Chapter 33 How Dare You?
"Hello? Ms. Zhou?"
In Hua Xing Trading Building,
Chen Yinuo, who had already arrived at the business cooperation group and got herself familiar with everything, picked up the phone and greeted, unexpectedly.
Why was this deputy principal of the Zijing Kindergarten calling her?
"Hi, Yoyo's mom, I am calling to tell you to bring Youyou back to our Zijing Kindergarten. Because Yoyo's tuition has been paid already, including that of the next semester." Zhou Xiaolan said.
"What? Ms. Zhou, this must be a mistake. Yoyo's tuition has been paid? How's that possible?"
Chen Yinuo was stunned, and at the same time hurried to the bathroom.
"It's by Yoyo's dad!"
"Ye Chen? How did he know that Yoyo had changed schools?" Chen Yinuo got even more puzzled.
"Here's the thing. I happened to run into Mr. Ye, and I recognized him as Yoyo's father. So, I told he about it. He said that because of the fight you guys were having, he had no idea about the whole thing. Then he offered to pay the tuition fees back to the kindergarten with me. You see, what's been forcing Yoyo to leave has been settled. To be honest, considering Yoyo's education and growth, none of the other ordinary kindergartens can compete with Zijing Kindergarten. Get Yoyo back here tomorrow, would you?"
Mind froze, she managed to continue the conversation politely.
Until the phone got hung up, Chen Yinuo was still in shock.
That jerk who valued money even more than his life offered to pay Yoyo's tuition?
And 18,000 yuan at a time?
What was he going to do about those loan sharks?
For Chen Yinuo, this was as unbelievable as Ye Chen offering to take 100,000 yuan to help Chen Yihao for his settlement!
All he cared was himself. All he wanted to protect was himself, too.
As for his wife and daughter, they were just dispensable objects to him.
Someone who could stoop so low as to steal all the red packet money of Youyou during New Year that was saved for tuition, while yelling to keep his daughter from going to school, regarding it as a waste of money, would actually be willing to pay 18,000 yuan of tuition for Youyou?
Moreover, this was under the conditions that he was in debt of more than 200,000 yuan, and his life could be in real danger any time if he can't pay back?
No, that selfish, cowardly jerk Ye Chen couln't have done it!
But how could she make sense of what Director Zhou just said on the phone?
Hesitating again and again,
she decided to dial a cell phone number she hadn't dialed in a long time.
In front of the bank gate.
Ye Chen, with 300,000 in a black bag in his hand,
was just walking out of the bank.
His phone rang.
Seeing who was calling on the phone, his breath suddenly became short.
"Yinuo?"
"Did you pay Yoyo's tuition for this half semester and the next?"
Chen Yinuo spoke with a tone as cold as ever.
"Right, I came across Ms. Zhou last week. She said that Yoyo was no longer in Zijing Kindergarten. She said that you had transferred her to another kindergarten because of the lack of money. She added that the conditions of other kindergartens are not comparable to those of Zijing Kindergarten. Now, the environment of education and growth for Yoyo is worsened. Therefore, I went back to kindergarten with her to pay tuition."
Ye Chen continued instantly, "Yinuo, after all, this is about the education and growth of Yoyo. Something you should've discussed with me, putting aside your hatred of me and..."
However.
Before Ye Chen could finish his sentence,
Chen Yinuo interposed furiously. "To discuss with you? Ye Chen, dare you say that to me? How dare you? Let me get this straight. Are you now blaming me for taking Yoyo to another ordinary kindergarten?"
"I..."
Ye Chen wanted to explain.
But Chen Yinuo didn't give him any chance.
"Isn't it all thanks to you? If I wasn't cornered, why would I transfer Yoyo to another ordinary schools? Didn't I know that everything of the current kindergarten is not comparable to that of the Zijing kindergarten? If I could afford it, I would never make Yoyo leave there!"
"It's you. It's you. It's you who made us cornered! I tried to borrow it from others, but the money I had borrowed to help you pay off the gambling debts has not been given back to people. How can they lend any more to me? I can't borrow even a penny. To make it worse, all my credit cards have been stolen by you and maxed out. And guess what, I can't make it by the online loans, because all the online loans that were available have denied me after you loaned money with my ID card and my phone you stole!"
"I was this close to kill myself, you know. Let alone the Zijing Kindergarten, even for the current ordinary kindergarten Youyou's staying in, I only struggled to pay the tuition of 1,000 yuan. In addition, I had to take care of the monthly rent, water and electricity, the living expenses of us..."
At the same time,
Chen Yinuo burst into tears.
She thought she had been strong enough. she thought she'd trained herself to not to grieve over for those things any more.
But when she talked about it again, she realized how miserable she had been, just like a feeble grass in a storm.
No, even worse.
At least the grass had its root!
And she, more like rootless duckweed, had no destination or hope at all.
She just drifted along.
For her, husband was a scumbag.
Everyone at her mum's was hostile to her.
The pressure of life for her and her daughter, counting on each other, was overwhelming.
Additionally, constant threatening calls from those loan sharks,
blacklisted personal credit,
and the company's superiors made things even tougher for her.
It had been been suffocating.
Honestly, if it weren't for her daughter Yoyo, she would've decided to end her life. She aspired that sweet release of death.
The cry gradually came to a halt.
She wiped the tears from her face
and stopped airing her grievances.
She was not out of her senses. There was no point in complaining to that jerk.
Hoo!
She caught her breath.
"No need for that. So, let's just stop here! Biologically speaking, you are Yoyo's father. Since you paid her tuition, I will send her back to Zijing Kindergarten!"
The moment she finished,
Chen Yinuo didn't give Ye Chen any chance to speak again and
cut off immediately.
In front of the bathroom mirror,
she took out a tissue from her pocket to wipe away her tears. And then she grabbed the simple makeup box she carried with her and reapplied makeup to cover the embarrassing traces of tears with a cheesy cushion compact.
After taking a few deep breaths to calm down, she forced a smile and walked out of the bathroom.
Everything seemed alright except the fact that her heart that had been seriously hurt was still aching from bleeding.
But no matter how painful it was, she had to pretend to be strong. Because she didn't want anyone to see her vulnerability.
Survival was tiring and life was hard.
But for Yoyo, she was not even entitled to feel vulnerable...
In front of the bank gate,
Ye Chen stood still in shock, with the phone that had already be hung up long ago in his hand.
As if he had been petrified.
After a while,
he came to his senses, and everything sank in.
Tears came rushing out of his eyes.
"I am sorry."
His dry throat trembling, he murmured mournfully.
He decided not to call back.
After letting out a long sigh,
and calming himself,
with 300,000 yuan in a black bag in his hand,
he walked to the taxi waiting for a passenger on the side of the road.
He pulled open the car door and sat in.
"Sir, to Anda Finance Company. Thank you!"