Chapter 873: Wen He, Dont Fall Asleep! (1/2)

He hummed quietly and continued, “After that, he married my mother, who had always loved him. Since mum came from an influential family, he used their connection to overcome the crisis. Their relationship has always been distant, but they were at least courteous to each other. Mum was satisfied, though. She was willing to wait for over a decade to marry the man she loved and treated Lin Kang as family too. However…”

Gu Jinzhi stopped there.

Wen He could imagine what happened after that.

The relationship between stepmothers and their stepchildren would always be challenging. Effort from both sides was necessary to maintain harmony in the family.

“Lin Kang hated mum. He thought she had replaced his own mother’s place in the family and treated her harshly, but that was only to be expected. It was only after I was born that the Lin family descended into chaos. They were always arguing and fighting, until ten years ago… when I turned fifteen.”

Gu Jinzhi spoke with a calm and plain voice, as though he was narrating a story that was not his own.

Every word felt like a physical blow to his body, but he showed none of the pain he was enduring.

“Lin Kang killed my mother.”

!!

Wen He stared wide-eyed at him and gasped, “What?!”

“On that fateful day, mum and dad were arguing over something when Lin Kang crashed a flower vase on mum’s head. He even stopped people from calling the ambulance. My mother slowly bled to death.”

Lin Kang’s voice turned flat. “When I came back from school and saw what happened, I tried to call the police. However, Lin Kang and Lin Yuntian tied me up and locked me in the basement.”

Wen He asked anxiously, “What happened after that?”

“There is no ‘after’.” Gu Jinzhi’s voice turned dead as he said, “I escaped and broke off from the Lin family.”

“Oh…”

Wen He hummed and felt at a loss.

She thought that he had left certain details out.