Chapter 43: The Wang family is left with nothing left to lose after the King of Tianliang is defeated!
Tao Xiaoyu was able to accept her current state of house arrest, and she consoled herself by thinking of herself as a stay-at-home girl, as long as her mother's life could be saved.
But she thought about how she had pretended to be stupid and ignored Ling Feng's words. Ling Feng didn't say it directly for the time being, but it was obvious that he didn't want to continue to help her pay for Tao's mother's medical expenses and surgery fees. This made Tao Xiaoyu's heart hang in the air, and she was a little confused about what to do next.
Although Tao's mother's medical expenses were expensive, Tao Xiaoyu could earn the money by working. She accepted Ling Feng's deal at the beginning because Tao's mother needed surgery, which required a large sum of money, and there was no time for her to earn money to save up for the surgery. Ling Feng happened to be in front of her, so she agreed to it.
After all, compared with her mother's life, her sacrifice is nothing.
Now that Tao's mother has completed the operation, she only needs to pay the medical expenses. However, Ling Feng does not allow her to go out to work, so she can only stay in the house like a canary waiting for his favor. However, Ling Feng is no longer willing to continue to bear her mother's medical expenses.
Tao Xiaoyu was extremely anxious. If Ling Feng was willing to pay for her mother's medical expenses, even if he took advantage of her misfortune and humiliated her with the sponsorship contract, she would still be somewhat grateful to him. After all, when her mother was critically ill and needed surgery, and she couldn't raise the money for the surgery, it was Ling Feng who paid for her.
But now Ling Feng was trying to get her to give up her mother's treatment, let her mother die, and she would continue to stay with him as his contracted lover. This made Tao Xiaoyu's gratitude towards Ling Feng gradually disappear.
She was willing to endure the nausea and become Ling Feng's contracted lover in order to keep her mother alive. How could she possibly give up her mother's life and continue to stay with Ling Feng?
Tao Xiaoyu was thinking about how to break the impasse. She had tentatively mentioned to Ling Feng before that she could go out to work to earn money for medical expenses so that Ling Feng would not have to bear the medical expenses for Tao's mother. However, Ling Feng did not allow her to go out to work.
On the one hand, they don't want to pay for Tao's mother's medical expenses, and on the other hand, they don't allow Tao Xiaoyu to go out to work to earn medical expenses. This is forcing Tao Xiaoyu to send Tao's mother to death.
Tao Xiaoyu had already developed hatred towards Ling Feng, but she also knew that if she broke off with Ling Feng regardless of the consequences, it would be easy for him to cause trouble for her with his identity and means, making it impossible for her to earn money for her mother's medical expenses. She had to think of a foolproof plan to get rid of Ling Feng.
Tao Xiaoyu stared at the TV in front of her without focus. She had no idea what was being played on the TV. The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became.
At this time, there was an excited and hurried knock on the door, and a familiar voice: "Xiaoyu! Xiaoyu, are you here? Xiaoyu, I'm Zhenzhen, please open the door!"
Tao Xiaoyu was surprised and happy, it turned out to be Zhenzhen who came!
She quickly got up and opened the door. She was so surprised to hear the familiar voice that she didn't even bother to look through the peephole to see if the person outside was Wang Zhenbao.
Fortunately, after opening the door, the person at the door did not disappoint her. It was really Wang Zhenbao.
Tao Xiaoyu originally wanted to give Wang Zhenbao an excited reunion hug, but when she saw two burly men in black clothes behind Wang Zhenbao, she was startled and stunned.
Wang Zhenbao explained: "They are the bodyguards my father hired to protect me."
Tao Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief and stepped aside: "Zhenzhen, come in quickly, how did you find me here?"
She was so absorbed in her surprise that she forgot that she had already cut off contact with Wang Zhenbao. In order to prevent herself from contacting Wang Zhenbao again and dragging him into the quagmire, she reluctantly sealed up all the past contact information. Although she did not throw away her old phone cards and social media accounts, she never used them again.
She also didn't know about the phone calls and messages Wang Zhenbao sent to her.
