Chapter 109.1 : If Useless Things Aren’t Disposed of Quickly, What Are They Kept For? (Part 1)
Slap—!
For no reason at all, Tang Qingmo swung his hand and slapped Tang Xuerong across the face, startling both Lu Tianren and Chen Biantai beside him.
Tang Xuerong was knocked right off the bed, crashing to the floor.
Lu Tianren hurriedly asked, "Young Master Tang, what's wrong with you?"
Why would he suddenly lay hands on Tang Xuerong out of nowhere?
Tang Qingmo simply held his hands up and said coldly, "I wanted to confirm whether she's truly gone stupid, or just pretending."
"Th-This… even if that's the case…"
Could you not suddenly hit that hard?
He was so shocked his heart nearly stopped!
But Lu Tianren only pressed a hand to his chest and swallowed those thoughts down, because he knew that even if he said it out loud, Tang Qingmo wouldn't listen.
All he could do was force himself to get used to it as quickly as possible…
Even after being slapped so brutally, Tang Xuerong's pale face reddening from the blow, her body only twitched for a moment. She still lay on the floor on her side, completely unresponsive.
As if she didn't even know she'd been hit…
Seeing this, Chen Biantai couldn't help shaking his head. With a sigh, he said, "Sigh… looks like Miss Xuerong's brain really is broken."
"Even when Young Master Tang shows up, there's no emotional fluctuation. Even after being slapped that hard, there's no awareness or reaction. Nothing happening outside can affect her anymore. Looks like… she's really done for…"
His tone was full of regret.
After all, he had prepared plenty more experimental agents and research, just waiting for test results!
Who would've thought Tang Xuerong would break down this quickly?
Was it because she'd been pampered all her life?
What a useless piece of trash!
"Is that so?" Tang Qingmo remained expressionless, and then slapped her again—hard.
Slap—!!
This time, he struck the other side of Tang Xuerong's face so violently it flushed red as well, forming a perfectly symmetrical pair.
But as if that still wasn't enough, he kicked her in the waist, sending Tang Xuerong flying several meters away.
Bang!!
Tang Xuerong's body convulsed, curling up from sheer reflex.
Yet even after several seconds, she remained blank-faced, her gaze hollow and unfocused. Her face and body were already bruised and injured, but it was as if she couldn't feel the storm of fists and kicks she'd just suffered at all.
"..."
Watching the once-arrogant Tang Xuerong fall to this state, Lu Tianren only turned his head away in silence.
Tang Qingmo, meanwhile, grabbed Tang Xuerong by the hair at her forehead and yanked her face up.
He asked the system:
[So? Can we still collect Tang Xuerong's regret value?]
The system replied, sounding equally dejected:
[Emmm… no, we can't anymore.]
[Tang Xuerong's consciousness has been detected as severely traumatized. To escape reality, she has actively forgotten everything, and by conditioned reflex has chosen to no longer recognize anyone!]
Tang Qingmo frowned.
[You mean even if Tang Xianxi came here, she wouldn't recognize him?]
[Yes. Maybe at the beginning there'll be a bit of a stress response, but it won't be of any use…]
And ever since that last collective visit from the Tang family, aside from Tang Jianren and Bai Hualian coming again once, Tang Xianxi and the other sisters had never come back.
Now Tang Jianren had become disappointed in Tang Xuerong as well, and was thinking of giving up on this daughter entirely…
So in Tang Xuerong's heart—under Tang Qingmo and Chen Biantai's torment—she had also been abandoned by the important family she relied on, and by the one she loved most, Tang Xianxi…
After enduring a long stretch of despair in both body and mind, piled on top of repeated blows, she finally collapsed and chose self-destruction.
After analyzing Tang Xuerong's entire psychological trajectory, the system became sorrowful in the end:
[Waaah waaah waaah… what a waste!]
[This was one of the host's sources of regret value! How could it just vanish like this?!]
She had clearly already been "tuned" into a coin-minting tool that would automatically generate regret value the moment Chen Biantai appeared!
And yet the wool hadn't even been fully harvested before it was gone!
[Tang Xuerong is seriously too useless! When she was torturing others she was so vicious and ruthless, but when it's her turn she breaks down this fast—so damn useless!]
[Oh.]
Faced with the system's furious, nonstop complaining, Tang Qingmo only responded with that single word.