Tang Xiaomin cleared her throat and, in a mocking tone, addressed Tang Xu, Tang Yiyi, and everyone present.
"Tang Yiyi is the illegitimate daughter of Li Xue and Tang Zhongcheng," she said clearly.
"Tang Xu, Tang Yiyi is your biological sister. Now, do you still want to be with her?"
!!!
...
The air was deathly quiet.
Everyone exchanged glances, looking at Tang Yiyi, then at Li Xue, and finally at Tang Zhongcheng.
Tang Zhongcheng's face was ashen, his heart filled with despair.
Even Tang Yiyi stopped crying, staring at Tang Zhongcheng and then at Li Xue in shock, her eyes full of disbelief.
Aunt Xue had always doted on her.
Could it be...
Was she really the Tang family's illegitimate daughter?
Then she...
Tang Yi forgot to cry, unable to accept the sudden, successive blows.
She looked at Tang Zhongcheng with a questioning gaze.
The most shocked person was Zhang Meiyu.
She staggered, her face pale, and questioned Tang Zhongcheng.
"Tang Zhongcheng, is Tang Yiyi your illegitimate daughter? Tell me!"
Tang Zhongcheng looked as if he were already dead.
Zhang Meiyu stepped forward, grabbed Tang Zhongcheng's collar, and roared furiously, "Is Tang Yiyi your illegitimate daughter? Speak!"
...
The atmosphere was unprecedentedly heavy.
Everyone was waiting for Tang Zhongcheng's answer.
Tang Xu's face was also pale, so shocked that he couldn't utter a single word.
Finally, Tang Zhongcheng nodded with a pained expression.
BOOM!!!
It was like a bolt from the blue, striking everyone on the head.
Tang Yiyi couldn't accept the outcome. Her face was pale, and she muttered, "Impossible! This is impossible! Absolutely impossible! You're lying to me!"
"You're all liars! Liars!"
Tang Yiyi covered her ears and shouted loudly, "You're all liars."
Clearly, she was severely stimulated and exhibiting signs of mental instability.
Then, Tang Yiyi turned and ran out of the hotel.
"Yiyi... Yiyi..."
Aunt Xue, seeing this, also ran after Tang Yiyi.
...
Zhang Meiyu let go of Tang Zhongcheng and burst into laughter.
"Haha... Hahahaha..."
"Tang Zhongcheng, you liar! You deceived me so cruelly!"
"This is your retribution for deceiving and betraying me."
"This is retribution! Hahaha..."
As Zhang Meiyu laughed, she suddenly burst into tears.
She was clearly at her breaking point.
Tang Xiaomin said to Butler Wang, "Quickly take Madam home."
"Yes!"
Butler Wang, seeing the dire situation, didn't hesitate. He pulled Zhang Meiyu away from the hotel and back to the Tang residence.
At this moment in the hotel, Tang Yu, Tang Ye, and Tang Yan had particularly interesting expressions.
However, the most interesting of all was Tang Xu.
Tang Zhongcheng had admitted that Tang Yiyi was his illegitimate daughter.
Then Tang Xu's supposed deep love, and what had happened last night...
Tang Xu's legs went weak, and he collapsed onto the floor.
Tang Xiaomin, not forgetting to add insult to injury, leaned in and whispered to him, "Tang Xu, how was last night?"
Tang Xu was a medical student and feared no gruesome or bloody scenes.
But now, what had happened between him and Tang Yiyi was something he couldn't bear, no matter how strong his inner fortitude.
Tang Xu's face turned extremely grim.
He looked up at Tang Xiaomin, his gaze lacking its usual confidence.
"You knew all along, but you deliberately hid it, didn't you?"
Hearing this, Tang Xiaomin couldn't help but laugh again.
"Heh."
Then, she cast a meaningful glance at Tang Zhongcheng.
"Originally, Tang Yu had secretly done a paternity test with Tang Yiyi."
"But someone didn't want Tang Yiyi's identity to be exposed, so they tampered with it. Who do you think is most afraid of Tang Yiyi's identity being exposed?"
Anyone with a brain knew the answer was Tang Zhongcheng.
He had cheated, and raised his mistress and illegitimate daughter in his own home.
Only he, with a guilty conscience, dared not let anyone know about this.
Tang Xu glared venomously at Tang Zhongcheng, speechless, and finally couldn't bear it any longer, rushing to the restroom to vomit violently.
After Tang Zhongcheng recovered.
Tang Yu, Tang Ye, and Tang Yan ignored him.
They each left the hotel.
Tang Xiaomin looked at Tang Zhongcheng with a helpless shake of her head.
"Tang Zhongcheng, I have a question for you."
"When you agreed to Zhang Meiyu abandoning me, was it because you were planning to bring Tang Yiyi into the Tang family?"
Tang Zhongcheng was so devastated at this point that he couldn't even muster the strength to speak.
She knew that Tang Xiaomin had always resented being abandoned.
Now that Tang Yiyi's identity was also exposed, her thoughts were understandable.
But some things, if they didn't happen, they didn't happen.
"I never thought that way. The reason I sent you away was because a fortune teller said your eight characters were unlucky. Whether you believe it or not, it was truly just like that."
Tang Xiaomin couldn't tell if Tang Zhongcheng was telling the truth or not.
Thinking back to Tang Yiyi, an illegitimate daughter, who had lived in the Tang family for so many years.
Tang Yiyi was young then, she couldn't have planned anything for herself.
But then there was the scheming Aunt Xue.
Could there be something else that even Tang Zhongcheng didn't know about?
Tang Xiaomin no longer paid attention to Tang Zhongcheng and also left the hotel.
At the Tang residence, Zhang Meiyu was so angry from Tang Xu and Tang Yiyi's actions that she couldn't eat or sleep.
What made her even more devastated was that she had been raising the daughter of her husband's mistress for nearly twenty years.
And her own daughter had been treated so poorly by her.
Under the immense blow, Zhang Meiyu fell ill again and was admitted to the hospital.
To prevent Tang Yan from delaying his studies, Zhang Meiyu forced herself to hold on, looking much better, and insisted that Tang Yan go abroad for school.
Tang Yu had to work.
Tang Xu was nowhere to be seen.
In the hospital, only Tang Xiaomin and Tang Ye were present.
Zhang Meiyu repeatedly called Tang Xu. No matter what shameful things he had done, he was still her son.
Zhang Meiyu was afraid that Tang Xu might do something foolish, but she couldn't find him.
"Tang Ye, go find Tang Xu and tell him to come home."
Tang Ye gave his mother a complicated look and said, "Why do you still want to find someone like that? I won't go look for him. Let him go wherever he wants."
"He is your brother, how can you say such a thing?"
"I don't have a brother like him, who is so disgusting. I will not go look for him."
Tang Ye was resolute and didn't care about Tang Xu's fate.
Zhang Meiyu knew he was stubborn and couldn't be persuaded, so she turned her attention to Tang Xiaomin.
"Xiaomin, go find Tang Xu. No matter what, he is still your brother."
Tang Xiaomin rolled her eyes at Zhang Meiyu.
"I don't have a brother like her. It's too embarrassing to say."
"Xiaomin, I'm sorry for what I did to you. I don't expect you to forgive me anymore."
"I'm really worried about Tang Xu now. What if he does something foolish? Please, Mom is begging you, go find him for me."