Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The woman’s words were powerful. The banquet hall fell silent for a few seconds, and then the guests were in an uproar.
“She, could she be Tang Shiyu?”
“Tang Shiyu? Ah, isn’t she the daughter of the Tang family who married and has been abroad for more than ten years and never come back to show her face?”
“Did you hear that? She just said Tang Ran is her daughter.”
“How is that possible? Isn’t Tang Ran Tang Shixin’s illegitimate daughter?”
“Wait. According to Tang Ran’s age and the time when Tang Shiyu went abroad, it seems possible!”
“So Tang Ran is not an illegitimate daughter, but the daughter that Tang Shiyu gave birth to before she went abroad? Oh my God…”
Amid the discussions, Old Lady Hang’s face turned ashen.
Following those voices and gazes, Tang Shiyu, dressed in bright red, walked up to them without looking around, and then stopped.
“It’s been nearly twenty years since we last met, mother.” Tang Shiyu smiled fiercely, “When it comes to intimidating the younger generation, your momentum is still as strong as it was back then.”
Hang Wei’s expression changed several times, and it was still complicated when it finally stopped: “So you came back today just to seek revenge on me?”
“Haha, how could that be? If I really wanted to waste this kind of time, I wouldn’t have missed coming back to see you for so many years.”
“Then you chose this occasion—”
“I have no sense of etiquette and I haven’t known how to behave on any occasion since I was a child. You should know that.” Tang Shiyu interrupted calmly, “What’s more, you have done everything you can to protect the interests of your family. You even used a dead baby to exchange for my biological daughter and tricked me into going abroad out of despair. Now you are asking me to behave properly. Don’t you think you are a little shameless?”
“Tang Shiyu,” Mrs. Hang’s voice sank, “Watch the way you talk to me. Do you still remember that I am your mother?”
“Mother? Hahaha…” Tang Shiyu laughed, “This is the funniest joke I have heard this year.”
“How outrageous!”
Hang Wei knocked the cane in her hand hard.
The banquet hall suddenly became quiet.
Tang Shiyu stopped smiling. She lowered her eyes and looked at the old lady in front of her, who was no longer the same as she used to be. After staring at her for a long time, she lowered her eyes and sneered.
“I shouted like that when I came in just now because I was afraid that I had been away for too long and they might have forgotten who I was. But in fact, the relationship between us as mother and daughter – if we had any – was severed more than ten years ago.”
“…”
Old Mrs. Hang’s body stiffened, and the hand holding the cane trembled slightly from the force.
After saying that, Tang Shiyu seemed to have lost interest in talking any further. She tilted her head leisurely and glanced at Luo Zhan and Tang Ran who were surrounded by the Tang family’s bodyguards.
After pausing for two seconds, Tang Shiyu waved her hand and said, “Please make way and let my daughter and my future son-in-law out.”
The bodyguards looked at Hang Wei’s stiff figure with embarrassment.
Tang Shiyu smiled and said, “It’s useless to look at her. You are surrounding my daughter. If you don’t let her go, I will call the police. The speed of our police response is no joke.”
The bodyguards were shocked by the woman’s smiling but dagger-hiding eyes, and they all hesitated to make way.
Luo Zhan, who was in the encirclement, had now calmed down. Without saying much, he immediately protected Tang Ran and quickly walked out the door.
Tang Ran stared blankly at the woman who looked like herself and had a strong aura and wanted to stop and say something.
Luo Zhan noticed it, and after hesitating, he gently rubbed the girl’s hair as he walked, then he lowered his head and leaned close to her ear: “This place is not appropriate, let’s go out first, okay?”
“…Yeah.” Tang Ran came back to her senses and nodded slightly.
Seeing Tang Ran and Luo Zhan walking out, Hang Wei came back to her senses. She tightly grasped her cane and spoke in a hoarse voice: “Tang Shiyu, if you take her away like this now, what a terrible price the Tang family will have to pay, have you considered it?”
Tang Shiyu smiled and asked lightly, “Why should I consider that kind of thing?”
