Chapter 393: Chapter 393: Mother and Daughter’s Falling-out
"Brother Yu... How could you just leave me like that..." Tears of indignation streamed down Wang Yuting’s face, her heart filled with resentment.
Seeing Wang Yuting’s tear-streaked face, the driver couldn’t bear it and wanted to stop the car.
"Ignore her. Just go," Lin Yu said with a cold, indifferent look, then simply closed his eyes to rest.
"You bastard! My daughter will never marry you!" Mu Qingtong raged, stomping her foot, her face livid.
But the car just sped off, leaving her in a cloud of dust.
She took her adopted daughter’s hand and said, "Yuting, we won’t have you marry such a heartless man."
"We won’t have me marry him? What gives you the right to say that? Fine, then find me a better husband! Can that cripple from your side of the family even compare to Brother Yu?"
Wang Yuting violently shook off Mu Qingtong’s hand, her voice dripping with sarcasm as she fired off a series of questions.
It was the first time Mu Qingtong had seen such a ferocious expression on her daughter’s face. She was startled, but the words her daughter spoke stung her even more.
She asked anxiously, "Yuting, do you look down on Ziquan because he’s a cripple?"
"When he wasn’t a cripple, none of you would let me marry him. Now that he’s crippled, you expect me to marry him? You must be dreaming.
"If I hadn’t met a man as outstanding as Brother Yu, I might have considered marrying him and becoming the young madam of the Mu Family, just for the sake of their family status."
Wang Yuting said resentfully, her gaze still fixed on the direction where Lin Yu’s car had disappeared.
Mu Qingtong’s eyes widened in disbelief. Then, her voice full of hurt, she said,
"You never told me you wanted to marry Ziquan before. After he was injured, you were the one who kept insisting every day that you wanted to marry him."
"So what if I didn’t say it? How could I have dared to? You’re not my birth mother; you would never have helped me.
"In your heart, your nephew is the only one who’s truly family to you. I had to walk on eggshells around you.
"If I ever offended you, Dad and my three brothers would all blame me. They even warned me they’d send me back to the countryside if I didn’t do everything I could to keep you happy."
Wang Yuting had been abandoned on the side of the road by Lin Yu, and she was already full of pent-up anger with no outlet.
Now that no one else was around, she decided to vent all her pent-up frustrations.
’I’m miserable, so this stupid adoptive mother of mine can be miserable too. Whatever. I’ll just soften up and act cute later, and she’ll forgive me just like always.’
Wang Yuting had Mu Qingtong completely wrapped around her little finger. She had her adoptive mother’s personality figured out completely.
Mu Qingtong was speechless.
She was so furious she couldn’t speak, her brow deeply furrowed. She clenched her fists so tightly that her knuckles turned white.
Though she had a straightforward personality, she wasn’t a fool. ’Is this really how my adopted daughter thinks of me?’
Especially after Yuting had latched onto this Lin Yu, she had become more and more brazen in her defiance.
’Lin Yu is certainly a good catch. In terms of looks and family background, he could just about compare with my Ziquan.’
Deep down, Mu Qingtong was actually pleased with the prospect of an outstanding son-in-law like Lin Yu. She just felt that a young woman ought to have some self-respect.
’She needed to have some dignity. If Lin Yu truly didn’t like her daughter, then there was no reason for Yuting to be fawning all over him.’
She had been trying to give her good advice, with only her daughter’s best interests at heart, yet Yuting had inexplicably lashed out at her.
’If Yuting really did marry Lin Yu and hit the big time, would she turn around and try to crush the Wang Family?’
’With character like that, how could Yuting ever be fit to be the matriarch of the Mu Family!’
A moment ago, Mu Qingtong had wanted to drag Wang Yuting home and tell her father and nephew what had happened.
But in that instant, Mu Qingtong gave up on the idea. Her daughter was an ungrateful wretch, a wolf she had failed to tame.