Tao Xiaoyu thought that S City was so big that the two might never meet again in this life, but she never expected that Wang Zhenbao could actually find the house that Ling Feng had given her.
Wang Zhenbao was afraid that the bodyguards would scare Tao Xiaoyu, so she asked two bodyguards to guard the door and went in alone with Tao Xiaoyu. However, in order to allow the bodyguards to keep an eye on her situation at any time, she did not close the door, but left it open. The bodyguard standing at the door had a clear view of the living room inside the house.
Wang Zhenbao pulled Tao Xiaoyu to sit on the sofa in the living room and looked around. The decoration here looked good, but the area was a bit small. In her previous life, her family went bankrupt and the house they lived in was also a large flat of two or three hundred square meters. In this life, she had probably only lived in such a small house when she was just born, and soon her family moved into a villa.
She couldn't help but ask in surprise: "The eldest young master of the Ling family lets you live here?"
In his previous life, Ling Feng hid his beauty in a luxurious single-family villa. He hid Tao Xiaoyu very well, and the private detective she hired spent a lot of time and effort to investigate her.
I didn't expect that Ling Feng would become so stingy in this life. The place he arranged to hide Tao Xiaoyu was such a small house in a mid-range community.
Tao Xiaoyu also knew what Wang Zhenbao meant. He thought Ling Feng, as the eldest son of the Ling Group, was too stingy.
Tao Xiaoyu also understood Ling Feng's current situation. Although he was the eldest son of the Ling Group, the Ling Group was not as good as before. It had even been besieged and suppressed by its rivals in the business world. Its size continued to shrink and it was struggling. Otherwise, Ling Feng would not have wanted to expand the Ling Group through marriage.
The Ling Group is not doing well, so how can the situation of Ling Feng, the future heir, be good? In order to save the Ling Group, the Ling family sold all their real estate investments and other industries and invested them into the bottomless pit of the Ling Group. Ling Feng was no exception. After all, he regarded the Ling Group as his own industry.
Ling Feng was in a much tighter financial situation, but the eldest son of the Ling family would not compromise his living conditions. The expenses for food, clothing and other daily necessities remained the same as before, so the only thing he cut back on was the expenses for other people, such as his contracted lover.
Ling Feng even felt that he was being good to Tao Xiaoyu by spending money on her. For a woman with her conditions, being able to be with him was simply a blessing, and she should be devoted to him without any regrets. How could she have the nerve to ask him for money?
Therefore, Ling Feng also felt that it was a waste to spend money on Tao Xiaoyu, especially since Tao's mother was a bottomless pit and could not be cured anyway, so giving up early could save more money.
Even though Tao's mother's monthly medical expenses are almost the same as Ling Feng's daily food expenses, Ling Feng still feels that the cost of maintaining Tao's mother's life is a waste and that money should not be wasted on a dying person. If Tao Xiaoyu really cares about him, she should take the initiative to save the money.
Ling Feng did not directly tell Tao Xiaoyu that he would give up treatment for Tao's mother, but only hinted at her. First, he was too embarrassed to say it out loud, worried that Tao Xiaoyu would think he said so because he had no money to pay for the medical expenses; second, he wanted to test Tao Xiaoyu's love for him. If she loved him enough, she should take the initiative to give up treatment for Tao's mother.
Ling Feng feels pretty good about himself. Tao Xiaoyu simply thinks that they are making a deal. Now Ling Feng wants to unilaterally break the deal. Tao Xiaoyu is in a weak position and doesn't dare to ask Ling Feng for justice. She can only think about how to get away from Ling Feng and earn her own medical expenses.
Now that Wang Zhenbao is here, Tao Xiaoyu's heart moves and hope arises.
Tao Xiaoyu said to Wang Zhenbao, "Zhenzhen, I just needed to pay a large sum of money for my mother's surgery, and Ling Feng just happened to offer me... a deal, so I agreed. Now Ling Feng seems to be tired of me and doesn't want to bear my mother's medical expenses anymore. He also doesn't allow me to go out to work and earn money, so I want to leave him."
