Mrs. Tang was filled with regret and hatred.
If she had known it would come to this, why did she have to do what she did?
All the affection Mrs. Tang once had for Qin Shanshan had now turned into an equal amount of hatred.
Mrs. Tang threw a fit, threatening to kill herself and then to kill Qin Shanshan. Tang Yuanxiao patiently tried to talk her down, but she wouldn't listen at all.
Tang Yuanxiao, who had little patience to begin with, finally ran out of it completely.
"Isn't this the outcome you wanted?" Tang Yuanxiao interrupted his mother's tantrum, pressing his fingers to his temples.
He turned to look at his mother. "Mom, didn't you think about the consequences before you did all this?"
In contrast to his mother, Tang Yuanxiao was calm—terrifyingly so.
'There were no ripples in his heart.' After everything that had happened, time and again, he had been able to guess the outcome. Now that the dust had settled, he didn't find it so hard to accept.
