This Zhang Ye was clearly aiming for his life! If 888 hadn't warned him in time, that vase would have landed on his head instead.
He Yuan ignored the blood gushing out of his foot and rushed over to grab Zhang Ye. This wasn't a child a mere standing in the corner or a couple of warning words could properly raise.
And so, he pulled down the brat's PJ bottoms and gave him five resounding spanks on his bare bottom till it turned bright red. Zhang Ye burst out crying and Zhang Di rushed over to hit He Yuan's legs whilst Zhang Hua and the servants were just gobsmacked that He Yuan would hit a child.
At that moment, Zhang Jun and Li Shiyu, with faces full of smiles, satisfaction and adoration for each other, entered the dining room and then Li Shiyu's eyes widened.
"Ye'er!" The omega rushed over to pull Zhang Ye out of He Yuan's hands and covered the little alpha with his own body as he balled his eyes out.
Zhang Jun, on the other hand, grabbed He Yuan's wrist and twisted it before pushing He Yuan backwards making him hit the table edge. "Li Yexi what is the meaning of this? Have you gone crazy?!"
The family head and Zhang madam, who had returned earlier this morning, were awoken by the noise and decided to take a look. They stared at the mess before them with twin looks of confusion.
Li Shiyu whimpered and looked up to He Yuan. "Yexi, if there is anything I have done to offend you, please come at me. I won't complain and would even thank you instead but please, i beg you, leave my children out of it. Was there any need to raise your hand against such a little child?" Zhang Jun rushed over to hold him as he spoke.
The family head's eyes widened and he pointed his finger at He Yuan. "How dare you?! Do you think the Zhang family grandchildren are children you could raise your hands against so arbitrarily?"
He Yuan rubbed his aching side and scoffed bitterly. The family head was so good at playing the background prop that you could easily forget him. The one time the older alpha decided to take the stage, it was to rebuke Li Yexi.
He supported himself with the dining table and stared at all of them coldly. "Without even asking for my part of the story, you're all jumping to conclusions. Li Shiyu, I don't know why you always feel like everyone has an agenda against you.
-The time you spend crying at people who you claim have wronged you could be used to raise your children to be decent human beings instead."
The Zhang madam glared at He Yuan. "Li Yexi is something wrong with your head? You hit our Zhang family's grandchild and instead of feeling remorseful and apologizing, you're trying to lecture others on how to raise their own children!"
He Yuan laughed and shook his left foot a bit. The impact from the vase had torn open his flesh but there was no shattered porcelain imbedded within. The bleeding also seemed to have reduced. "I was bored, "
They all looked at him as if he had gone crazy but He Yuan continued as he waved his phone, "So I bought a drone. This morning I took it down with me and happened to record what happened minutes ago."
He looked over to the three kids who were now frozen in shock and smiled. The camera he had installed in the living room was placed at an angle where the dining room could be seen too. The electronics company had given him a drone as a gift so he could use that to cover up the existence of the cameras.
"If the three of you don't come clean, I'm going to expose you to everyone."
Zhang Ye eyes widened but then he resumed his crying with even more vigour. They were in the living room before Li Yexi came down and there was nothing with him when he did. Li Yexi must be lying!
The adults around saw this and assumed He Yuan was lying against the children and their anger increased. They were all about to drown He Yuan in their spittle when He Yuan suddenly connected his phone to the flat screen in the dining room and pressed play.
Zhang Ye's crying stopped immediately and the three kids looked to each other in alarm. The adults watched the flow of events in the video and Li Shiyu shifted uneasily. Even his heart rending tears were dried up.
They were quite shocked to see their well behaved Zhang Hua curse at Li Yexi but they just assumed it was because she was hurt and didn't know the proper meaning of the words she spoke.
They all flinched at Zhang Di's hate filled words but since the kid wasn't directly facing the camera they, once again, assumed it was just a kid throwing a childish tantrum and using words arbitrarily.
The Zhang elders looked to He Yuan with a frown and the Zhang madam was the first to speak up, "Even if such a thing happened, there was no need to hit the kid so hard. Children tend to be naughty at times." She might be a little uncomfortable with the weird smile Zhang Ye had when he pushed the vase but she quickly wrote it off as a child being naughty.
The family head nodded along and cleared his throat. "Adults need to be accommodating of the antics of the little ones every once in a while."
He Yuan was done with this family at this point. Is it when Li Yexi landed in his grave that they would realize what kind of potential societal hazards they were raising? Did they even care about the future of these kids at all? If it was so easy to be accommodating why didn't one of them offer up their heads to be smashed with a vase?
Li Shiyu started crying again and crawled over to hold He Yuan's good leg. "It's all my fault. I was the only one there for the kids when we were abroad and I wasn't able to divide my attention all the time. So they become naughty sometimes in order to seek attention. It's only because there was no one else for them."
Zhang Jun's eyes reddened and the Zhang elders stared at Li Shiyu with eyes full of pity.
He Yuan grit his teeth and pulled his leg out of Li Shiyu's disgusting claws. This omega was truly too good. How did he manage to twist his words until he got rice out of noodles? Instead of admitting that he was a horrible parent, he made it seem like it was the fault of everyone else for abandoning him.
If the kids truly wanted attention, why did they come to Li Yexi, the person they hated most? Why didn't they go over to Zhang Jun and Li Shiyu and smash their adulterous heads with a vase to get their attention?
He Yuan turned around and directly limped away. Li Yexi's position in this family was just a bit higher than the servants. Even if that kid had smashed his head in, they would still complain that he didn't lower his head enough. Hopefully, those kids don't grow into monsters with all their pampering.
888 winced as he watched He Yuan clean and bandage his left foot. [That looks painful.]
"Wow. I didn't notice, thanks for stating the obvious, " He Yuan said as he rolled his eyes.
888 coughed gently. [So what now?]
"The plans for the new company should be ready by now and Zhang Jun is soon going to start his mission to tear down the Li corporation. Li Anjing and Li Shu still need more time to set everything up so I'm going to look for a way to distract Zhang Jun by creating trouble in the Zhang conglomerates.
[How?]
"Although technology is a bit advanced in this realm, the Zhang family head is quite old fashioned and stores away company secrets on paper files in an underground cellar of sorts. He is very mistrustful of computers as he claims they could be easily hacked.
-I'm going to sneak into the file cellar, steal the most important documents and then sell them off to rival companies. Who knows, I might even find incriminating material that could bring the Zhang conglomerate down.
-The only people that have access to the cellars are Zhang Jun and his father and Zhang Jun wears his key around his neck. He never takes it off. I plan to perform a little acupuncture on Zhang Jun anyways so I would hit two birds with one stone."
888 quirked a brow. [What do you want to do to Zhang Jun?]
He Yuan gave a secret smile. "You'll see."