Deliberately Approaching
Chapter 234 The Truth is Cruel

Chapter 234: Chapter 234 The Truth is Cruel

Tang Mei didn’t immediately answer, but instead stood up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window to quietly watch the night.

"Zhao Renjie should have arrived in Blue City by now."

Leng Lingxiao: "?"

Just now, when Tang Mei mentioned that the person who harmed Tang Xiaowan’s mother was serving a sentence in Jin City Prison, Leng Lingxiao became restless as if countless sharp swords were stabbing into his heart simultaneously.

It was too much of a coincidence, Song Dapeng was detained there.

It wasn’t an ordinary prison; it held serious offenders, either serving life sentences, on death row, or at the least fifteen years.

Li Zishen, Su Luoyi, Song Dapeng, Tangtang’s mother...

As he pieced together the events of this period, he developed a very bad premonition, or rather, an extremely crazy idea, but he needed to wait for Zhao Renjie to return before he could conclude.

"How, are you surprised?" Tang Mei turned around and looked at Leng Lingxiao, who was tightly clutching a lighter.

"Yes, I am a bit, but I also believe, for you, getting any piece of information... isn’t difficult."

Tang Mei: "?"

"You kept your promise not to investigate that person, I’m truly grateful from the bottom of my heart."

"A gentleman’s word is as good as his bond."

"I know, you must be very confused, wondering why I won’t let you investigate? He repeatedly... used my safety to threaten you, and now he has begun to harass Tangtang, yet I still don’t let you investigate."

Leng Lingxiao’s eyes lowered, and his mouth moved slightly, "If you don’t want to say, naturally you have your reasons."

"Since Song Dapeng’s case was intentionally left unchecked for you, finding out the truth was inevitable. Indeed, he has been using Tangtang to target the Leng Family, and Tangtang’s mother is also the deceased wife often mentioned by Li Zhenshan."

"Yi Xiaodan? Yi Xiaodan is..."

Tang Mei’s eyes reddened as she nodded.

"Tangtang is only just 20 this year, yet Yi Xiaodan died 25 years ago. I thought of this relationship earlier, especially when you mentioned Jin City Prison, but I couldn’t figure out the five-year gap. Unless she’s still alive."

"Yes, Yi Xiaodan didn’t die back then, later she even remarried. But don’t ask me for details, and definitely don’t tell Tangtang."

"Why can’t I tell her?"

"You think... it’s really like what you found out, that Yi Xiaodan was accidentally pushed while Song Dapeng was stealing the sapphire ring?"

"Could it be not?"

Tang Mei shook her head, "The truth is... Yi Xiaodan was raped by Song Dapeng that day, and yet a few months later... her friend Yuan Min moved into the Leng Family home and was pregnant with Li Zhenshan’s child. Tangtang knew all this, she hates Song Dapeng, and even more so hates Yuan Min, Li Zishen’s mother."

"I see, Yi Xiaodan...Tangtang..." Leng Lingxiao hesitated, then after pausing for a few seconds, continued, "Could it be Li Zhenshan never knew... that Yi Xiaodan was still alive? I heard they nearly drained the Jinyuan River, spending a fortune on the recovery effort."

"Yes, he never knew until he died."

Leng Lingxiao clenched his fists in anger.

Yuan Min! It must have been her who framed to marry into the Leng Family, how malicious!

No wonder she’s always praying and reciting Buddhist texts, trying to atone?

Back then, Li Zhenshan chose to hold court in secret, mostly due to considerations for the Leng Family’s reputation, and also... not wanting Yi Xiaodan to be disparaged after her death.

Thinking this, Leng Lingxiao suddenly stood up.

"That synthesized voice is Tangtang’s biological father, isn’t it? No wonder he targets the Leng Family everywhere... causing so much trouble, for revenge."

Tang Mei didn’t speak, just sighed softly.

"The person who tricked me into going to Country Y was also him, right?" Leng Lingxiao continued to press.

"Yes, on that day in mid-August... who invaded Mei Garden at night, who poisoned and pursued Tangtang, it was all preemptively orchestrated by him, so even if you hadn’t asked Cheng Shi to inform Li Zishen that day, someone else would have."

"To rush to Mei Garden, Li Zishen dropped a project worth ten billion, quite a loss."

"He wanted to ruin Yuan Min’s son, Li Zishen, make him lose everything. In his obsession to target the Leng Family, he’s completely lost his sanity. Thus for Tangtang, losing her memory is actually the best option, it spares her some pain."

"Rest assured, I won’t let her know."

"Alright, it’s getting very late, you should rest soon, I should head back too."

With that, Tang Mei left directly.

Although Leng Lingxiao still had many doubts in his heart, feeling something was amiss, he also understood, if Grandma Tang wanted to tell, she would naturally do so.

Leaving now, she must have her unspeakable reasons; why impose hardship on her?

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