"Wife, calm down first.
Don't say such provocative things at every turn.
Our daughter is a living person, how can she just disappear? Even if we can't reach her, there's still her company, right? Her ten-year contract isn't over yet, and I don't believe her company wouldn't know where she went.
So don't worry, and don't panic.
She definitely won't be lost, and we'll definitely find her.
And even if we find her, don't be in a hurry to talk about bringing her back to marry a rich man for a huge dowry or something. Won't that just provoke her more?
I have some new ideas, just give me a moment to process them.
Let me think it through..."
After the initial shock and dissatisfaction, Xu Daya quickly calmed down. He quickly pulled his wife to sit down and began to persuade her and ponder.
In his opinion, rushing now was useless.
It might even lead to mistakes in panic.
It was better to calm down, see if there was any turn of events, and if they could snatch an opportunity from adversity, turning a bad situation into a good one.
After speaking, he fell silent and continued to ponder.
Although Zhou E didn't think her husband could come up with any brilliant ideas, she still gave him face and stopped talking. She glared at her son, telling him not to say any nonsense.
This was to allow Xu Daya to think in peace.
So, there was a long period of silence. Nearly fifteen minutes later, Xu Pengcheng was starting to get impatient.
Xu Daya finally spoke again, sharing his thoughts:
"I think the reason Si Yan blocked us probably isn't that she doesn't want to send us money, but that she genuinely doesn't have much money to send.
We know her economic situation roughly.
We've also seen her contract.
After paying compensation and with no work or income, she might find it difficult to maintain her daily life, let alone send us money. To avoid trouble, or perhaps to avoid your scolding, she blocked us.
Therefore, our priority right now isn't to pressure her. We are a family. If everyone else is bullying her, and the company is also bullying her, and we add to that pressure, imagine how desperate she will become.
Besides, relying on marrying her off for a dowry.
And expecting her to get money from her in-laws after marriage to subsidize us, the uncertainty and risk are too high.
Instead, it's better for us to show concern for her, even help her, and enable her to earn money again. As long as she can get back to work, even if she can't be as popular as before, helping others with live-streaming sales or the like can earn a lot. If she can also successfully terminate the contract with that garbage company, even if she earns only half of what she used to, her final income will be far greater than before.
So, I think what's most urgent for us now isn't to aggressively demand money from her, but to find a way to help her out of this slump and try to rehabilitate her image.
We rise and fall together."
"What you say sounds good, but what can ordinary people like us do? Her company has already abandoned her, are we supposed to bring her back from the dead?
Besides, it's not like I haven't been online.
And I'm not ignorant of people and events in the entertainment industry. Although that girl's image has collapsed, she's far from being blacklisted. But advertisers have blacklisted her, and her fans have mostly scattered. Is there any hope for her image rehabilitation?"
Zhou E thought her husband would come up with some brilliant idea, but this was it. If this matter could be resolved so easily, why would the entertainment company her daughter signed with give up on her and refuse to make money?
"Her management company is a management company, and it's different from us. After all, those management companies have so many artists under them, and they can find other artists to make money if they lose one. They can't expose their own operational model for just one artist.
They certainly won't tarnish their own reputation.
To whitewash their own artists.
But it's different for us.
As long as we can somehow prove that our daughter was always bullied and exploited by the company, and that everything she did was not voluntary but forced, we can win back some fans, and perhaps attract a lot of sympathy, plus some fans.
And we also took photos of the contract, didn't we?
This 10/9 split contract alone is enough to show everyone the status of our daughter in the company and how she was treated. Everyone sympathizes with the weak. Then, we'll play the victim card together.
Including our daughter.
In this way, everyone's anger will be directed at that management company. With this, at the very least, our daughter can win back some fans and continue to have work and earn money.
If we're lucky, maybe we can even terminate the contract without compensation. Then we can set up our own studio, I'll be the boss, you'll be the boss's wife, and we'll both help our daughter find work.
Won't our income skyrocket then?"
Xu Daya clearly didn't propose this suggestion on a whim. This was a suggestion he had carefully considered and found feasible before stating it.
The only two problems currently are: they lack suitable channels to voice their opinions, and they are unsure whether the company will compromise or go head-to-head with them.
If they were to truly engage in a legal battle, they might not be able to sustain it.
After all, they didn't have much savings.
How could they contend with a company?
If it came to a lawsuit, the lawyers they could afford would not be on the same level as the ones the company could hire.
Xu Daya elaborated on specific issues during the subsequent discussion, but in the end, he, his wife, and their son all agreed it was worth a gamble.
After all, as long as everything went according to plan, at the very worst, it would at least help their daughter win back some fans and regain some public favor. As for what would happen if the contract termination lawsuit failed and their daughter faced ostracism in the company, what did that have to do with them?
It wasn't like they were the ones staying at the company.
As long as they could get the money,
They didn't care about anything else.
However, before that, Zhou E still had to find a way to contact their daughter, preferably meet her, and get some evidence and proof from her.
This way, they would have more confidence in their accusations.
So, after discussing and making a decision, Zhou E immediately bought three plane tickets, planning for the family of three to go to Ding Yun's city to find her. They would first look at her residence, and if they couldn't find her, they would go to the company to question them.