Chapter 115
“Break both his legs, and if he speaks again, break his hands. Annoying!” Grandma Lin passed by Xu Ke and Lin Mengyao with a heavy cold snort, but eventually left without saying anything.
“You’ve hurt my sister like this, I will remember this grudge. Pray nothing of yours ever falls into my hands.” Lin Zike walked up to Lin Mengyao, glaring at her fiercely as he spoke.
“Not bad tactics. It seems I’ve underestimated my cousin before.” Lin Zihua adjusted the glasses on his nose, saying with a smile.
“I will remember this grudge.” Having lost a daughter, Lin Shide’s face turned unusually gloomy, looking at Lin Mengyao as if he wanted to devour her whole.
“Hmph!” Lin Shide glanced at Xu Ke, snorted coldly, and left with a flick of his sleeve.
The last to stand before Lin Mengyao and Xu Ke were Lin Shichang, Li Lihua, and Lin Mengchen. After a month, Lin Mengchen’s health had recovered, but her eyes were filled with a dirty, disgraceful color, looking gloomily like a ghost, making anyone who glanced at her feel uncomfortable.
“Look at the huge trouble you’ve caused. You’ve offended two families at once. Let’s see what you do now. I’m telling you, what you’ve done has nothing to do with us, don’t come seeking our help in the future.” Li Lihua frowned unhappily at Xu Ke and Lin Mengyao.
“You’re on your own now. I can’t help you.” Lin Shichang looked at his eldest daughter, sighed with a somewhat weary expression and said.
“Your unlucky days are finally here, and this is just the beginning. I want to see you become more and more unfortunate, like a dog crawling in front of me begging for my mercy. I can almost see that day arriving.” Lin Mengchen opened her mouth at Lin Mengyao, revealing sharpened teeth.
“As long as I’m here, that day will never come. You better take care of yourself.” Xu Ke took a step back with Lin Mengyao, frowning slightly, disliking Lin Mengchen’s close proximity to Lin Mengyao.
“I will see it, I swear.” Lin Mengchen gave Xu Ke a deep look before turning away.
“Let’s go back. You’re tired and need to rest.” Xu Ke gave Lin Mengyao no chance to refuse, directly carrying her back to the room where they had stayed before.
Putting her on the bed, Xu Ke wanted to straighten up but was pulled back by Lin Mengyao’s arm. Lin Mengyao struggled to open her eyes, whispering, “Xu Ke, from now on, you’re all I have.” Lin Mengyao wanted to see Xu Ke’s face clearly, but a layer of mist suddenly appeared in her eyes, covering his face completely.
“Will you ever leave me? Will you abandon me alone?” Lin Mengyao blinked, the mist turning into hot tears flowing down from the corner of her eyes, allowing Xu Ke’s face to fully occupy her vision again.
“I won’t, I will always stay with you until we grow old. I will never leave you. Sleep, when you wake, you’ll find I’m still by your side.” Xu Ke gently wiped the tears from the corner of Lin Mengyao’s eyes, pressing gently on her acupoint on her head with his fingers, softly and lightly.
Lin Mengyao fell asleep in this situation.
Watching Lin Mengyao sleep, still with furrowed brows, Xu Ke’s brows also furrowed, using his fingers to stroke her brows, trying to smooth them out.
Clearly hearing Lin Mengyao say she is only his should have made him happy, but seeing her deeply furrowed brows that wouldn’t smooth out at all made Xu Ke feel a bit uneasy.
When Lin Mengyao woke up again, it was already dark. Xu Ke brought her a bowl of porridge, and after drinking it, Lin Mengyao felt much more spirited, “Xu Ke, let’s go home.”
“Alright.” Xu Ke nodded in agreement.
When they left, they didn’t say goodbye to anyone, putting on the clothes they wore the day they arrived, and drove away.
All of Xu Ke’s attention was on Lin Mengyao, so he didn’t notice a black Mercedes tailing them. The two cars drove one after the other on the desolate road.
“It’s so late. If you’re not going home, why are you following them?” Lin Shichang, sitting in the passenger seat, said somewhat impatiently.
“I’m just seeing where they live. Once I see, I’ll go back.” Li Lihua didn’t spare a glance at Lin Shichang, her eyes fixed intently on the Lamborghini ahead, afraid of losing it.
“Why are you looking at that? If they live poorly, you aren’t going to support them anyway, and you said what you did during the day. Even if you gave them money, they wouldn’t appreciate it, only thinking you’re hypocritical.” Lin Mengchen frowned, looked at Li Lihua impatiently, and said coldly, with deep disapproval for her behavior.
“I’m her mom. Even if I beat her to death, she still has to call me mother.” Li Lihua retorted.
Neither the father nor daughter in the car wanted to engage with whatever Li Lihua was contemplating, so they shut their eyes and fell silent.
Li Lihua frowned as she saw the increasingly remote area. When she saw the words Kangshi Mountain, her eyes almost popped out of her sockets. The car driven by Xu Ke smoothly entered Kangshi Mountain with Lin Mengyao, while Li Lihua was stopped outside.
“Those two in front are my daughter and son-in-law. Why can’t I go in?” Li Lihua yelled at the security guard who stopped her.
“Sorry, without the homeowner’s permission, we can’t let you in.” The security guard looked at Li Lihua with a blank expression, ignoring her explanations and blocking her path when she attempted to advance.
The sound of Li Lihua woke up Lin Shichang and Lin Mengchen, who were sleeping drowsily in the car. Lin Shichang poked his head out of the car, looking at Li Lihua still arguing with the security guard, and said, “What are you doing there? Where have you driven to?”
Hearing her husband’s voice, Li Lihua snapped awake. She ran to Lin Shichang, her eyes burning as she spoke eagerly, “Mengyao and Xu Ke went in, they went into Kangshi Mountain, they’re living here, living here!” Li Lihua said excitedly.
Upon hearing the words Kangshi Mountain, Lin Shichang raised an eyebrow, “Are you sure they went in? You’re not mistaken?”
“How could I be mistaken, they definitely went in. No way, we are her family, and they’re living in such a fine house, yet let us cramp in that small room, it’s unfilial. They should have had us over to live together.” Li Lihua’s brow furrowed with dissatisfaction, her words subtly accusatory.
“How could they possibly live here, I don’t believe it. Where did they get the money or the right to live here, what gives them the right!” Lin Mengchen heard the entire conversation between Li Lihua and Lin Shichang but refused to believe it, her expression turning grim, biting her gums so hard they bled.
But now, Lin Shichang and Li Lihua were only focused on moving into a house in Kangshi Mountain, sparing no attention for Lin Mengchen’s condition.