Reborn to Outshine My Ex and His White Moonlight-Chapter 53 - Memory Confused

Chapter 53: Chapter 53 Memory Confused?

Chapter 53 -53 Memory Confused?

Gong Mansion.

As soon as Lin Zhiyi returned, she slept like a log.

In the end, hunger woke her. She had trouble moving, so she cried out to the outside of the door,

“Mom?”

“Uncle?”

But no one responded. She thought her voice was too soft, that Liu He and Gong Shiyan hadn’t heard her.

She raised her hand to grab her cell phone when she noticed the note left on the bedside table.

“Mom is accompanying your uncle to a social event. I’ve prepared some snacks for you, eat them if you’re hungry.”

Upon opening the plate, there were three small snacks.

Liu He really treated her like she had the stomach of a little bird.

After devouring the three small snacks in two bites, her stomach still rumbled with hunger.

She reluctantly picked up the internal line phone by the bed and dialed the kitchen.

“Auntie, is there anything else to eat?”

“The chefs are off duty,” the maid spoke lightly, yawning to signal she was going to sleep.

“Mhm.”

After hanging up, Lin Zhiyi mocked her own futile efforts.

The Gong family servants never paid any attention to her. How could they possibly prepare food for her in the middle of the night?

With no other choice, she propped herself up and headed to the kitchen. She had only taken a few steps when pain shot through her foot, causing her to fall to the ground.

Her arms instinctively braced for the fall, landing right on a wound that had been scratched by a tree branch.

“Hisss…”

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Pain caused Lin Zhiyi to take a sharp inhale, yet she still endured it and stood up.

Hunger really did breed obsession, insisting on eating something.

She blew on the wound on her arm and limped out of the yard.

Gong Mansion was composed of different courtyards with Su’s Garden landscaping and traditional Chinese corridors interlaced in between.

Even late at night, with the sparse moonlight and stars, the scenery under each street lamp was still picturesque.

Lin Zhiyi walked with stops and starts into the nearby kitchen.

An entire wall of custom fridge cabinets held many valuable ingredients, but knowing her place, she only took an egg.

Just as she was about to crack it, the light above her head fizzed twice and went out.

The entire kitchen plunged into silence, save for the sound of the wind moving the window curtains.

Whooosh… Whooosh…

A voice came through the air.

“Reflect on yourself. A nanny will take care of your daughter.”

“Third Young Master, please don’t! Xingxing has always been cared for by me; she can’t be without her mother!”

“So you know that a child can’t be without her mother. Why did you then harm someone else’s child?”

“I didn’t! How many times do I have to say I didn’t!”

“A person who resorted to getting pregnant through seduction to force a marriage with me, you think I’d believe your explanation? Sichen is in a coma at the hospital, and you will stay here for these two days.”

With a loud bang, the door was forcefully locked, and the entire room was enveloped in darkness.

The air vent fluttered the thin curtains with the same whooshing sound.

It was like a dull knife cutting into Lin Zhiyi’s heart.

Outside the door, there were Xingxing’s cries.

“I want Mommy! I want Mommy!”

“Stop crying!”

Hearing the child’s heart-wrenching cries, she still gave in.

“I was wrong! I was wrong! I’ll reflect! Please spare the child! I am begging you!”

The whooshing sounds continued, and Lin Zhiyi, as if by conditioned reflex, smashed the egg in her hand and covered her head, “Ah! Don’t come any closer…”

Suddenly, a hand wrapped around her trembling body, pressing her tightly against a chest.

She instinctively pounded with her fists, but the man just silently endured.

“It’s me.”

Gong Chen.

The billowing sheer curtain flew up behind him, instantly sprinkling down a swath of moonlight, casting a soft halo upon the man’s tall and proud silhouette without the slightest incongruity.

It was like a shroud of mist enveloping him, obscuring a clear view of his gaze.

Lin Zhiyi could only faintly sense the corners of his lips tighten.

She moved her lips and was about to speak when he covered her mouth with his hand, his face closing in as well.

The chiseled features were profound under the moonlight, the ink-dark eyes were like bottomless secluded pools, from which she could even sense a hint of aggression and danger.

Lin Zhiyi struggled to pry his hand away, but he remained unmoved.

She glared at him and bit down on his fingers.

Gong Chen merely frowned and did not let her go.

At that moment, the sound of footsteps approached from the corridor.

“Who’s there?”

“Could it be someone from the second house come to steal something? They even called earlier asking for food. Middle of the night, and she doesn’t weigh her own worth, does she deserve it?”

Steal?

That had been Lin Zhiyi’s standing in the Gong Family for a long time.

She did not deserve anything from the Gong Family; taking anything was stealing.

She loosened her bite, lowered her eyes to avoid his stare, but still felt immensely embarrassed.

Seeing the servants about to come over, Lin Zhiyi immediately regained composure, signaling Gong Chen to release her.

Instead, Gong Chen steadied her and turned her around, pressing her against the center island. In the midst of her panic, he leaned in slightly, his face against the moonlight, breathtaking.

He didn’t even glance at the door, calmly saying, “It’s me, the light’s broken. Someone go check it; no need to come over.”

The voice outside immediately became respectful, “Yes, Third Young Master.”

Soon after, the light came back on.

The man’s face before her became instantly clear, every breath that fell seemed to iron over Lin Zhiyi’s skin.

He didn’t hurry to release her, his gaze sweeping over her and finally resting on her scratched wrist.

“Does it still hurt?”

“Mmm! Mmmmm!” Not at all! Let me go!

Watching the animated Lin Zhiyi, Gong Chen’s deep eyes flickered, and he removed his hand from her mouth.

At the joint between his middle finger and palm appeared two rows of deep bite marks.

He shook his hand, casually remarking, “How many times have you bitten now? Changing your astrological sign to the dog?”

Lin Zhiyi snorted in disdain, refusing to respond, her attitude warning him she dared to bite again.

Gong Chen wiped his hand, then propped an arm on the island, looking at her, “Hungry?”

Lin Zhiyi remained silent.

She knew all too well how difficult it was to leave from under Gong Chen’s watchful eye while injured, so she simply chose not to waste her strength.

As she pondered, her body suddenly lifted into the air, and she found herself seated on the island.

She lifted her eyelids slightly, and to her surprise, Gong Chen stood before her, taking off his clothes.

Raising his arm, his taut chest and trim waist line surged against the constraints of his black shirt.

Lin Zhiyi was momentarily stunned, then immediately lifted her hand, prepared to resist.

But in the next second, an overcoat was placed upon her, the residual warmth of the clothes suddenly giving her chilled back some heat.

She looked at Gong Chen, puzzled, as he undid his cufflinks and rolled up his sleeves, then… knelt down to clean up the broken eggs she had smashed.

Afterward, he took new ingredients from the fridge.

With his back to Lin Zhiyi, he asked indifferently, “Want shrimp paste?”

Lin Zhiyi’s mind was taking a moment to catch up, she replied instinctively, “Yes.”

Gong Chen then stood by the stove, boiled water for noodles, and added shrimp paste and lettuce.

Watching him lower his head to stir the noodles with chopsticks, Lin Zhiyi thought she was dreaming.

Her head even started to ache a bit.

In a past life, Song Wanqiu had bragged that Gong Chen couldn’t cook, and his favorite dish was the homestyle food she prepared.

After eating a tableful of dishes Lin Zhiyi made, he had told her not to bother in the future.

But the man before her moved with such skill it was clear he was no stranger to cooking.

Could this be a side effect of being reborn, with memories starting to confuse themselves?