Lu Anning was stunned, and it took her a while to come back to her senses. She saw Tang Jingyuan looking at her with a smile in his eyes.
He stood up and pulled Lu Anning in front of him: "Don't you want to know about me? All my stories come from here."
Tang Jingyuan's mother, Tang Qing, was from a real scholarly family. She inherited her mother's intelligence since childhood and grew up under the influence of her father. She looked weak, but was actually strong and had a sense of pride in her bones.
In her prime years, she met Pei Wanguo, who was ten years older than her. Having seen too many rich kids, she was attracted to Pei Wanguo, who started from scratch. Her unique calmness and restraint won Tang Qing's favor. But at that time, Pei Wanguo didn't know the situation of the Tang family and only thought that Tang Qing was a child from an ordinary family.
The two fell in love and had a deep affection for each other, but Pei Wanguo had not proposed marriage yet. He was in the rising period of his career and had to go to Jiangcheng to develop a project. He promised that he would come back and marry Tang Qing in three to five years.
Tang Qing believed it and waited alone in Kyoto, rejecting every marriage arranged by the Tang family. Unfortunately, what she finally received was the news that Pei Wanguo had married and had children.
"My mother didn't believe it, so she secretly went to Jiangcheng. From a distance, she saw Pei Wanguo leaving with his wife and children, and the family was very happy. She didn't have the courage to step forward and question him, so she returned to Kyoto alone and never contacted Pei Wanguo again."
The story should have ended here. Tang Qing was paranoid and only loved Pei Wanguo in her life. Seeing her lover break his oath, she no longer believed in love and marriage. She was unwilling to get married and concentrated on her career, managing the family business with her brothers.
Just when Tang Qing was about to forget about this scumbag, he appeared alone in Kyoto.
The chance encounter at the business cocktail party brought back memories of the past for the two. Tang Qing always kept his distance, but Pei Wanguo, seeing his former white moonlight again, his deep feelings were aroused again. He couldn't help wanting to get closer, but was repeatedly rejected by Tang Qing.
"They were each other's first love, but my mom became the third party in the eyes of others. Isn't it ridiculous? You can't imagine that my sister and I are the product of Pei Wanguo forcibly possessing my mom. That scumbag doesn't even want to let go of either side."
Tang Jingyuan said this, clenching his fists.
Since then, Tang Qing and Pei Wanguo completely broke off their relationship. Later, she found out that she was pregnant with twins.
"My mother gave birth to my sister and me with great difficulty. Because of what happened back then, she was always depressed and passed away when we were very young. My sister Tang Wan and I grew up in the Tang family. My sister is gentle and kind, just like my mother, even sharing the same fate."
The brother and sister grew up carefree in the Tang family. Tang Wan was smart and had a keen sense of cultural relics, but she was persecuted by evil people and became pregnant unexpectedly.
"Xiao Rui is actually my sister's child! She found out she was pregnant after the accident, but she couldn't bear to give up the child and insisted on keeping him. Little did she know, the child was in a car accident when he was full-term, and he lost too much blood to be saved."
When he said this, Tang Jingyuan's voice was trembling.
Lu Anning couldn't bear to listen any longer, so she stepped forward and shook his hand forcefully: "Stop talking."
She had never expected that Tang Jingyuan's past would be like this. Asking him to tell it himself was like asking him to tear open a healed wound and rub salt into it.
"Xiao Rui is my sister's only thought! He has never known his own life experience, but he is also sensible and never asks about his mother."
"You don't want children because you're worried that having your own child in the future will be bad for Xiao Rui?"
"No one can control their own heart. I just want to give that child the best. As for Pei Wanguo, it was he who caused my mother to bear the infamy and die in depression. He owes me a life, and I want to get it back for my mother bit by bit."
What Pei Wanguo couldn't let go of the most was the family business he built with his own hands, but Tang Jingyuan was determined to destroy it all, making him fight for it for most of his life, but in the end it was all in vain.
Too much information flooded into Lu Anning's mind, and she was unable to process it all.
It's easy to imagine the immense pressure a wealthy daughter faced when bearing a child out of wedlock over twenty years ago. Even now, unmarried pregnancy still attracts criticism. Tang Qing, known for her pride, couldn't stand the gossip. It's no wonder she died of depression.
Only then did Lu Anning realize that the famous Mr. Pei had actually done such a shameless thing. Even though he already had a wife and children, he still went back to provoke his former lover and forced her to have sex with him. What was the difference between him and a rapist?
"He shamelessly believed that by gaining my mother, he could make her follow him willingly. Then, he could naturally gain the support of the Tang family and take his business to the next level. From the beginning to the end, he only cared about profit. Those so-called aspirations in the old house were all hypocritical pretenses, which only made people feel disgusted."
At this moment, Lu Anning finally understood why the outside world had so many speculations about Tang Jingyuan's life experience.
Even if such truth is told, how many people will believe it?
As long as Pei Wanguo explained a little, those people would believe that it was Tang Qing who took the initiative to seduce them. Love between men and women has always been the most difficult thing to explain since ancient times.
"An Ning, I'm telling you all this just so you can do what you want without any worries. At worst, I'll just have to work harder and run back and forth. Once everything in Jiangcheng is settled, we'll still have to go back to Kyoto."
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