Chapter 86 — Number Three's Underling: Mother Tang Had Not Understood What They Meant Until Tang Yun Arrived, but Hearing How They Addressed Her, She Grasped It All at Once
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Mother Tang's heart sank at once. Could her daughter really be in love so young? Yet looking at her daughter's pale face, she could not tell whether it was fear of her finding out about this, or because Zou Ruoming had forced her to be his girlfriend.
But whatever the truth was, apart from a touch of sorrow, Mother Tang could summon no other thought! A young master like Zou Ruoming was not someone she could afford to provoke, and she knew her words would carry almost no weight!
Over the years, Mother Tang had seen too much of human coldness and the ways of the world, and she knew how tiny her own strength was! Take the electronics factory where her husband had once worked. A machine had injured his sciatic nerve, and now he lay paralyzed in bed, unable to care for himself, yet they had not gotten a single cent of compensation from the factory!
The owner of a small private electronics plant, merely because he had a few connections, left Mother Tang crying out to heaven and earth with no answer. The contract from back then had been tampered with, and she had nowhere even to file a complaint.
Just because she had gone to the factory a few times to ask for medicine money, the boss had threatened to make trouble for her family, to send men after her daughter and to burn down her house. Helpless, Mother Tang could only give up. Who had made her one of the weak?
The livelihood of the whole family fell entirely on Mother Tang's shoulders. Fortunately her daughter had fought hard and taken first place for the school year last term, which not only waived her tuition but brought a scholarship, and that let the family's life ease a little.
Today, hearing the news that her daughter actually had a boyfriend, Mother Tang froze on the spot. Even as anger at her daughter rose in her heart, she wondered whether Zou Ruoming had forced her. If he were sincere toward Tang Yun, that would be one thing. His family was plainly well off, and her daughter would lose nothing by being with him. She only feared he was playing around and would toss her aside once he tired of her.
Although Mother Tang did not know what the lives of those rich young masters were really like, she had heard bits and pieces on the street.
Tang Yun flushed red and wanted to argue back, but thinking of Zou Ruoming's reputation in school and those rumors, she felt afraid. She had heard that Zou Ruoming had once dragged a girl to the outdoor toilets and violated her, then paid the girl a sum of money and helped her transfer to another school to settle the matter.
Although it was only hearsay, the girl's transfer was a real fact, only her family had taken the benefit and naturally would not make it public. So Tang Yun feared that if she truly angered Zou Ruoming, there was nothing he would not do!
Though she would not, like that girl, take the money and fall silent, and would insist on justice, yet... what use would justice be?
Tang Yun lowered her head in silence, tears brimming in her eyes, full of grievance. She almost hated her mother for not driving Zou Ruoming away, but on second thought her mother was weak too, and perhaps even more helpless...
What was so good about this title of school beauty! Why was she so unlucky? She had always kept a low profile, never wore makeup, never wore anything but her school uniform, yet still she drew attention.
Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu were school beauties too, yet would Zou Ruoming dare treat them like this?
"What trash!" Kang Xiaobo had been feeling like a real man these past two days, and seeing Tang Yun bullied by Zou Ruoming, he truly could not stand it. His blood boiled as he clenched his fists and charged over!
Wei Zhao had not expected Kang Xiaobo to meddle in this business. He truly had not seen it coming. For the goddess in his heart, even a timid boy like Kang Xiaobo could have a moment of eruption.