Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 223 Must apologize

Lin Qingping raised her head, "Otherwise what? Aren't you trying to frame us on purpose?"

"I..." Liu Yan said angrily, "I didn't!"

Lin Qingping sneered, "It's useless for you to say you don't have it! I'll only speak with facts."

Lin Qingping handed the camera directly to the reporter, saying, "How about this, to ensure fairness, I won't develop the photos myself. I'll just give you the camera. Please take out the film and develop it for me. Whatever the photos are, please publish them in the newspaper."

Lin Qingping's upright and righteous demeanor earned the trust of the guests, and their opinions gradually changed, with them siding with Lin Qingping.

Liu Yan collapsed completely.

If photos of her secretly letting her hair out make it into the newspapers, how can she stay in the capital? What will become of Yun Yan's reputation? How will he ever face anyone again?

"No...you can't..." Her voice was so weak it was almost inaudible.

Lin Qingping said solemnly, "Comrades reporter, there are so many customers in the store today. If you hadn't happened to ask me about photography, and if I hadn't happened to have a camera on hand, we would never be able to clear our names even if we jumped into the Yellow River. I would not be able to give the customers an explanation, nor could I prove my innocence. Our store was built on word of mouth. If this happens today, and everyone goes back and tells us, our store will suffer a devastating blow!"

The guests present nodded in agreement. Indeed, if the shop owner hadn't clarified things today, they wouldn't have stopped coming themselves, and they would have told their friends and family not to come either.

Tears welled up in Lin Qingping's eyes. "Comrade reporter, opening a shop is difficult and arduous. We develop new products, thinking about how to do it even in our dreams, experimenting again and again, all to present the best taste to everyone. But destroying a shop is easy; all it takes is a few words..."

Wu Tianjiao stood next to Lin Qingping, her face ashen. "Now is the time to encourage vigorous economic development. Countless small and medium-sized enterprises are springing up like mushrooms after rain. Everyone is full of energy and hope. If there are too many scoundrels like today, it will be a huge blow to everyone's enthusiasm!"

When Wu was a stink bug and a rat, he was looking at Liu Yan.

Only then did Liu Yan realize, as if struck by lightning: How could she forget! This shop belongs to Wu Tianjiao! Wu Tianjiao! She had actually wrecked Wu Tianjiao's place because of her resentment towards Lin Qingping; she had completely offended Wu Tianjiao…

Wu Tianjiao said seriously, "Reporter, we should still report what needs to be reported. Everything is thriving now, and reporting on such bad apples will serve as a warning to everyone! In addition, we should apologize where necessary."

Wu Tianjiao looked at Liu Yan and said, "Right here, you will clear your name by the same means you used to slander our brand and our store!"

Liu Yan was stunned: What? She had to apologize? She had never apologized in her life! And she had to apologize publicly in the store? Absolutely not!

Wu Tianjiao didn't care what she thought. She cleared out the most prominent spot in the middle of the shop and pointed at it, saying, "This is it. Liu Yan, I don't care why you did this, and I don't want to know. Just explain yourself here! Tell me how you slandered us."

Just then, Yun Yan walked over.

Liu Yan's face turned even paler.

She had invited Yun Yan to show off her loving relationship with her husband to her friends, but now, Yun Yan had caught her red-handed...

She and Yun Yan already had a falling out because of Old Master Yun's matter, and now Yun Yan is probably even more annoyed with her...

As Yun Yan walked along, he gathered a general understanding of the situation from the whispers of passersby and what he had personally witnessed in the shops.

"Yun Yan..." Liu Yan seemed to see a savior and ran towards her husband, hoping that Wu Tianjiao would give him a break for Yun Yan's sake, and also hoping that Yun Yan would apologize to Wu for his own sake. Wasn't he ashamed of himself for apologizing to her in public like this?

Yun Yan's face was truly nowhere to hide.

But neither Lin Qingping nor Wu Tianjiao would back down on this matter.

Lin Qingping was afraid that Wu Tianjiao would be too embarrassed to speak up, so she faced Yun Yan directly and said, "Yun Yan, it's not that I'm being unreasonable, but there are different levels of importance to this matter. I believe you both know perfectly well how Liu Yan treats me. In the past, I could overlook it because it was only a personal matter. If we didn't get along, we simply didn't associate with each other. But today's matter concerns the survival of our shop and its social impact. I cannot let this go."

Lin Qingping didn't care. Her relationship with the Yun family was only with the old man. The old man lived far away in the suburbs, and she figured the Yun brothers wouldn't bother him with these matters. As for the others, she didn't care if they were offended.

“Yun Yan, I…” Liu Yan was about to cry.

Yun Yan's face was dark and gloomy. "Go apologize."

"Wh...what?" Liu Yan looked at him in disbelief, her eyes filled with tears. Yun Yan wasn't going to help her? "No, Yun Yan, our son is still here. If I apologize like this, and he sees it, how can I be a mother?"

Yun Yan's face was serious, and he gritted his teeth, "When you did those shameful things, did you never think about your son in front of you?"

"I..." Liu Yan was speechless. She already regretted it, okay? She was just angry for a moment, really angry at Lin Qingping, that country bumpkin who had gotten away with something! "I already know I was wrong, Yun Yan..."

"It's no use apologizing to me! Not everyone in the world will indulge you and pamper you, and I don't have that ability!" Yun Yan said coldly. "As for our son, let him see for himself and understand that there are consequences for wrongdoing! Xiaoshan, come here!"

Yun Yan called his son over.

Liu Yan knew that an apology was necessary this time; there was no escaping it...

She wiped away her tears and walked to the spot Wu Tianjiao had marked out, tears streaming down her face as she spoke, "I'm sorry...it was me..."

I cried for a long time and couldn't say anything more.

She could see her two friends watching her out of the corner of her eye; they must be laughing! She had invited them to show off, but she had made such a fool of herself! They must be laughing their heads off!

And there's a small hill...

She could already hear Xiaoshan asking Yunyan, "Dad, what is Mom doing?"

“Your mother did something wrong and is apologizing,” Yun Yan said seriously. “You also need to remember that not all mistakes can be forgiven. If a mistake cannot be forgiven, you have to bear the consequences yourself.”

Upon hearing this, Liu Yan cried even harder. Although she was sobbing, she quickly finished saying what she wanted to say, only hoping to leave this place as soon as possible.

"I put my hair in the dessert to frame this shop. I was wrong. I'm sorry."

After saying that, she covered her face and ran out.

As she ran, she felt that what she had experienced today was the greatest humiliation of her life!

Why does Yun Yan always help outsiders? And why does this outsider always side with Lin Qingping?

As she thought about this, something suddenly occurred to her: Could Lin Qingping have seduced Yun Yan? Were they having an affair?