Strike Back, Proud Goddess!

Tang Xi looked at Xiao Yan in doubt. “What did Dad ask about me?”

Did Dad see me at that dinner party? He saw that she was with Qiao Liang, so he called to ask whether she was home?

Xiao Yan looked at Tang Xi who looked calm, and he frowned. “He asked whether you were home or hanging out with your friend… Rourou, where were you this evening? I asked Chen Ziyan. She said you were not with her. Can you tell me where you were?”

Tang Xi felt very uncomfortable about Xiao Yan’s questioning. She frowned and said seriously, “Yan, I think I have personal freedom, and I’m already an adult. I don’t need to report my whereabouts to you. Besides, I didn’t do anything bad. You don’t have to interrogate me like you are interrogating a criminal.”

“Sorry.” Xiao Yan immediately apologized and looked at Tang Xi. “I’m your brother, so I care about you. If I make you uncomfortable, I apologize, but I hope you know it’s because I truly care about you.”

Tang Xi paused. She did overreact. Thinking of this, she pursed her lips. “Nothing special. I told you I wanted to start a business, right? So I was learning the process of starting a company.”

Xiao Yan’s frowned eyebrows finally relaxed when he heard her words. He nodded with a smile. “That eases my mind. It’s been late. Go to sleep. Are you going out tomorrow?”

Tang Xi nodded. “Yes, I’ll go out after I finish the acupuncture for mother tomorrow morning. I’m going to sleep.” With that, she stood up and left Xiao Yan’s study.

Xiao Yan looked at her back, frowned and stood up. He was still worried. Was his sister swindled by some man?

Having no clue of what Xiao Yan was thinking, Tang Xi went back to her room and laid down on the bed. She stared at the ceiling, and then closed her eyes. She was so tired…

Se lay on the bed for five minutes before she slowly rolled off to go and take a shower. After the shower, she was about to hit the hay, when her cell phone rang. Tang Xi sighed, got up and picked up the phone. “Sa, what’s up?”

Xiao Sa’s anxious voice rang. “Something bad happened!”

Tang Xi jumped up from bed and asked, “Why did this happen? I told you to keep an eye on him! Why did he commit suicide?!”

Tang Xi hung up the phone, and rushed into the cloakroom to change. She then grabbed her cellphone and hastened to drive the car. Xiao Yan saw this and hurriedly followed her to the parking lot only to see her get in the car about to drive away. He hurriedly stopped Tang Xi. “Where are you going?”

When Tang Xi saw Xiao Yan, she was relieved as if seeing her savior. She hurriedly sat down in the passenger seat and shouted, “Yao, come on in. Let’s go to Lin’an Hospital. Lin Ruozhi tried to commit suicide and is now in the hospital.”

Xiao Yan’s face darkened and immediately jumped into the car. “What happened? Didn’t he look alright these days? Why did he suddenly try to commit suicide?!”

Tang Xi shook her head and clenched her hands. Although she hoped Tao Yan and Lin Ruozhi got the punishment they deserved, she never hoped they died… especially Lin Ruozhi. She didn’t put Lin Ruozhi into jail because he had merely been an onlooker in this play… Although he was also sinful… he didn’t deserve to die.

Xiao Yan took Tang Xi to Lin’an Hospital. Xiao Jing and Xiao Sa had been waiting outside the operation room. Tang Xi hurriedly came over, and almost stumbled. Xiao Jing quickly supported her and said in a low voice, “Don’t worry. It’s gonna be alright. The doctors are operating on him. We took him to the hospital on time, so he should be fine.”

“Did he try to commit suicide by posion?” Tang Xi looked at Xiao Jing and her hands were trembling.

Xiao Jing shook his head. “He slit his wrists, but don’t worry. He will be fine.”

Xiao Sa also came over, patted Tang Xi’s shoulder and said in a low voice, “He tried to commit suicide not because we imprisoned him, but because he was too guilty for what he had done to your mother.” With that, Xiao Sa handed a letter in his hand to Tang Xi. “This is his posthumous papers. It’s for your mother. Have a look.”

Tang Xi opened the envelope and read the letter before she looked at Xiao Yan blankly. Xiao Yan came over and took the letter to read. After quite a while, he reached out to pat Tang Xi’s shoulders and said gently, “It’s not your fault. They asked for this themselves. Now he is dying but still refuses to tell my mother who her real parents are, but keep asking for her forgiveness. We don’t need this false repentance, and you don’t have to feel guilty for this, understand?”

Tang Xi pursed her lips. It had been a while before she closed her eyes and then opened them. She stood up, took the letter and walked outside the hospital as she said to Xiao Sa. “Send him back to City W when he recovers. Tell him not to wait for Tao Yan any longer.”

Tao Yan would rot in jail for the rest of her life. She couldn’t get the man she loved, so she murdered her good friend, stole her child and put the man she loved in agony. Only a devil would do such horrible things! But Tao Yan never regretted what she had done!

Tang Xi walked for two steps and suddenly looked back at Xiao Sa, saying coldly, “If Lin Ruozhi is willing to tell me who my mother’s biological parents are after he wakes up, bring him to me. If not, then… send him away, and convict Tao Yan as soon as possible!”

…

As soon as Tang Xi woke up the next morning, she saw Lin Ru sitting by her bed. She had a surprised gleam in her eyes, and jumped up from the bed. She stared at Lin Ru in shock and widened her eyes as she called incredulously, “Mother?”

Lin Ru smiled at Tang Xi, reached out to rub her hair and said gently, “Sorry for troubling you, Rourou.”

Tang Xi looked at Lin Ru in shock. By rights, it would take at least a month more for Lin Ru to recover. What was going on here? Was she dreaming?

Tang Xi thought she must be dreaming, so she gave a self-deprecating smile and said, “Ah, I must be dreaming. I want you to recover so much even in my dreams…”

“No, you’re not dreaming.” Lin Ru grabbed her hand and said gently, “Rourou, thank you. If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have recovered so soon. It’s all thanks to you. I should thank you. You helped me to recover and see through the facades of those people. I saw the devils that they really are underneath. I really should thank you.”