Reborn to Outshine My Ex and His White Moonlight-Chapter 344 Ren Xiya

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.

"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..." freēnovelkiss.com

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.

She stood up and left the room.

...

At the singles party, apart from the unsuspecting guests who thoroughly enjoyed themselves, everyone else had their own schemes and spent a sleepless night.

Ren Xiya stepped out of the hotel, glanced at the furious message from Old Mr. Gong on her phone, and crushed it under her high heel before tossing it away.

Then she took a new phone out of her purse and called Gong Chen.

"Third Young Master, thank you for your cooperation with Mr. Sang, helping me find my mom. She’s already headed to the airport. I will send you the thing you wanted after I get back."

"Mm."

Gong Chen’s voice was cold and tired, showing no emotion.

It seemed that the "thing" mentioned by Ren Xiya didn’t arouse any interest in him at all.

Ren Xiya didn’t want to owe him anything and continued, "Do I need to explain to Lin Zhiyi? I feel like she might have misunderstood the situation between us."

There was the sound of Gong Chen drinking over the phone.

"Go and explain your relationship with Sang Li to her."

"What did you say? Explain my cooperation with Mr. Sang to her? Just to deceive Mr. Gong?" Ren Xiya thought she had heard wrong.

"Mm," Gong Chen added in a low and cold tone, "Don’t mention your identity, she doesn’t need to know too much."

Ren Xiya regained her composure, "Are you afraid that if she knows too much, she’ll be watched even more closely?"

Gong Chen continued to drink and did not reply.

Ren Xiya lit a cigarette, her red lips pursed lightly, her expression a mix of a smile and a scoff, "Are you planning to take all the blame yourself?"

"It has nothing to do with you," Gong Chen warned coldly.

"Fine, I’ll explain to her as you wish and won’t mention anything else." Ren Xiya exhaled a ring of smoke, "Goodbye."

Beep beep beep.

The man on the other end of the line seemed to have very little patience.

Ren Xiya put out her cigarette, turned to get into her car, but then her phone rang again.

It was an unfamiliar number.

This phone had an overseas number; aside from Gong Chen, only her mother knew it.

Could it be that her mother had some trouble boarding the plane?

She immediately answered the phone, "Mom, why haven’t you boarded the plane yet?"

"The flight’s been delayed, I’m not feeling well, Xiya, can you come and keep me company? I’m afraid I won’t make it on my own."

"Mom, just hold on a bit longer, this is domestic, absolutely no messing around, I’ll be right at the airport, wait for me in the VIP room."

"Okay. Hurry."

Her mother sniffled, her voice somewhat faint.

Ren Xiya hung up the phone and floored it to the airport.

She arrived at the airport as fast as she could, and out of concern for her mother, she ran barefoot into the VIP room after taking off her high heels.

Before she could even catch her breath, Ren Xiya saw a scene that made her blood run cold.

Her supposedly frail and helpless mother, Ren Xue.

At that moment, she was massaging Mr. Gong’s shoulders like a maid.

Even in the presence of this man who had controlled her and her mother for decades, she still managed to smile so contentedly.

As Mr. Gong slightly raised his hand, Ren Xue immediately served him tea and water with a smile.

He took a sip of tea and looked at Ren Xiya condescendingly, "What’s the rush? Where are you off to?"

Only then did Ren Xiya come back to her senses; she had been betrayed by her own mother.

"Mom, you lied to me? Have you forgotten that it was him who had people capture you and bring you back to threaten me?" Ren Xiya reminded Ren Xue, emphasizing every word.

But Ren Xue wouldn’t listen, her heart and eyes full of the man she regarded as her world.

Ren Xue came forward to persuade, "Xiya, your dad missed me, that’s why he had people bring me back. Don’t misunderstand him. He just promised me that as long as you behave, he won’t hold the fact that you conspired against him with others against you."

"He’s still your dad after all, whatever he does is for our good as mother and daughter. You should quickly apologize to your dad."

Upon hearing the word "dad," Ren Xiya’s temples throbbed, and she retorted hysterically.

"He’s not my dad!"

"He sweet-talks you a bit, and you believe him? You even betray me for him! He’s doing this for my good? Do you even know what he wants me to do?"

"All these years, do you know how many men he has set me up with?"