Chapter 946 Father and Daughter Fall Out, Li Yuan Heads to Beijing

Hearing Zhong Tingyue so blatantly talking back to him, Zhong Zhengping’s face grew even darker. The anger that had long been building inside him could no longer be suppressed, and he turned a cold gaze on Zhong Tingyue.

“What did you say?”

“I said, my home is in Modu!” Zhong Tingyue refused to back down.

Zhong Zhengping’s expression became even more sullen. “Modu? If you’ve got the guts, say that again.”

Zhong Tingyue answered, enunciating each word: “My home. Is in Modu!”

Zhong Zhengping suddenly slammed the table and bellowed, “Good! Good! Good, you little brat, you’re really turning the heavens upside down!”

Facing Zhong Zhengping’s furious glare, Zhong Tingyue’s body shook violently. She jumped in fright, and the shadow of her childhood resurfaced in her mind.

Her biological father, whenever he faced her, was so often stern and severe. She had never felt the slightest thing that could be called fatherly love.

She couldn’t understand in her heart: she was clearly very hardworking, very obedient, very well-behaved, and she did well in school—so why couldn’t she earn the love of her own father?

Seeing Zhong Tingyue’s body suddenly tremble, clearly frightened, Li Yuan quietly wrapped her small hand in his palm, gently patting it to signal that she had him.

He turned his gaze, unhurried, toward the enraged Zhong Zhengping and spoke, his tone layered with meaning:

“Heh, Uncle.”

“Little Moon wasn’t wrong. Our home really is in Modu; we’re already settled there. Uncle, you can’t possibly not know that, right?”

Hearing Li Yuan butt in, Zhong Zhengping frowned and stopped being polite.

“Little Li, this is between me and my daughter. It has nothing to do with you.”

Li Yuan laughed. “How could it have nothing to do with me? I’m her boyfriend. Of course I have to protect her so she doesn’t get bullied by anyone.”

Zhong Zhengping’s eyebrows shot up. “Are you saying I’d bully my own daughter?”

Li Yuan just shrugged, neither confirming nor denying, and spoke with pointed meaning:

“Uncle, those are your own words, not mine.”

“Besides, don’t you have even a shred of self-awareness about the kind of ‘good deeds’ you’ve done?”

“You—” Zhong Zhengping was about to say more when Zhong Tingyue’s voice suddenly cut him off.

“Mr. Zhong, we’re here today for a business negotiation. Let’s get back to the original topic.”

When Zhong Zhengping heard Zhong Tingyue address him as “Mr. Zhong,” his fury flipped into a cold, mocking smile. He pointed a finger at her nose and cursed:

“What, you’re all capable now? Think you’ve got backing, so you don’t even acknowledge your biological father anymore?”

“Let me tell you, as long as I’m alive for one more day, I’m your dad, and you have to listen to me. That will never change.”

Zhong Tingyue couldn’t hold back any longer. The grievances she’d buried in her heart for years erupted in that moment as she faced her biological father.

“You’re my dad? You think you’re qualified to be my dad?”

“From childhood till now, have you fulfilled even the tiniest bit of a father’s responsibility?”

“In this world, what kind of father schemes against his own daughter like that, trying to push her into a pit of fire?”

“Ha, you probably think that the things you’ve said, the plans you’ve made—no one knows about them, right?”

“Ha, you think you deserve to be a father?”

“You dare call yourself my father?”

“Based on what?”

With utter contempt in her eyes, Zhong Tingyue looked at the man in front of her. The anger and bitterness she’d suppressed in her heart for so many years were completely unleashed at this instant.

She stared straight at this beast in human clothing, wondering what face he had to claim he was her father.

What kind of father wants to cultivate his own biological daughter into a commodity to be used for profit?

Could a father like that still be called a father?

Even a vicious tiger doesn’t eat its cubs!

Faced with Zhong Tingyue’s sudden outburst and hysterical, furious questioning, Zhong Zhengping was stunned at first, then his expression turned dark as ink, his face livid, veins bulging as he clenched his fists in rage…

He had never imagined that the biological daughter who had always been respectful and deeply afraid of him from childhood would publicly refute him in front of outsiders like this.

The furious look in her eyes as she stared at him was definitely not for no reason.

“Could it be… she knows everything?”

A jolt shot through Zhong Zhengping’s heart, and he looked at Zhong Tingyue with a trace of disbelief.

The clever, beautiful, sensible girl before him was indeed his biological daughter, but he didn’t care much, because he had far too many children.

The women he kept outside weren’t just Gu Lanxin; there were several others. A few of them were about the same age as Zhong Tingyue now and could all be his daughters…

And there was another thing: when Gu Lanxin was pregnant back then, he’d wanted her to abort the child. Gu Lanxin simply refused—she’d already had multiple abortions for him; if she had another, she’d never be able to conceive again in this lifetime and would lose the chance to be a mother…

Because of this, Gu Lanxin had thrown a huge fit, making a scene, threatening life and death, which made him develop a visceral disgust for the unborn Zhong Tingyue…

Zhong Zhengping frowned as he looked at the furious Zhong Tingyue and let out a cold, mocking laugh.

“Just because I’m your dad.”

“Just because from childhood till now, you’ve eaten my food, lived in my home, worn my clothes, used my money.”

“Just because your surname is Zhong, and your name is Zhong Tingyue. Is that enough?”

Zhong Tingyue was so angry she laughed, her whole body trembling, hatred burning in her eyes as she locked them on the shameless man in front of her.

“Fine, you say that from childhood till now I’ve eaten your food, used your things, worn your clothes. I’ll pay you back every cent you ever spent on me.”

“Ha, you don’t know, do you? I remember it all. Every amount you gave me and my mom, from childhood till now, I’ve kept track. The total is 1,445,800 yuan.”