Chapter 196
It rained heavily the night before my birthday.
The hammering against the transparent glass sounded like a ferocious beast roaring and howling, trying to break into the detached villa that held the bright moon in everyone's hearts.
Ling Wu frowned slightly, as if she hadn't slept soundly.
The girl lay down beside Ling Wu, her fair and pretty face full of dependence. After a moment, the girl got up very quietly.
She glanced indifferently out the window, but could not see any thick, dark ink.
Only then did he gently lower his eyes and gaze at Ling Wu's sleeping face. When his gaze fell on Ling Wu's slightly furrowed brows, he could not hide his heartache.
"Mom..." Her voice was very low, as if she was suppressing the emotions that were about to burst forth from her heart.
He Tingyao stared for a long time before bending down and finally reaching out as if to smooth Lingwu's furrowed brows.
But those slender fingertips only stopped an inch away from Ling Wu's forehead before trembling slightly as she withdrew her hand.
Her hands were already dirty; Mom shouldn't be touched by anything unclean.
He Tingyao turned and left, her steps light and cheerful.
but……
From now on, she will only have her mother.
She no longer needs to worry that her mother might be sad or upset because of this.
"Mom is the best mom in the world."
The icy water slid down her skin, landing on her chest, her abdomen, and her waist.
She was completely unaware, her eyes filled with unbridled joy.
Until she carried the chill into the cellar outside the villa.
She casually wiped the rain off her cheeks and walked toward the two women huddled on the ground.
To be precise, it should be a woman who had been dead for several days and a woman who was about to die.
"Ugh—" The woman could only let out a soft moan because her mouth was stuffed with something.
Her white dress had been stained gray by the mud, and her once beautiful, well-maintained face had become bloodless.
Her legs were slightly curled up, and her arms hung limply down, like a withered tree branch that might fall at any moment.
It was obvious that his arms and legs had been broken.
The next moment, He Tingyao removed the mask from her face.
Upon seeing her, Bei Banban noticed a beautiful, fair-skinned young girl with a bright smile and joyful eyes.
“Look, the aunt who stayed with my brother and me back then has been brought here to keep you company.” The girl’s voice was full of innocence.
She also removed the mask from the woman next to Bei Banban, and then with a gentle push, Song Yue's body collapsed to the ground!
Having witnessed everything, Bei Banban's heart was pounding.
She had walked through every crime scene where Ye Ting had been, but today was the first time she had faced danger directly.
A rare hint of panic flashed in her innocent and pure eyes.
No wonder the people around me didn't make a sound from beginning to end.
He Tingyao bent down and carefully examined Bei Banban's face.
Her tone was a mixture of confusion and disgust: "Why you? Why not Mom?"
She quickly shook her head again, "No, Mom shouldn't be touched by other men. Mom is always clean and beautiful. Thank goodness, thank goodness Mom hasn't experienced that..."
"After all, I've heard that childbirth is the most painful thing."
Her eyes were filled with heartache. Even just thinking about it made her heart ache if her mother had gone through something like that.
After thinking it over, He Tingyao lifted her pearly chin, her eyes filled with confusion: "What about you? Were you in pain then?"
Bei Banban's eyes instantly reddened. "It hurts, but Mom is also very happy to have you. Yao Yao, Mom had no choice but to leave back then. It wasn't that Mom didn't want you, Mom..." As she spoke, tears welled up in her eyes.
She thought He Tingyao would hesitate a bit, but that wasn't her focus at all!
"Who gave you permission to call yourself 'Mom'?" He Tingyao's eyes suddenly turned cold.
“Yaoyao…” Bei Banban murmured unconsciously, her face full of sadness.
He Tingyao grabbed her chin tightly, "These tricks of yours were already something I had already learned when I was five years old!"
“Beibanban, I don’t care what you’re up to. But you shouldn’t have! You shouldn’t have let others speak ill of my mother in front of me when I was a child! I almost lost my mother because of you and this idiot!”
"Why did you come back? If you hadn't come back, you might have lived a few more years."
He Tingyao said angrily, "My brother didn't want to do anything this month because of my birthday, and I didn't want to either!"
"I want to wait for my mom to celebrate my birthday cleanly, and for her to put a birthday hat on me..." As she spoke, the anger on her face turned into sweetness.
But soon she frowned again!
A chilling expression crossed her innocent and beautiful face. "But you insisted on approaching your mother!"
"Why are you looking for Mom! What do you want? Are you trying to tell Mom that you are our biological mother? Do you want Mom to leave me?!" He Tingyao's face was contorted with rage.
"No! No!"
"I didn't think about it! Yaoyao, I didn't think about it. You have to believe me. I just wanted to ask her, to ask if you two were doing well. I'm afraid she's not treating you well. Yaoyao, you have to believe me..."
Bei Banban's face was covered in tears. She tried to struggle to get up, but her limbs were completely out of her control. She could only shake her head desperately in denial.
He Tingyao released her hand from her chin, wiped it clean with a handkerchief in disgust, and then stood up.
Looking down at Bei Banban with an air of superiority, her beautiful red lips parted slightly:
I don't believe it.
As she said this, she lowered her eyes slightly, completely concealing her previous madness, her expressionless face as if she were looking at an ant.
A sense of despair inexplicably rose in Bei Banban's heart.
When she saw Song Yue that day, she noticed that Song Yue's emotions were a bit off; it was a kind of excitement that she was suppressing.
But looking back now, it wasn't excitement, but the relief of being able to leave the person in front of me after getting her to come out!
Song Yue said that He Tingyao had always missed her and longed to see her.
She had no doubts about him.
Because starting thirteen years ago, Song Yue would always send her a message saying:
The siblings' feelings for Ling Wu were all an act. They hoped that when Ling Wu returned to China, she would tell Song Yue so that the siblings could meet her.
However, she was involved in a plane crash as soon as she returned to China, and afterwards she was subjected to a series of stalking and robbery incidents.
At first, she thought Duan Lingwu was behind it, until now...
"The plane malfunction and the various misfortunes I encountered after returning to China, were they all your doing?" Bei Banban's face still showed disbelief after she understood.
"No." He Tingyao tilted her head, looking quite innocent.
Before Bei Banban could catch her breath, He Tingyao said with an incredibly innocent smile:
"My brother did the airplane thing, everything else was just me joking with you."
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