"Your ex-wife... No...no..." Zhang Liling started but suddenly stopped as she shook her hand frantically with a playful smile on her face.
"I take that back," she said hurriedly and let out a chuckle before continuing with her big reveal.
"You never had the opportunity of marrying my mother, so I can't address her as your ex-wife. How unfortunate."
As Zhang Renshu listened, he felt a sharp pain in his chest. He knew very well that the young woman in front of him was doing this on purpose to anger him, and she had succeeded.
Zhang Liling had wanted to continue torturing him the other way round, but she figured that she wanted to spend less time in his presence.
Also, she had got a better place to be than here, hence she decided to go straight forward and continue with her torture.
"My mother was diagnosed with cancer a year ago, so I had to travel down to Paris," Zhang said standing to her feet without sparing her father another glance.
Zhang Renshu was so shocked by the revelation that no words could come out of his mouth.
For several times, his lips parted and closed yet, they could not utter anything.
They acted like they were on his face only for decoration.
But by the time Zhang Liling reached the door and had placed her hand on the door handle, he found his voice as he quickly rose to his feet.
"Wait!" He stopped her as he stood beside his table watching her.
Suddenly, the man scolding her a few moments ago, now looked as if the world had come crashing down on him.
Immediately, a smile turned up at the corners of Zhang Liling's lips and because she had her back to him, he couldn't see her facial expression.
'I knew he would fall for it.'
Pretending to be angry, she took a deep breath before slowly turning to spare him a glance while waiting for him to speak up.
"Y-You M-Mother..." Zhang Renshu swallowed hard as if a lump was in his throat.
He found it almost difficult to complete his statement as he couldn't believe that Song Jujing had cancer for over a year, and he didn't even try to reach out to her.
Even if no one told him about it, at least, if he had been reaching out as he is supposed to, he would have found out on time.
Unfortunately, that was not the case.
At the thought of the disappointment that would be in his ex's eyes when she sees him, Zhang Renshu felt very guilty.
Swallowing hard again, he continued after he noticed the impatience in his daughter's eyes.
"H-How is she? W-Why did you leave here alone in such a faraway place?"
"Dad!" Zhang Liling cut him off immediately. She was tired of staying with him. She had somewhere else to be.
"If you want to know more about the health of the woman your betrayed and turned her life upside down, call her yourself."
Saying up to here, Zhang Liling opened the door and left without giving him the chance to defend himself.
Zhang Renshu could only watch as she left his study without trying to stop her.
Her last statement was like a dagger that pierced right into his chest.
He didn't want to hear anymore and felt it was better for her to leave.
'Mr. Zhang, thank you for permitting me to press your buttons using my mother,' Zhang Liling said in her heart as she trotted away in her pair of black stilettos.
At last, she had achieved what she wanted.
This was the very reason she held this news back for such a long time, and she was going to use the last feelings he still had for her mother to climb up the ladder.
With his guilt, she would accelerate with her mission faster than the shadows.
Without stopping in her steps, Zhang Liling walked all the way to the car and got in while exuding confidence.
She didn't even bother to call her mother and I form her of her plans because there was practically no need to.
And just like she thought, Zhang Renshu got himself a few days later and decided to reach out to Song Jujing.
When he mentioned the fact that she had cancer, she did not correct him as her mind automatically went to Zhang Liling.
'Why did she tell him that I have cancer? Who knows what she is planning?'
Before going back to Mr. Fang's Villa that day, Zhang Liling dropped by her house, and seeing the clean space, she thought about moving back.
Because she had the housekeeper cleaning the house, the place was dust-free and felt like home again.
Returning to Mr. Fang's place, none of them remembered what he wanted to talk about, as they both became busy with business matters.
*******
The rumors on the internet concerning Zhang Liling being Mr. Fang's Mistress spread more like wildfire, in contrast to their thoughts.
Fang Bingwen was too lazy to explain his life to others and had planned not to give out any statement, but his Fang family thought otherwise.
They pressured him to clarify the news, more especially his father had to call him over the phone to talk to him about it.
And at last, he clarified his relationship with Zhang Liling, instantly blowing everywhere up.
His statement got so many tongues wagging as the internet was on fire.
Everyone wanted to know why he would date someone that was once his student.
Others dropped so many questions, both those that made sense and did not, but no one gave them a response.
"Mr. Fang, why did you date someone so much younger than you?"
"Did the Fang and the Zhang family arrange their relationship?"
"Mr. Fang, what did you choose Zhang Liling amongst the women wanting your attention?"
"Zhang Liling, come out here and tell us how you seduced someone like Fang Bingwen! Did your Zhang Family get greedy again?"
This came off because of the family Zhang Xiaoling married into.
"Zhang Liling, where did you run off to since the past year? Were you secretly dating someone else?"
Others just dropped their thoughts instead of asking questions since they were not expecting another response from either Fang Bingwen or Zhang Liling.
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