Chapter 87.1 : I Hope That When I Come Next Time, You’ll Still Be Able to Recognize Me (Part 1)
"Because I want revenge on you!"
Huh?
Tang Qingmo's words made Tang Xuerong's mind crash.
What was he talking about?
Revenge… on her?
"I found out long ago that you liked Tang Xianxi. So, to take revenge on you and Tang Feifei, I planned all of this."
Tang Qingmo slowly stood up from the chair and took a bite of the apple in his hand.
"Now that you're locked up here, all you can do is watch the man you love most—Xiao Xi—marry your own Fourth Sister. Doesn't that feel helpless?"
"I… I…!"
"But that's not all~ You know what? Father and the others came to see you just now."
"!?"
Tang Xuerong's eyes widened.
Dad… they were here?
"But at such an important moment, Fifth Sister, you were dreaming. Such a pity—you missed them."
I missed… my chance to ask them for help?
"But the one who caused all of this was me~"
!?
Tang Xuerong was stunned, staring at Tang Qingmo in disbelief.
"You thought that as long as they came, you'd have a chance to call for help and escape from here?" Tang Qingmo slowly approached her body and said with a cold smile, "How could that be possible!"
"Before my revenge on you is satisfied, you will never escape the hell I created for you…"
And that so-called "satisfaction" meant forever.
"Oh, by the way," Tang Qingmo continued smugly, "when your dad saw you just now, completely out of your mind, he thought your illness hadn't improved at all. He was quite disappointed in you."
Tang Xuerong: "!?"
"With the Tang family head already disappointed in you, do you think he'll ever come see you again, my dear Fifth Sister…?"
Tang Xuerong had grown up as the noble young miss of the Tang family, living a carefree life.
She had never once imagined that her parents could be disappointed in her.
But after hearing Tang Qingmo's words, an invisible fear suddenly took hold of her!
Once again unable to control her emotions, she screamed hysterically, using all her strength to try to lift her arms and rush toward Tang Qingmo.
"What are you talking about!?"
However, her arms were tightly bound by leather straps—she couldn't struggle free at all!
"I'm his daughter! His biological daughter! You're trying to drive a wedge between me and my father!"
"Ahhh!! How can you be so vicious—"
Tang Qingmo smiled and interrupted her.
"Didn't Tang Feifei already make him lose all expectations?"
!!?
"Didn't I tell you before? It's precisely because Tang Feifei lost her value as a Tang family young miss that she was allowed to marry Tang Xianxi."
"Value? I…" Tang Xuerong's eyes widened.
That's right!
That was why she had wanted to assassinate Tang Feifei in the first place!
So that after Tang Feifei's death, she could smoothly marry Tang Xianxi herself!
Tang Qingmo sneered.
"You've already lost the Tang family head's expectations."
"Surely you don't think that, as a Tang family young miss who's enjoyed a life of wealth all these years, you didn't have to pay any price for it, do you?"
Tang Xuerong truly didn't—and she even showed a clear, foolishly innocent look.
Tang Qingmo: …
Well, that made sense.
A pampered young miss who knew nothing, stupid and love-brained, was extremely easy to control!
And a fifth-ranked daughter like Tang Xuerong had no use other than being married off for alliances anyway. Turning her into this kind of idiot was probably something Tang Jianren himself had contributed to!
Still, in order to plunge Tang Xuerong into even deeper despair, Tang Qingmo didn't mind explaining everything clearly.
"Just like how I have a marriage contract with the Liu family to strengthen the interests between our two families—do you really think Father raised you seven sisters just so you could live freely, choose whoever you like, and casually live out your lives?"
Tang Xuerong: !!!
She had grown up indulged by Bai Hualian and her four older sisters, so subconsciously, she had believed that!
"You're far too naive. He raised you for one purpose only—to marry you off and extract greater benefits for the family!"
Tang Qingmo said matter-of-factly.
"Otherwise, why do you think Father let you all bully me when I first came back? Because I hadn't shown my value yet!"
"But now he knows that if he truly offends me, I'll drag the entire Tang family down with me. And since the Liu family head has acknowledged me as his future son-in-law, Father's attitude toward me has improved."
That was the brutal reality.
Yet Tang Xuerong had never seen through it.
A daughter who had already disappointed Tang Jianren…
Would he ever come back to visit her again?