They don't know which headline to choose for tomorrow's news.
Any one of these is juicy gossip, okay?
Get ready for all the trending topics and headlines! Let's go!
Seeing that Jiang Erchun and his wife still looked confused and didn't seem to understand what abandonment meant, Zhou Mingxing sneered, picked up his phone and called the police.
Today, in order to support Ziwei Star, the TV station invited dozens of media outlets to the scene to report on it. This matter can no longer be kept secret.
Since we can't hide it anymore, let's just make a big fuss about it!
Zhou Mingxing knew Jiang Erchun too well; he was wicked, stupid, and insatiable. As long as there was even the slightest chance for him to get involved with Jiang Cancan...
Zhou Mingxing had no doubt that Jiang Cancan would never get rid of her greedy and vicious father in her lifetime!
The only way now is to make a big fuss, use the pressure of public opinion from the media to confirm Jiang Erchun's crime of abandoning Jiang Cancan, and send him to jail!
He is stripped of his guardianship of Jiang Cancan!
That way, even if he gets old and tries to play the victim, saying that his biological daughter Jiang Cancan didn't support him in his old age, with a criminal record for abandonment, the old man won't be able to cause any trouble.
It's important to know that the vast majority of netizens nowadays have very sound values.
If you didn't raise me, why should I take care of you in your old age?
Jiang Xiaoman had just come out of the restroom when she ran into Jiang Xia, who was carrying Jiang Cancan toward the elevator.
"The press conference ended so quickly? Wasn't there supposed to be a media interview session? What happened?" Jiang Xiaoman was taken aback.
"Can Can's father has come looking for her." Jiang Xia's face was extremely grim.
"What? He's still alive?"
Jiang Xia couldn't help but laugh at the question.
Think about it carefully, isn't that right?
A blind old mother was living in the mountains with two girls who couldn't work and was almost starving to death. If anyone was alive, they wouldn't go years without going home and not sending a single penny home, would they?
Unless the person died outside.
However, it seems that Jiang Erchun is not only not dead, but is still alive and well.
Although his wife and children weren't dressed in nice clothes, they weren't thin, so they probably could support themselves. Unlike Jiang Cancan, a nine-year-old child who was short and thin due to malnutrition since childhood; no one would doubt that she was only six years old.
"Holy crap! What do we do now? He's CanCan's guardian..."
The thought of Jiang Cancan signing with a company and earning income, with a large sum of money going to her father, a scumbag, made Jiang Xiaoman so angry she almost vomited blood.
"I don't know. Brother Zhou told me to take Cancan back to her room first and not to answer any calls. He'll handle the situation on-site." Jiang Xia raised his chin, gesturing for Jiang Xiaoman to press the elevator button for him.
Today, Zhou Mingxing specially booked a room at this hotel to make it easier to style Cancan's hair. Luckily, the room hasn't been canceled yet, otherwise, if he walked out of the hotel now, there would probably be paparazzi everywhere.
Who would have thought a signing ceremony could turn into such a mess? To show how much they valued Jiang Cancan, the company even arranged a live stream across the entire internet. Now, fans all over the country know that Jiang Cancan has gained a new father…
Information spreads so fast in modern society! Before the police even arrived at the scene, breaking news from the press conference had already quickly topped the headlines and trending lists on major media platforms.
Shocking! Jiang Cancan's biological father, the champion of "Youth" competition, has appeared!
"Jiang Cancan's biological father has appeared! Suspected of abandoning his child!"
These are clearly legitimate media outlets, while others are deliberately trying to grab attention with unscrupulous headlines to deceive people.
"Jiang Cancan disregards her own father after becoming famous? The truth is..."
"Jiang Cancan may compete with her own father for the 500,000 yuan championship prize!"
Zhou Mingxing temporarily borrowed all the employees from the company who didn't have any urgent matters to monitor online public opinion around the clock, and also sent someone to drive to Langshan overnight to pick up Grandma Jiang and Jiang Yueyue.
If we want to establish Jiang Erchun's crimes of abandonment and immoral behavior of refusing to support the elderly, these two people are living evidence!
After doing all this, looking at the marketing posts that kept popping up online, Zhou Mingxing sneered and personally accompanied Jiang Cancan to the police station—because someone had provided evidence that Jiang Erchun had been detained by the police on suspicion of abandonment.
