Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

Chyou had her mouth covered as she looked at Yin in horror. The situation somehow kept worsening. A lump formed in her throat thinking of such a supposedly pleasant evening to be turned into a nightmare.

As Yating paid attention to Chyou, his expression hardened and so did his fists. Her usual cheery and bubbly face was now marred with tears and hurt. Every nerve, every vein in his body twisted with revolt at the sight of her trembling body.

His chilling gaze returned and he said, “Regardless of what you think about me, Cheng Yin, don’t ever utter that bullshit again.”

Yin slightly shook and it seemed the punch was sobering him up from his intoxication. His heart thudded hard as Yating’s murderous gaze threatened to squeeze his life out of him.

In all this time, Yating never acted or carried himself in the way that expressed he belonged to a wealthy family. But now Yin felt that he did. The pressure of his status and influence mounted on his back and simply the way he stood, too, exerted a sickening feeling in his stomach.

Yet amidst this, the bitterness equally swayed in his heart from all directions.

“You…It’s easy for you to say! After all, you were enjoying all her advances, didn’t you!?”

Xiang was quickly losing his patience. “Is anybody doing it or should I go ahead and kill this man? I cannot tolerate his nonsense any longer!”

Yating stared at Yin as if he was speaking some alien language. “Advances? Do you understand exactly who you are talking about?

The woman who unreservedly supported you knowing that you are an addict, who sincerely did everything she could to help her boyfriend fight it, who constantly gave reassurances of her love towards him and who went as far as breaking her friendship with me despite it going against her ideals – Being the best partner that she was, you think she deserves to listen to this crap from you?”

Chyou stared at the floor, his words and resounding questions falling at her ears. Something struck at the deepest chord of her heart.

Yin stiffened. Yating suddenly exposed his addiction out of nowhere and now that it was out in the open, a disconcerting feeling arose in her chest.

Yating grabbed the collar of his shirt, his face reddening with fury. “You were so pathetic that you reduced the Queen as if she was a beggar for your love and understanding and you have the nerve to act all high and mighty?”

Xiang stared at them blankly. “What did you say before? An addict? He is an addict?”

At that point, Xiaosi and Caihong’s expressions were indescribable.

“Sis, you were dating an addict!?”

Chyou pressed her lips hard. “I…I didn’t want to abandon Yin. I know how harsh our industry can get so…”

“So you will put up with anything?” His gaze darkened.

“No! I understand his stressors but it doesn’t mean that I supported his way of getting relief. That’s why I wanted him to get clean…To fight it and get rid of it.”

Yin stammered. “Th-That’s right! I did everything Chyou asked me for. Even when it was difficult for me, I tried my hardest…Yet every time I get to see her so close to Gu Yating that…”

Yating felt disgusted. He was about to lash out at him when Xiaosi raised his palm, stopping him. His eyes narrowed at Yin. “So you say you tried your hardest to get rid of addiction?”

“Y-Yes!”

“Yet you come to meet your girlfriend’s family to introduce yourself in an intoxicated and high state. Just how much have you sniffed?”

He froze.

A cold smile stretched on Xiaosi’s lips. “Now that we are talking about who worked hard and who compromised a lot, let’s explore this fully. You say you worked hard but your doctor doesn’t have the same things to say. The one to whom you should have been going for your rehabilitation but you didn’t.”

Yin blinked rapidly. “Excuse me?”

“You have been regularly going for your appointments, but you didn’t. You aren’t working on yourself at all. Chyou did her best to find the best doctor for you, yet you are returning her intentions in the worst possible way.”

The person who was the most dumbfounded was Chyou. “I don’t understand…”

“He has skipped his appointments. He is not getting treated for his addiction at all.”

She froze. “That’s not possible. He always said-”

“He had lied to you.”

A sinking feeling drowned her as if she was being pulled into a dark abyss.

“H-How do you know about…”

“I squeezed the answer out of Yating later after the scandal happened. You were hesistant with the remaining ad shoots with Yating and I wondered why. I felt something was going wrong between you two so I insisted he tell me,” his eyes squinted. “He was trying his best to protect your little secret.”

Yating cleared his throat.

“And talking to you before, I had an inkling that something wasn’t right. Turns out that a lot of things were going terribly wrong. Cheng Yin was betraying your trust at every step of the way.”

“That’s not true!” Yin exclaimed. “That doctor is lying! I have been visiting her regularly! Gu Yating…” he gritted his teeth. “Gu Yating must have bribed her! Yes, he couldn’t see our happy relationship so he bribed her to tell lies and nonsense!”

Chyou’s hands trembled. She felt as if she couldn’t breathe.

“Chyou, you cannot believe what they are saying! I-I never skipped my appointments. It’s Gu Yating’s disgusting plot!”

Xiaosi’s smile turned even icier. “Okay. Let’s give you the benefit of the doubt. Let’s say that Yating played behind the scenes to entrap you.”

Yin sighed in relief and nodded. “Yes, he did!”

Xiaosi clenched his jaw as he knew that the next question would wreak havoc in Chyou’s life.

“If Yating is responsible for that, then is he also responsible for your choice of sleeping with another woman while you were in a relationship with my daughter?”