The sudden voice startled the three of them, and they all looked toward the door.
When they saw Lin Ye’s face pale with anger and his eyes bloodshot as he stared at them, their faces all drained of color.
Wang Hui immediately jumped up from Lin Chi’s arms, trembling as she asked, “A-Ye, why did you come back so suddenly? When did you get back?”
Lin Ye looked at her sarcastically, “If I hadn’t come back suddenly, how would I have known that you were doing such filthy things behind my back!”
Wang Hui tried to cover it up, “A-Ye, what are you talking about? Isn’t this some kind of misunderstanding?”
Lin Ye’s gaze toward Wang Hui turned unusually cold and unfamiliar.
Suddenly, he felt maybe he had never truly known this woman at all.
Otherwise, how could he not have realized how strong her mental resilience was?
She had been caught red-handed but still had the nerve to pretend innocence before him.
“A misunderstanding? Wang Hui! Do you take me for a fool?” Lin Ye shouted.
Wang Hui shivered again at his yelling and unconsciously leaned closer to Lin Chi, clearly seeing him as her strongest support.
Human instinct does not lie.
Watching this, Lin Ye felt even more pathetic and hateful toward himself.
How foolish had he been to never notice such obvious deception?
“Enough!” The old lady suddenly slammed the armrest of the sofa, asserting her seniority.
Her cloudy eyes glared at Lin Ye as she said, “Why are you shouting? Xiao Chi is just trying to take care of Huihui for you. If you’re ungrateful and lose your temper like this, what exactly do you want? To rebel?”
Listening to his grandmother’s unreasonable words, Lin Ye felt a deep sense of estrangement and heartache once again.
He had always thought that although his grandmother favored his younger brother Lin Chi more, after their parents died, she had automatically handed over the responsibility of supporting the family to him.
But as the eldest brother in the family, it was his duty to take care of his younger brother.
He had willingly shouldered that responsibility.
Now, it seemed he had never truly been regarded as a real family member.
Lin Ye suddenly laughed bitterly, “Taking care? What kind of ‘taking care’ is it when the younger brother is taking the sister-in-law to bed?”
“You’re talking nonsense!” the old lady stubbornly snapped back, trying to use her authority as grandmother to silence Lin Ye.
“Nonsense?” Lin Ye laughed even more sarcastically.
He pulled out the condom that Cola had desperately found for him as evidence. “I’ve got the proof right here! And you say I’m talking nonsense?”
Seeing what Lin Ye held in his hand, especially the obvious teeth marks on it, Lin Chi and Wang Hui both paled.
They wanted to deny that it was theirs, but when the words reached their lips, they remembered that Lin Ye was a policeman — a simple test could easily prove that it was indeed their item.
Besides, they didn’t even know how long Lin Ye had been back or whether he had already overheard everything they said.
Now denial was pointless.
What mattered most was making Lin Ye accept the situation and still serve them as before, like a beast of burden.
The old lady thought the same way.
She slammed the armrest of the sofa again and said to Lin Ye, “Since you already know, then just accept it.”
Even though Lin Ye was thoroughly heartbroken, he still felt deep pain hearing her say that.
He looked at her in disbelief, his mouth opening and closing, and after a long pause choked out, “Grandma, what do you mean by that?”
“Anyway, you’re rarely home. Huihui married you only to be a living widow. In the end, it’s our family who wronged Huihui,” the old lady said matter-of-factly.
Lin Ye couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
He looked at Wang Hui and asked with difficulty, “Is that how you feel too?”
Wang Hui felt very guilty under Lin Ye’s intense gaze, but she quickly thought on her feet and immediately put on a tearful expression.
She wiped the corner of her eye and said to Lin Ye, “A-Ye, I just want to have a child. Grandma has been pressuring me to have one, but you’re never home. How am I supposed to do it alone? Don’t you care about how much pressure I’m under?”
Lin Ye couldn’t help but laugh angrily at her words.
It was the first time he realized that when someone is furious to the extreme, they actually laugh.
He lowered his eyes to the condom in his hand and said, “You want a child, yet you’re still using such fancy condoms? Wang Hui, is there any truth left in your words?”
Wang Hui bit her lip tightly, hating Lin Ye deeply in her heart.
How could he say such things about her!
Seeing this, Lin Chi pitifully hugged Wang Hui and stared directly at Lin Ye.
He said, “Big brother, why are you being so petty? We’re both kids of the Lin family — what’s yours is mine. Why make such a big deal about it?”
Listening to Lin Chi’s shameless words, Lin Ye no longer felt anger.
He only felt that his values had been completely destroyed and couldn’t understand how things had come to this.
Lin Chi continued, “Anyway, big brother, you’re always away working. Grandma, sister-in-law, and I all appreciate what you’ve done for the family. Let me take care of grandma and sister-in-law for you, okay? Besides, even if the child is mine and sister-in-law’s, they can still call you ‘Dad’ later. You’re not losing anything, big brother.”
The old lady also chimed in, “Yeah, eldest son, if you really want to argue, Huihui’s the one losing out here. The second son had a child with her without asking for a bride price from the Lin family, saving you some money. If you ask me, you should give that money to the second son and Huihui, so the child can be raised more luxuriously.”
Lin Ye’s gaze swept over the three of them.
At this moment, the family members he once cared about most had calculating expressions all over their faces.
One by one, their shrewd looks made him sick to his stomach.
Lin Ye really felt so disgusted he nearly vomited.
But he’d been busy with work all day and hadn’t eaten much, so there was nothing in his stomach to throw up.
He gagged a few times and only brought up some sour liquid.
Wiping his mouth, Lin Ye straightened up and looked at the three of them.
His eyes showed no trace of familial affection, no sorrow or resentment — only coldness.
He asked, “Where’s Cola?”
The three were clearly caught off guard by Lin Ye suddenly changing the subject to Cola and all looked a bit guilty.
Only the old lady kept her composure and said sternly, “Who knows where it ran off to! You’re supposed to be arranging a bride price for your brother — what does Cola have to do with that?”
Lin Ye’s gaze grew even colder as he stared unblinkingly at the old lady and said, “So, what you’re saying is, Wang Hui is supposed to marry both me and Lin Chi, and I—the victim of being cheated on—am supposed to pay the bride price?”
“Exactly!” the old lady said confidently. “Huihui agreed to this, so what are you complaining about? Since Huihui will live with Xiao Chi in the future, as the older brother, of course you have to pay the bride price!”
“You must be dreaming!” Lin Ye shouted. “I’m cutting ties with all of you!”
— The end of the Chapter–
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