A large number of media reporters gathered at the entrance of the police station, as well as many local social media bloggers who came to join the fun. As soon as they saw Zhou Mingxing and Jiang Cancan appear at the entrance of the police station, they immediately swarmed around them.
Normally, Zhou Mingxing would have already had her lawyer handle this, but this situation is different. No matter how awful Jiang Erchun is, he's still Jiang Cancan's biological father. If she doesn't show up from beginning to end, people will inevitably speculate maliciously that she wants to cut ties with her poor father now that she's famous.
Jiang Cancan's face was deathly pale, and her big eyes were filled with fear and apprehension about the future.
Children have the sharpest intuition, especially since Jiang Erchun never raised her; all he left her and her grandmother was the family's never-ending debt...
Jiang Cancan simply couldn't bear to think about it. If her father came back and took all the money in the house, how would she, her grandmother, and Yueyue survive?
Chapter 96
Even the blinding flash of the camera couldn't hide Jiang Cancan's pale face. Seeing her hiding helplessly in Jiang Xiaoman's arms, even the paparazzi, who were usually ruthless in their pursuit of news, couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness.
Oh dear! This child is so pitiful!
Many of them, in their pursuit of fame, meticulously studied the memorable moments surrounding Jiang Cancan before and after the competition, especially the dilapidated old house of the Jiang family when Wei Sheng led his men to look for her, the drafty kitchen, and the eight-treasure porridge pot they temporarily used to boil water because they couldn't afford an iron pot...
To put it simply, Jiang Cancan never complained about being poor to the production team or her fans, but everything she wore and used at home clearly screamed poverty!
The public had always assumed that Jiang Cancan and her sister were orphans and had to live a difficult life with their nearly blind grandmother.
Who would have thought?
The old lady even has a young and energetic son!
Jiang Cancan actually has a biological father!
Besides, it's not that her biological father has amnesia, nor that he can't make ends meet; he just doesn't want to take responsibility!
He was living a carefree life outside with his second wife and children, completely ignoring the life and death of his blind mother and two young children!
I feel sorry for them, but the interview still needs to be conducted.
However, Zhou Mingxing was well aware of the principle of "releasing half the information to triple the popularity." He took Jiang Cancan, who looked pale and miserable, around the police station for a while, and then, under the pretext of cooperating with the police to give a statement, went inside with his bodyguard and witness Jiang Xiaoman and Jiang Xia.
A group of paparazzi were left anxiously waiting outside, too afraid to even eat, ordering takeout and squatting at the police station entrance, lest they miss any juicy scoops.
It's important to know that with the continuous decline in the urban birth rate in recent years, society has been paying increasing attention to the protection of minors.
Given how precious human offspring are, how could anyone dare to abandon their own daughter? And abandon two at once!
What kind of beast is this, worse than a pig or a dog?
Well-informed sources have learned from insiders that Jiang Cancan's biological father abandoned not only her, but also, it is said, her biological mother died from severe bleeding during her third childbirth. Instead of taking good care of his two daughters, Jiang Erchun, her biological father, hastily borrowed money to marry another woman before his youngest daughter was even a year old.
Then he left Jiang Cancan, who had just turned three, and Jiang Yueyue, who was less than a year old, with his blind mother, and then packed up and went to the city with his second wife to enjoy a life of luxury...
At the police station, Jiang Cancan was initially at a loss when faced with the police officers' questions. Perhaps the officers' questions were too formal, as she couldn't understand much of what they were saying. Later, when a female officer came in, she gradually calmed down and, with the officer's patient guidance, recounted some of the events that had happened since she could remember.
“I was three years old when my father passed away. Yueyue was just eight months old at the time. I remember someone came to our house to collect a debt. They wanted to take our cornmeal, but Yueyue kept crying, so they didn’t take it.”
"Grandma is blind and can't work in the fields. Who will farm the land?"
"There's no one here. I'll take Yueyue to dig up some small potatoes from someone else's potato field after they've finished harvesting them so we can eat them."
"Later, Principal Dad came to my house and told me to go to school. Grandma said we didn't have any money, so Principal Dad said he would pay for my books, and I went to school! School was great! Principal Dad often cooked for us!"
When Jiang Cancan mentioned Jiang Baichuan, whom she knew and was closest to, she suddenly became more talkative, even using a long string of beautiful words to describe the dishes her principal father cooked.
