Chapter 539 - Theres No Other Way (2/2)

“Mom, it’s a friend of mine from Lin City. She flew all the way here from Lin City to visit me. I can’t possibly cancel my appointment with her, can I?”

Xiang Caiping let Su Peizhen run the two supermarkets that she owned, but hadn’t given her a share of the companies yet.

For that reason, Su Peizhen forced herself to answer Xiang Caiping’s questions.

“Who is that friend of yours?”

“You wouldn’t know who she is even if I told you her name,” Su Peizhen said with a softer tone, as she had noticed the disappointed look on Xiang Caiping’s face.

She patted Xiang Caiping on the shoulder, and said, “I promise you that I’ll be home as soon as possible. You should have an early rest. Don’t wait up for me.”

“But…”

“Bye, mom.” Su Peizhen waved at her and left.

Xiang Caiping stood by the front door of the house. The door was still open, and cold air gushed in, making her shudder.

She closed the door and then walked to the window side. She watched Su Peizhen start the car, and drive off.

After moving to Rong City, she discovered that Su Peizhen really loved going out with her friends.

She went out day and night, as if she didn’t want to stay in the house and spend time with her mother.

She had asked the girl a few times about where she was going. Su Peizhen either refused to answer the question, or mentioned some random names.

If she asked again, Su Peizhen would tell her that it would be pointless giving her the names, as she couldn’t possibly know about those places.

Xiang Caiping couldn’t describe the feeling that she had been having. She was sure about one thing, though. What was happening between Su Peizhen and her was not the mother-daughter relations.h.i.+p that she had imagined, or wanted.

She remembered how nice Su Qingsang had been to her.

Su Qingsang had always come home in a haste after work, to keep her company, and chat with her.

She had taken her shopping and bought her gifts.

Unlike Su Qingsang, Su Peizhen seemed to have become someone else ever since they moved to Rong City.

She was always impatient with her mother, and she was never willing to tell her mother about her personal life.

Previously, Su Peizhen had even lost her temper because a supermarket employee had told Xiang Caiping where Su Peizhen had gone one evening.

She told to Xiang Caiping that she was not her prisoner. She asked her to stop watching her every day because it made her feel pressured.

Xiang Caiping didn’t dare to give her any restrictions after she had said those words.

She was sad, however. She didn’t really want to control her daughter’s life. She was simply worried about her. Why did the girl say those harmful words to her?

When the girl had said that, she tried so hard to explain to her. She almost cried.

Su Peizhen believed her, but never let Xiang Caiping lay a finger on her business again.

Su Peizhen also fired that employee for showing no loyalty to her.

Xiang Caiping clearly knew that all who were currently working in the supermarkets were senior employees, but still, let Su Peizhen did what she wanted to do.

Since then, those employees didn’t dare to talk to her again when she showed up in the supermarkets.

Xiang Caiping couldn’t even ask those employees about how Su Peizhen had been doing at work, and if there were any problems that she couldn’t solve.

Those employees wouldn’t tell her anything about Su Peizhen, because they didn’t want to lose their job.

Xiang Caiping used to work very hard in the past. She worked in the supermarket every day and night. She almost lived there. But Su Peizhen didn’t work like that. She later learned that Su Peizhen was often absent at work, and no one knew where she had been.

She had asked Su Qingsang about that once. However, Su Peizhen grew much short-tempered than before. The harder she tried to explain to her that she was only worried about her, the more Su Peizhen hated to answer her questions.

“I’m an adult. How could I ever get lost in the city?” Su Peizhen asked her.

Xiang Caiping couldn’t think of anything to respond to that.

She was clearly aware that it was hard for her and her daughter to be close to each other because she hadn’t been there watching the girl grow up. Of course, Su Peizhen wouldn’t want to listen to her.

Knowing that was one thing, but accepting it was another.

That was still her daughter after all.

Xiang Caiping looked outside the window. The rain grew heavier and heavier, and she felt more and more frustrated.

She couldn’t help thinking about another reality, where Su Qingsang was her daughter…

She cast that thought out of her mind once it emerged.

She did not allow herself to think about that. Su Peizhen wasn’t the perfect daughter, but she was still her daughter.

Su Peizhen was her real daughter. She hated Li Qianxue so much for stealing her man and then her daughter.

She also hated that woman for turning her daughter into a person like that. That was not Su Peizhen’s fault, actually.

It was all Su Chenghui’s and Li Qianxue’s fault.

Xiang Caiping told herself that she needed to treat Su Peizhen better.

Perhaps, the girl would change over time.

…

Yang Wenchang looked at Huo Jinyao, who was now wearing a sullen look.

It had been ten days since he asked Yang Wenchang to keep Ding Qing under his watch.

Yang Wenchang was patient, and so was Ding Qing.

She did nothing abnormal these days. Not only her behavior but all her phone calls also sounded perfectly normal.

However, something different had happened last night.

Last night, the people who worked for Yang Wenchang had wiretapped Ding Qing’s phone calls like they had been doing all this while.

After spending ten whole days pretending like nothing unusual was happening, Ding Qing finally made contact with that mystery person.