"What you want has to rhyme with my plans for you future and only then will I care about it. Have power, money and influence first before you settle for what you want." Shi Wenqian advised.
She didn't believe that one she focus on pleasures instead, they should focus on preparing the road to their destiny to ensure their name lived in the hearts of others, and they became the talk of town.
As for other menial desires, let it come after they have achieved everything, but Zhang Mingyu didn't seen to think that way.
"Mum, at this rate, I think we will end up dying without getting to enjoy the works of our hands."
Saying that, he wiped his lips clean and got up as well. "I'm done. Have a good night."
At the end, Shi Wenqian was left all alone, but she was not even bothered as this was not the first time her children had tried to rebel against her.
"Seems like I have to make them fight for something and only then will their senses awaken." Mumbling those words to herself, she continued to eat.
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As early as 5 AM, Zhang Xiaoling got up to wash up before getting dressed and without waiting to have breakfast, she picked up her bags and walked out of the house.
She did not even bother to say her greeting to Zhang Renshu who has come back in the middle of the night before entering her car and zooming off.
Just as she had told her mother during dinner, she would leave first thing in the morning.
After yesterday's experience, she was reminded of the reason she should never join hands with her mother or let her off, because she would never be able to find happiness.
When she had talked about her mother-in-law mistreating her, she didn't look like she cared much.
She didn't flare up like a mother who cared about her daughter's happiness and who others were treating her.
She didn't talk about speaking to her mother-in-law nor did she say any comforting words to her.
She didn't even ask her about her husband and how she was being treated.
'Does he love you?'
'Does he defend you when his mother is at your throat?''
'Is he going to find a solution to this solution or is he going to continue to let his mother ill-treat you?'
'How is your relationship with him? Are things better?'
'Tell me what you want, and I will help you.'
Not even a single one of those questions was brought up by her mother. Then how did she care about her?
Was she even her mother?
As soon as that thought came to her head, she felt her heartbeat accelerate and without warning, she lost control of the staring but thankfully, she braked the car, but the problem was that as she did that suddenly, the car that was following behind her, rammed into the rear end of her car.
For almost a minute, Zhang Xiaoling sat in her car without reacting as her fingers clutched the steering wheel tightly.
She was still shocked about the speculation in her mind that she forgot about the car that hit her.
Her heart almost froze in her chest from there.
It was the driver in the car that hit her that had to come out and knock on her window to alert her.
Seeing the expensive car he had hit, and knowing that there was a camera at that spot, he couldn't escape so Despite the fact that he was afraid of the life of the person in the other car, he took a bold step to come over.
"Ma'am are you okay."
With the incessant knocking on her car window, Zhang Xiaoling was able to snap back to the present.
Turning off her car engine, she removed her seatbelt and stepped out of the car to go see the damage.
"I am so sorry for hitting you. You suddenly stopped out of nowhere."
Hearing what the man had to say, Zhang Xiaoling immediately gave him the side glance.
"There is no traffic on this road because it's still early, yet you were following me so closely. Am I the only one to be blamed for stopping out of nowhere? What about you that was following me so closely when it is wrong in the first place. If you were also focused on the road, you would have seen my break lights!"
Hearing the claims she made, the man was shocked because she was right. He ended up being tongue-tied and only became alert when he saw her walked back to her car.
"My bad! You should call your car insurance agency."
Taking her phone out from her handbag, she said without sparing him a glance. "What car insurance? I'm calling the police."
Quickly, she dialled a contact and placed the phone on her ear before turning to fix a death stare on the man.
"What? Why would you involve the police when I didn't hit you on purpose?"
Learning that she was going to call the police, the truck driver became alarmed because of how messier the case could become.
Obviously, the lady in front of him was rich and she looked like she was influential, plus the fact that he was guilty.
"With your lack of concentration, you would have hit another person if you didn't hit me." Zhang Xiaoling said just before the person she was trying to reach, answered her call from the other end.
"Hello!" The robust female voice greeted.
Without waiting to hear a second more word from her, Zhang Xiaoling said, "Liling, come and pick me up at XXXXXXX I just had a little accident and I don't think I can leave this place soon."
Normally, she would have addressed her as 'Zhang' in front of her first name, but because she didn't want the man in front of her to guess who she was and the family she was coming from since he seemed oblivious to it, she was forced to forgo the formality with that step-sister of hers.
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