Pursuing Her Best Friend after Confession Failed-Chapter 354 - 157: Return to Modu, Heartbroken and Fasting Zhong Tingyue_4

"Just why?"

"Li Yuan, you damn bastard."

"I hate you. I’ll hate you for the rest of my life."

As she spoke, Zhong Tingyue started to cry again, but no more tears would fall. She had already cried them all out over the last two days. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

At that moment, an elegant and graceful woman approached, holding a bowl of rice porridge. She began to comfort her daughter in a gentle, pained voice.

"Little Moon, you haven’t eaten in two days. Please, have something. I’m begging you."

Zhong Tingyue silently shook her head, her voice already dry and hoarse. "Mom, I don’t want to eat."

Gu Lanxin’s heart ached as she looked at her precious daughter’s thin, haggard appearance. She was incredibly anxious.

"Little Moon, what on earth happened? Can you tell me? You were so happy when you first came back, so how could everything change overnight? You have to eat to stay strong; you can’t just starve yourself. Do you want to worry me to death?"

Zhong Tingyue stared blankly at her anxious mother, her only relative and sole pillar of support in this world. Her mother was a tragic woman, too. Although she was well-fed and well-dressed, living a life of luxury, there were many things she lacked...

"Mom... is there such a thing as true love in this world?"

Gu Lanxin glanced at Zhong Tingyue, finally understanding why her precious daughter had lost her appetite and been crying in secret. She sighed inwardly. It’s always this so-called love that hurts women the most.

Choosing her words carefully, she tried her best to console her daughter. "Little Moon, love is just one of those things that’s impossible to figure out. Sometimes, it brings you the greatest happiness. But other times, it’s like a knife that leaves you utterly heartbroken...

"I think I have a good idea of what you’re going through. In fact, your mom has experienced it, too.

"When I was young, I was also hurt by love—by your father. I loved him so, so much... but then I learned that I wasn’t his only woman. After that, I gave up on myself for a time and completely despaired of love... But in the end, I still chose to return to his side. I became his mistress, with no official status, and I gave birth to you..."

As Gu Lanxin spoke, tears streamed down her face. The past was too painful to look back on; she had never even dared to tell her own parents the truth...

Seeing her mother cry, Zhong Tingyue began to weep as well. She trembled as she threw her arms around her only family in the world, and the two of them sobbed together.

"Little Moon, men are the most unreliable things in this world," Gu Lanxin pleaded through her tears. "I don’t want you to follow my path, to be powerless over your own life, unable to even control your own daughter’s destiny.

"If you still love him in your heart, then go talk to him face-to-face. Get the closure you need to finally give up on him for good.

"But if you don’t love him anymore, I’ll also support you in making a clean break. From now on, you can be strangers and bury this humiliating memory deep inside your heart...

"Little Moon, no matter what you choose, Mom will support you. When you graduate from college, we’ll leave this place. We’ll leave this soulless, inhumane family, find a small town where no one knows us, and live out the rest of our lives in peace..."

Zhong Tingyue cried her heart out, all of her pent-up grievances pouring out between sobs as she unburdened herself.

"Mom... he brought light into my life. I was so happy with him. He was so generous and kind to me. He wrote songs for me, made me laugh, and bought me a car... We were even going to open a milk tea shop together...

"I really thought I would never marry anyone but him. I thought he could take me, and you, Mom, away from this family...

"I pinned all my hopes for the future on him. I gave him everything I had...

"Mom, I just don’t understand... Why did he have to play with my feelings like that?"