The next morning.
As soon as Lin Zhiyi woke up, Liu He was already waiting by the bed with delicious food for her.
"Awake? Hurry up and eat something."
Lin Zhiyi didn’t want Liu He to worry and nodded her head as she accepted the bowl.
But she really had no appetite and after a couple of bites, she asked, "Mom, who were you apologizing to last night?"
Upon hearing this, Liu He’s hand grew tense as she peeled the egg, her nail embedding into the egg white.
She wiped her hands and continued to peel the shell, "Who else could I be apologizing to but you? If I hadn’t gotten together with your uncle back then, none of this would’ve happened."
Lin Zhiyi put down her bowl and explained, "Mom, I never thought that way."
"Alright, let’s not talk about me. How come you were the only one to come back yesterday? Didn’t Mr. Sang say he would send you home?" Liu He changed the subject.
Lin Zhiyi pursed her lips: "I brought up breaking up with him."
"Break up? Could what those ladies said be true?" Liu He exclaimed in surprise.
"What did they say?" Lin Zhiyi asked, not understanding. freēwebnovel.com
"They saw Mr. Sang getting very close to a relative of the Gong Family, it seemed like the Gong Family intended to set them up."
The more Liu He thought about it, the more something seemed off, so she got up and started pacing the room.
However, Lin Zhiyi had no real reaction to this; she already knew about the matter yesterday when Wen Qing burst into Sang Li’s room with his people.
Everything was a scheme within a scheme.
She and Sang Li were almost calculated against.
But what was Ren Xiya’s background? Why did she end up helping her in the end?
Too many things had happened the previous night, one thing led to another.
This was not a plot that Ye Feifei’s brain could have devised.
Even Wen Qing might not have been able to ensure everything was foolproof.
So Ren Xiya was the key.
Thinking this, Lin Zhiyi suddenly looked at Liu He who was pacing back and forth.
Liu He had come into contact with the Gong Family earlier than her and might recognize some distant relatives; perhaps she knew Ren Xiya.
"Mom, do you know this woman?"
Lin Zhiyi found the photo of Ren Xiya and Sang Li that a stranger had sent her.
As soon as Liu He saw the two people chatting and laughing in the photo, her face filled with anger, and as she was about to scold Sang Li, she was abruptly drawn by Ren Xiya’s face.
She was so concerned that she might have seen wrong that she pulled the phone closer to her face.
"Her? How could it be her?"
"Mom, who is she?" Lin Zhiyi asked with a grave expression.
Liu He sat down, pointing at the woman in the photo, "Do you remember the time Old Mr. Gong fell from his horse and hurt his back? When I rushed over, this woman was standing beside Old Mr. Gong, but by the time I collected my thoughts, she was gone. I didn’t pay much attention to her back then, it’s just that..."
As she was speaking, Liu He glanced at Lin Zhiyi, hesitating as if there were concerns on her mind.
Lin Zhiyi pressed for an answer, "It’s just what?"
Liu He looked at her with difficulty, "Lao San asked me about this incident. I thought she was just a staff member from the horse farm, and he said that it was best not to talk about Old Mr. Gong’s injury, told me to forget what I saw that day. So, I didn’t say anything."
These words fell like a bolt from the blue upon Lin Zhiyi.
Her mind went blank for a few seconds before slowly returning to normal. She fell back onto the bed, curled up tightly and clutched her blankets.
Gong Chen really knew everything.
His denial of the events from last night must be related to Ren Xiya’s unmentionable identity.
That’s why he allowed Ren Xiya to provoke discord between her and Sang Li time and again.
In the end, once more, he threw her into the mire of pain for someone else’s sake.
At that moment, Liu He patted her back.
"Zhiyi? What’s wrong? Your phone has been vibrating, do you want to check it?"
Lin Zhiyi shrank into the covers, "Mom, let me be alone for a while. I don’t want to deal with anyone, I don’t want to see anyone."
"Okay, okay," Liu He agreed.
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