464 The Child’s Revenge, The Father’s Despair

Li Tingfeng was shocked that he had unknowingly fallen into Qiao An’s trap. “Join forces to deal with me?”

Qiao An looked at Li Tingfeng leisurely. “You still don’t know, right? Ze’en and I jointly opened a detective agency. The first business our agency received was to investigate your illegal dealings. Therefore, in order to complete the employer’s mission, Ze’en compromised and returned to your side to curry favor.”

Li Tingfeng gritted his teeth in anger. “Li Ze’en, so you’ve been deliberately trying to please me recently not because you were sincerely filial to me, but because you wanted to attack me?”

Li Ze’en revealed a disdainful expression. “You’re right. I returned to your side with ulterior motives. But you’re also wrong. I returned to your side and gave you a chance. If you had sincerely treated me well, perhaps I can stop at any time. However, my humble request can’t be exchanged for your attention. You regarded my filial piety as incompetence and cowardice. You despise me.”

Li Tingfeng looked at his high and mighty daughter with an ugly expression. The timid, incompetent, and innocent daughter in his eyes was glowing at this moment. She was confident and arrogant. Unfortunately, when she showed her strength, she was dealing with him.

Li Tingfeng was a little defeated. Considering his reputation and future, he chose to give in to Li Ze’en. “If you scheme against me like this, you’ll live in guilt for the rest of your life like me.”

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Li Ze’en chuckled crisply. That chuckle was bright and filled with mockery. “I’m not you, so I won’t feel guilty. Because I’m even more heartless than you. Do you know why? Because ever since I was eleven or twelve years old, I’ve been hesitating between loving you and hating you. For ten years, I lived pitifully in a tug-of-war, while you pushed me to the edge of hating you time and time again. In the end, my tug-of-war ended.”

Li Tingfeng finally remembered. He thought of Ze’en begging him again and again. “Dad, will you come to my birthday party?”

“Dad is busy. Celebrate with your classmates yourself.”

However, when he turned around, he brought Zefeng and Zeyu to play. When they bumped into Ze’en at the amusement park, Ze’en looked at him with a very dark expression.

By then, Ze’en should have started to hate him.

“Ze’en, you’re still young. You don’t understand Dad’s difficulties. Zefeng is younger than you, so she needs Dad more. Dad spends less time with you because Dad believes that you’re independent and can protect yourself very well.” Li Tingfeng began to quibble, but he was so weak.

Ze’en stubbed out the cigarette in her hand and said to Qiao An, “Aunt, I don’t want to see this person again. Just do it impartially.”

Qiao An nodded. She glanced at Ze’en sympathetically. Even now, Ze’en was actually looking forward to Li Tingfeng repenting. Unfortunately, Li Tingfeng was insistent about absolving himself of his irresponsibility.

After Ze’en left, Qiao An mocked Li Tingfeng calmly, “Li Zefeng is only three years younger than Ze’en. You’ve been with Li Zefeng for 18 years. Why didn’t you think that Li Ze’en also needed fatherly love before she turned 18?”

“You said that Ze’en is independent and can protect herself? She fooled around with delinquents, lost what is precious to all girls, and abandoned her studies. Is this what you mean by being able to protect herself?”

“Li Tingfeng, admit it. All your excuses are just a sign of not loving Ze’en. You don’t love her, but you have to pretend to be fair. No wonder Ze’en hates you so much.”

When Qiao An exposed Li Tingfeng’s hypocritical behavior, he couldn’t hold it in anymore and flew into a rage out of humiliation. “Qiao An, if you hadn’t egged her on, how could Ze’en have gone against me?”

Qiao An’s eyes turned cold. “You still don’t know how to repent? Li Tingfeng, if I were you, I would sincerely apologize to my daughter and resolve the hatred in her heart. Let her live a peaceful life for the rest of her life. This is the last thing you can do for her.”

Li Tingfeng glared at Qiao An coldly. “You don’t have to interfere in my matters with Ze’en. As long as you don’t interfere, there’s no overnight grudge between us. Soon, Ze’en will come back to please me.”

“Are you still daydreaming? It seems that Ze’en was indeed too benevolent to you, so much so that you still don’t believe that she wants to kill you.”

Qiao An stood up and took out a stack of photocopies from her bag. She threw them to Li Tingfeng.

“The client who hired me to investigate is your biological son, Li Zecheng. And the person who took the trouble to find this incriminating evidence is your daughter, Li Ze’en. Li Tingfeng, the most pathetic thing about your life is that you lost the children who once loved you the most.”

Li Tingfeng staggered and slowly picked up the documents on the ground. When he saw that they were proof of his tax evasion, he staggered and trembled.

At this moment, his wife and illegitimate children also saw these credentials. They were so frightened that their faces turned pale.

Qiao An said, “Li Tingfeng, your total tax evasion amounts to hundreds of millions. You can’t avoid jail time. Moreover, you even helped the mafia launder money and compounded your crime. You probably won’t be able to get out of jail for the rest of your life.”

“Say goodbye to your family properly. The police are waiting for you outside.”

Everyone’s expressions changed drastically when they heard this.

Li Tingfeng hunched his back as if he had aged dozens of years.

When Li Tingfeng’s newly married wife saw his dispirited state, she guessed that the punishment Qiao An mentioned was real.

Thinking of how the wealth and glory she had painstakingly built her entire life around had actually been a dream, she suddenly laughed bitterly.

“Haha, haha!”

“Qiao An, you’re so ruthless. So ruthless,” she scolded her in exasperation. “You’ll get what’s coming to you.”

Qiao An looked calm, without a trace of guilt on her face.

In the past, Qiao An wouldn’t have had the courage to do these things. Moreover, Qiao An felt that it was intolerable to break up someone’s relationship without caring about justice.

But now, Qiao An knew that some ruthlessness had to be endured. It was only by being ruthless to bad people could she protect thousands of harmonious homes.

“Third Sister-in-law, when you separated Li Tingfeng and his wife’s family, you should have thought that you would have such a day,” Qiao An said calmly. “Because your happiness was built on the pain of others. If you were happy, you would have taken away Huang Yushu’s happiness. If your children had fatherly love, they would have taken away the fatherly love that belonged to Ze’en and Zecheng. Now, it’s just the heavens taking back those things that don’t belong to you.”