Chapter 3 — Tuition Fees for Other People's Daughters

Tham Kien Quoc turned around and suddenly raised his voice: "Everyone, look, the daughter I raised for twenty-one years is talking to me like that. Since she was little, she ate from me, used my money, and now I want to help those poor children, and she immediately hates me." Tong Nhiem lowered his head and wiped his tears: "Uncle Tham, stop talking, it's all my fault." "It's not my fault." My father pulled her behind him to protect him, "You understand things a hundred times better than him." I looked at them standing next to each other, like a real father and daughter couple. Someone next to me said: "This girl is really too much." Chu Duong turned around and scolded: "What do you know?" Luu Tinh pushed out of the crowd: "We all know. Nhiem Nhiem's family is in trouble, Uncle Tham is kind enough to sponsor him. Tham Chi was jealous, went to the flower shop to humiliate him, and even caused us to be reported to the police by the owner." I looked at her: "Do you need me to tell you the story about you breaking the rose and having to pay for it?" Luu Tinh's face turned white: "You guys set me up." "The camera is in my hand." She shut her mouth. This is the first crack, very small, but enough for the people filming next to it to lower their phones. Tham Kien Quoc did not pay attention to Liu Qing's reaction. He took out a stack of papers from his pocket and threw them at my feet. "Didn't you say I wouldn't give you money? This is all the money I've spent on you over the years. Tuition, clothes, medicine, every single item I wrote down. Today you have to admit in front of everyone that you owe me." Papers fell to the ground. The top sheet reads: Tham Chi's high school tutoring fee is eight hundred yuan, Tham Chi's emotional medicine is thirty-six yuan, fruit to visit Tham Chi's mother in the hospital is fifty-eight yuan. I bent down to pick up that piece of paper. "Your mother is in the hospital, so dad buys fruit and it counts on your head?" "Isn't that money spent on your family?" "Your mother is also my wife." "Don't mention her to me." Tham Kien Quoc's face immediately turned cold, "If she wasn't sick, would dad still be alive like this?" The crowd was silent. I crumpled the paper into a ball: "Dad finally told the truth." Tong Nhiem quickly pulled him: "Uncle Tham." Tham Kien Quoc shook her hand away: "Is there anything I can't say? The biggest mistake of my life was marrying his mother and then raising a debt collector monster like him." Chu Duong was so angry that his voice was hoarse: "You are not worthy of being human." My father pointed at me: "Tham Chi, if you don't kneel down and apologize today, I will cut off the relationship between your father and you." The wind blew, the papers on the ground rustled and rolled down the steps. I said: “Okay.” He was stunned: "What did you say?" "Cut it off." I opened the recording interface on my phone and brought it in front of him, "Dad, say it again." Tham Kien Quoc stared at my phone, the blue veins on the back of his hand appearing. Tong Nhiem took a step forward: "Chi Chi, don't act in anger. Uncle Tham loves you so much, how can you use this to threaten him?" "I don't threaten him." I looked at her, "I did it." Behind me, someone suddenly said: "Isn't her father being a bit too much?" Another person continued: "Even the medical bills are recorded, it's too detailed." Hearing this, Tham Kien Quoc's face became even more ugly. He snatched the phone out of my hand and threw it on the ground. The screen shattered, the recording stopped. "Are you satisfied now?" I lowered my head to look at the broken screen, not picking it up. Ms. Truong quickly walked out of the school gate, behind was someone from the security room. "Mr. Tham, please leave the school gate." My father laughed coldly: "The school also helped him bully me?" Ms. Truong stood next to me: "This is a school, not where you handle family matters." Tong Nhiem's tears fell even harder: "Miss, Uncle Tham is just so heartbroken." Miss Truong looked at her:

“Tong Nhiem, was the article on the forum posted by you?” Tong Nhiem stiffened: "No." "My roommate Luu Tinh just admitted in the academy group that the photo was taken by her, the content was edited by me." Liu Tinh turned around to run away from the crowd, but was caught by Chu Duong. "What are you running?" Liu Tinh panicked: "I just posted it for her, I didn't know it would be so big." Tong Nhiem rushed to pull her: "Tinh Tinh, don't talk nonsense." Luu Tinh shook her hand away: "You said Tham Chi stole your sponsorship, leaving you with no money to pay tuition, so I helped. But your new jacket is over five thousand yuan, doesn't it look like you don't have any money?" The crowd immediately became noisy. Tong Nhiem's face was as white as paper. My father roared: "Enough! If anything comes at me, don't bully Nhiem Nhiem!" The more he protected her, the more strange the looks of the people around him became. The security guard stood in front of him: "Sir, please leave." Tham Kien Quoc pointed at me: "Tham Chi, remember. Starting from today, I don't have a daughter like you." I bent down to pick up the broken phone and looked up at him. "I remember too." He turned and left. Tong Nhiem followed a few steps and then turned to look at me. There was more panic in her eyes. After that day, the direction of public opinion on the forum changed within half a day.