Reborn to Outshine My Ex and His White Moonlight novel Chapter 53

Chapter 53: Chapter 53 Memory Confused?

Chapter 53 -53 Memory Confused?

Gong Mansion.

As soon as Lin Zhiyi returned, she slept like a log.

In the end, hunger woke her. She had trouble moving, so she cried out to the outside of the door,

“Mom?”

“Uncle?”

But no one responded. She thought her voice was too soft, that Liu He and Gong Shiyan hadn’t heard her.

She raised her hand to grab her cell phone when she noticed the note left on the bedside table.

“Mom is accompanying your uncle to a social event. I’ve prepared some snacks for you, eat them if you’re hungry.”

Upon opening the plate, there were three small snacks.

Liu He really treated her like she had the stomach of a little bird.

After devouring the three small snacks in two bites, her stomach still rumbled with hunger.

She reluctantly picked up the internal line phone by the bed and dialed the kitchen.

“Auntie, is there anything else to eat?”

“The chefs are off duty,” the maid spoke lightly, yawning to signal she was going to sleep.

“Mhm.”

After hanging up, Lin Zhiyi mocked her own futile efforts.

The Gong family servants never paid any attention to her. How could they possibly prepare food for her in the middle of the night?

With no other choice, she propped herself up and headed to the kitchen. She had only taken a few steps when pain shot through her foot, causing her to fall to the ground.

Her arms instinctively braced for the fall, landing right on a wound that had been scratched by a tree branch.

“Hisss…”

Pain caused Lin Zhiyi to take a sharp inhale, yet she still endured it and stood up.

Hunger really did breed obsession, insisting on eating something.

She blew on the wound on her arm and limped out of the yard.

Gong Mansion was composed of different courtyards with Su’s Garden landscaping and traditional Chinese corridors interlaced in between.

Even late at night, with the sparse moonlight and stars, the scenery under each street lamp was still picturesque.

Lin Zhiyi walked with stops and starts into the nearby kitchen.

An entire wall of custom fridge cabinets held many valuable ingredients, but knowing her place, she only took an egg.

Just as she was about to crack it, the light above her head fizzed twice and went out.

The entire kitchen plunged into silence, save for the sound of the wind moving the window curtains.

Whooosh… Whooosh…

A voice came through the air.

“Reflect on yourself. A nanny will take care of your daughter.”

“Third Young Master, please don’t! Xingxing has always been cared for by me; she can’t be without her mother!”

“So you know that a child can’t be without her mother. Why did you then harm someone else’s child?”

“I didn’t! How many times do I have to say I didn’t!”

“A person who resorted to getting pregnant through seduction to force a marriage with me, you think I’d believe your explanation? Sichen is in a coma at the hospital, and you will stay here for these two days.”

With a loud bang, the door was forcefully locked, and the entire room was enveloped in darkness.

The air vent fluttered the thin curtains with the same whooshing sound.

It was like a dull knife cutting into Lin Zhiyi’s heart.

Outside the door, there were Xingxing’s cries.

“I want Mommy! I want Mommy!”

“Stop crying!”

Hearing the child’s heart-wrenching cries, she still gave in.

“I was wrong! I was wrong! I’ll reflect! Please spare the child! I am begging you!”

The whooshing sounds continued, and Lin Zhiyi, as if by conditioned reflex, smashed the egg in her hand and covered her head, “Ah! Don’t come any closer…”

Suddenly, a hand wrapped around her trembling body, pressing her tightly against a chest.

She instinctively pounded with her fists, but the man just silently endured.