Reborn to Outshine My Ex and His White Moonlight-Chapter 143 Why Can’t We Be Deceived Forever?

The butler looked at Old Mr. Gong with confusion.

"Haven’t we just withdrawn the people who were watching her? She didn’t use any schemes to get pregnant, nor has she been clinging to Third Young Master."

"My son Gong Chen is my flesh and blood, I understand him. He lied."

The butler immediately nodded, hesitating before adding, "Today, at the Chen Group’s celebration banquet, some news did leak out privately. Someone saw the eldest young master and Lin Zhiyi grappling with each other."

Old Mr. Gong snorted coldly, "The very first time she came to the Gong Family, I detested her from the bottom of my heart, and indeed, trouble has ensued."

Bowing, the butler spoke in a low voice, "If Lin Zhiyi..."

Old Mr. Gong narrowed his eyes and said viciously, "Do as I previously instructed."

"Yes."

...

The next day, Lin Zhiyi woke up confused.

How did she end up in bed?

Without time to think, she saw it was almost time to be late and hurriedly got out of bed to take a shower.

While bathing, the bite marks on her neck still ached slightly, and the teeth marks were very apparent.

Fortunately, it was nearly winter now, so wearing turtleneck sweaters didn’t matter.

But when she opened her wardrobe, she was stunned.

Gong Chen!

He had actually taken away all her turtleneck sweaters and scarves!

No.

Instead, he hung his own scarf in the most conspicuous place.

Lin Zhiyi gritted her teeth as she put on her clothes and again as she wrapped his scarf around her neck.

Finally, she arrived at the studio, seething with anger, and almost bumped into Shen Yan.

Shen Yan was holding a cardboard box, seemingly in the process of handling her resignation.

She had a bandage around her forehead and several new purple bruises on her cheeks, likely from being beaten by her parents.

Her parents only allowed her to attend such an expensive university because she lied to them about the school having many wealthy people.

Even if she married someone at random, it would help her brother’s housing and car business in the future.

This was probably the only truth Shen Yan ever told Lin Zhiyi.

Lin Zhiyi had no intention of entangling with her and stepped aside.

But then she heard the sound of something hitting the ground behind her, and Shen Yan turned around and called out to her.

"Lin Zhiyi, you must be really happy, right? My parents caught me, and you have ruined me!"

Hearing this, Lin Zhiyi stopped in her tracks.

She turned to look at Shen Yan, "I’ve indeed thought of many ways to deal with you, but I never thought of using your parents against you, because that’s the one thing you’re not at fault for."

Preferring sons to daughters was not Shen Yan’s fault.

Shen Yan’s shoulders trembled slightly as she said resentfully, "So you knew all along, you’ve been deceiving me! You’ve made me so miserable."

Lin Zhiyi felt indifferent, only harboring a doubt in her heart that had troubled her across two lifetimes.

When they first met, they sympathized with each other, both striving for a better future for themselves.

She didn’t know why things had turned out this way.

She said with a bitter smile, "Shen Yan, in terms of deception, I’m no match for you. I was grateful for your help, and I was almost entirely compliant with you, but how did you treat me?"

"Don’t give me that!" Shen Yan said through clenched teeth, "You just used me as a prop to highlight yourself!"

"A prop to highlight me?" Lin Zhiyi approached Shen Yan and looked her up and down, saying bluntly, "Where do I need you to highlight me?"

"You..." Shen Yan’s face turned ashen with anger.

"Shen Yan, if it’s really just because of these things that you’re treating me this way, then I can only tell you, everything is the consequences of your own actions," Lin Zhiyi said mockingly.

Shen Yan stamped her foot, rasping out a low growl, "Lin Zhiyi! Don’t get smug! I haven’t lost! One day you’ll be like a rat in the sewer, scorned by the whole city."

Shen Yan’s words made Lin Zhiyi feel as if she had returned to her previous life.