When Tao Xiaoyu said this to Wang Zhenbao, she felt ashamed. Although she thought it was understandable to pay the price to save her mother's life, she did not regret it. From the fact that Wang Zhenbao could find her, she knew that Wang Zhenbao must have known about her relationship with Ling Feng for a long time.
But she still felt ashamed to say it in front of her good friends.
However, Tao Xiaoyu knew that since Wang Zhenbao came to her in person after finding out about her relationship with Ling Feng, he would not mind her behavior and could understand her choice made out of helplessness.
She still mustered up the courage to tell Wang Zhenbao what was on her mind.
After hearing what she said, Wang Zhenbao really didn't care that she was forced to follow Ling Feng, and said happily: "That's great, it's great that you are willing to leave that scumbag! I was worried that you didn't want to leave him."
Tao Xiaoyu looked a little confused and asked in confusion: "Why wouldn't I want to leave him?"
She and Ling Feng were in a transaction for money and sex. She saved her mother's life, and Ling Feng wanted her sex. Moreover, Ling Feng was strong and overbearing, he didn't respect others and was a little perverted. Who would like such a man? Wouldn't a man with a normal brain be better?
Now that Ling Feng doesn't even plan to give her money, how can she possibly stay with Ling Feng? She could follow Ling Feng for her mother, and she could also leave Ling Feng for her mother.
She is not a masochist, and she is not in a clear mind to want to have a sadomasochistic love affair with Ling Feng.
Bah, bah, bah, what kind of tragic love story? The mere thought of herself and Ling Feng together made her feel sick. How could there be love in a relationship with such a beginning?
After leaving, she wished she would never see Ling Feng again, the man whose dark history symbolized her most helpless time.
Wang Zhenbao looked at Tao Xiaoyu's expression, and seeing that she really didn't seem to have any attachment to Ling Feng, he felt relieved: "It's nothing, you don't have to think too much. I came here today to take you away. You are really something, Xiaoyu, if you have any difficulties, just tell me directly, am I not your good friend? You can ask me to borrow money for your mother's medical expenses and surgery fees. If you have any difficulties, just ask me, will I ignore you?"
As Wang Zhenbao spoke, she began to feel guilty. It was her negligence.
After graduating from university, she was busy starting a company in Kyoto and rarely returned to S City. She was a graduate of Kyoto University, and it was most convenient to start a business in Kyoto with the support of the school. She could also get help from previous graduates of Kyoto University and current classmates and teachers. All the connections she made in college were in Kyoto, so she stayed in Kyoto to start a business.
I seldom went back to S City, so naturally I didn't meet Tao Xiaoyu, nor did I notice the changes in the Tao family.
As for the memories of her past life... To be honest, she had been reborn for more than 20 years, and her memories of her past life had become much more blurred. Except for the hatred that was so deep that she would never forget it in two lifetimes, she could not remember other irrelevant things at all.
The information she investigated in her previous life about the underground lover of her fiancé Ling Feng was just an insignificant thing in her memory. Moreover, when the private detective investigated Tao Xiaoyu in her previous life, the focus was on finding out when she followed Ling Feng, where she lived, and how she usually dated and met Ling Feng... He didn't investigate Tao Xiaoyu's family background in detail at all. He only knew that she had a mother who was seriously ill and hospitalized.
In her previous life, after Wang Zhenbao learned about Tao Xiaoyu's existence, she didn't take Tao Xiaoyu seriously. What annoyed her the most was her fiancé Ling Feng. She didn't think that it was the mistress's fault for a man to have a mistress who deliberately seduced her. If the man didn't have that idea, no matter how much the mistress seduced her, she couldn't do anything about it. So she directed her anger at Ling Feng, her fiancé who deceived her.
In her previous life, Wang Zhenbao didn't care much about Tao Xiaoyu, and of course she didn't pay special attention to her family background information. After her rebirth, she was full of hatred for Ling Feng, so she would not deliberately remember Tao Xiaoyu's family background information.
