"Enough from you, what nonsense are you spouting! Look at you, in the end, nothing has happened to you!" Lin Kexin, feeling guilty, glanced at Gu Zhengjin and shouted shrilly.
Ha! Gu Xiaoer's previously agitated chest suddenly calmed, perhaps out of extreme sadness, or maybe utter disappointment. Looking at Lin Kexin, whose values were so twisted, she found she didn't want to argue anymore. She only knew that if it weren't for Han Luoli stepping in to help her time after time, she wouldn't be standing here unscathed today.
She said nothing else, only letting the corners of her mouth lift in an ironic smile, her gaze cold.
Lin Kexin turned her head and saw Gu Xiaoer's smile, itching with hatred. She took a few steps forward, reached out her hand to hit her.
Before she got to Gu Xiaoer, however, someone pulled her back by force. She looked up to see Lu Tianze who had grabbed her, and she threatened angrily, "Lu Tianze, think carefully about whose side you're on!"
"Enough!"
The full-bodied male voice, filled with the edge of explosive anger, made everyone in the living room freeze, silent.
Lin Shuhua, seeing the usually unflappable Gu Zhengjin so angry, quickly stepped back and obediently stood behind him.
"Kexin, I don't care what you've done, but right now, you will apologize to Xiaoer! We'll make peace as sisters, and no one is to bring this stuff up again!"
"Dad, Gu Xiaoer is spouting nonsense. Why should I apologize? You don't even know what she's done. She paid for a man, and she's living with some other guy! Why should someone like her be considered my sister?"
Gu Xiaoer stood to the side, trying to suppress the sarcasm in her eyes, but she couldn't. It was clear that Lin Kexin had been spoiled rotten by Gu Zhengjin; she couldn't even understand something so clearly in her favor.
Lin Kexin didn't understand, but she did! She was no fool – how could she not grasp the subtext of Gu Zhengjin's words? He was worried that she would go all out and lose everything, willing to give up her house just to sue Lin Kexin, which is why he quickly demanded that Lin Kexin apologize, to soothe her emotions.
Make peace with a handshake? Could all the humiliation and pain she'd suffered really not be mentioned again?
Sniffling, Gu Xiaoer broke the silence in the room, "No need for apologies, I don't need such worthless things!"
Gu Zhengjin paused, and after a moment, tentatively asked, "Xiaoer, about Kexin's issue..."
Such obvious hope in his eyes, such urgent eagerness, yet unfortunately none of it was for her.
Gu Xiaoer suppressed the grief in her heart that she couldn't heal, biting her lip without speaking. After a long while, she let out a light breath, "Mr. Gu, as you wish..."
A few words drained all her strength.
"I knew you were a kind-hearted child," Gu Zhengjin sighed in relief, as if thinking of something, he asked, "What's this about you renting a man and living with him..."
Only now did he remember to ask her, wasn't it too late?
Gu Xiaoer's expression remained unchanged, "Mr. Gu, just take care of your own daughter. Stay out of other people's business."
With that, she left without looking back.
In this confrontation, she indeed lost. They had threatened her with her mother's house, and she couldn't just ignore it! She wasn't without resources to win, but she desired no further entanglement with this family!
Han Luoli, sorry to have troubled you for nothing...
After Gu Xiaoer left, Lin Kexin and Lin Shuhua finally exhaled in relief: "Just as I thought, she's not capable of much! Trying to fight with us, she's way out of her league!"