Chapter 175 - The Truth

"What the hell! Dad..", Liu Li hissed in anger standing outside with Liu Chenmin.

The duo were in front of the presidential suite's door in which Zhang Lili was staying.

"Sshh.. keep your voice down!", in his stern voice he reminded her of Zhang Lili's presence inside the suite room.

"Huff! I know..", she rolled her eyes in exasperation, that damned bitch!

"But what is all this? Can you explain..", she voiced out her confusion, she couldn't understand what was happening anymore.

Liu Chenmin laughed, he was feeling triumphant after messing with Zhang Lili's little head, she was as dumb as he thought her to be.

"It's true that she's my daughter..", he told the shocked Liu Li with a matter-of-factly tone, she staggered back.

"How? How.. is that possible?", she asked with an incredulous expression on her face.

"It's not really impossible..", Liu Li looked at him puzzled by his words, was he cheating on mother?

"You're two years younger than her and she..", he tried to explain Liu Li, seeing her dumbfounded.

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The Truth

Years ago Zhang Hongmin was just a nameless businessman, a budding but small fry with no big names attached to his.

Managing a small construction company under him, no matter how, he was desperately finding means to make it big.

Around that time, he accidentally crossed paths with Zhou Weiwei. Weiwei was a true goddess with beauty and brains however she was an orphan.

Working part-time at a convenience store Weiwei was an independent woman, she was a sincere and responsible citizen unlike Zhang Hongmin.

As fate had wanted Zhang Hongmin fell for her outer appearance while she madly fell in love with his pretense, given her gullible and honest character she was deceived into marriage by the sly man.

After a month of their marriage Zhang Hongmin started bringing Weiwei along with him to various parties and gatherings in hopes of making contacts and networking.

Weiwei tagged along with him out of boredom since she had quit working at the convenience store under his pressure.

Being a beautiful and gorgeous woman was both a blessing and curse for Weiwei.

A lot of these lecherous, wild businessmen used to sexually harass the innocent Weiwei, passing crude comments and touching indecently at these so-called high class parties much to her dislike.

Scared and angered by the barbaric actions of those drunk men in the parties she started refusing Zhang Hongmin when he force her participate.

Zhang Hongmin acceded to Weiwei's and left her alone on one such night, much to the disappointment of the lover boys always surrounding her.

Everyone were asking about Weiwei, it wasn't very shocking to Zhang Hongmin that his wife was getting popular, he knew her charm and that's the reason he had married her.

When all the big sharks were questioning him about her, Hongmin became quite agitated that she didn't come with him to curry favor.

That night Hongmin understood Weiwei's worth and importance in his life, his greedy business oriented mind started cooking up plans to exploit his own wife to gain benefits.

After a week or so he drugged Weiwei during their dinner together, under the pretense of alcohol, he spiked her drink with a non-fatal drug.

Unaware, the tipsy Weiwei was happily served on a silver platter by her own husband to a drunk Liu Chenmin, who had absolutely no idea who was in his bed and with whom he was sleeping with.

Liu Chenmin was just as clueless as the innocent Weiwei, only Zhang Hongmin knew what was going on.

The very next day Zhang Hongmin became business partners with Liu Chenmin, the latter had no idea of the woman's identity who had served him previous night until recently.

Zhang Hongmin was very happy, his plan had worked, his company was soaring high with all the new projects and assignments he was getting and Weiwei had no idea about anything. His married life was blissful as ever.

After nearly a month Weiwei told him about her pregnancy, he was over the moon receiving the news and totally forgot about that unfateful night.

Weiwei then gave birth to Zhang Lili, everything was going smooth for Zhang Hongmin as well.

However after Zhang Lili's birth his projects seemed to come across some major problems, although it was all because of his unscrupulous methods the ignorant man started blaming Zhang Lili.

Cursing her, calling her a witch, unlucky scum and whatnot.

When nothing helped, Zhang Hongmin decided to go back to using Weiwei, this time he openly threatened her with Zhang Lili, who was now four years old, as a leverage forcing her to sleep with a business associate.

Threatened and terrified for Zhang Lili's life, Weiwei let herself be taken advantage of, she sold her dignity and committed a great sin.

Zhang Hongmin was quite pleased by his wife, he even gifted her a diamond necklace as a reward for her services.

But Weiwei wasn't interested in him nor his gifts, she turned a blind eye to his attempts of boot-licking and focused on raising Zhang Lili.

No matter how much she tried to forget, she just couldn't help but be reminded of the humiliation she felt that night.

Zhang Hongmin was busy with his growing business, he wasn't there to witness Weiwei's destruction.

She was so troubled by her nightmares that she started feeling revolted by her own body, she felt filthy and uncomfortable in her own skin.

Slowly Weiwei became depressed, then other disorders came in resulting in a deadly cocktail and she succumbed to them in defeat.

Oblivious to her mental condition Zhang Hongmin again presented Weiwei to a rich man, Zhang Lili was probably eight years old that year and still unaware of the cruelties of the world around her.

That day Weiwei ran away from the hotel suite injuring the rich businessman in attempts to avoid history repeat itself and her getting defiled again by a stranger.

On the way to her freedom Zhou Weiwei was hit by a large moving vehicle, she was run over by a car and breathed her last lying in a pool of blood on a busy road surrounded by cars, their drivers and pedestrians.

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"My goodness! That's.. unbelievable!", a stunned Liu Li sputtered, holding the cup of frappuccino placed on the table in front of her.

"Well, yeah..", Liu Chenmin nodded as he sipped on his Americano, he was baffled when he started digging about Zhou Weiwei.

"Is that why you forced me to befriend her then, Dad?", she inquired feeling irritated by the revelation.

"What? No! I wish I would've known earlier..", he refused with a distressed face, his lips curving downwards.

"So, you weren't married that time right?", she asked somewhat sceptical, her dad wouldn't cheat on mom right?

"Heh..", he laughed at her question, nodding his head Liu Chenmin admitted that he did not betray Liu Li's dead mom.

"If that's how it is.. then, I don't mind!", she shrugged casually sipping her iced frappuccino.

"So be good and treat her well..", he advised her in a serious manner.

"But why dad?", she couldn't understand why he wanted to acknowledge his long lost illegitimate daughter all of a sudden.

Zhang Lili, who was now reduced to a pathetic condition less than a mad dog with rabies on the streets.

"I'll tell you later.. Go check on her and bring her back to the mansion!", he stood up and walked out of the establishment getting Liu Li all curious.

"What a pain..", she rolled her eyes before throwing the half full cup of frappuccino in the bin nearby and sauntering towards the elevator.