ATPnovel Chapter 1414: Only Speaking Up for the Men
Chapter 1414: Only Speaking Up for the Men
All the listeners present clapped and cheered.Except for Bai Yaoyu.
Bai Zhi’er looked at her Third Brother, apparently still not understanding why this story deserved applause.
But when he glanced around and saw everyone shouting, he followed along, clapping and praising too.
Bai Zhi’er pressed her fingers to her brow. "So dumb!"
The story made Fang Youzhen frown deeply as she listened.
Behind them, Ke Shouwang instead sighed in admiration. "Miss Runhe is really impressive—just a few words, and she actually saved a family."
Bai Zhi’er suddenly turned her head and stared at him.
Ke Shouwang’s tone of amazement faltered, and he asked quietly, "Did I... say something wrong?"
Bai Zhi’er knitted her brows. "Why do you think that counts as saving a family? A father cruel enough to sell his own daughter to a brothel."
"Now that his son despises him, only then does he remember the daughter he sold off."
"Isn’t that just a bit too unfair? He never fulfilled his duty to raise her, so how does he have the nerve to ask his own daughter to support and care for him?"
Fang Youzhen chimed in, "That does make sense. Besides, we don’t know the whole story, so we shouldn’t judge lightly."
"Was that girl really willing? Or was she forced into it by moral codes and social conventions, with no choice but to agree?"
Hearing the two of them talk like this, Ke Shouwang finally caught on.
"That... actually sounds about right..."
Downstairs, Run He was already telling the second story.
Everything she talked about was based on her own experiences.
"Do you all still remember the Aunt Cui I mentioned before? She’d been beaten by her husband for over ten years, and just recently, thanks to my counseling, she finally reconciled with him."
Bai Zhi’er and Fang Youzhen’s faces both darkened.
"A man who beats her—why should she make up with him!" Bai Zhi’er couldn’t understand.
Ke Shouwang had heard that story before, so he hurried to explain: "That’s because this Aunt Cui can’t earn money herself, and she’s raising four children."
"If she let the government intervene and separate her from her husband, how would she raise the four children?"
Fang Youzhen shot back at once, "Since she bore him four children, that man all the more shouldn’t be beating her!"
"Besides, she isn’t part of the government. It should be the government stepping in to ensure Aunt Cui’s safety afterwards, not her barging in and meddling."
Ke Shouwang went quiet for a moment. "The way you put it... does kind of make sense!"
Bai Zhi’er gave a sharp little snort.
She stood up. "I can’t listen to any more of this. No wonder there are mostly male customers here—it’s all talk that panders to men."
As a woman, Run He was actually looking at things from the men’s perspective.
No wonder she could attract so many people to sing her praises.
Fang Youzhen didn’t want to listen anymore either; she decided to leave together with Bai Zhi’er.
Just then, downstairs Run He was ending the story she’d just told, amid another round of applause.
"That’s all for today’s storytelling. Thank you, dear guests, for your support. Same time tomorrow—see you here again."
"Same old rule: the guest who tipped the most just now can stay behind and join me in the tea room for a heart-to-heart chat."
After she finished speaking, she tilted her head up and glanced in Bai Yaoyu’s direction.
Bai Zhi’er immediately figured it out.
Her silly Third Brother had actually tipped the most!
"I’ll go drag Third Brother away." Bai Zhi’er said, then rolled up her sleeves and strode straight along the second-floor corridor to the opposite side.
Bai Yaoyu was just about to go downstairs to the tea room to find Run He.
Then he heard a call from behind him: "Third Brother!"
The next second, his wrist was seized by Bai Zhi’er.
Bai Yaoyu looked back in surprise. "Zhi’er, you came to listen to the stories too?"
As he turned his gaze, he saw Fang Youzhen standing beside Bai Zhi’er.