Chapter 47 - Flip The Black and White
The noise outside was getting louder, and finally interfered with the audition in the dining hall.
The audition was not going well that day, and now this? Zhang Heng’s whole face turned purple.
“Go and see what’s going on.” Guan Meiyi told Li Fei quietly.
A minute later, Li Fei ran back with exciting news, “Ling Yuqing and Ling Tianya were making a scene outside. Ling Yuqing was kneeling on the floor and crying. It looks like she was being bullied.”
Li Fei had become quite familiar with Guan Meiyi’s family situation after working for her the past a few years. She met Ling Yuqing in person a few times too.
“What?” Guan Meiyi shot up from her chair and cried out, “Ling Tianya was bullying Yuqing? She made her kneel in front of her?”
Guan Meiyi said it loud enough that the entire dining hall could hear. She intentionally made Ling Tianya the bully in the story, even though Li Fei didn’t say that it was Ling Tianya who forced Ling Yuqing onto her knees.
Most people had no idea who Ling Yuqing was. They were still intrigued by the story where the screenwriter of the show forced someone to get on her knees.
“If you would excuse me, I have to go check it out.” said Guan Meiyi as she ran out looking rather concerned.
Outside the dining hall, Ling Yuqing was on the floor, grabbing Ling Tianya by the bottom of her dress, crying helplessly and pleading to her not to be angry.
Guan Meiyi walked up with her eyebrows furrowed, “What is going on? Why are you kneeling on the floor, Yuqing? Get up now!”
Seeing Guan Meiyi, Ling Yuqing played up her victimhood even more. She pushed away Guan Meiyi’s hand and cried, “Sister Meiyi, please help me talk to sisterTianya. Please ask her to stop hating my mother and me, after all we are a family! I don’t want to see my father being stuck in the middle. I know all he ever wanted was for us to be a happy family…”
In front of the pitiful face of Ling Yuqing, Guan Meiyi scolded Ling Tianya with a great sense of justice, “Tianya, you are back now, why can’t you just let go of the past? All these years you were gone, Yuqing was the one who was staying by the side of uncle and grandma, fulfilling the duty of a daughter. For the sake that she took up the duty you were supposed to have, can you please let it go? This is a public place, what do you want people to think about the Ling Family?” As she spoke, Guan Meiyi made another attempt to help Ling Yuqing up, “What do you want from us? Ever since you’ve come back, the family is in shambles. Now you are forcing Yuqing to kneel in front of you? You are way out of line!”
Guan Meiyi’s argument was sensible yet full of emotion. She wanted everyone to see her as the big sister.
Ling Tianya looked at Guan Meiyi deliberately. What a big white lily you are! Standing on the moral high ground and accusing me, with no regard for the actual black and white of the story!
By that time, people from inside the dining hall had come out, witnessing what was unfolding.
Ruan Zeyan focused his eyes on Ling Tianya, although it was hard to tell what he was thinking or feeling under that cold expression.
“Sister Meiyi, please don’t blame sister Tianya. As long as she accepts me, I’m willing to do anything.” Ling Yuqing’s nose and eyes were bright red, looking like a small animal who didn’t want to get hurt, “My mom did something unforgivable to Tianya six years ago, now we’ve both been kicked out of the family house. I miss my dad and grandma every day… sister Meiyi, please help me ask sister Tianya to forgive me and my mom, this way we can go home…”
Ling Yuqing intentionally left out of some important details of the story. She didn’t mention what her mother did to hurt Ling Tianya six years ago, so to strangers’ ears, it sounded like Ling Tianya was just being a jerk to her step-mother and step-sister!