After hearing her daughter Ruan Tiantian's advice, Tao Hongmei gave up that terrible idea.

Ruan Tiantian glanced at her mother and caught a gleam in her eyes. She felt that nothing she said would help and she could not stop her mother.

So she thought about it, and then she said, "Mom, I want to go to Xinxilan to find my eldest sister."

"Why did you think of looking for your elder sister? Why so sudden?" Tao Hongmei frowned and asked.

Tao Hongmei felt that Ruan Tiantian should not go abroad at this critical time, and Tao Hongmei's eldest daughter had cut off contact with her family since she married and moved to Xin Xilan. If Ruan Tiantian also went, she might lose contact with her daughter. This was why Tao Hongmei did not want her daughter to go abroad, so her face gradually darkened.

But Ruan Tiantian did not back down. She pretended to be calm and ignored Tao Hongmei's expression, and continued, "I've talked to my elder sister, and she agreed that I could go find her."

Ruan Tiantian doesn't want to be involved in family disputes anymore. It's understandable that she wants to withdraw and save herself.

But do I have to leave my mother?

Ruan Tiantian struggled for a long time before she made up her mind to leave Tao Hongmei. After such a period of time, she finally figured it out. She was just a pawn of Tao Hongmei, and Tao Hongmei wanted to use her to achieve her own goals and get what she wanted.

So when Ruan Tiantian made up her mind, she also decided that she would not turn back because of soft-heartedness.

That kind of life was not what she wanted.

Even if she dies alone, she would rather spend the rest of her life in an ordinary and stable way.

Tao Hongmei's face was as black as ink. She asked Ruan Tiantian with a serious face: "Have you thought about it?"

"Well, I've thought about it." Ruan Tiantian said lightly, lowered her head, and subconsciously did not dare to look up at Tao Hongmei's expression.

Tao Hongmei's face was horribly dark. She suppressed the anger in her heart, raised her finger and pointed at the door and said, "If you want to leave, leave immediately. After you leave, don't come back and don't call me 'Mom'!"

Ruan Tiantian paused for a moment. She tugged at the corner of her sweater, then reached into her bag, took out a card and put it on the table. She said softly, "This is the money I saved. It's enough for you to live a worry-free life for the rest of your life."

Tao Hongmei took the card and threw it against the wall in a tantrum, then said angrily, "Get out of here right now! Get as far away as you can! I don't have a daughter like you anymore!"

As Ruan Tiantian listened to Tao Hongmei's angry curses, her eyes quietly turned red. She sniffed, took a deep breath, picked up her bag, turned around and left.

Tao Hongmei watched Ruan Tiantian walk away step by step. Her eyes turned red because she was angry. Suddenly, she saw Ruan Tiantian stopped, so she immediately looked away and turned to look the other way.

Ruan Tiantian paused at the door of the ward, turned around and took a deep look at her mother who was sitting on the sofa. She bent down and bowed, and said in a sobbing voice: "Mom, take care, I'm leaving."

Tao Hongmei watched Ruan Tiantian bending down and bowing towards her on the black screen of the TV, and her tears suddenly couldn't be held back and fell.

The next moment, Ruan Tiantian's figure disappeared in the reflection of the TV. Tao Hongmei hurriedly turned back to look, but Ruan Tiantian's figure had disappeared at the door of the ward.

Looking at the empty doorway, Tao Hongmei lowered her head and burst into tears.

On this day, she not only lost her husband, but also her daughter.

We all say that there must be something pitiful about a hateful person. Tao Hongmei is indeed hateful, but she is just a woman who longs to be cared for.

After she realized that the happiness she had was just an illusion, she shifted her focus and sought things that could give her a sense of security, such as money and power.

And because she wants to obtain these, she has to go to great lengths to eliminate the people who stand in her way.

Therefore, from the beginning to the end, Tao Hongmei was simply bewildered and went astray, having thoughts that she shouldn't have had.

Ruan Tiantian covered her face, tears streaming down her face, blurring the scene before her eyes. She walked quickly to the elevator, which happened to arrive. A man walked out of it. When she walked in, she accidentally bumped into him. Ruan Tiantian said in a tearful voice, "I'm sorry."

The man holding the flowers felt that the woman's figure was very familiar. Before he had time to look back, the elevator door had closed.

The man frowned and didn't think any more about it. Holding the flowers, he found the patient he wanted to visit according to the information given to him by the nurse.

He walked in and heard some crying. He was stunned for a moment, raised his hand and knocked on the door, and asked, "Hello, am I disturbing you?"

When Tao Hongmei heard the voice, she immediately raised her hand to wipe away her tears, turned her head to look at the man in the ward, and after a few seconds of confusion, she recognized that the man was Zhang Ling, the blind date she had found for Ruan Mengmeng.

"Zhang Ling?" Tao Hongmei called out suspiciously.

Since Tao Hongmei changed her plans, she has cut off contact with Zhang Ling.

Today, Zhang Ling came to her house in person, which inevitably made Tao Hongmei doubt Zhang Ling's motives and purposes.

Zhang Ling, who was standing at the door of the ward, saw that Tao Hongmei recognized him, so he saved a lot of trouble and smiled politely a few times, "Auntie, hello, I heard that you were in the hospital, so I came to see you."

"That's thoughtful." Tao Hongmei looked away and said lightly.

She didn't believe that Zhang Ling came here just for the sake of convenience, especially when she saw Zhang Ling's short and narrow eyes like a rat's, she became more certain that Zhang Ling had other purposes for this trip.

Zhang Ling walked in, placed the flowers in his hand next to the TV on his own initiative, then pulled over a chair and sat in front of Tao Hongmei.

Since Tao Hongmei didn't ask any questions, Zhang Ling was too embarrassed to speak directly.

Zhang Ling kept rubbing his hands, trying to find a topic to break the silence, when Tao Hongmei asked at the right time: "Do you have anything else to say?"

After Tao Hongmei asked this, Zhang Ling had a ladder to climb up. He laughed dryly a few times and asked tentatively, "I heard that my aunt had a dispute with Miss Ruan Er recently?"

When Tao Hongmei heard Zhang Ling mention Ruan Mengmeng, her face darkened. She asked unhappily, "What do you want to say? Just say it."

Zhang Ling saw that Tao Hongmei had opened up, so he asked directly: "Aunt, I wonder if the plan we discussed before can still be counted?"

Tao Hongmei raised her eyes and glanced at him indifferently, which made Zhang Ling's heart tighten inexplicably, thinking that Tao Hongmei was going to refuse.

Who knew that Tao Hongmei would say as if it was a matter of course: "It counts, why doesn't it count?"