She met Tao Xiaoyu in high school more than ten years after her rebirth. At this time, she could still remember Tao Xiaoyu's appearance because she had seen Tao Xiaoyu in Lingfeng Company before and was deeply impressed. Seeing the familiar face of Tao Xiaoyu in his youth triggered her memory and recalled Tao Xiaoyu's appearance in her previous life.
Tao Xiaoyu's family situation in her previous life. It was only after something happened to the Tao family that she recalled that Tao Xiaoyu followed Ling Feng because she couldn't afford her mother's high medical expenses, which made her think of the Tao family's trouble in this life...
However, Wang Zhenbao didn’t know exactly what had happened to the Tao family until her father had investigated the situation and told her the details.
Wang Zhenbao's guilt was not that she forgot to conduct a detailed investigation on Tao Xiaoyu's family background in her previous life. After all, no one can predict the future. What she felt guilty about was that she cared too little about Tao Xiaoyu in this life after graduating from university. If she had gone back to S City to see Tao Xiaoyu often, Tao Xiaoyu would not have kept the secrets from her.
With her help, Tao Xiaoyu will never fall into Ling Feng's clutches again.
Tao Xiaoyu sensed Wang Zhenbao's guilt towards her, and she felt a little guilty, knowing that she had taken the initiative to avoid it: "Zhenzhen, it's not your fault. I just don't want to drag you down. After all, my family's situation is a bottomless pit. You are still starting a business and you still have so many bank loans. I don't want to drag you down with it."
After all, this is not a bottomless pit that can be filled with hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. Even if she is a good friend, it is impossible to lend her millions or tens of millions of dollars.
Wang Zhenbao said, "Even if I can't help you pay off the Tao family's debt, I can lend you money for an emergency. You can always ask me to borrow money for your mother's surgery and medical expenses. Why would you rather ask Ling Feng, an outsider, instead of me?"
Wang Zhenbao actually thought that there was nothing wrong with giving the money directly to Tao Xiaoyu. To her, hundreds of thousands of dollars was just a small amount of money. He just said it was a loan because he didn't want Tao Xiaoyu to feel too much psychological pressure.
She also didn't understand why Tao Xiaoyu would rather make that kind of deal with Ling Feng than borrow money from her.
Tao Xiaoyu stared at her blankly and whispered, "Didn't you say you borrowed a lot of money from the bank..."
Wang Zhenbao: “…So you think I’m also in a lot of debt and have no money to lend you?” Who would invest all of their working capital into starting a business? Of course, if she could get a low-interest loan from the bank, she would get one. As a college student starting her own business, she could use her connections at Peking University to get a bank loan at an outrageously low interest rate. Of course, she would choose a loan and use the bank's money to create her own company.
In fact, she still has a lot of money. Her parents gave her a large amount of financial support, her company started to make a profit, and she also has a bank loan. It can be said that she has sufficient liquidity.
Wang Zhenbao didn't expect that her casual words to Tao Xiaoyu that she was looking for a bank loan caused Tao Xiaoyu to misunderstand her. She reluctantly explained the situation to Tao Xiaoyu.
Tao Xiaoyu regretted it after hearing this. She should not have kept it a secret from Wang Zhenbao in the first place. She should have asked Wang Zhenbao clearly. She only thought about not getting Wang Zhenbao involved, but she didn't expect that she was the one who complicated things.
As long as she would not drag Wang Zhenbao into trouble, Tao Xiaoyu was still willing to ask Wang Zhenbao for help.
So Tao Xiaoyu now held Wang Zhenbao's hand and said, "Zhenzhen, thank you! I'll go with you now!"
"Who are you? Why are you at my door?" Ling Feng's cold voice came from the door.
Wang Zhenbao and Tao Xiaoyu, who were sitting on the sofa in the living room, heard Ling Feng's voice and subconsciously turned to look at the door. They saw Ling Feng, dressed in a suit and tie, glaring at the two bodyguards at the door.
Wang Zhenbao pulled Tao Xiaoyu up and stared at Ling Feng's face, which she would never forget. The hatred in her heart seemed to surge and burn from its calm state. She gritted her teeth and said, "Ling Feng!"
