Chapter 485 — Voicing Her Grievances
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Zou Tiandi's driver was a conscientious man: he would sooner scrape the car's undercarriage along a dirt road than fail to deliver Tang Yun's family right to their own gate, and only when he had did he head back to report.
Once they were home, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The little act had gone off well enough. No one was happier than Mother Tang — not only did she not have to hand over any money, but she had even brought two hundred thousand back with her. It was pure joy dropped out of the blue!
"Mom, how could you talk such nonsense? Wei Zhao and I have nothing to do with each other any more, and you still call him your son-in-law — aren't you making me look a fool?" Back home, Tang Yun felt deeply ashamed, and more than a little embarrassed.
That small shred of pride of hers made her unwilling to trade on Wei Zhao's name. He had cast her aside, and she was still going to borrow his name — didn't that count as brazen shamelessness? Tang Yun felt more mortified than she could bear.
"What's wrong with that!" Mother Tang was quite unperturbed. "Anyway, that Boss Zou doesn't know any better. Tell me, daughter — is there still any chance for you and Wei Zhao? Why did he drop you?"
"Well..." Tang Yun felt mortified. It was not easy to speak of Wei Zhao's business, least of all with Xiaowei and Xiao Dan both present — some things simply could not be said.
"Xiaowei, Xiao Dan, it's getting late — you two ought to head home early too, and don't have any more dealings with Boss Zou!" Mother Tang had seen through her daughter's thoughts, and so she turned to Xiaowei and Xiao Dan.
Xiaowei, too, was curious about why Wei Zhao and Tang Yun had broken up, and privately hoped they would get back together, so he would have liked to stay and listen. But seeing his sister's face, she clearly had something she could not bring herself to say, and he had no way of lingering on. He stood up, took Xiao Dan by the hand, and said, "Auntie, we'll head back first..."
"Watch yourselves on the road! Call me when you get home!" Mother Tang saw Xiaowei and Xiao Dan off, then went back inside and took her daughter's hand. "Yun'er, tell Mom this time — how exactly did you two break up? I thought Wei Zhao treated you well? Nothing seemed off this morning — how did you come to break up?"
"Mom... he... he had a girlfriend all along... His girlfriend transferred to our school, and she sits at the same desk as him..." Tang Yun found the words hard to get out, but with her mother pressing her, she finally set her jaw and forced them out, her face burning — and it filled her with a deep sense of wrong. "Tell me, he had a girlfriend already — so why did he have to come and lead me on?"
Mother and daughter share one heart. Before her mother, Tang Yun let go of all the toughness she had been putting on, buried herself in her arms, and burst into tears of grievance.
"Yun'er, don't cry." Mother Tang sighed, thinking to herself that so this was how it was — much as she had guessed. It wasn't that Wei Zhao had stopped loving her daughter; it was that the woman herself had come charging in and forced Wei Zhao to break up with her!
"Mom, how could he be so wicked? He had a girlfriend, and still he came to lead me on? I've lost face so completely — how will I ever hold my head up again?" The more Tang Yun spoke, the more wronged she felt.
"Yun'er, sigh..." Mother Tang sighed. "It's all my fault — all because our family is poor. If we had money too, Wei Zhao could never have broken up with you! This girlfriend of his — her family must be rich, I dare say? I shouldn't wonder if his own family found her for him."
"She drives a sports car to school..." Tang Yun nodded; on that point, at least, she was not lying.
"There now, I knew it! Otherwise, if Wei Zhao was perfectly fine, how could he have broken up with you?" Mother Tang stroked her daughter's fine hair and shook her head. "Did his girlfriend come looking for you?"