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Lin Tingyue thought painfully, and both reason and emotion made her more inclined to consider things from this perspective.
If her mother really helps her reclaim everything that originally belonged to her, and she becomes truly wealthy, then she can pursue Zhiming again!
Zhang Yingzi was envisioning her revenge when she inadvertently looked up and saw her daughter. She found her face as pale as a corpse, her brows furrowed, her expression full of sorrow, sighing and groaning, as if she had suddenly fallen seriously ill.
Only then did she remember what her daughter had told her when she came in: she had broken up with Jiang Zhiming.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but smile, cleared her throat, and said softly to Lin Tingyue, "Xiaoyue—" Her voice was unusually gentle. Lin Tingyue slowly raised her head, surprised that her mother could speak to her in such a gentle, musical voice.
Lin Tingyue felt a surge of warmth in her heart, pulling her thoughts back from their flight like a kite, and staring blankly at her mother. Zhang Yingzi smiled slightly and beckoned her to come to her side. Lin Tingyue, like an obedient child, walked to her mother's side and stood there. Zhang Yingzi took one of her hands, held it tightly in her palm, and asked her, "Are you sad because of the breakup? You can't bear to part with Jiang Zhiming?"
Lin Tingyue blushed. She felt a little uncomfortable that her sore spot had been discovered. However, she quickly remembered that the person in front of her who cared about her was her biological mother. Therefore, she felt there was nothing to be embarrassed about or hide. She nodded, and at the same time, tears began to well up in her eyes as her emotions were revealed.
My heart is in so much pain it feels like it's about to explode. Losing Jiang Zhiming feels like life has lost its value and meaning, and the source of my happiness has been lost.
She really wanted to tell her mother that Jiang Zhiming was the man she loved most in her life, that she couldn't bear the pain of losing him, and that she must do everything she could to win him back.
However, to her utter surprise, Zhang Yingzi smiled dismissively and said to her indifferently, "Even if you hadn't broken up with him, I would have told you to break up with him anyway."
What?! Like a bolt from the blue, Lin Tingyue was shocked. She looked at her mother with her eyes wide open. What did her mother mean? She couldn't understand. She was grieving the loss of Jiang Zhiming, but her mother said that even if he hadn't asked her to break up with him, she would have told her to break up with him.
This is so strange!
Facing her daughter's shocked gaze, Zhang Yingzi looked down at her purple fingernails and said to her, "That Jiang Zhiming is too honest and kind, and his family is very poor. He's not suitable for you."
Lin Tingyue was stunned again. Even her mother said that Jiang Zhiming was not suitable for her. When Jiang Zhiming left, he also said that they were from two different worlds.
But she never looked down on him because his family was poor. He was honest and kind, which were rare virtues in her eyes and heart.
At this moment, Lin Tingyue felt as if a knife was churning in her heart. She was in pain and bewildered.
Zhang Yingzi thought for a moment, then leaned closer and whispered to Lin Tingyue, "Go find Cai Wenchuan, Xiao Cai."
What? Like a thunderbolt from the blue, Lin Tingyue was stunned again. Cai Wenchuan? Her childhood friend, Xiao Wenzi, whom she'd always called upon and dismissed at will; she'd never taken him seriously. Her mother actually wanted her to go find him? This was too unexpected! Besides, her mother looked down on Jiang Zhiming's family for being poor, but how much better off could Cai Wenchuan's family be? Cai Wenchuan's father was the Lin family's steward; he'd only come to the Lin family as a servant to make a living. She'd never imagined that one day she'd have anything to do with Cai Wenchuan.
Seeing her daughter's confused expression, Zhang Yingzi smiled slightly and said to her, "You don't know, Jiang Zhiming is an outsider after all, but Xiao Cai, I watched him grow up, he's practically half a member of the Lin family."
What? Like a thunderclap, Lin Tingyue took a step back. What did her mother mean by that?
Half a member of the Lin family? Does the steward's son count as half a member of the Lin family? Why can't she understand these words?
Lin Tingyue felt she understood her mother's words even less, as if she were lost in a fog. She felt as if she wasn't standing in a hotel room, but rather on the surface of a turbulent sea.
"Go and approach him, and make him our ally." This was the mother's command.
Half of the Lin family, our allies? Lin Tingyue said she couldn't understand any of these words. Her mother seemed to be speaking a different language, and as a poor student, she couldn't understand a single word.
She felt as if she were in a maze; she was slow-witted and couldn't find her way out by thinking for herself.
Seeing her daughter's silly look, Zhang Yingzi frowned, resenting that she wasn't as clever as she was. She directly ordered her, "Go and get close to him. He has loved you for many years, you know that, right?!" This little idiot, she really doubted she didn't know.
Lin Tingyue was stunned again. She had always known that Cai Wenchuan liked her, but was it really love?
Seeing her daughter's continued confusion and shock, Zhang Yingzi felt a pang of disappointment. Her child wasn't like her. If she had even half of Lin Tingfeng's intelligence, she would have won this battle for revenge. Now, her future was truly uncertain.
Lin Tingyue's eyes remained wide open, her eyeballs almost popping out of their sockets. What shocked her even more was that her mother, who was abroad, knew about Cai Wenchuan's love for her. It was unbelievable. Did her mother have clairvoyance and clairaudience?
Zhang Yingzi continued to patiently instruct him: "Because he loves you very much, you should approach him, seduce him, and if necessary, promise him marriage. In this way, he will become our ally, which will play a decisive role in whether we can win most of the Lin family's assets."
"What?!" As if struck by lightning, Lin Tingyue swayed in shock, taking a step back. She stared blankly at her mother and stammered, "He... he will play a crucial role?"
It's unbelievable. Is the mother mentally unstable? Is she perhaps a little out of her mind? Could the housekeeper's son really play a crucial role in this inheritance battle?
However, Zhang Yingzi's big eyes were as dark and bright as when she was young, and she nodded with utmost seriousness.
Lin Tingyue had no choice but to remind her, "Mom, Xiao Cai is just Lao Cai's son. Lao Cai is our housekeeper, and not long ago, Lao Cai was fired by my eldest brother."
"Hahaha, hahaha!" Zhang Yingzi burst into laughter upon hearing the news. Lin Tingyue looked at her mother, who was laughing like a cat, and felt inexplicably afraid.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Yingzi finally stopped laughing and asked Lin Tingyue, "Does your father know about this?"
Lin Tingyue shook her head.
Zhang Yingzi's eyes lit up, and she asked her repeatedly, as if to confirm, "Your dad doesn't know?"
Lin Tingyue said weakly, "I rarely go back to my hometown now, and I don't know if my father knows about this."
She thought wistfully that now, apart from that old woman living there, probably no one goes back to the old house. She won't go back to live there anymore, her second brother won't go back to live there anymore, and her eldest brother stopped living there a long time ago.
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