Chapter 464 - Tang Lixue’s Pride (1)
This shouldn't be happening to her! No, not like this! Zhang Wuying internally screamed as her housekeeper packed the remaining things she owned in her room. It had been almost three decades since she stepped into this estate and married Tang Lixue, but he had never given her Zhang family any chance to use the wealth of the Tang family to their advantage.
Just where did she go wrong? Was it because she let that woman's daughter enter the Tang family?
Zhang Wuying was initially skeptical if her brother's plan would work, but since he managed to get rid of Yan Qiuyu and Tang Lixue's son, she thought that it would be easier for them to influence the Tang family. But all of that changed when her husband brought home his daughter with Yan Qiuyu, Tang Moyu.
Tang Moyu… ever since the girl came into Zhang Wuying's life, she had been a constant reminder of what she'd lost and could never have. She was like a thorn in her flesh that she couldn't get rid of no matter how much she tried.
Tang Lixue hated her, but she wouldn't have expected it, right? Even though they had been betrothed since childhood, Zhang Wuying had done her best to become an ideal wife for him. Was this truly the end of her as Madam Tang?
Tang Moyu had successfully taken everything from her, with her traitorous husband's help. The Tang Enterprise's stocks had crashed in under two weeks since Tang Moyu left the company. It was impossible for them to appease the demands of their investors that had pulled out their support and chosen to listen to the OIC of the company.
Even if they hired a third party manager to save Tang Enterprise, the damage the empress left for them to clean up was so severe that everyone expected them to close the company sooner or later. What was surprising was, Feng Tianhua left as soon as he sensed trouble upon Tang Moyu's departure.
What's more, even though the price of the stocks were really low, no one was purchasing it. This would be a perfect time for others to take over the family business, but no one had stepped forward to make any move.
Unknown to her and to the whole Tang family, Feng Tianyi had used his underhanded tricks to block any sales of stocks with regard to Tang Enterprise.
Zhang Wuying gritted her teeth and clench her fists tightly. Even if Tang Lixue and Yan Qiuyu were already dead, they were still able to make her life miserable through their daughter, Tang Moyu.
"Madam, everything is packed and loaded in the moving truck. We're ready to leave anytime you wish." She heard the housekeeper say.
Finally, it was time for her to leave the Tang Estate. Zhang Wuying decided to remain silent and left the room she'd been staying in for years, since her arrival. She never expected that her husband's bastard would be the one to push her to the edge.
She turned and opened the door of the room at the end of the hallway, far from the stairway. When Tang Lixue was alive, if he was at home and not overworking at the company, the most common place he would be found in was this study.
Usually this room was kept locked and no one was allowed to step inside since Tang Lixue's death. Only Elder Tang had access to this room, but even he hadn't bothered to stay in it because of several reasons he wouldn't disclose……
However, today, he unlocked the door of the study to allow the maids to do the monthly cleaning inside, forbidding them to touch or to change the position of anything inside the room. Zhang Wuying looked around. From the furniture to the decor, everything had been set up according to her husband's taste.
She couldn't remember when her husband commissioned it, but in the portrait was her husband, Tang Lixue, sitting in an authoritative position, with young Tang Moyu, probably around the age of five, was sitting on his l.a.p, an arm wrapped around her small form to steady her.
Tang Lixue had never given her face when he was still alive. He was willing to leave her and break their engagement for another woman in haste, and even had children with her. But what about her? What about the wasted years spent on perfecting herself to become a worthy wife?
Even the semblance of being husband and wife had been forsaken by him. He had constantly turned his back at her with disgust.
"I have done everything for you, Tang Lixue! How could you do this to me?!"
The memories of their arguments still resounded in her mind, especially during her sleepless nights.
"You did them for me?" Tang Lixue sneered at her, "Didn't you do all of it for your sake? It was all about you! You disgust me!"
You disgust me…
Compared to her, you are nothing……
Zhang Wuying lowered her head, half of her face was covered by darkness as the only light source in the room was behind her. It had been years, but Tang Lixue's sharp words were still able to pain her.
To see the man you love fall for another, did they really think she wasn't hurt by him?
Although Tang Lixue had made it clear that he could never love her, she still refused to stop sticking to him, thinking that as long as she doesn't give up, he would eventually be moved by her affections.
"Madam?" The butler that Tang Moyu sent to oversee the estate broke her from her reverie.
Zhang Wuying scoffed and gave the portrait a last look before turning to leave.
"This isn't the end, Tang Moyu." She muttered with unconcealed hatred in her eyes.