Chapter 27: Cheated

"Yingtao, I know you've always wanted to go to college. Whatever troubles you have, just tell me, and I'll help you solve them," Zhao Yang said.

"You can't solve them!" Yingtao replied.

"Well, at least tell me what they are," Zhao Yang insisted.

Yingtao shook her head, her eyes closing gently as tears began to flow down her cheeks.

Seeing Yingtao like this, Zhao Yang felt even more certain that something must have happened lately. He pressed her, "Yingtao, what on earth is going on? Tell me quickly!"

"Brother..."

Yingtao's voice choked, she tried to speak, but then she hung her head.

"Yingtao, you're going to drive me crazy with this hesitation!" Zhao Yang couldn't stand to see her start and stop like this.

"Brother, last month Dad gave me a hundred thousand yuan for my four years of tuition... but I was scammed out of it," Yingtao said before bursting into tears.

"How did you get scammed?"