Xu Tingyu was dressed in a lazy-style gray tracksuit.
She usually wore dresses more often, so the sudden switch to a tracksuit made her look simple, casual, and stylish.
However, with her half-smile expression, she didn't look like someone coming to visit a patient, but rather like someone coming for a fight.
The moment Zhang Qiu saw her, her expression froze for a moment, but she quickly hung up the phone and looked over nonchalantly.
"Why are you here? You come empty-handed and still talk so harshly."
She glanced at Xu Tingyu, who had nothing in her hands, and let out a disdainful snort from her nose.
In fact, she was quite aware of why Xu Tingyu had come, but she had the nerve to act as if nothing had happened.
She even had the audacity to make demands of Xu Tingyu and blame her for not bringing anything when coming to visit.
Xu Tingyu didn't bother listening to her nonsense. She walked straight in and plopped down on the sofa casually.
"What? You're already scheming for my family fortune, and you still care about these little things?"
She had thought Zhang Qiu cared about her, but instead, she heard such "wonderful" things as soon as she arrived.
There was pain in her heart, but on the surface, she remained calm.
Zhang Qiu knew that Xu Tingyu was aware of everything, so she stopped beating around the bush.
"What do you mean by scheming for your family fortune? You're my daughter. I've raised you for so many years. Now it's your turn to repay me. Isn't that right?"
"Moreover, I'm doing this for your own good. You're getting involved with Qi Shifeng again. Do you think you can outsmart him?"
"If you're not willing to let me manage your money, do you want to give it to the Qi family for free? Have you forgotten how the Qi family treated us back then?"
Zhang Qiu looked at Xu Tingyu and angrily got out of bed.
"You lock me up in this cramped room, while you live in a big villa, drive a luxury car, and enjoy the admiration of many people."
"If your father knew how you treated me, he'd probably regret putting so much effort into raising you."
The more she talked, the more excited she became. Her outstretched finger almost poked Xu Tingyu's face.
Xu Tingyu still looked at her calmly, but there was a hint of pain welling up in the depths of her eyes.
"Have I not been good to you? You're staying in the VIP ward of the top nursing home in Kyoto, with someone taking care of you around the clock.
"You're not restricted here. You can go out shopping freely, have meals and chats with friends.
"I give you 50,000 yuan as pocket money every month, and you spend it all. Have I ever asked you a single question?
"Even when my company was still in its startup phase and I couldn't pay my employees' salaries, and I was even sick and hospitalized.
"You called me for money. I said I'd delay it for a couple of days, but you wouldn't even agree. I even borrowed money to transfer 100,000 yuan to you.
"But after you received the money, you didn't even bother to ask me one more question. At that time, I was thinking, am I not your child? Why are you treating me like this?"
Xu Tingyu rarely argued with Zhang Qiu about these things.
At least, she had never asked her face-to-face.
She always thought that Zhang Qiu wasn't bad to her, just not as good as she was to Xu Jia.
But Zhang Qiu still loved her.
However, as she got older and experienced so many things over the years, she realized that wasn't the case.
Zhang Qiu simply didn't love her.
Even, if Xu Jia had been born first, she might not have been born at all.
Her love was conditional and could be taken back at any time.
Just like now, after hearing Xu Tingyu's accusations, Zhang Qiu only sneered at her coldly.
"Do you think you've been generous to me? I raised you, sent you to school, and trained you in dance. Without me, would you have what you have today?"
"How much money have you spent on me, and you're already starting to keep accounts with me? You're such an ungrateful person. You deserve to be played with."
Xu Tingyu's hand at her side unconsciously clenched into a fist at some point.
"You're my mother. Everyone else can say such things about me, but you can't. How could you use my scars to attack me?"
She thought she was strong enough not to be easily hurt anymore.
But at this moment, she realized that wasn't true.
The hurt from a loved one was a hundred times more powerful than that from an enemy.
Zhang Qiu turned a blind eye to her breakdown and even continued to mock her.
"Why can't I? Because you're just stupid. You can't capture a man's heart, you don't know how to be filial to your parents, and you don't even know how to raise your own child.
"Also, do you think I'm partial to Jia Jia? Well, I'll tell you clearly. I am indeed partial to him. But do you know why?
"Because he's sensible and obedient. He's the son I want. But what about you? You can't do anything right. You can't even be a good wife.
"If you were a bit more useful, the Xu family wouldn't have ended up like that. I'm not afraid to tell you that in the end, your father also hated you.
"You don't know this, but actually, before your father passed away, he told me that he would take me and Jia Jia abroad and leave all the debts to you.
"Hehe, it's just that those debt collectors were so ruthless that they left him with no choice, which is why he ended up like that."
Zhang Qiu was probably too stimulated by Xu Tingyu, so her words became even more radical.
Xu Tingyu had heard too many belittling words from her.
Since she was a child, she had never been the perfect daughter Zhang Qiu wanted.
She would make mistakes and be naughty. She wasn't an obedient puppet, so Zhang Qiu always said she was unreasonable and disobedient.
In the past, Xu Tingyu would engage in self - reflection and doubt if she was really disobedient.
But she wasn't a child anymore.
Although she was sad, she would ask on the spot, "What exactly did I do wrong to you guys? Why are you treating me like this? Didn't I leave You You because of you?"
Moreover, in the video left by Xu Jianmin back then, he didn't say things like that.
She wanted to see what else Zhang Qiu could say that she didn't know.
Seeing that she still refused to give up, Zhang Qiu became even more complacent.
"The fact that you didn't help the Xu family through the Qi family is the biggest thing you did wrong to us.
"We spent so much money on raising you and making you a good person. It was all so that you could marry into a good family and help the family.
"Otherwise, why would we have bothered to help you get involved with the Qi family? And why would we have chased after Qi Shifeng when he ran away from the wedding?"
"However, you should be lucky that Xie Zhen took the bullet for Qi Shifeng. Otherwise, you would have killed your husband before even entering the door.
"In that case, you would have been even more worthless. Of course, even if you successfully married into the Qi family, you were still worthless. After being Mrs. Qi for three years, you got nothing.
"I should have just decided to marry you to Shen Yan back then. Oh well, it's just a pity that the Shen family wasn't as powerful as the Qi family at that time and they even moved abroad.
"Tsk tsk, but you did wake up in time. After the divorce, you knew how to find a backer for yourself. Shen Yan must have provided you with a lot of help, right?"
"Hehe, if you had been this smart back then, how could you have fallen so hard for Qi Shifeng?"
Zhang Qiu looked at Xu Tingyu, her gaze as if sizing up a commodity.