Enormous hatred consumed her, eroding her heart bit by bit, that sense of utter helplessness choked her.

Even now, thinking back on it, she felt as if her whole body was being torn and tormented.

Lin Zhiyi looked at Shen Yan with indifference, not minding delivering the final blow.

"What? You still think Song Wanqiu will save you? Shen Yan, let me tell you something, you actually had a chance to escape yesterday."

"What... What do you mean? Explain yourself!" Shen Yan grabbed Lin Zhiyi’s arm and shook it violently.

Lin Zhiyi yanked her arm free, saying coldly, "The first opportunity, I had refused to let you take the room card, but you were too eager for shortcuts, so you sneaked away with it."

"The second time, Song Wanqiu was standing right in front of me, she didn’t even notice you were gone. If she cared about you even a little bit, she would have realized something was wrong, and there was plenty of time to stop you."

"The third time, the room I booked wasn’t secluded, there were guests staying on both sides, you just had to shout and someone would have saved you, but you didn’t dare let anyone find out you weren’t me, so you endured without yelling."

"Shen Yan, isn’t this all the consequence of your own actions?"

After hearing this, Shen Yan’s eyes, previously flushed red, turned gray in an instant, her body tremblingly kneeling on the ground like the leaves falling behind her.

Lin Zhiyi turned away.

Behind her, Shen Yan’s voice broke with resentment, "I really thought we were the same kind of person; you were unwanted by your parents, I was a drag, but it wasn’t until your mother and stepfather came to school for you that I realized how wrong I was."

Lin Zhiyi frowned upon hearing this.

Liu He and Gong Shiyan only appeared at the school together to help her with her luggage at the end of the term.

Even so, she would always tell Liu He to dress modestly when coming to the school.

She didn’t want others to gossip about her identity.

Therefore, hardly anyone at school knew about her relationship with Gong Shiyan; they only knew she had a remarried mother.

Perhaps that’s why they were rather sympathetic when they saw her working part-time.

But what was the problem with that?

With resentment, Shen Yan said, "They’re so good to you; your mother complains all the time, but she delicately goes up and down sorting out your bedding."

"And your stepfather, every time he comes to pick you up, he buys lots of snacks, and even gives you new clothes. I later found out that the simplest dress he got you costs five figures."

"Your mother has remarried, why is she still so good to you? Your stepfather isn’t even related to you by blood, why should he buy you these things?"

"Why do my parents only yell at me for being a financial liability? I’ve grown up wearing only old clothes that relatives no longer want, eating snacks my brother has rejected."

"So, when I simply mentioned you had a secret crush, and Song Wanqiu gave me money, I immediately went out to buy new clothes and had a big meal. Do you know how that feels? Liberating, yet unsatisfied."

"I should have gotten more. You already have so much, why couldn’t you just keep being deceived?"

Shen Yan stared at Lin Zhiyi with wide eyes, as if she would bite Lin Zhiyi’s neck any second.

Lin Zhiyi shivered and signaled to a security guard not far away.

She looked at Shen Yan, "You satisfied your own desires by selling me out? Then tell me, Shen Yan, your parents were able to satisfy their own desires by selling you out to Mr. Chen for two hundred thousand, how does that make you feel?"

Shen Yan’s face turned ashen.

So she knew that feeling wasn’t pleasant either.

"Lin Zhiyi, I’ll kill you!"

Just as she lunged at Lin Zhiyi, she was firmly restrained by the ready security guard.

Shen Yan yelled out frantically, unwilling to give up, "Lin Zhiyi, I won’t let you go! I’ll drag you down to hell with me!"

"Shen Yan, instead of dragging me down to hell, you might as well think about how to escape that hellhole you call home. If I were you, I’d firmly cling to the person who can help you."

After giving her reminder, Lin Zhiyi walked away without looking back.

Shen Yan, you’d better live well, and then cling tightly to Song Wanqiu...