She covered her face with her hands and crouched down. Her broad shoulders shook violently as silent tears streamed through her fingers.
Her heart felt like it was being twisted by a knife. The daughter she had doted on with all her heart for nineteen years... when she called her "stupid," she had actually meant it. She was genuinely disgusted with her.
’And to think I believed she was just being blunt and informal because we were close, that she didn’t mean anything by it when she’d joke, "Mom, you’re so stupid."’
When Wang Yuting saw that her adoptive mother had been argued into silence, looking so pathetic and useless again, she sneered.
"You should take a look at your pathetic self in a mirror. Besides your family background, what part of you is actually worthy of my dad?"
"I’m not worthy of your dad? Your father has *never* said anything like that to me." Mu Qingtong was so stunned she felt her whole world tilting.
"It’s only because Dad and my brothers put you on a pedestal and spoil you. When it comes right down to it, you just got lucky marrying a good man like my father."
Seeing the utterly devastated look on her adoptive mother’s face, Wang Yuting realized her words had been too harsh.
She reined in her emotions and said flatly, "Give me twenty yuan. I need to take a cab to the hospital to see Brother Yu."
"I only have ten on me. Take it all. I’ll walk back. From now on, you’re on your own."
Mu Qingtong took out a ten-yuan bill and handed it to her daughter. ’Let this ten yuan be the end of it,’ she thought. ’The end of our bond as mother and daughter.’
"Useless. You only brought ten yuan with you." Wang Yuting snatched the money, her disgust written plainly on her face.
’Blinded by irrational anger, she wanted to burn her bridges. That way, she would have no choice but to use all her strength to hold onto Lin Yu.’
’At least for now, she had no desire to play the part of the loving daughter with this stupid adoptive mother of hers.’
Mu Qingtong saw right through her daughter’s intentions. She stood frozen in place, watching her daughter resolutely hail a cab and disappear.
Then she turned and walked toward the family compound. Her father and her nephew had always been her true source of strength and support...
Wang Yuting rushed to the hospital, found Lin Yu’s room, and cried tearfully, "Brother Yu~ From now on, you’re all I have..."
"Why aren’t you with your adoptive mother? What are you doing here? I have a critical operation coming up, so I need you to go and stir up trouble for Mu Ziquan now and then to distract him. Don’t come here and mess up my plans. Got it?"
Wang Yuting’s expression froze for a moment, but she quickly recovered. "Brother Yu, once you’ve accomplished your goal, will you marry me?"
"Only if you do what I’ve told you properly. If you screw this up, you’d better watch out for the lives of your entire family."
’Marry you? In your dreams!’ Lin Yu would never say that out loud. After all, he still needed this idiot to do his dirty work.
His expression was impatient, but his words carried a blatant threat.
"Don’t worry, I know what’s at stake. It’s all thanks to my stupid adoptive mother over the years. Otherwise, how could I have completed my missions so flawlessly?"
"Good. Go back and continue to keep your adoptive mother sweet."
"Don’t worry, Brother Yu. My adoptive mother is as dumb as a pig. I just have to be a little nice to her, and she’d gladly cut off her own head for me to use as a stool."
Wang Yuting’s repeated assurances finally put Lin Yu’s mind at ease.
He knew that Wang Yuting was not only brazenly audacious but also arrogant and utterly selfish.
All these years, Wang Yuting had taken advantage of the affection Mu Qingtong showered on her, growing ever more arrogant and domineering.
’If she had insisted on marrying that Mu Ziquan, he figured Mu Qingtong would have probably agreed to it.’
Lin Yu sneered to himself. "I need to rest now," he said slowly. "You should head back and suck up to your adoptive mother."
"Brother Yu~ I’ll be going now~" Wang Yuting cooed in a sugary-sweet voice before opening the door and leaving.
The moment she stepped out the door, she resumed her usual high-and-mighty air, yet her expression looked perfectly innocent and harmless.
