When Lin Zhitang came downstairs, she saw Su Ya and Su Yun affectionately cooking dinner together in the kitchen. It truly looked like a loving mother and dutiful daughter.
Seeing Lin Zhitang come down, Su Ya exchanged a glance with Su Yun before smiling warmly.
“Tangtang, you’re down. Your sister and I already prepared dinner. Come eat.”
“Okay, Mom.”
The three sat down for dinner. Throughout the meal, Su Yun kept subtly probing for details about Lin Zhitang and Lu Ming’an’s outing during the day.
Lin Zhitang rolled her eyes slightly and curled her lips into a smile, deliberately mentioning little details about how she and Lu Ming’an got along.
Su Yun’s expression shifted like a color palette—it was truly entertaining.
Watching Su Yun’s constantly changing face, Lin Zhitang even found herself eating more than usual.
After dinner, Lin Zhitang imperiously ordered Su Yun to clean up. Su Yun clenched her fists in anger.
Lin Zhitang, you little bitch. You really think you can order me around like a servant.
Just wait. After tomorrow, you’ll no longer be the untouchable eldest miss of the Lin family.
As if remembering something, the furious expression on Su Yun’s face suddenly transformed once again into a gentle smile.
Back in her room, Lin Zhitang only felt her head becoming heavier and heavier. She planned to take a bath and sleep early, but just as she reached the bathroom door, something suddenly felt wrong.
In her previous life, she had often slept late and woken early. Since being reborn, although she no longer stayed up as late as before, there was no reason she should suddenly feel sleepy this early.
Lin Zhitang carefully replayed the dinner scene in her mind.
Then realization struck.
No wonder Su Ya had shown no reaction when she deliberately angered Su Yun at dinner earlier.
It wasn’t that there had been no reaction at all…
They had simply already made their move.
How impatient.
It seemed Lu Ming’an’s appearance had affected Su Yun far more than expected.
And Su Ya truly was overflowing with motherly love toward Su Yun.
Su Ya had worn a perfect mask in the Lin family for so many years without exposing even the slightest flaw. Her schemes were definitely not ordinary. After failing once, she would never strike again so quickly unless something significant had happened.
The only thing Lin Zhitang could think of was Lu Ming’an’s arrival today, which had ignited Su Yun’s jealousy.
Lin Zhitang closed her eyes.
Wasn’t she just a joke?
The motherly love Su Ya gave Su Yun was something she herself could never obtain no matter how desperately she longed for it.
None of this had anything to do with her, yet Su Ya was still so biased.
Perhaps human hearts had always been crooked.
Lin Zhitang smiled bitterly.
After drinking a cup of spiritual liquid, she took out a stick of incense, lit it, lay on the bed, and quietly waited for everything to unfold.
Meanwhile, in the living room—
Su Ya watched Su Yun pacing back and forth and shook her head.
After glancing at the time, she said, “The time has come. Go bring him in. Once he’s inside the room, pretend you know nothing. I’ll handle the rest.”
“Mom, will that drug really work?”
“Don’t worry. I spent a huge amount to get it. Tomorrow everything will go exactly as you wish.”
After receiving reassurance from Su Ya, Su Yun hurried outside and led Wu Jianguo, who had been waiting beyond the Lin Residence gates, directly toward Lin Zhitang’s room.
“Brother Wu, I’ve already arranged everything. After tomorrow, you’ll finally get to marry Lin Zhitang.”
“Little Sister Yun, don’t worry. From now on, we’ll be family. Once Tang’er and I get married, I’ll definitely give you a huge red envelope.”
“No need. As long as Tangtang marries well, I’ll be satisfied as her older sister,” Su Yun replied with a fake smile.
Tch. What a vicious little woman, Wu Jianguo thought.
But that had nothing to do with him.
Thinking of Lin Zhitang’s graceful figure, his lower abdomen tightened, lust filling his eyes.
Beauty, here I come.
“Alright, this is the room. Just go in. I’ll leave first. Remember what I told you. Tomorrow…” Su Yun said at the bedroom door.
“Don’t worry. I’m going in.”
Wu Jianguo looked impatient beyond restraint.
Hearing the sound of the lock opening outside, Lin Zhitang clenched her hands tightly and swallowed nervously.
In her previous life, after being drugged, she had been forced into a relationship with Wu Jianguo. Then Su Ya and Su Yun had brought a crowd to “catch them in the act.” Wu Jianguo had insisted she seduced him, turning her into a publicly condemned “loose woman” during her father’s funeral.
