for this.
If they didn’t have a plan, who knew what the Xiao family might do tomorrow.
Zheng Cai genuinely felt for Ye Tong.
However, the only response she received was the sound of the study door slamming upstairs.
Ye Shilong’s intention was clear: he wouldn’t handle this matter...!
With a BANG, both Zheng Cai and Ye Tong shuddered.
"Mom!" Ye Tong looked at Zheng Cai, her expression aggrieved.
Zheng Cai hadn’t expected Ye Shilong to actually wash his hands of the matter.
Exasperated, she turned to Ye Tong. "Look at you! What kind of mess have you gotten us into?"
At this moment, Zheng Cai couldn’t stop herself from berating Ye Tong.
「It was already three in the morning.」
Since the Ye Family had started to prosper, Zheng Cai had never felt as distressed as she did today.
Wasn’t she usually asleep on time every night?
It was all thanks to this daughter of hers that she now knew what a sleepless night truly felt like.
Listening to Zheng Cai’s reproaches, Ye Tong only sobbed harder.
Zheng Cai, thoroughly annoyed by the crying, snapped, "Cry, cry, cry! You’re the one who did this, so you better think about how to deal with it! What’s the use of crying?"
She was already on edge and couldn’t bear any more of this. Zheng Cai had no intention of offering any comfort now.
Ye Tong thought of Ye Shilong’s earlier indifference and Zheng Cai’s current irritation. She felt incredibly wronged and was panicking.
As if Zheng Cai’s lack of comfort wasn’t enough, she then asked, "So, are you still going to the Bugelang Exhibition tomorrow?"
She had spent five hundred thousand on a Battle Robe for her.
She had envisioned her daughter dazzling everyone at the exhibition tomorrow, completely overshadowing Ye Yuning.
Hearing mention of tomorrow’s exhibition, Ye Tong’s wails grew even louder.
Listening to her cries, it was clear she wouldn’t be going to the exhibition tomorrow.
She couldn’t help but say irritably, "I must have really owed you in my past life."
At this moment, Zheng Cai couldn’t help but recall some of Ye Yuning’s good qualities. That girl might have had a foul temper, but at least she had never made her worry about such things, nor had she ever brought her any shame.