Chapter 1246: The Fool's Daughter (25)

Yuan Shuo found it strange. In a family like that, how had such a unique girl grown up?

The two chatted and laughed as usual, but halfway through the drive, they had no choice but to stop.

Getting out of the car, they asked around and learned that a minor traffic accident had occurred ahead.

Looking at the familiar location, Tang Guo paused for a moment. Taking out her phone and checking the date, she fell silent.

So it really was true—those who bring disaster upon themselves have no one else to blame.

"Let's go take a look. We can't move anyway," she said. It was rush hour, and as soon as they had entered the road, traffic had come to a standstill.

The two squeezed into the crowd and saw an old, white-haired woman lying in front of a battered car. One of her legs had been dragged underneath and caught beneath the wheel. None of the onlookers dared touch her.

If it were only a matter of her leg being pinned, they might have helped lift the car.

But with things looking like this, no one dared interfere.

If something happened to the old lady, none of them could afford the responsibility. These days, old men and old women were the most troublesome people to provoke. One mistake and you could lose tens of thousands. No one wanted that kind of trouble.

The person standing beside the beat-up car looked somewhat familiar to Yuan Shuo.

Soon, he remembered where he had seen him before.

Wasn't this Tang Guo's eldest uncle?

"Miss Tang, I think that's someone from your family."

Standing amid the crowd, Tang Liping wore a bitter expression as he explained to everyone around him, "She ran in front of my car herself. I was driving along, and she suddenly rushed out."

Cold sweat covered his palms.

He had hit the brakes.

But the brakes had been sluggish. They should have worked immediately, but instead they took five whole seconds to respond.

Those five seconds had been enough to drag the old woman's leg under the tire.

"I know that old lady," someone in the crowd said. "She's always scamming drivers around here. Lots of people recognize her now. Anyone who drives this road moves slower than a turtle because who knows when she'll suddenly jump out?"

"Do you think this is karma? She finally ran into a car with faulty brakes. Couldn't stop in time. I don't think she's keeping that leg."

"That driver is really unlucky."

Tang Guo wanted to say that Tang Liping wasn't unlucky at all.

He deserved it.

According to the original course of events, all of the misfortune that befell her family had begun with lending out the car.

Tang Zhiming borrowed her car, got into an accident, and eventually lost his leg. The responsibility and compensation all fell on Tang Guo because the car had belonged to her. Liu Chunyue even blamed Tang Zhiming's accident on her and ended up holding a grudge against her.

Meanwhile, Tang Lide and Song Jinghua continued to feel guilty toward Tang Zhiming.

In their eyes, no one could be more pitiful than Tang Zhiming, who had lost his leg.

In the original timeline, after borrowing her car, Tang Zhiming would have lent his own battered old car to Tang Guo for commuting.

Later, after Tang Zhiming's accident, her father had been driving around constantly for his sake. Tang Zhiming's family had temporarily left the car with them, and on this very day, the person who was supposed to encounter the old woman had originally been her father, Tang Lide.

Under normal circumstances, driving at city speeds, he should have been able to stop in time and avoid hitting her.

Even if she had really tried to scam him, it would only have cost a few hundred yuan.

But because the car was old and the brakes had become sluggish, they responded several seconds too late.

By the time the brakes engaged, the old woman's leg had already been dragged beneath the tire.

The old woman screamed and wailed in agony, and Tang Lide had ended up paying a hefty amount in compensation.

Originally, Tang Zhiming had been the owner of the car.

But Tang Zhiming had already lost his leg.