Hang Wei froze.
Tang Shiyu lazily glanced at the huge banquet hall and the guests with complicated expressions: “Of course I know that it won’t be long before all the negative news related to the Tang family will spread and cause a sensation. If the Luo family withdraws their investment, their affiliated forces will not stay; if the ship is about to sink, the neutrals will also leave; there are even more enemies who secretly covet the piece of cake occupied by the Tang family…”
“You know all this, but you still did this!” Hang Wei asked with gritted teeth. “The Tang family is where you were born and raised, don’t you have any compassion at all?!”
“…”
The last bit of smile on Tang Shiyu’s face was completely frozen after these words.
She looked at Hang Wei coldly: “If you had had any compassion when you forced Lan Jingqian away and deceived me with the dead baby, you wouldn’t have ended up like this.”
“You still hold a grudge about that incident.”
“Shouldn’t I bear a grudge? Or do you expect, Ms. Hang, that all those you have hurt will become saints who forgive easily?”
“Even if you hate me, do you really want to do this to the extreme and drive the Tang family to the brink of death?”
Tang Shiyu suddenly chuckled: “Is this considered the best? But I haven’t done the best yet.”
Hang Wei frowned: “What do you mean?”
“…”
Tang Shiyu put on her sunglasses and leaned forward lazily.
When she reached the gray hair beside Hang Wei’s ear, Tang Shiyu stopped, slightly opened her red lips, and spoke slowly.
“!”
Hang Wei’s figure trembled violently.
The next second, she raised her eyes in horror and looked at Tang Shiyu in disbelief, her lips trembling uncontrollably: “When did you get to know?”
“It’s been too long,” Tang Shiyu slowly put her sunglasses back on her face, her voice cool as she called, “Mother.”
Tang Shiyu turned around and raised the hand that had taken off the leather glove lazily: “No need to send me off, and don’t bother my daughter anymore. Otherwise… I may not be able to keep this secret for too many more years.”
Looking at the tall, sharp, bright red figure, the last bit of color on Hang Wei’s face faded away.
With the help of “interested people”, rumors about the years of disputes between the Luo and Tang families and the truth of that year spread like wildfire.
As the Tang family scandals were exposed, the Luo family and its affiliated forces withdrew their investments from all Tang family companies and sold off their shares.
Overnight, Tang Group’s stock price plummeted.
Although Lan Jingqian, who was far away abroad, rushed back overnight as soon as he heard the news of the changes in the country, due to the long journey, by the time he arrived in China, the highest wave had already passed.
Lan Jingqian came to Tang Ran’s sanatorium but found nothing there, so he had to take the special car to the Luo family in City K.
It was the first time that his personal assistant who stayed in the country saw their usually gentle CEO Lan with such a cold face as if he had been offended. He reported to him tremblingly about the earth-shaking changes in the country in the past two days.
Lan Jingqian couldn’t bear to listen anymore, so he interrupted with a frown: “Let’s talk about the whole story later. First, tell me, is Xiao Ran really in the Luo family now?”
“Yes, Mr. Lan.”
“How did she get out of the Tang family?”
“The young master of the Luo family went to the Tang family’s birthday party for Xiao Ran and caused a scene…”
“With Hang Wei’s personality, would she let him go so easily?”
“The Tang family didn’t release her,” the assistant hesitated, then looked up at Lan Jingqian cautiously, “but Tang Shiyu from the Tang family suddenly showed up, claiming to be Xiao Ran’s mother, and took her away.”
Lan Jingqian suddenly froze.
I don’t know how long it took before the man turned around with a shocked and complicated look: “Who did you say?”
“Tang Shiyu.” The assistant’s voice became even softer.
“…” Lan Jingqian slowly clenched his fingers on his trouser knees, “What about her?”
“Why?”
“Where is she now?”
The assistant hesitated and scratched his neck: “Also at Luo’s house.”
Lan Jingqian froze for a few seconds, his eyes revealing an unprecedented complexity and dejection. He leaned back in the car seat, lowered his eyes, and said nothing more.
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