Reborn: The Return of the Villainous Mr. Liu

“Qiao Kang, how dare you lie!” Yin gnashed his jaw. “Even you are betraying me-”

“Come out of your fucking delusion, Yin!” He finally snapped. “You are the one who screwed it all up and now you are acting as if you are in some lala land to not see what is happening right in front of you! Wake up already! I cannot clean up your mess any longer!”

It was that moment which rained down upon him like the harsh realization of reality. Everything was out and clear as daylight as if the rays left no scope to hide in the darkness any longer.

From the corner of his eye, he could see the outline of Chyou’s figure, but he didn’t dare to look at her. He didn’t dare to look at what expression her face now held.

What…what should I do-

Before his jumbling thoughts could make any sense and come to a conclusion, a loud slap reverberated across the air as if an earthquake shook the ground. The slap landed at the same cheek as where Yating had punched him. The immense pain made him feel breathless and a slit cracked at the corner of his lip.

“Ch-Chyou please listen to me-”

He turned to talk to her but instead met Caihong’s fury-blazed eyes. Chyou hadn’t moved from her place an inch.

Caihong’s slightly misty irises were filled with loathe and ire. It was a hard slap that stung her palm too, but she didn’t care about any of it.

“First of all, don’t you dare talk to my daughter anymore…” her livid, shaking voice quietly threatened him like a fearsome tigress. “After everything that you possibly did to smash her heart like it’s a toy you can break anytime, you have the nerve to still face her!?”

“M-Mrs. Zhu-”

“Shut the fuck up, you piece of shit!!”

Even Xiang trembled with his mother’s roar and promptly hid behind Xiaosi so as to not die as collateral damage. “Wow Mom is cursing…”

Xiaosi nodded. “Nothing can save him now.”

“You broke her trust every step of the way and you still have to approach us and defend yourself!? You made her go against her ideals, you lied to her about your treatment and then…”

Disgust marred her face as she threw a hateful look at Qiu. The latter immediately lowered her head, gulping hard.

“Fell into a shameless woman’s innocent words and slept with her? And for what reason? Because you thought that Chyou was cheating on you? So you thought let’s do tit for tat instead of having a proper conversation!” She angrily laughed.

Caihong’s imposing aura was leaving no chance for him to even speak. Suddenly, she felt an odd but irritating scent of a perfume coming off Yin’s body now that she stood closer to him to confront him.

She stared at Qiu and in an extremely low and threatening voice ordered her. “Come in front of me right now.”

Qiu jolted, not expecting to be called out. “I-I…what…”

“Stand in front of me right now!”

Her order immediately made her jump to her feet as she tremblingly stood before her with her knees feeling like jelly. Caihong grabbed her hand and slightly sniffed the back of it.

“Ew Mom. How can you smell a disgusting woman like her?” Xiang blurted out.

Caihong’s razor sharp glare at him forced him to hold back his tongue. “I mean yeah you are always right…”

Caihong moved her focus back to Qiu and then stared at Yin, long and hard. “You…you slept with her before coming here, didn’t you?”

Chyou’s eyes ever so slowly widened. She thought there was nothing else left to bear anymore but…

Yin felt as if the Death God himself personally sucked out his soul. “W-what are you saying…T-this is ridiculous.”

“You slept with her…” Caihong blankly looked at him, struggling to process how anyone can get so shameless. “You were here to meet your girlfriend’s family but you were sleeping with another woman right before you came. Ah…is that why you got late today?”

His face paled harder.

Yating balled his fist and made up his mind. Chyou had heard enough. He would take her away from the monster who would keep breaking her heart the longer she would stay. He took one step ahead but Caihong stopped him. “Let her be here.”

“No. She has heard enough, Aunt.”

“Not at all. On the contrary, she hasn’t heard anything yet. I want her to see every bit of truth about this man that there is to see.”

“It’s not necessary,” his gaze darkened.

Xiang applauded Yating’s courage.

Wow, he is not afraid of his death at all!

“It is necessary.”

Caihong maintained her level-headed gaze at Yating understandably but also resiliently.

“There was a time in my past, Yating, where I lived eight long years in the dark. I hated the man I was supposed to love. I hated my daughter who I was supposed to cherish. The hatred was only because I didn’t know the truth at all. I just foolishly kept loathing the wrong people in my life only because things were kept from me to protect me.”

A faint flicker passed through Xiaosi’s eyes.

“But that doesn’t help anybody, Yating. Know every bit of truth there is to know no matter how bitter it is because only then your heart can decide what path to follow. I know. Truth is blunt. Truth is poisonous. Truth is cutting.

It makes you feel as if you are getting cut into half but unless you go through that excruciating pain, you will never be able to wake up to reality.”

Her gaze clouded, reminiscing the past, “I needed to see with my own eyes how far Xiaosi went to love me. And Chyou needs to see with her own eyes just how far Cheng Yin went to break her. She will have to see it so that there is not a speck of doubt in her mind that she would ever need to forgive him.”