When Ji Ying heard this, a look of disbelief flashed across her eyes. She looked at her father, almost unable to believe her ears.
"Dad! What are you talking about?"
Ji Yunshan spoke with a solemn expression, "Let's just leave it at that! A good family is peaceful and prosperous. You're the one who didn't behave yourself and did such a disgraceful thing. You deserve to be framed!"
The policemen were also shocked by Ji Yunshan's outrageous nonsense. They were shocked to the max!
Ji Ying took a deep breath and nodded firmly. "So that's what you think peace in a family is! Your family is thriving, so I deserve to fall into hell and bear infamy that I shouldn't have to?"
She turned to look at Qin Yong and said, "Officer Qin, as the victim and the person who reported this case, I hope this case can continue to be investigated clearly. I will not let this matter rest. I will not allow the people who framed me to get away!"
"Ji Ying, if you dare do this, we're no longer father and daughter!" Ji Yunshan's expression changed dramatically as he said angrily. "Don't think that you're al grown up. If you leave this family, you won't be able to afford your school fees anymore. Let's see how you'll get by then!"
Ji Ying was once again shocked by Ji Yunshan's words. Their father-daughter relationship could be so easily cut. She was at her limit now.
"Dad, are you sure about this?"
Ji Yunshan insistently said, "A peaceful family will prosper. Can't you understand such a simple principle? This is just a little grievance. What's a little sacrifice when the whole family is concerned?"
Ji Ying laughed bitterly, her eyes turning cold. "Dad, I'm starting to doubt if I'm really your biological daughter. Jiang Ningxin and her mother are the latecomers here. They're not your real wife and daughter, but all these years, I've never felt like you care about me. I've been targeted and bullied by you. Now, I'm being slandered and framed, but you're ignoring it and turning a blind eye to it. Back then, when you thought I was embarrassing myself, you slapped me without a warning. Now that this matter about a daughter with no blood relationship to you has come up, you want your own daughter to swallow her anger. You want to talk to me about peace and prosperity? Sure. I won't be a pesky outsider anymore. From now on, we're no longer family!"
Ji Yunshan's body swayed, and his face was covered in anger. "You still don't know how to repent, even at a time like this? Do you still feel wronged? Don't think no one knows what's truly going on. Where did you go the day before Ningxin's engagement? What did you do?"
When Ji Ying heard this, she was slightly surprised, but she did not panic at all. "What did I do? If Jiang Ningxin disappeared, she would have received concern and comfort, but I disappeared, so I'm getting reprimanded, beaten, and scolded. Now, I'm even being kicked out of the house. This double standard and differing treatment is nothing new, though. I don't want a home like this one!"
After she finished speaking, she turned around and put her laptop and a few other miscellaneous things into a bag.
Ji Yunshan flew into a rage again. He kicked the computer desk and roared, "I bought everything in this house with my own money! You're not allowed to take anything with you! Get lost!"
Ji Ying glanced at Ji Yunshan and said coldly, "I bought a lot of things here with my own work money. I didn't use your money for all this! And not for this laptop either!"
Ji Yunshan's expression turned even more unsightly. His eyes were filled with a million negative emotions, most particularly deep hatred.
Ji Ying shoved the laptop in her hands at Qin Yong to use as evidence.
Qin Yong was shocked by the chaos that had unfolded in this short period of time. Holding the laptop, he wanted to say something, but in the end, remained silent. There were some things that simply could not be spoken about.
As Ji Ying was leaving, she heard a sarcastic chuckle as she passed by Jiang Hong.
Ji Ying glanced at her indifferently and said in a disdainful tone, "Don't be so smug. As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together. I'm not leaving because I was weak or wrong, but because I'm not the same kind of person you are. I'm sure you know that you're in the wrong. In the dark, when no one else is around, ask yourself whether you and your friends are good people."
Her words might not have sounded like much of a threat, but they planted a seed in Jiang Hong and Ji Yunshan's hearts. With their selfish personalities, conflict would eventually erupt.
Jiang Hong smiled contemptuously. She felt like she had won this battle. She only took Ji Ying's words as the wails of a loser. She did not take them to heart.