Chapter 215 Exposing Relatives for Justice
William held the outfit Emily had picked out, patiently waiting for her to get dressed.
After thinking for a long while, he hesitated before asking, "Emily, don't you need to put on pants?"
The entire villa had a climate control system.
Even though there was already an autumn chill outside, it remained warm indoors.
Emily refused right away, "No, I don't want to."
What girl would wear black pants under a pretty dress?
Emily strongly objected.
Seeing the black pants William later pulled out from the closet, Sophia felt speechless.
She had to admit that men's taste and thinking were pretty much all the same.
Coincidentally, the leggings he was holding were the ones Lucas had specifically bought for Emily.
He said he was worried that if Emily wore skirts with bare legs, her legs would hurt when she got older.
Now, despite the online public opinion brewing outside, William, who had just reunited with Emily, remained unmoved. His full attention was only on whether Emily's legs were cold.
Emily was about to take James and Michael to kindergarten. Just as she was about to run out, William picked her up.
Her little legs kicked as she said indignantly, "I want to run by myself."
William refused, "No, it's too cold."
Emily struggled a bit without success. She turned to look at Sophia behind her for help.
Mom, come quick.
Throw this old-fashioned dad out.
For just the short distance from the door to the yard, William insisted on wrapping Emily's legs with his suit jacket, completely denying her the chance to run on the ground.
James and Michael, wearing their backpacks and holding Sophia's hands, walked outside, secretly laughing behind them.
The car for dropping off the kids was a new minivan William had bought.
The car drove all the way to the kindergarten's underground parking garage, where the teacher was already waiting in the lounge outside the elevator.
Sophia took James and Michael down.
When she returned to the car and saw Emily clinging to William like a koala, with two little pigtails on her head, Sophia sighed deeply.
When James and Michael were born, he didn't show this much affection.
She had only learned from Allan after returning. Whenever William was home, Emily would cling to him. No matter where he went, he had to carry her, indulging Emily's every wish, without any trace of his former aloof demeanor.
He had completely transformed into a father who doted on his daughter.
Sophia had specifically cleared her schedule today to spend time with Emily, but William had to go to work.
However, just as the car reached the intersection near Peace Group's building, they saw a crowd of reporters gathered at the entrance not far away.
William was used to this.
After all, it had been like this outside the company building for the past two days.
He had the driver take the car to the underground parking garage of Liberty Tower across the street, where another car was already waiting for him.
Sophia frowned, feeling that William's accommodating approach was too gentle.
For someone with Molly's personality, constant yielding would only make her more aggressive.
When Lily had used public opinion against Sophia before, that was a lesson learned. Sophia understood that gentle methods didn't work on certain people.
They were even less effective on those netizens who only knew how to talk tough online.
She would rather fight back, head-on now than let the other party bully them.
William put Emily down from his arms and patted her back, saying, "Go to your mom."
Sophia picked up Emily and asked him, "What are you planning to do?"
Right now, Molly wasn't showing her face at all, only daring to post those doctored videos on foreign networks.
Every time the tech department proved a video was fake, new videos would pop up to cause trouble.
Whether the man in the videos was actually William didn't really matter anymore.
Over time, even if it wasn't him, everyone would think it was.
Moreover, if anything happened to Molly now, everyone would think it was William and the Peace Group behind him doing it.
This was one of the reasons he hadn't taken action yet.
William's emotions were calm as he said in a low voice, "We need to find her first to break the deadlock."
Molly had been taken by local gangs in Arcturus, and his people hadn't been able to track her down.
Whether she was dead or alive was currently unknown.
But judging from the current situation, William felt that whoever was manipulating her behind the scenes wouldn't kill her before their goal was achieved. These current attacks on public opinion were just probing.
So he was still waiting.
Sophia reminded him, "Have you found out about the interest group behind Molly?"
William didn't hide it from her, "It's a certain political faction in Arcturus."
This matter involved foreign forces and was no longer just a simple battle of public opinion and business.
Molly's lover in the country was Quinn.
Sophia thought of Lyanna, who had asked her to cooperate before. Perhaps she could also be a breakthrough point.
Before returning to the country, she had already had her people collect all of Molly's information.
Sophia took out a file from her bag and handed it to him, "The fact that Molly is Lilith has been confirmed."
Unless necessary, she didn't want to shatter someone's hard-won peaceful life. But Molly kept attacking her and those around her, giving Sophia a disgusting feeling of being pestered by a pest.
Since Molly had her parents come out to stir up netizens' anger, Sophia would fight back using the identity Molly cared about most.
"I'm giving you this. How you handle it is up to you."
The driver followed William's instructions and drove the car to Liberty Tower's underground parking garage.
A black car was already parked there.
Few outsiders knew that Liberty Tower and Peace Group's parking garages were connected.
Tony had just hung up the phone with a grave expression. Seeing William get out of the car, he rushed forward, "Mr. Smith, your father has escaped."
Ever since that time at the Smith family cemetery when William was slapped by Sophia, and Henry refused to talk, Henry had been sent to a local psychiatric hospital.
William hadn't hidden this from Holden.
Holden sighed deeply. Always cleaning up Henry's messes had worn him out, too, so he chose to ignore the matter.
"We just got word that he brought reporters to Peace Group's entrance, saying he wants to... wants to expose his relatives for the sake of justice... to report you."
Tony swallowed, his voice getting softer. He looked worriedly at the expressionless William, afraid he couldn't handle it.
This was William's biological father - Henry was truly despicable.
William thought: 'Exposing relatives for justice? Ridiculous.'
He didn't feel the slightest bit sad about it. He had already seen through Henry's character in his childhood. He was just thinking about what role Henry was playing in all this.
As he silently pondered, a small hand tugged at his arm.
Emily reached out both hands toward him, "Want a hug."
Suppressing the cold look in his eyes, William said softly to Emily in his arms, "Emily, go home with your mom first. I have to work. I'll come home and play with you after work, okay?"
Emily hugged his neck tight and shook her head against his neck, "Not okay."
Sophia knew what kind of person Henry was. Hearing Tony's words, she worried that William might make an irrational response if provoked.
Emily was now William's emotional stabilizer.
The clever and adorable Emily understood what Sophia meant and very seriously indicated she would definitely complete the mission!
She nestled in William's arms and waved enthusiastically at Sophia in the car to say goodbye.
"Bye-bye, Mommy."
"Mr. Smith and I are going to make money."
Hearing Emily's words, William was stunned.
He didn't believe Sophia would just let Emily go with him, but then... the car just drove away right in front of him?
What no one expected was that, among the people Henry brought, there weren't just reporters, but also...