"Manipulating your mother?" Gu Fanyan was stunned for a moment, then realized, "The reason that child exists is also due to my actions."
Lin Zhibai shrugged: "Yeah, you're the Lin family's daughter-in-law, so she used that to morally blackmail my mom."
"The Lin family's daughter-in-law? Who is that?" Gu Fanyan immediately realized.
I almost fell for his trap again.
"Isn't the Lin family's daughter-in-law you?" His eyes lit up with lust again, and he reached out his arm.
Gu Fanyan spun around and dodged his arm.
I never realized he was so clingy before. Is it because he's younger than her?
"Take care of your business," she said silently to him, then turned and walked deeper into the ground floor.
Inside the room, Sheng's mother helped Sheng Xin to sit down on the bed, her voice tinged with reproach: "Why did you go and provoke her? You were perfectly fine, did you really want to go back in there? What kind of life is that in there? Haven't you had enough of it yet..."
"Is she uncomfortable inside?" A cold female voice suddenly came from the doorway.
Madam Sheng looked up, her pupils immediately contracting, "Miss Gu."
Gu Fanyan stood at the door, arms crossed, staring coldly at Sheng Xin: "Let me tell you, that day I thought my mother wouldn't make it. It felt like I went through hell."
"And you, have you ever been to hell?"
Madam Sheng's face turned pale. She understood that Gu Fanyan truly had this ability.
"Miss Gu, please let Sheng Xin go," Sheng's mother said with red eyes. "She's pitiful too. She was genuinely in love with Young Master Lin, but he treated her as a substitute for you. Don't you think Young Master Lin is too cruel to her?"
"Besides, she's in trouble now too. She's pregnant with Lin Leming's child. Do you think she did it willingly?"
She couldn't deny that Lin Zhibai had used her as a substitute.
Lin Zhibai's problem is quite strange.
Gu Fanyan kept looking at Sheng Xin, who sat there blankly, not reacting to anything they said.
She couldn't tell whether Sheng Xin was faking it or genuinely.
“Let’s keep things separate and not mix them up,” Gu Fanyan said. “Let Lin Zhibai and her handle their own affairs. She can choose not to have the baby; I’ll cover all the expenses.”
"But she hurt my mother, she must pay the price!"
Gu Fanyan's attitude was firm and left no room for negotiation.
Mother Sheng held her daughter tightly and retorted, "My daughter has been driven to the brink of mental illness by you all. People with mental problems should not be sent in!"
Gu Fanyan curled her lips and sneered: "That makes things easier. The Gu family will invite the most authoritative psychiatrist to evaluate her, and the process will be the most impartial. We'll see if she's sick or not."
After saying that, Gu Fanyan turned and left.
Suddenly, she heard a series of hurried footsteps rushing towards her.
She instinctively turned her head, only to see Sheng Xin's angry and hateful face rushing towards her, holding a vase in his hand.
She dodged to the side, and the vase hit her shoulder, rolled down, and shattered on the floor.
A hand pulled her forcefully away from the shards on the ground.
Lin Zhibai arrived just in time, pulled her away, and then kicked Sheng Xin.
Sheng Xin lost her balance and fell to the ground with a thud.
Still not satisfied, he took another step forward, wanting to kick again.
He may not have realized it, but others could see clearly that he had kicked Sheng Xin in the stomach.
"No!" Mother Sheng shouted sternly.
"Lin Zhibai!" Gu Fanyan called out as well.
Lin Zhibai kicked the wall, and his handsome face crumpled up in pain.
Lin's mother immediately came over with her people, and the mess on the ground made her frown.
Sheng's mother helped Sheng Xin up, tears streaming down her face.
Lin Zhibai roared, "Mom, if you don't send these two people away tonight, don't acknowledge me as your son anymore!"
Lin's mother frowned even more deeply: "Fanyan, take him and go first."
Lin Zhibai's face turned pale with anger: "Mom, do you really want me to publish a notice in the newspaper to sever our mother-son relationship?"
Gu Fanyan grabbed his arm: "Let's go."
Lin Zhibai followed her unwillingly.
Upon reaching the garden, he could no longer hold on and pulled his injured foot back.
"Sit down." Gu Fanyan helped him sit down on the bench and took off his shoes and socks.
My big toe is swollen like a grape, and the other toes on the same foot are also swollen.
"Did you have to kick so hard? Did you want to kill the baby in her belly?" Gu Fanyan couldn't imagine what the consequences would be after that kick.
“The child is innocent, but they want to use the child as leverage, so the child I kicked wasn’t a child,” Lin Zhibai said without hesitation.
Gu Fanyan knew he was right, but thinking back on the past still made her feel a little sad.
"Lin Zhibai, if one day we break up," she asked absentmindedly, "and I just found out I'm pregnant, will you think I'm using the child to tie you down?"
“No,” he answered decisively, “because we won’t break up.”
You'd better give me a whole football team.
Gu Fanyan was stunned. He seemed to have answered her question, but at the same time, he didn't.
"What's wrong with you?" He noticed that something was off about her expression.
Gu Fanyan shook her head: "What did you say to your aunt?"
Upon hearing this, Lin Zhibai's mood soured.
His mother actually told him not to worry about Sheng Xin's affairs, and just to live in the apartment with Gu Fanyan.
"Sister Fanyan, let's move to an apartment. If we stay here any longer, I'll get hurt again," he said.
"Who wants to live with you?" Gu Fanyan retorted.
"My foot is injured again!" He drooped his eyes and put on a pitiful look.
Gu Fanyan smiled, "I will take good care of you."
But the truth is, she chose a capable nanny from the Gu family to come to the apartment every day to take care of his three meals a day and change his dressings regularly.
That day, after Lin Guangchen got out of his hospital bed, he called the nurse.
"Replace all my medication with glucose today," he instructed.
The nurse asked in confusion, "But your treatment isn't over yet; there's still a week left."
"Listen to Dr. Lin, he's an expert and professor." Gu Fanyan appeared at the door.
Lin Guangchen looked up and met her gaze; the air suddenly thickened with tension.
The nurse tactfully left.
Lin Guangchen smiled casually, "What brings you to visit me? Shouldn't you be in the throes of a passionate romance with Lin Zhibai?"
Gu Fanyan found it amusing, but her eyes turned cold: "You're admitting you're lying to me without even offering an explanation?"
Lin Guangchen was quite frank: "You've already found out, so what's there to explain?"
"So, you've been lying to me from the very beginning. I asked you to pretend to be my boyfriend, and you just went along with it and got close to me?"
“That day at the resort, you deliberately let me know that the manager of HT was a fake, and then you deliberately left me alone at the resort.”
"Later, you deliberately asked Lin Zhibai to help me pick up the jewelry I ordered and took that fake photo of him and the jewelry store clerk making the transaction."
Lin Guangchen admitted to everything she said, "You're very smart, I can't hide anything from you."
"Why are you doing this?" Gu Fanyan asked. "What benefits do you get from making me fall out with Lin Zhibai?"
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