People called her shameless and immoral, saying she could not even wait until her father’s funeral ended before sleeping with a divorced man carrying three children.
Before she could even settle accounts with him, he had personally delivered himself to her door.
In that case, how could she not repay their “kind intentions”?
Watching Wu Jianguo enter Lin Zhitang’s room, Su Yun revealed a smug smile.
Lin Zhitang, I wonder whether you’ll enjoy this grand gift of mine. Though it doesn’t matter if you don’t. Nothing can change now.
She turned and returned to her own room.
“Tang’er, I’m here. Let me love you properly. Those slim legs, that tiny waist, that big ass—I’ve dreamed about them every night.”
Wu Jianguo squinted at the figure on the bed, excitement covering his face. One hand impatiently tore at his clothes while the other reached beneath the blanket.
A strange flush slowly spread across his face.
“Three… two… one…”
Listening to his disgusting words and approaching footsteps, Lin Zhitang silently counted in her heart.
Thud.
The moment she heard the sound, Lin Zhitang instantly opened her eyes.
Seeing Wu Jianguo collapsed beside the bed, hatred filled her gaze as she viciously kicked him several times to vent briefly.
She then took out a black pill. Using a silk scarf to avoid touching him directly, she forced the pill down Wu Jianguo’s throat.
“What a wonderful thing. Giving it to you is truly a waste,” she said coldly.
Suppressing the disgust in her heart, Lin Zhitang stored Wu Jianguo and his clothes inside her space.
Thankfully she had the space. Otherwise, there was no way she could drag around a beast like him.
After putting away the incense and opening the windows to ventilate the room, she quietly stepped outside.
Although the Lin family now only had Lin Zhitang remaining, the family’s ancestors had once produced high-ranking officials and even imperial consorts. Naturally, they possessed more than a few hidden tricks.
The reason Su Ya had remained safely in the Lin family all these years was partly because she was skilled at pretending, and partly because she had given birth to the Lin family’s only bloodline.
Only she believed she had deceived everyone completely.
What she didn’t know was that in Lin Chennian’s eyes, her tricks were nothing more than child’s play.
If Lin Chennian had known that after his death his only daughter would suffer such schemes, he likely would have regretted not exposing Su Ya’s true nature earlier—and regretted protecting Lin Zhitang too well.
Outside Su Yun’s room, Lin Zhitang listened carefully.
Hearing no movement inside, she quietly unlocked the door with a key.
Seeing Su Yun sleeping soundly, she guessed Su Yun was probably already celebrating victory in her dreams.
Every key to the Lin Residence existed in duplicate, and Lin Zhitang possessed a full set. Originally they had belonged to Lin Chennian, but after his death they naturally passed to her.
Lin Zhitang released Wu Jianguo from the space onto Su Yun’s bed, then fed Su Yun an identical black pill.
Both pills were “good things.”
The pill given to Wu Jianguo ensured that unless the drug’s effects completely wore off naturally, he would be unable to stop. If forcibly interrupted midway, he would become permanently impotent afterward.
As for Su Yun’s pill—
Once intimacy occurred, pregnancy was guaranteed.
Lin Zhitang glanced around Su Yun’s room.
There were quite a few good things inside.
A savings passbook, two thousand yuan in cash, a wristwatch, and even a ruby jewelry set.
If Su Yun had not been so greedy, then for the sake of their childhood together, Lin Zhitang truly would not have minded these things.
She no longer remembered exactly when Su Yun had changed.
Perhaps she had never been sincere from the start.
As a child, Lin Zhitang had no friends.
When Su Ya brought Su Yun into the Lin family, she had genuinely been happy.
The Lin family never lacked money, so Lin Chennian did not care about raising one more child. As long as Lin Zhitang was happy, that was enough.
Although Su Yun’s treatment could not compare to Lin Zhitang’s, it was still far better than most families and completely different from the miserable life she had before entering the Lin household.
But gradually, Su Yun became dissatisfied.
Why should she always be inferior to Lin Zhitang?
Soon the drugs took effect.
The two impatiently tangled together. Clothes scattered across the floor as muffled moans echoed through the room.
Thoughtfully, Lin Zhitang closed the door for them.
“The man you chose yourself… enjoy him properly.”
Now she only needed to wait for tomorrow’s grand show.
Just as she was about to return to her room, Lin Zhitang noticed Su Ya’s bedroom door slightly open.
She wasn’t inside.
A strange feeling rose in Lin Zhitang’s heart.
After searching upstairs and downstairs, she finally stopped outside the storage room on the first floor—
because sounds were coming from within.