Overnight Hit: Vicious Stepmother and Genius Son
Chapter 98: Don’t Be Afraid When Mom Is Here

Chapter 98: Chapter 98: Don’t Be Afraid When Mom Is Here

The teacher hung up the phone before Ye Zhenzhen could say anything else.

Ye Zhenzhen didn’t dare to delay a moment and immediately walked outside, asking the driver to take her to the kindergarten.

Linjiang District Bilingual International Kindergarten.

Ye Zhenzhen found Xiao Chen in the teacher’s office, his face streaked with tear marks, obviously just having cried.

Seeing Ye Zhenzhen come in, Xiao Chen ran over and threw himself into her arms, "Ye Zhenzhen～."

Ye Zhenzhen frowned and touched Xiao Chen in her arms, "Xiao Chen, be good, tell Mom what happened?"

Song Yuchen, hearing Ye Zhenzhen’s concerned words, felt his grievance burst out again, and he started to cry loudly.

The crying sound was heartbreaking for Ye Zhenzhen to hear.

Although she had only been with Xiao Chen for a few days, this little guy was always cute and strong and had never cried like this.

Ye Zhenzhen suppressed the pain from the wound on her right arm, lifted the little guy into her arms and soothed him gently, "Xiao Chen, be good, it’s okay, it’s okay, Mama will hold you while you cry, and when you’re done crying, you can talk."

Ye Zhenzhen would have been better off not saying that, for the little guy buried his head in her chest and cried even harder.

At that moment, the teacher standing by, who had been silent until now, spoke up, "You must be Ye Zhenzhen, right?"

Song Yuchen’s stepmother.

As she spoke, the teacher’s gaze sized up Ye Zhenzhen, and she could not hide the contempt in her eyes.

Ye Zhenzhen looked up, meeting the young female teacher’s meaningful gaze, and responded, "Yes, I am. Who are you?"

Actually, by the voice, Ye Zhenzhen already knew the person was the teacher who had called her earlier, but given the other’s impolite look, she deliberately asked this question.

The teacher spoke with a smile that didn’t reach her eyes, "I’m Song Yuchen’s homeroom teacher, Teacher Huang. Song Yuchen had a fight with a classmate and insisted on seeing you, so I called you."

In this office, besides this teacher and Xiao Chen, there was also another little boy.

He had been standing next to Xiao Chen the whole time, and he politely said to Ye Zhenzhen, "Auntie, hello, I’m Xiao Chen’s best friend, Shu Siyu."

The little guy had short hair, fair skin, and a pair of bright, stubborn eyes.

Given his red eyes, he must have cried recently too.

Ye Zhenzhen crouched down and smiled back at the little guy, "Hello, Shu Siyu. Xiao Chen was telling me this morning that you are his best friend and that he’s going to give you Xiao Yi’s autographed photo."

A flicker of guilt passed through Shu Siyu’s eyes.

Xiao Chen came out of Ye Zhenzhen’s arms, his little body still sobbing, "Mom..."

Shu Siyu said, "Xiao Chen, don’t cry anymore, it’s my fault, I’m sorry!"

Ye Zhenzhen frowned in confusion, thinking that these two little guys hadn’t just fought, had they?

Before she could ask what happened, Teacher Huang spoke first;

"It’s like this, Yuchen’s mom, the incident started because Song Yuchen brought an autographed photo of Xiao Yi to class today, which led to three kids arguing over the photo and eventually fighting."

Ye Zhenzhen raised an eyebrow, "Three kids? Why are there only two here, where’s the third one?"

"Yuchen’s mom, please listen to me until I’ve finished speaking!" Teacher Huang spoke with a strong tone, her eyes filled with disdain and contempt for Ye Zhenzhen.

Ye Zhenzhen narrowed her eyes slightly and tugged at the corner of her lips, "Fine, continue."

Teacher Huang: "After lunch, Yuchen took out a signed photo of Xiao Yi and showed it to Shu Siyu, who didn’t sleep during naptime and kept playing with the photo, disturbing An Ruilin, who was sleeping next to him. Then the two of them started fighting.

Immediately afterward, Yuchen joined in and helped Shu Siyu fight against Ruilin. Eventually, the photo was torn up, and Yuchen kept crying—"

"Oh~" Ye Zhenzhen nodded lightly in response, "I’ve got it. What you’re saying, Teacher Huang, is that the cause of all these issues was because our Xiao Chen had Xiao Yi’s signed photo, right?

Also, I wanted to ask, why, when three kids had a fight, are there only two kids in your office, and why have you only called one parent?"

Teacher Huang argued weakly: "It was only Yuchen who said he wanted his mom. He was crying the hardest."

"Why was Yuchen crying the hardest? I want to know the specific reason."

After Ye Zhenzhen asked this question, Teacher Huang’s face changed slightly, her lips moved, but she couldn’t say anything.

She had seen the negative news about Ye Zhenzhen today and felt jealous seeing Xiao Chen with her idol Xiao Yi’s signed photo.

She thought that Ye Zhenzhen had become someone else’s stepmother and didn’t deserve to get Xiao Yi’s signed photo.

Indeed, she had only called Ye Zhenzhen. She believed that the whole incident was caused by the photo of Xiao Yi that Ye Zhenzhen gave to Yuchen.

As a teacher, asking a student’s parent to come to school to talk wasn’t a big deal, right?

Moreover, this kindergarten was the top kindergarten in Jiangcheng, where everyone was either rich or noble. She had met Ruilin’s parents before and couldn’t afford to offend them.

She heard that Shu Siyu’s father was the CEO of a major company, someone she couldn’t afford to offend.

Teacher Huang only felt that out of the three children, the only one she could afford to offend was Yuchen, because his stepmother was Ye Zhenzhen, and it wasn’t clear who his father was, the internet said it was some old man.

With Ye Zhenzhen being slandered all over the internet, Teacher Huang’s heart felt even more assertive in handling her.

Shu Siyu looked up at Ye Zhenzhen and said, "Auntie, Xiao Chen cried because the photo of Xiao Yi got torn up by Ruilin!"

Ye Zhenzhen smiled and patted Shu Siyu’s head, "Okay, auntie understands. Next time I’ll help you get another signed photo."

Then she gently wiped away the tears on Xiao Chen’s face with her finger, "My good son, don’t cry anymore, huh? Mommy is here, don’t be afraid."

Xiao Chen pouted and nodded his head slightly.

Then Ye Zhenzhen continued to question Teacher Huang: "Teacher Huang, why aren’t you speaking? Since you’ve called me here, as Xiao Chen’s mother, I can’t just let the teacher scold me and then blame my child for crying, right?

You have to tell me the details of the incident carefully, or, let’s just check the surveillance footage, I want to see what actually happened."

Upon hearing about surveillance, Teacher Huang’s face turned even paler. She stood up straighter, slightly lifted her chin and said to Ye Zhenzhen, "The school’s surveillance is undergoing maintenance this week; it’s temporarily unavailable."

"Hmph!" Ye Zhenzhen let out a cold laugh, her originally cool and smiling eyes suddenly turned sharp.

She stepped forward toward Teacher Huang, her high heels clicking crisply on the floor. The atmosphere around her quickly froze with her movements;

"Fine, Teacher Huang, since you say the surveillance is under maintenance and don’t seem willing to explain in detail, then I only have one request now. Call the other two parents here, and Ruilin too. He was also involved in the fight, why isn’t he here?

Is it because Yuchen and Shu Siyu beat Ruilin so badly that he couldn’t get up?"