Chapter 392 -  Xiong Zhi's Tiny Surprise Gift (III)

The whole court turned silent for a second before erupting into a loud exclamation.

"Miss Xiong Wuyue!"

"Miss Xiong Wuyue, can we have an interview?"

"A word please..."

All of the media surrounded her like a swarm of bees.

Xiong Wuyue shook as she pushed down her hat to cover her face. Fl.u.s.tered and terrified, she glanced left and right. 

How could she get out of this situation?!

She had a couple of guards, but they were outside! She came here alone to not attract attention to herself. She just planned to make herself known after her father won the trial, but she did not expect in the slightest that her previously invincible father would suddenly confess everything!

How could it be?

What was her father thinking?!

If she had known that her father would lose the case, she would not come at all... She regretted until her intestines turned green.

Since she had no guards, the media was not hindered in the slightest. They fought to shove their microphones and cameras on her face, jostling her in the process. 

All the attention they previously put on Xiong De had now turned to her.

She was the upcoming Entertainment Queen after all!

Xiong Wuyue pushed back and tried to escape but there was no way out. She was squeezed left and right, someone was even stepping on her feet. The blinding flashes of camera and noise overwhelmed her. She was horrified. This was the first time she truly experienced the terror of the reporters and paparazzi, without a manager or a bodyguard to protect her.

All questions rained over her.

"Do you really not know that your father committed those things?"

"Have you not suspected at all?"

"You are known as the 'Upcoming Queen of Entertainment in Asia', but most of it are thanks to your father, Xiong De, right?"

"Do you think your father's crime would affect your prospects and reputation?"

The loud voices of the reporters were like incoherent buzzing in her head.

Humiliation, terror, regret...

Xiong Wuyue wanted to cry. Why did she even come? How could these people notice her so easily?!

A short distance away, Xiong De froze on his steps and did not let himself get dragged further by the officer. He looked at his daughter with a stunned and pained expression. 

Why had she come here? He clearly told her to stay abroad for a while...

He did not want his daughter to be dragged into this! 

She should have been protected from this storm and would only come out once he settled everything. Then they would come back up again. Where the hell were the people he arranged?!

"Mr. Xiong, we need to leave now. Please cooperate—"

"Officer, please help my daughter and let her go. She's surrounded! Please, send people to help her leave. She doesn't have anything to do with this. She doesn't deserve to be caught up on this."

The officer ignored him, held his arms, and pulled him forward firmly and slowly despite his struggle. However, he was being dragged suspiciously very slowly.

Xiong De felt the tight hold of the officer. The pain on his arms and shoulders was clear. He gritted his teeth in anger. Even a lowly officer like had the guts to treat him like this! To think that he even pleaded nicely to him. 

'Just you wait, people, I will make sure you will all regret treating me like this!'

"All of you, I'm here! Leave my daughter alone! She's got nothing to do with this!" Xiong De yelled loudly as he struggled to stay, hoping to save his poor daughter from the crowd. He knew best that his daughter hated becoming a subject of mockery, it would pain her to death. 

His daughter should only be under the light of compliments and praises. She was a treasure he spoiled with all his heart! How could he bear to see her current plight?

Xiong Wuyue heard her father's shouts and the urge to cry grew even more. Tears came out of her eyes and she shook her head desperately. She fought to hide her face and maintain her balance amidst the jostling.

"I don't know anything! Please, stop. I didn't know my father would do that..." Xiong Wuyue choked on a sob. 

Right now, she could only choose one between her father and her career.

Her father was already at this point, there was nothing she could do about it.

For sure, her father would understand.

One reporter shoved a microphone to her and asked, "So you are saying that you are innocent to all of this? You are not aware at all?"

"Yes... I'm not aware..."

At this moment, there were sounds of notifications on the reporters' phones. Their phones had already been unmuted after the court trial. The notifications almost rang simultaneously, so they were especially noticeable. 

Some of the reporters checked their phones. The one who first checked immediately raised his voice towards Xiong Wuyue, his microphone pointed to her. 

"Then why are you hiding in the VX Island during these two weeks? Are you perhaps afraid to be implicated? If no one looked for you for a small interview, will you have even attended the trial?"

Xiong Wuyue's hand wiping her tears halted. She frowned. 

Small interview? When did she have—

Then she suddenly remembered what happened yesterday back in the VX Island and the group of reporters who suddenly showed up. They published the interview? 

What was it now? Why were they making a fuss over that small interview?

As if he read her thoughts, a reporter spoke. "There is just an article about your interview. It was said that you and the heiress of the Xiong family are at odds with each other, and there's a possibility that you might be connected to the order of attempted r.a.p.e on the Xiong heiress. Is that why you were hiding?"

Xiong Wuyue's heart skipped a beat. 

'What was this?! I never mentioned that! And we didn't clearly talked about any of this!'

She could hear the schadenfreude murmurings around her.

A reporter spoke in an incredulous tone as they checked out the interview article. "If not for the reporters spotting her, she really won't even come here!"

"What? So unfilial," another exclaimed after browsing the interview.

"Well, what can she do? Her father was a criminal, and she was a famous figure in the society."

"So the daughter hides while the father faces the crime?"

"Is she even innocent?"

"This is a great material!"

"With a father like that, how could the daughter be pure?"

"But she was once that 'angel' of Country C."

"Well, his father was the former 'Greatest Dad', according to her."

"The greatest dad in the whole world who ordered people to r.a.p.e his niece, is that really great? Thankfully it failed!"

The murmurs were so loud and painful that Xiong Wuyue began to feel faint, a cold chill enveloping her.

This mocking... this ridicule... Under the hat and mask, her face turned red, green, black, then back to deathly pale.

What was this? 

How come she was dragged like this?! 

She was innocent! Except from that order on the attempted r.a.p.e, she was innocent in everything else!

It did not even succeed.