Taming The Hidden Bigshot By Kissing Him-Chapter 785: If you don’t tell me, I’ll go die

On the LCD TV screen, a recent interview with Lu Yingxue and some event reports were being broadcast.

The volume was very low.

Yet in this cold and quiet atmosphere, it seemed even more jarring.

"Mingzhu, Mom has cooked dumplings for you. I made them myself, since the babysitter went home for the New Year. Let’s just have something simple, you try and see if they’re good."

Lu Yutong placed a bowl full of dumplings on the coffee table and smiled at Xiang Mingzhu as she spoke.

"Dr. Xia said your condition is gradually stabilizing. After the New Year, we’ll go abroad. We’ll leave these things in the Imperial Capital behind and start anew in a place where no one knows you."

Xiang Mingzhu’s hand dropped to her side, clenched tightly into a fist.

She suddenly erupted, sweeping the steaming bowl of dumplings to the floor.

The dumpling soup splashed onto her, yet she didn’t feel it at all.

"Start anew?"

She pointed with red eyes at the triumphant Lu Yingxue on the TV screen, "You want me to start anew? The main culprit who hurt me is basking in glory, receiving acclaim from so many! How can you ask me to go abroad to avoid her spotlight?"

Lu Yutong stared at her in a daze, seemingly not expecting how her usually obedient daughter had changed so drastically.

Could she not let go?

"Mingzhu, you..."

"I was handed over to Zhao Chang by their father and daughter to be toyed with at will. I’m disgraced, scorned, and tormented daily! I watched as the scars on Lu Yingxue’s face healed, and she gained fame and became the president of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Association. How can you ask me to let it go? Lu Yutong, am I not your biological daughter?"

"Mingzhu, I know you’ve suffered a lot. How could Mom not feel heartbroken for you? But right now, we simply can’t fight them. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go abroad and live well?"

Lu Yutong didn’t initially have such strong feelings for her, but during this time spent together, even a cat or dog could develop feelings.

Faced with Xiang Mingzhu’s questioning, she was in unbearable pain.

"Mingzhu, it’s all because Mom didn’t protect you well. If only I had... I’m sorry." Lu Yutong felt deeply guilty, tears streaming down her face.

She was truly very sad.

Xiang Mingzhu pushed her away, "You are sorry for me! You say you’re sorry but still side with the Lu family father and daughter! What am I, just a dog that comes and goes at your beck and call! You want to abandon me, so you do. You need me, so you come back for me."

"No, Mingzhu, it’s not like that. It was your father who back then to me... I also did wrong, I shouldn’t have taken it out on innocent you. Listen to Mom, end all this and start a new life abroad. Tomorrow... we’ll leave tomorrow!"

"In your dreams! How could I allow an illegitimate daughter to live so glamorously!"

Xiang Mingzhu glared at her with eyes full of hatred, "You’re an accomplice too."

Lu Yutong was frozen, "When did you find out... that Yingxue is an illegitimate daughter?"

"I eavesdropped. Who would have thought the eldest lady of the Lu family is a despised illegitimate daughter, unworthy of so much adoration," Xiang Mingzhu couldn’t sleep a wink at the very thought.

"Mingzhu, this matter has very broad implications. You can’t casually tell others, or if the Lu family falls, we’ll be even worse off. Everything I’ve gained comes from the Lu family..."

The overseas property assets were all given by Lu Bannong to comfort her.

Over the years, she had received quite a bit of money. Otherwise, how could a woman like her live such a carefree life abroad?

She claimed it was to treat illness and recuperate, but she simply didn’t want to return to the country to see that man from the Xiang family.

"Heh heh..."

Xiang Mingzhu laughed manically, tears brimming over.

"You keep claiming to be my mother, what else are you hiding from me? Besides Lu Yingxue being an illegitimate daughter, what other secrets do you have? Lu Bannong fears you so much, you must have some leverage on him."

"Mingzhu, no. We’re siblings, how could there be... Ah!"

Lu Yutong watched in shock as Xiang Mingzhu took a fruit knife from the coffee table and sliced it across her wrist.

Bright red blood dripped onto the floor.

Drop by drop, it pooled into a small puddle.

Dazzling.

Xiang Mingzhu’s eyes blazed crimson, demanding, "I know you have secrets, will you tell or not?"

Lu Yutong pleaded, "Mingzhu, please put the fruit knife down first."

Xiang Mingzhu sliced her wrist deeply again: "My patience is thin, if you can watch me bleed to death. Then just keep your mouth shut and say not half a word. Let’s see if you care more for your daughter you abandoned from young, or the Lu family father and daughter."

She was truly ruthless to herself.

If she couldn’t destroy Lu Yingxue, she didn’t want to live either.

She couldn’t bear to see Lu Yingxue living so splendidly.

Lu Yutong covered her mouth with her hand, her face pale with shock.

"Mingzhu, don’t scare Mom, don’t scare me!"

"Mom? Ha..." she sneered, "If you don’t speak, the next second I’ll cut my wrist’s artery! I won’t hold back unless you want to push me to death."

"Mingzhu, don’t harm yourself!"

"I’ll count down from three, three..."

Xiang Mingzhu was driven mad, if Lu Yingxue didn’t die her mental anguish would never go away, "two..."

"I’ll talk!"

Lu Yutong yelled, "I’ll talk! Don’t move, I’ll tell you everything!"

Her voice was hoarse, and weariness appeared on her well-maintained face: "Lu Yingxue is an illegitimate daughter, she’s the daughter of Lu Bannong and Cheng Qingnian. Cheng Qingnian is the biological daughter of Cheng Han, so in essence, Lu Yingxue is Cheng Han’s maternal granddaughter."

The truth was more startling than imagined.

Xiang Mingzhu never expected Lu Yingxue to be connected to Cheng Han, "What exactly happened back then?"

"At that time, your uncle accidentally learned Cheng Han had a late daughter he adored very much. So he deliberately got close to Cheng Qingnian, making her fall in love with him. In their daily interactions, secretly passed Cheng Han’s summarized expertise notes to your uncle, allowing your uncle’s medical skills to advance rapidly.

On the day of the final competition between Cheng Han and your uncle, your uncle manipulated her to secretly drug Cheng Han, causing Cheng Han to lose the competition, and from then on your uncle soared to success on the reputation of National Doctor Cheng Han."

"And then?"

Those past events were perhaps entangled with too much filth and disgrace, making Lu Yutong feel very difficult to recall.

"Then... Cheng Han discovered his daughter’s betrayal, Cheng Qingnian was obstinately devoted to marrying your uncle, father and daughter cut ties and never interacted again," Lu Yutong remarked sarcastically, "What use did Cheng Qingnian have then? Later, your uncle married the He family’s eldest daughter, Cheng Qingnian gave birth to a child and committed suicide. News of her death spread, and from then on there was no trace of her. And that child grew up as the Lu family’s eldest lady..."

Xiang Mingzhu frowned: "Did Cheng Qingnian really die?"

"At first, I thought she was dead too, until I saw the woman with narcolepsy in the final round of the needle conference, only then did I realize she never died. Just half-dead, which is worse than death."

"It was her!"

So she was Lu Yingxue’s mother!

Xiang Mingzhu absorbed all this information, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"Mingzhu." Lu Yutong grabbed her clothes, imploring, "You mustn’t tell anyone else about this, or otherwise, the Lu family will be in chaos."

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