The Useless Heiress Is Actually A Bigshot-Chapter 271 - Indulgent Mothers Often Spoil Their
Chapter 271: Chapter 271: Indulgent Mothers Often Spoil Their Children
Chapter 271 -271: Indulgent Mothers Often Spoil Their Children
“Lady Zhong, Ling Chao had just been unlucky to encounter a ghost,” Mrs. Ling’s face was clearly displeased. “He’s just a child, playful at times. We don’t know what unclean place he stumbled upon to attract such a thing. We are here today to ask for your help to catch the ghost,” not to question us.
The last sentence, Mrs. Ling did not speak out loud, but her facial expression said it all.
“Then I’ll just tell you,” Zhong Niangyao coldly began, “I cannot help.”
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“You—”
Seeing Zhong Niangyao’s demeanor, Mrs. Ling was so infuriated she almost wanted to slam the table. But under Father Ling’s cautioning gaze, her fierce vibe weakened.
“Lady Zhong, my wife is just too worried about Ling Chao, hence the rash words,” Father Ling started with an apologetic tone. “If we have offended you, please forgive us. We are really here sincerely asking you to save Ling Chao. He’s currently haunted by a female ghost who wants his life. We truly have no other options, which is why we recklessly asked Chu Xu to arrange for a meeting with you.”
“Lady Zhong, perhaps Ling Chao really does have some flaws in character, but he does not deserve to die!” Chu Xu also spoke up for Ling Chao, “These past few days, he’s been constantly harassed by that female ghost. If this continues, he really might lose his life.”
Although Chu Xu had some complaints about Ling Chao from the previous pen spirit incident and had even thought of keeping his distance from him in the future—for Chu Xu had seen Ling Chao’s selfishness firsthand and felt he was not worth befriending deeply.
Yet, Ling Chao was an old friend, and now his life was at risk, Chu Xu found it impossible to remain indifferent.
Thus, he had helped to arrange this meeting with Zhong Niangyao today. He just hadn’t expected that Zhong Niangyao would outright refuse the deal.
“Doesn’t deserve to die?” Zhong Niangyao’s expression turned somewhat mocking, her gaze fell on Ling Chao and with a cold laugh, she said, “Perhaps you should ask him if he feels he doesn’t deserve to die!”
Upon this remark, everyone’s eyes turned to Ling Chao.
Chu Xu’s expression became strange. He clearly remembered how Zhong Niangyao had repeatedly refused, which clearly wasn’t a sign of modesty but genuine reluctance to intervene. But why? They had called upon the pen spirit before and it was complicated, yet Zhong Niangyao hadn’t refused. Now, without even fully understanding the situation, she had directly declined. Could there be another reason?
Could it be that Ling Chao really had something to hide this time?
Thinking this, Chu Xu’s look towards Ling Chao became weird.
“Lady Zhong, what do you mean by this?” Father Ling also sensed something amiss. “The female ghost, she didn’t attach to Ling Chao by accident, did she?”
“Husband, what are you saying?” Mrs. Ling became anxious, “Could it be that you think our son deliberately attracted that female ghost?”
“Shut your mouth,” Father Ling looked at Mrs. Ling sternly. “If you interrupt again, then leave now.”
Being able to control a major company, he wasn’t a nobody. From the beginning to now, Zhong Niangyao’s attitude had been too strange.
He could see, from the moment they met, Zhong Niangyao had already shown resistance. He even felt that before they had spoken, Zhong Niangyao already knew what they were going to ask.
Clearly, this matter wasn’t as simple as just their son inadvertently encountering a ghost.
“Why don’t you ask your son what he did to have the female ghost haunt him,” Zhong Niangyao looked at Ling Chao, her clear eyes appearing to see through everything. “The female ghost’s intention is clear, she wants revenge.”
“Revenge?” Chu Xu exclaimed in shock, then blurted out, “Was it Ling Chao who caused her death? Otherwise, why would she seek revenge on him?”
It was simple logic, but it struck the core issue directly.
“What exactly did you do?” Father Ling’s piercing gaze turned towards Ling Chao. “Tell the truth now.”
He could never have imagined his own son would cause a girl’s death. And now, that girl had become a ghost to seek vengeance.
“Dad, I really didn’t do anything,” Ling Chao’s eyes flickered, continuing to proclaim his innocence. “I don’t even know that female ghost, she inexplicably haunted me. I’m truly innocent.”
During his plea, Ling Chao looked pitifully towards Mrs. Ling. “Mom, do you believe me? I really haven’t killed anyone.”
“Of course, I believe you.”
Seeing how Ling Chao was, Mrs. Ling genuinely felt pained. She turned her head, looking at Zhong Niangyao, “Lady Zhong, your heart is hard, unwilling to extend a helping hand, we can’t say anything. But you also can’t wrong my son! Even if he’s hoping to be stubborn, he’s definitely not a malicious person. How could he kill someone?”
“Indeed, a doting mother leads to a spoiled child,” Zhong Niangyao coldly spoke. “It’s because of your unprincipled indulgence that Ling Chao acts so recklessly. Moreover, to be precise, the girl wasn’t exactly killed by him—”
Upon hearing this, Father Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and Mrs. Ling’s face brightened. However, Zhong Niangyao’s follow-up words plunged them directly into hell.
“It should count as him having murdered her by hand! A living life was snuffed out under his scheming. Now that she has come seeking vengeance, it can be considered poetic justice.”
Father Ling and Mrs. Ling couldn’t believe their ears; they looked at Ling Chao in shock.
Ling Chao instinctively retorted, “No, you are lying, I didn’t do anything. I—”
“You surely aren’t going to tell me you don’t even know Zhang Jing, are you?”
Zhong Niangyao’s lips curled into a sarcastic smile, she looked at Father Ling and Mrs. Ling and then pointed at Ling Chao, continuing, “Do you understand your son? Just because Zhang Jing claimed she was pregnant with his child, he tricked her into going to Myanmar and then hired someone to stage a burglary gone wrong, resulting in that girl called Zhang Jing being brutally killed.”
“After that, he left Myanmar without any sense of guilt, even refusing to help bring back the girl’s body. With such a person, do you still think he is innocent? Do you still dare to say his sins aren’t deserving of death?”
