On the other end of the phone, Su Xiaonuan was so touched that tears welled in her eyes. She sniffled and held them back.
"Please add me on WeChat. That way, we can talk in detail." Su Xiaonuan knew that her top priority was to help Chen Tianming solve the cyber violence against him, but she still thanked him from the bottom of her heart.
Chen Tianming hung up, added Su Xiaonuan on WeChat, and they chatted more.
From their conversation, Chen Tianming learned that Liu Xixi's family had some wealth, and Liu Xixi used her family's influence to keep the assault quiet and then pushed the blame onto Su Xiaonuan.
In the end, Su Xiaonuan still received a lot of discrimination after transferring schools.
Chen Tianming couldn't help but feel a little depressed when he heard that. However, he could deal with it easily. The high school incident only occurred a few years ago. As long as he had money, there was nothing he couldn't do.
He called Du Qiao straightaway, "I need something investigated."
Du Qiao was speechless at the sudden demand.
After the tireless efforts of Du Qiao—the jack of all trades—they finally found the hospital examination results and some of the police evidence photos concerning the assault in a pile of old case files.
Chen Tianming looked at the photos Du Qiao sent him and felt they offended his eyes.
In one photo, Su Xiaonuan looked sweet; her pure and innocent beauty would have made her a popular crush for teenage boys. Du Qiao said that it was a photo from her school records.
In the following picture, her face was haggard, and she was as thin as a stick, but one could see that her abdomen bulged slightly.
Her exposed limbs had distinct bruises and sores, and she had long scar wounds that looked even more hideous after they scabbed.
She was only in her teens and already carrying a little life in her womb.
Just looking at the photos on his phone made Chen Tianming's heart ache, let alone Su Xiaonuan, who personally experienced it.
The school ruled that Su Xiaonuan's pregnancy resulted from her own indiscretion, and the punishment was expulsion.
Liu Xixi's name was never brought up.
Chen Tianming hesitated for a long time before he typed out and sent the question, "Did you give birth to the child?"
Chen Tianming didn't want to reopen old wounds, but judging from the photo, the child was already formed, and it would be dangerous to abort.
Chen Tianming waited as Su Xiaonuan kept deleting and retyping until she finally sent a message after a long while.
"I gave birth to him."
Chen Tianming had mixed feelings; perhaps he'd intended to use them to destroy Liu Xixi's reputation when he searched out Liu Xixi's victims in the first place. However, with Su Xiaonuan, all he felt was sympathy.
He didn't know how much courage a teenage girl like her needed to give birth to this child.
"Thank you for your concern. He's doing very well now. He's already in kindergarten. I also took the adult college entrance examination and got a good grade."
"The child himself is innocent. Since he chose to come to this world to accompany me, I will care for him."
"I'm very grateful that you're willing to help me."
Chen Tianming was amazed at Su Xiaonuan's perseverance; he didn't know what to do with her gratitude.
After pondering for a moment, he called the Chen family's senior lawyer. "Mr. Zhang, I have a case on hand that I need you to win with a hundred percent certainty."
Since Chen Tianming had spoken, no one dared to refute him.
Mr. Zhang was considered the top lawyer of the Chen Corporation. He usually handled big cases worth hundreds of millions. He was a little unused to being suddenly responsible for such a dispute.
After Chen Tianming gave the order, he utilized the Chen Corporation to release all the evidence he gathered.
School bullying was already a sensitive subject, and in addition, Liu Xixi and Chen Tianming's popularity had been high for the past few days. "School Bully Liu Xixi" became a trending topic in no time.
Now that the evidence was public, Liu Xixi's popularity dropped drastically. After all, the evidence was conclusive.
Then, Chen Tianming asked Lawyer Zhang to draft a complaint as Su Xiaonuan wanted to reopen her case and sue Liu Xixi.
Since Su Xiaonuan had decided to seek justice, it was inevitable that she would be exposed to the public, and she would have to tear open her bleeding wounds for others to see.
If Liu Xixi's involvement in school bullying was the straw that broke the camel's back, Liu Xixi fell into a bottomless abyss after Su Xiaonuan's incident was exposed.
This was not simple school bullying; she had committed a crime.
Chen Tianming was reading the hot topics on the Internet when Liu Xixi suddenly called.
Chen Tianming didn't immediately answer the call; he waited until the ringing was about to stop before he unhurriedly answered, "Hello."
"Chen Tianming! You lunatic! Why are you doing this to me!" Liu Xixi's heart-wrenching screams came through the phone clearly, and they hurt Chen Tianming's ears.
Chen Tianming sneered, "Why? Liu Xixi, you're so forgetful. If you didn't whip up a cyber manhunt for me in your live stream, would I have done anything?"
"But you're really vicious. I thought you were just a b*tch before, but I didn't expect you to be so malicious," Chen Tianming sneered and said bluntly.
"I'm vicious?" Liu Xixi cried in despair, "You ruined my life, you f*cking demon!"
"What about you? Did you repent when you destroyed someone else's life?" Chen Tianming was infuriated.
'So now she's angry her life was ruined? What about back then? Did she ever regret ruining Su Xiaonuan's life? Did she regret ruining my life in the past?'
She didn't; she wouldn't.
Liu Xixi would only scorn the lowly lives of the worthless masses from above.
Chen Tianming didn't think he had anything to say to this crazy woman, but Liu Xixi's curses were still ringing in his ears.
Tianming smiled. "What's the point of all this talk?"
"What can you do to me? Liu Xixi, don't think too highly of yourself. I've already told you I don't need to lift a finger to crush you."
Chen Tianming didn't lie. He had initially intended to wait until Liu Xixi entered the entertainment industry—like she did in his previous life—before he started to make a move against her.
However, Liu Xixi insisted on testing his boundaries and danced on the razor's edge. He would think of it as removing a cancer from the entertainment industry.
Liu Xixi's mind imploded, and her thoughts went blank. She understood that she had hit a wall this time.
At this moment, her mind flashed back to when she had Chen Tianming eating out of her hand; he pandered to her every whim and frantically tried to gain her favor. She also remembered the Chen family's ranking on the Billionaires List.
Liu Xixi was filled with regret, and she begged him like he was her last lifeline.
"Tianming, Tianming, I know you love me! You can't bear to see me suffer, right? Please, help me. I'll do anything!"