Since she can remember, her family has always eaten boiled or roasted potatoes; no one has ever cooked a dish for her.
The policewoman burst into tears upon hearing this, and the tissues she had prepared for Jiang Cancan ended up being used by herself.
Jiang Cancan only took one, but she used it to wipe her drool.
Having been away from home for several days, she really missed Jiang Baichuan's cooking.
"The principal even gave us clothes to wear! Many of them were donated by kind people!"
"My dad? He hasn't come back yet!"
"Have you sent money home? No!"
“Our family could have applied for subsistence allowance, but my grandma and I have never received the money. The villagers say that the allowance is deposited into my dad's account, so we can't get it.”
"Holy shit!" A middle-aged male police officer next to him couldn't help but mutter under his breath.
Is this even human?
Not only does he not send money home, but he also tries to embezzle his mother's and children's welfare benefits.
The policewoman clenched her fists and wrote down Jiang Erchun's testimony about abandoning his child and neglecting his elderly parents.
In addition to Jiang Cancan herself, Jiang Xiaoman, as a relative, also gave her testimony.
If Jiang Cancan's words could only be described as infuriating and pitiful, Jiang Xiaoman's words would absolutely make the policewoman want to rush next door and give Jiang Erchun a good beating—
Jiang Xiaoman started her story from the first time she met Jiang Cancan at school. At that time, it was already May, and Jiang Cancan was still wearing an ill-fitting old cotton-padded coat and old cotton-padded shoes. When she took off her shoes, she didn't even have socks underneath!
“I brought back some donated used clothes from school. Can Can said that they were the best clothes she had ever worn in her life.”
Other children might complain that school serves boiled vegetables every day, but for Jiang Cancan, being able to stir-fry vegetables with oil is already a great luxury.
No one in her family farms, and they can't afford soybean oil. Every year, the only cooking oil they get is two buckets of oil and two bags of rice when the village visits impoverished households. That's all the cooking oil the three of them can eat for a year.
The female police officer couldn't help but wipe away her tears again. The middle-aged male police officer next to her stirred under his buttocks and reached into his pocket for a cigarette. Halfway through, he remembered that smoking was now completely prohibited indoors in the unit, and angrily slammed his fist on the table twice.
Based on what Jiang Cancan said before, if Jiang Erchun hadn't embezzled the family's poverty alleviation subsidies, then Jiang Cancan and her two grandchildren would at least be able to eat their fill, instead of being unable to afford even the cheapest soybean oil, as Jiang Xiaoman described.
No, Jiang Xiaoman not only provided witness testimony, but he also provided physical evidence.
"This is my social media account, and also the official video account of Langshan Primary School, where Jiang Cancan currently studies. If you don't believe me, you can watch the videos posted between May and July this year. They show Jiang Cancan at school and videos of student teachers visiting her home. These can all serve as evidence!"
"Officer, whether Jiang Erchun is suspected of abandonment is a matter for the court to decide. As a relative and fellow villager, I want to say that anyone with eyes and ears who is not blind or deaf can go to any household in our Langshan Village and ask them. They will know that I am not lying."
“My classmates all said that after I went back, their meals improved a lot and they even had new clothes to wear. You can imagine what kind of life Jiang Cancan lived before that.”
"By the way, you can also check the news from a while ago, the news about our county education bureau embezzling nutrition meal subsidies for impoverished students, including Jiang Cancan's subsidy!"
"This child has suffered so much! Her own father doesn't care about her. The government's nutritional meal subsidies for her have been embezzled. Now that she's finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, they're coming back to leech off her again! What kind of justice is this?"
"Okay, we have a general understanding of the situation. We will verify the testimony and evidence you provided one by one. Thank you for your cooperation!"
The two police officers stood up and shook hands with Jiang Xiaoman: "Please rest assured, the public security organs will not wrong an innocent person, but they will also never let a bad person go free!"
Of course, I wouldn't let it go.
Putting aside Jiang Erchun's heinous crime of abandoning two toddlers, right now, the police station is surrounded by reporters from major media outlets and countless self-media bloggers.
Jiang Erchun never expected that he just wanted to ask his daughter to take the 500,000 yuan prize money she won in the competition and keep it safe. After all, he was Jiang Cancan's biological father. She only had a blind old mother at home. If she didn't keep such a large sum of money with her biological father, what would happen if the child got lost?