Chapter 717   - Dead End (2)

"Mommy, are you tired? Do you want to take a nap with me?" Xiao Bao tugged his mother's sleeve to get her attention. He noticed that she was unusually silent these days and had rarely talked to him and Little Star.

Little Star overheard their conversation and slipped from her Auntie Mei's l.a.p. She stood next to Tang Moyu, blinking her eyes in confusion.

"Does it still hurt, Mommy? Should I ask Auntie Lu for your medicine?" She asked her mother worriedly.

Tang Moyu let a smile spread on her lips and brushed her daughter's wavy hair away from her cute little face.

"No, I'm alright. It doesn't hurt that much anymore." She responded, aware that her twins had been scared and worried since her accident.

Feng Tianyi hadn't told them about the accident and Tang Beixuan's death until she woke up on her hospital bed. The fear that shot through them was enough for the twins to burst into tears, wailing for their mother. Since Tang Moyu returned home, Xiao Bao and Little Star started to become really clingy with her, not wanting her to leave on her own again.

"But Mommy…" Little Star wanted to say that Tang Moyu didn't look okay at all.

"It's okay, darling." Li Meili chimed in and winked at Little Star. "Your mommy is just a little tired today, but she will be fine soon. Now, I think I remember someone promising me that I'll get to have an ice cream on my next visit. I wonder if my babies have forgotten their promise."

Little Star gasped before she pulled her twin brother's arm, trying to get his attention to answer Li Meili.

"Yu Gege and I made a yoghurt with daddy yesterday! We don't have ice cream because daddy said we already ate enough the other day. Is yoghurt good enough for you Auntie Mei? We made different kinds of flavors."

"Wow, that sounds so enticing. Can I have one of those too, Little Star?" Gu Yuyao asked as she rested her chin on her hand.

"Me too. If you don't mind." Lin Qianrou followed while Meng Yanran was focused on playing with her nephew in her arms.

The two little buns' faces lit up and they nodded their heads at the same time. Xiao Bao dragged his twin sister back to the mansion to find Auntie Lu, leaving their mother and her friends in the vast garden behind the mansion.

"Moyu, what's going on? Is something the matter?" Li Meili asked as she had not failed to notice the unusual silence coming from her best friend.

Tang Moyu stared at her for a moment before glancing at Gu Yuyao and the two cousins looking at her, their eyes filled with curiosity.

"I don't think you should come here so often for the time being, especially you, Meili. Not until Tianyi and I can fix the problem. This is for everyone's safety."

Gu Yuyao furrowed her brows. She was aware that her husband was working with Feng Tianyi on something confidential but she didn't know that it was also related to Tang Moyu.

"You better give us a good reason, Moyu. Aren't we friends? Did someone threaten you? If you need help, my Gu family will extend a hand. Just say the word." She told the empress.

"Sister Moyu, if there's something we can help you with, just tell us. Isn't this what friends are for?" Lin Qianrou agreed with Gu Yuyao.

If Tang Moyu and Li Meili hadn't helped her back then, there's no doubt that she and Xu Wenyang would have divorced and gone their separate ways, leaving her to raise her son alone. If she could help Tang Moyu even just a little to repay her, Lin Qianrou was willing to do so.

Tang Moyu wasn't sure how to tell her friends, but losing Tang Beixuan was enough and she didn't want any of them to be hurt or end up losing their lives because of her. The culprit wanted her to die for some twisted reason or motive she didn't know.

"The accident… Tianyi believes that it was premeditated to harm me." She paused and glanced at Li Meili who was visibly shocked by her revelation.

"Meili, I know this would be unfair for me to say this but can you promise not to make any reckless decisions? Let me and Tianyi handle this. We are already cooperating with the authority for a manhunt of the perpetrator."

Li Meili fell silent, her mind going at a thousand miles per hour as she thought of Tang Beixuan who had lost his life unjustly. Tears brimmed her eyes as her lips quivered.

"I understand." She said after a long silence between herself and Tang Moyu. She understood why the empress was telling her this. She could feel her whole body trembling, not from the coldness of the afternoon breeze, but because of anger.

If she wasn't pregnant, she would surely throw a fit and curse whoever was responsible for her beloved's death. Not only did he take away Tang Beixuan from them, he also changed their lives and future so suddenly, and now, this same person was attempting to take her best friend from them?

"So that's why Lianchen was hesitating to allow me to come here today. It all makes sense now." Gu Yuyao commented.

"But can't we really do something to help? Anything?" Meng Yanran asked. Tang Moyu was still her boss and naturally, she would need to meet the empress once in a while. She didn't really mind because unlike Lin Qianrou, she didn't have a child and family to look after. "Do we really have to stay away from you? But how long would it be?"

"Until we are sure that he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone." Tang Moyu replied. "I'm sorry it turned out this way. I never want anyone to be harmed because of me. All of you also have families and children to protect now, so let's take an extra measure to protect our safety until we know for sure that everything is fine."