Tao Xiaoyu thought that Wang Zhenbao hated Ling Feng so much because of her, so she pulled her hand with a feeling of being touched and worried: "Zhenzhen, I'll go and explain it to him."
Wang Zhenbao took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. It was not convenient to stab the scum to death with a knife at this moment.
Tao Xiaoyu walked to the door. Ling Feng, who was scolding the bodyguard, saw her and said to her condescendingly with a cold face, "Tao Xiaoyu, what's wrong with you? Why did you let someone in so easily?"
He looked at Wang Zhenbao, who was dressed simply and fashionably, with a scrutinizing gaze. Because she was worried about Tao Xiaoyu, Wang Zhenbao had no intention of dressing up, so she was wearing a plain dress and a suit. However, her dress was expensive and she had an extraordinary temperament. She was accompanied by two bodyguards who looked extraordinary. Ling Feng subconsciously pondered Wang Zhenbao's identity in his mind, wondering which family she was from and whether she could be used...
Tao Xiaoyu noticed the look Ling Feng gave Wang Zhenbao and felt disgusted. She moved her feet to block Ling Feng's gaze towards Wang Zhenbao. She calmly confronted Ling Feng and said, "Ling Feng, I followed you to pay for my mother's surgery. Later, you didn't let me go out to work to earn money for my mother's medical expenses, but since you were willing to pay for my mother's medical expenses, I listened to you. But now that you don't want to continue to pay for my mother's medical expenses, the contract between us should be terminated. I can work to earn money for the medical expenses myself."
Ling Feng looked at Tao Xiaoyu in disbelief: "You want to leave me? How dare you leave me?"
Tao Xiaoyu looked at him strangely. Aren’t they in a contractual relationship? He had already taken the initiative to tear up the contract, so why did he act as if she was the one who broke the contract first?
Ling Feng felt that his self-esteem was seriously hurt: "Tao! Xiao! Yu!" He gritted his teeth and shouted, "I don't want to pay your mother's medical expenses anymore, but your mother's disease is incurable. Continuing the treatment will only keep her alive and waste money. Can't you think about me? You know that I'm having trouble with capital turnover now, you should take the initiative to share my worries!"
Tao Xiaoyu was so angry at Ling Feng’s words that she almost jumped up and hit him on the head. What is their relationship? He actually asked her to give up her own mother's life to share his worries? She's not mentally ill!
Tao Xiaoyu sneered, "I stayed with you just to save my mother. Now that you don't want to continue saving my mother, I must have been crazy to continue staying with you! And I took the initiative to leave and work to earn medical expenses. You don't need to bear the cost anymore. Isn't that saving you money? Why are you so angry?" Her tone was gloomy. "If you don't know, you would think that I've bankrupted you by spending all your money. If you don't have money, don't follow others and find a contract lover. You haven't forgotten the contract we signed, right? When we signed the contract, you said so generously that you would take care of everything for my mother. Now you have the nerve to ask me to give up my mother's treatment! Screw you, I will not give up my mother's life even if I pull out your oxygen tube!"
Tao Xiaoyu finally couldn't hold back and burst out swearing.
How could this bastard have the nerve to ask her to give up her mother's life for him?
If the dog man and his mother fall into the water together, who should be saved first? Is there any need to ask? Of course, I’ll step on the dog man to save my mother!
Ling Feng was simply stunned by Tao Xiaoyu's sudden outburst. In front of him, Tao Xiaoyu had always been a helpless, weak and pitiful person, even speaking in a gentle and soft voice, as if she was easy to bully. He didn't expect that she could mock him with a cold face and yell at him with sarcasm? !
After Ling Feng came to his senses, he angrily said, "Tao Xiaoyu, don't forget whose money your mother relied on to survive! I saved your mother!"
Tao Xiaoyu snorted coldly: "I know, but we are doing a deal! Even if it is a deal, I was grateful to you for showing up in time to save my mother, but you want me to give up my mother's treatment and let her die. Do you still expect me to continue to be grateful to you?"
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