Reborn to Outshine My Ex and His White Moonlight novel Chapter 255

Chapter 255: Chapter 255: Why We Can’t See Your Love

Villa.

At this moment, the house had burned down to just an empty shell.

After the firefighters extinguished the fire, the garden was flooded.

The muddy water flowed, everything charred black, all turning to nothing in this moment.

Chen Jin said carefully, "Miss Lin set up a delayed device with a candle in the kitchen. By the time someone discovered it, it was too late."

Gong Chen stood expressionless in front of the house, letting the cold wind mess up his hair and wrinkle the ice-cold spring in his eyes.

In the thick smoke, he seemed to see a big and a small figure standing under the charred beams.

He reached out, wanting to grab them, but the voice of Lin Zhiyi came to his ears.

"Gong Chen, I hate you."

"The day I moved in, I already set fire to this place."

Lin Zhiyi did it.

Burned everything in this house clean.

Along with those few days of sweet dreams.

Suddenly, Gong Chen thought of something and turned around, rushing to the vegetable garden regardless of the muddy ground.

The land, washed by water hoses, revealed the seeds planted a few days ago.

Gong Chen squatted down, grabbed a handful of mud, and picked out the seeds inside.

With a gentle squeeze, they all turned to mush.

He lowered his head, clenched his fists tightly, "Ripe."

*There was essentially no spring.*

*Lin Zhiyi didn’t even want to leave tomorrow for him.*

*She truly hated him, destroyed everything, then committed suicide.*

*Now, she had forgotten everything again.*

Gong Chen’s face turned pale inch by inch, a touch of blood-red spreading over his lips, and suddenly, he collapsed.

A large patch of blood had long seeped from the wound on his waist.

"Third Young Master!"

...

The city lights lit up, fireworks illuminating the night sky of New Year’s Day.

In stark contrast, the dim hospital room had the vivid scene outside depicting the silhouette of a man.

Shirtless, bandages wrapped around his waist, standing straight yet lonely.

The light of fire flickered between his fingers, a thin veil of mist covering the man’s cold, pale face, his pupils reflecting no light at all.

When a cigarette burned to its end, he pinched it into the ashtray on the windowsill.

It was already piled high with cigarette butts inside.

The man ignored it, took out another cigarette, and prepared to light it.

Behind him, the door opened.

Li Huan coughed twice from the smoke, and seeing Gong Chen still smoking, hurriedly stepped forward to snatch the cigarette away.

"Still smoking? Do you not want your own body?"

Gong Chen ignored him, took out another cigarette, but didn’t light it, just played with it between his fingers.

At this moment, Chen Jin knocked and entered.

"Third Young Master, the brain specialist from abroad has been arranged, the earliest flight is tomorrow morning."

"Mm."

Gong Chen lowered his eyes, lit the lighter, preparing to light the cigarette.

Li Huan gasped, stepped forward and slapped away the lighter, "What do you mean by this?"

Gong Chen held the cigarette, speaking coldly, "She will remember soon enough."

Upon hearing this, Li Huan tightened the medical chart in his hands, his face tense.

"Remember what? Remember how she reached the point of suicide? Can you really not see it? Or do you choose to ignore it?"

"You’re so smart, did you really not notice her self-harming?"

"Were the scratch marks on her body allergies? Were her hands red and swollen from washing because she was a neat freak?"

"With every contact you made, her guilt towards Miss Sang deepened, and her self-harm worsened."

"That pearl necklace, she would rather scratch her skin raw to take it off and give, no, return it to Miss Sang, didn’t you notice?"

"You always thought you could protect her. She did survive, but her heart died."

"Gong Chen, I know you have a lot of responsibilities and many pros and cons to weigh, but she was just an ordinary woman."

"So many people accused her, hurt her, even Sang Li, whom she just met, could stand up for her, but you couldn’t protect her blatantly!"

"Because of your status, your family doesn’t allow it, and your forthcoming marriage doesn’t allow it... There are so many reasons."