Two years ago, she was still with Lu Tianze. At that time, for this man, she stepped into the Gu Residence that she hadn't returned to for many years. That day, she tasted the most humiliating and downtrodden moment of her life...
Looking at Lu Tianze's bewildered and puzzled face, she had a fleeting hope that he would ask something. Unfortunately, he didn't. Although Lu Tianze was puzzled, he didn't utter a word.
Gu Xiaoer laughed mockingly at herself. What's the use of spilling everything? This man has no heart. Even if she told him, would he really give up Miss Lin of the Lin family and come back to her?
"One hundred thousand? You actually gave her that much money? No wonder she had the funds to secretly keep a lover! She's really stooped to a new low!" Lin Kexin yelled sharply, her hand covering her mouth; one hundred thousand yuan couldn't even buy one of her outfits, so she didn't care.
But some people have such twisted mentalities, that even if they'd throw away one hundred thousand yuan, they wouldn't want to give a penny to someone else.
"What!" Lin Shuhua's voice also rose eight octaves, the mother and daughter pair were both startled and shrill, matching each other perfectly in tone.
"You say she went off to secretly keep a man?" Lin Shuhua gasped, seizing the opportunity to corner Gu Xiaoer. Now, as a stepmother "educating" a daughter who strayed under her guidance, she was always in the right, wasn't she?
"Gu Xiaoer, how could you do such a thing! Even if you can't be as well-read and sensible as my Kexin, you shouldn't follow in your mother's footsteps and do such disgraceful things!"
"Like mother, like daughter, I've said it before!" Lin Kexin flipped her hair, unapologetically.
Gu Xiaoer's face darkened; she wasn't sure how well-read and sensible Lin Kexin was. But she couldn't stand this mother and daughter always bringing up her own mother in every other sentence.
"Aunt Lin, I call you 'aunt' out of respect for your age. But don't you know very well who came first and who came second on my dad's marriage certificate? Are you constantly stirring up trouble because you're worried about your secure position as Mrs. Gu?"
The moment this was mentioned, Lin Shuhua's face changed color. For many years, she had fashioned herself as a poor woman who had been wronged by a vixen, only later achieving legitimate status. But Gu Xiaoer's few words hit her where it hurt.
In the end, she was the third party in a relationship for five years before she was legitimized.
"Oh, you! I give you a piece of advice, and you talk back to me, truly a lowly hooligan raised without a mother's education! Look at yourself now, disrespecting your elders is one thing, but squandering money on keeping a man, you've completely thrown away the Gu family's face!"
Lin Shuhua cursed without restraint, igniting Gu Xiaoer's outrage.
"So what if I go and keep a man, what is it to you? I just like spending money on men! Say one more word about my mother and see what happens!"
"Rebellious girl!" A middle-aged man's voice came sharply, laced with long-suppressed anger.
Gu Zhengjin had just entered and heard his youngest daughter speaking like this. The emotion he had been harboring suddenly overturned.
"Rebellious girl, look at what you have become! Spending money on men..." He sputtered, pointing at Gu Xiaoer, his finger trembling.
The appearance of Gu Zhengjin changed the atmosphere in the living room. The one who felt most smug was Lin Kexin and her mother; having their father hear Gu Xiaoer's words with his own ears was far more effective than any rumor they could spread.
Gu Xiaoer, let's see how you can be arrogant now!
"Dad, have you ever cared what's become of me?" Gu Xiaoer said leisurely, her call of 'Dad' dripping with irony. She had developed an armor, impenetrable to any of their attempts to hurt her.