Reborn to Outshine My Ex and His White Moonlight novel Chapter 213

Chapter 213: Chapter 213 My Patience Has Limits

Lin Zhiyi and Liu He were on their way to the front hall when they noticed the butler hastening the Gong Family elders toward the ancestral hall.

"Mom, why is everyone going to the ancestral hall?" Lin Zhiyi asked, puzzled.

Liu He looked around, her expression tense, "Something big must be happening."

Worried about Gong Shiyan, she pulled Lin Zhiyi toward the ancestral hall.

As soon as they entered, the hall was packed with people.

Everyone was properly standing on both sides, and Lin Zhiyi quickly pulled Liu He to stand at the inconspicuous end.

She looked up to the front and saw those reclusive elders had been summoned.

Gong Chen and Old Mr. Gong sat in the seats of honor, with incense smoke swirling around them, solemn and serious.

In the middle of the hall, Gong Yan knelt, grinding his teeth in anger.

Next to him, Chen Sulan, her face deathly pale, was crying and making a scene, having lost all the elegance of a Madam.

"Second brother! What do you mean? Gong Yan got hurt because of your family’s adoptive daughter, why did you bring him back?"

Gong Shiyan looked at her coldly, "Do I need to repeat why he was injured in public?"

"You!" Chen Sulan’s chest heaved violently, she simply twisted her logic, "The Gong Family has raised Lin Zhiyi for so many years, why can’t she make some contributions? It’s not her first time, what’s the big fuss!"

Upon hearing this, Gong Shiyan’s fists clenched, but family rules forbade hitting a woman.

Lin Zhiyi was about to retort when Liu He suddenly rushed out, slapping Chen Sulan to the ground with two sharp smacks.

Chen Sulan cried out and couldn’t get up for a while, only able to lean on Gong Yan, who kept his head down and said nothing.

Liu He in the past was the kind of woman who could carry a child in one hand and a ten-kilo bag of rice in the other.

Although she had been pampered in recent years, taking down Chen Sulan was effortless.

"You shut up! Unable to contend with your own son’s incompetence, you use someone else’s daughter to curry favor. I hear foreigners don’t care about age, why didn’t he offer you instead! You pick the easy targets!"

Liu He, hands on her hips, looked at everyone, and spoke forcefully for once, "I know you look down on me! I’ve been keeping low all these years just to maintain peace. Now that things have come to this, even if I am thrown out, nobody is going to use my daughter to make a point!"

"How dare you!" Old Mr. Gong slammed the table and rose, "Is it your place to speak? Drag her out!" _{fɾēewebnσveℓ.com}

Liu He shrank back slightly in fright, realizing her surge of emotion.

Lin Zhiyi quickly stepped forward to shield her mother, "Don’t touch my mom!"

"You again!" Old Mr. Gong glared at Lin Zhiyi, waved his hand, and commanded, "Throw this mother and daughter out!"

But the room fell silent, with nobody heeding Old Mr. Gong.

At this moment, Gong Chen set down his teacup.

With a light but firm clunk, everyone looked to him, sufficiently indicating his current status.

"Dad, calm down for a moment."

Old Mr. Gong squinted, his expression cold as he casually picked up his teacup, but his tone was unexpectedly mocking, "I don’t see why we need to question this matter. If Gong Yan did such a thing, isn’t Lin Zhiyi also to blame? If she hadn’t seduced everyone, would Gong Yan have taken her away?"

Lin Zhiyi inwardly sneered, keeping her face expressionless, "Old Master, I cannot bear such a heavy accusation. If merely snapping their fingers could make me obey, then the Gong Family is not much indeed."

Hearing this, Old Mr. Gong’s eyes bulged with anger, and he forcefully placed the teacup back on the table.

Before he could speak, Gong Shiyan stepped forward, defending Lin Zhiyi.

"Dad, Zhiyi is right. The Gong Family has always been strict; it’s not a place for everyone to mess around."

"What do you mean?" Old Mr. Gong’s voice clearly contained suppressed anger.

"Who gave Gong Yan the right to use the private jet to leave?" Gong Shiyan countered heavily.

Everyone knew that not just anyone could use a private jet.

But that was something Gong Chen couldn’t question.

Granted, he was Lin Zhiyi’s legal stepfather and had the right to clarify the situation.

Old Mr. Gong, being seventy-five this year, valued his own dignity and the family’s honor above all else.

"No, that’s not possible!" Gong Yan staggered back, disbelief etched on his face.

Without waiting for Gong Yan to recover, Old Mr. Gong abruptly rose, scrutinizing the newcomer.

"Shize, how did you end up like this?"

"Father, I’m sorry, but I’ve been living well," Gong Shize replied, pointing gently at the two people behind him with a tender smile, "This is my wife and daughter."

The hall, which had a moment of warmth, suddenly plunged into a void because of his words.

Lin Zhiyi was also shocked for a moment before turning to look at the two.

The woman’s features were not stunning, but her eyes were bright, giving off a very cheerful and generous vibe, with shoulder-length hair and skin that glowed with health.

Her daughter, about eleven or twelve years old, seemed to embody the best traits of both parents and had a sweet, sunny smile.

Lin Zhiyi couldn’t help but feel, perhaps it was her own illusion, that they were unlike the glamorous people typically seen in the ancestral hall, and yet when they approached, the cold air around seemed to dissipate a lot.

As the only ordinary person present, Lin Zhiyi could tell right away that this mother and daughter were very easy to get along with.

Just then, a harsh voice from the head of the table tore through the brief silence.

"I will not allow it! A homewrecker doesn’t come from a good background," Old Mr. Gong flatly rejected, commanding, "Send them away immediately, the farther the better. After you return, hold a press conference with Sulan to clarify the situation, say you lost your memory and were recuperating elsewhere—don’t let our family lose face!"

Gong Shize chuckled with a cold sneer, "You really haven’t changed a bit."

Before he could further explain his statement, Chen Sulan suddenly, like mad, picked up a shard from the teacup on the ground and lunged at the mother and daughter, disregarding everything else.

"Shameless whore! You must have seduced my husband and made him abandon his wife and child!"

Seeing this, Lin Zhiyi, who was nearby, quickly stepped forward to separate them.

Chen Sulan missed her target and, not willing to give up, charged towards Lin Zhiyi.

Lin Zhiyi had nowhere to dodge, and just as she was about to be stabbed, Gong Chen quickly stepped forward and twisted Chen Sulan’s wrist.

With the sound of bones cracking, the shard fell to the ground, and Chen Sulan was in so much pain that she couldn’t stand straight.

"My patience has its limits," Gong Chen said coldly.