Chapter 41.1 : Kill Her (Part 1)
On the day Tang Qingmo confronted the Tang family and revealed everything in a public livestream, he had made five demands of Tang Jianren.
A room, money, clothes, the dismissal of servants…
Tang Jianren had fulfilled all four of these.
But the final demand—sending Tang Xianxi's biological mother, the culprit who had swapped the original host while he was still an infant and stolen eighteen years of his life, along with all her accomplices, to prison—was the one that had not been met.
Because it involved Tang Xianxi's relatives, the sisters led by Tang Feifei and Tang Xuerong were strongly opposed.
Previously, in order to repay her for giving birth to such an outstanding son, they had even bought her an apartment in the city center for her to live in. Tang Xuerong and Tang Feifei frequently went to visit her…
Truly something no one without ten years' worth of brain damage could ever do.
[Host, Tang Xianxi's biological mother has always been a pain in the original host's heart, but Tang Jianren doesn't seem to intend to send her to prison.]
The system spoke quietly.
[He's stalling for time.] Tang Qingmo took a sip of red wine.
[Tang Jianren cares deeply about saving face. If that nanny were sent to prison, it would be equivalent to publicly admitting that the Tang family had been toyed with by a mere nanny for eighteen years—unable even to tell which son was real and which was fake.]
[Now that the true and false young masters have been exposed, the Tang family can still temporarily control the direction of public opinion. At a time like this, how could Tang Jianren possibly allow the family's scandal to grow even bigger?]
In the past, to shut Tang Xianxi's biological mother up, he had rather spent more money letting her live comfortably in the city.
Moreover, Tang Feifei and Tang Xuerong regularly visited her to curry favor with Tang Xianxi. A nanny who had already tasted so much sweetness would never leave—or talk too much.
Only the original host had to suffer.
[But in my opinion, Tang Jianren is also an idiot. There are many ways to silence that nanny, yet he chose the stupidest method—the one that hurts the original host the most and leaves the easiest trail to be caught.]
Tang Qingmo sneered.
The system asked in confusion: [Hmm? Then what would you do, Host?]
[Kill her.] Tang Qingmo's voice rang out coldly, devoid of emotion.
He gently swirled the wine glass in his hand. The purplish-red liquid, illuminated by the sunlight, formed a dark, heavy red.
It looked a bit like blood…
[After acknowledging the original host, I would immediately have that nanny and her accomplices secretly killed, then privately silence Tang Xianxi.]
Tang Qingmo continued:
[Tang Xianxi is greedy for money. He would never expose this matter and cut off his own path as a young master. And the original host wouldn't have to suffer, because his own father would have avenged him…]
[But Tang Jianren is foolish. If I were a rival family of the Tangs, the moment I learned about the true and fake young masters, I would immediately investigate the fake one's biological mother. This is practically a gift-wrapped piece of good news.]
[I-is that so…]
After hearing Tang Qingmo's words, even the system's voice began to tremble with fear.
As expected, its host was a ruthless character!
Ordinary people would panic even at the thought of killing a cockroach—chaos would erupt everywhere.
Yet when the host spoke of killing, his eyes didn't even blink, as if it were second nature.
The system asked shakily: [Then, Host… are you going to expose Tang Xianxi's biological mother now?]
Tang Qingmo shook his head.
[It will be exposed, but now is not the best time. And besides…]
[If I expose it now, how would I go over and properly 'thank' her for giving birth to such an outstanding younger brother for me?]
The system was stunned: [Huh… ah!?]
Thank her?
This "thanks"… sounded like it carried many meanings.
Seeing the system's dumbfounded expression, Tang Qingmo frowned.
[What are you so surprised about?]
That nanny was the culprit who had utterly ruined the original host's life.
Yet the original host had never taken revenge on her, all for the so-called "family affection." Other than "idiot," Tang Qingmo couldn't think of a better word to describe him.
But since the Tang family treated her so kindly, how could he possibly lose to them~