Her father was surprised and asked, “Who are they you talking about? What’s happening?”
Lolita said angrily, “It’s not that human rights group you’re buttressing! They have no respect for me at all, they asked me to come over to stand for them today and promised to give me a Hermes Himalayan handbag, only to suddenly break the deal and throw me off the bus!”
Saying this, she continued aggressively, “Dad! From today onwards, I must draw a clear line with these people, from now on I am who I am and whatever I want to do has nothing to do with them anymore!”
Lolita thought her words would make her father feel sorry for her and support the decision she had just made, but she never dreamed that her father on the other end of the line would suddenly become furious!
He yelled through the phone, “Lolita, are you out of your mind? Do you have any idea how your day, and the day of our family, came to be?”
Lolita subconsciously blurted out, “I worked hard for it, of course! I fought for it by not going to school every day, by holding signs and protesting, by disliking the sky and the earth and the air! If it wasn’t for my hard work, our family would not be here today!”
As soon as Lolita’s father heard this, he scolded, “Shut up! If they hadn’t been working behind the scenes, even if you had dropped out of school at a young age and shouted your voice out in the street, no one would have given you a second glance!”
“You have to remember! They’re behind all the marketing scripts you’ve gotten today, they’re behind all the media coverage of you, they’re the ones who’ve been paying for it, and they’re the ones who’ve been working intensively with the national media to give you a series of protest directions!”
“Don’t forget that even your most famous slogan, ‘How dare you’, was created for you by their planners, otherwise, do you think you can rise to worldwide fame just by jumping out and screaming a few words?!”
Lolita was a bit dumbfounded by her father’s dislike, and only after a moment did she come back to her senses and say discontentedly, “So what if they made me famous? I am now a world renowned environmentalist, my influence is here and I no longer need any help from them to create a lot of value!”
Lolita’s father scolded angrily, “Is there something wrong with your brain? Have you ever thought that when you were promoted by them, you were just a child in your early teens, and you were following their instructions like a puppet on a string, they must have a lot of evidence in their hands. Your mother’s and my dreams of being part of high society will be shattered! Our whole family will be knocked back down to the bottom of the pile!”
In fact, Lolita’s father, had one more thing to say that had not been said.
Although he did not know the exact background of this humane organisation, he knew that this organisation was very ruthless, and if he really went against them, he might invite death one day.
Lolita was also taken aback by her father’s words. She was so simple-minded that she did not realise that she had countless leverage in the other side’s hands.
If she were to reveal these details, she would be ruined and would never be able to recover.
Lolita, who was in a state of despair, could only silently get up from the ground, patted the dust on her body, took a mask out of her pocket, put it on, paced to the roadside and hailed a taxi.