My Villain Is Super Sweet (GL) - CHAPTER 40

When Lin Lang returned to Yuyuan, it was nearly 3 PM. She immediately placed her luggage by the entrance and went to open the doors and windows to air out the room.

Unfortunately, it was New Year’s Eve, and she couldn’t find a cleaning lady at the last minute, so she had to do it herself.

Lin Lang stretched her back, loosened up her muscles, and rolled up her sleeves to start cleaning.

She was thinking to herself that it’s highly likely Gu Qingci would spend the night here, so she needed to get everything in order. She couldn’t let the young lady feel uncomfortable.

By the time the floor was shining, and the house was spotless, it was already past 5 PM.

Her phone had rung several times, with people asking if she had arrived. They were telling her to come home as soon as possible, because the whole family was waiting for her, and it was causing a scene.

Lin Lang replied calmly, saying she would be home by around 6, and didn’t say anything more before hanging up.

A bunch of family members with their own agendas really made her lose interest in family gatherings.

Everyone’s hearts weren’t aligned, and their faces were no better—so why bother coming together every year to torment each other?

She admired her cleaning work for a moment and nodded in satisfaction. With everything looking this good, the young lady should be happy.

Seeing that it was almost time, she took a shower, washed her hair, and changed her clothes. With a heavy heart as if she were preparing for a funeral, she got ready to head back for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

As she was leaving, she casually sent a message to Ting Ge, asking, “Have you discovered anything recently?”

Previously, Ting Ge had told her that He Jikai had also returned to the country. It seemed that there was some internal disagreement in the He family about his arrangement, and it caused quite an unpleasant stir.

In the end, it was Grandpa He who personally intervened to mediate. But subtly, the old man didn’t assign him any official position or responsibilities in the group, just told him to learn from He Weimin.

Was it a way to cultivate him as an heir, or just a casual arrangement to give him somewhere to stay? That part was still unclear.

She had actually been quite happy about it.

As long as He Jikai wasn’t doing well, she was pleased!

Ting Ge replied after a while: “Ah San, even if you want to hang yourself, let people catch their breath! Do you know what day it is today?”
Despite the harsh words, Ting Ge was still quite reliable: “It seems the He family is planning to arrange a marriage for He Jikai, they’re currently looking for a suitable match.”

Lin Lang felt a rush of joy—an arranged marriage? Did this mean she was about to break free from the storyline and might finally be able to save her own skin?

Then Ting Ge threw a few names her way, all of them from families He Weimin and He Jikai had been in contact with over the past month.

Among them, the Li family, where Li Pei belonged, stood out prominently.

Lin Lang clicked her tongue inwardly. The He family was wealthy, making He Jikai seem like a hot commodity, drawing a lot of attention.

“Oh, by the way, He Weimin also met your uncle,” Ting Ge added casually.

The smile Lin Lang had just started to form immediately disappeared, and a surge of anger flared up inside her. She was especially irritated.

The He family really was like leeches; you could never get rid of them.

Her uncle was the same—useless and constantly looking to leech off others!

While frustrated, Lin Lang couldn’t help but feel a sense of confusion.

Could she really break free from the storyline?

Should she just kill He Jikai off?

No, no, it wasn’t worth it to sacrifice herself for some idiot.

She had to stay calm, not let the anger from her frustration cloud her judgment.

But how could she stay calm?

It had been over two years, and she still hadn’t figured out what was really going on. It felt like walking into a thick fog with no clue where to go.
The feeling of waiting for others to make a move was really frustrating.

In the past, she could wait patiently, but things were different now!

She was about to turn 26.

Moreover, she now had someone in her heart, someone she wanted to be with forever.

She was more determined than ever to completely eliminate any potential risks.

Having tasted the sweetness of being with Gu Qingci, she wasn’t about to let her lady have any chance of being left alone.

Whenever she thought of her lady, her mind went straight to the serious advice Gu Qingci had given her after returning.

Was it a matter of heritage? A paternity test would make everything clear.

Since tonight was the family reunion dinner, it would be the perfect opportunity to collect some DNA samples, and after the New Year, she could send them for testing.

As soon as she got into the taxi, Ting Ge sent a message saying he had compiled all the photos and information over the past period and sent it to her email.

Ting Ge said: “He Jikai has had a few interactions with a rich playboy recently. This guy is quite wild in private. I have a feeling there’s something going on, but I haven’t figured it out yet.”

Lin Lang couldn’t help but think of the time she was at the Qian’an Club, watching Gu Qingci in an attempt to latch onto someone powerful.

Her instinct told her that if she could trace this lead, there might be some direct or indirect evidence that would prove He Jikai had intentionally drugged someone that night.

She was silent for a while before replying to Ting Ge: “I’ll give you an email address. In case you can’t reach me, just send all the materials you find to that email.”

Ting Ge replied in surprise: “Why? What could possibly happen that you’d be unreachable?”

“It’s just a precaution,” Lin Lang said calmly. “Don’t worry, once you send it, they’ll pay you the remaining amount.”

She still had some standing in Gu Qingci’s eyes, right?

That way, even if something happened to her, it would be much easier for Gu Qingci to take care of the He family and He Jikai.

Ting Ge was furious and replied: “Do I really care about that little bit of money?!”

Then immediately retracted the message.

Tch, seems like he still cared a little.
“You’re so worried, is there really a life-threatening danger?”

“What exactly are you investigating about the He family?”

“It seems like they’re not that wild, are they?”

Finally, in an exasperated tone, he added, “How about we report it to the police?”

Lin Lang scrolled through the screen, looking at the rare, concerned words from Ting Ge, and let out a bitter smile.

“We haven’t found anything, what do we report to the police?”

“Are we going to tell the cops, ‘I suspect someone wants to harm me, but I have no evidence’?”

Ting Ge grew impatient: “I got it, I got it, the email, right? I’ll remember it!”

Lin Lang returned to her parents’ home, where her grandparents, Uncle’s family, and Second Uncle’s family were all gathered. She couldn’t help but rub her forehead.

When she entered, her uncle, who had been talking excitedly, suddenly fell silent in a strange way.

Her father, indifferent as usual, commented, “You came back and don’t even get yourself a drink of water? Do you need someone to serve you?”

Lin Lang, who wasn’t thirsty and didn’t want any water, thought to herself:

You must be seriously sick.

Without hesitation, she retorted, “If I were relying on others, I would’ve died a long time ago, over a decade ago.”

Her father was left speechless, pretending nothing had happened as he turned his attention back to talking with his parents and brothers.

His parents and brothers also acted like nothing had happened, none of them daring to comment on it. Like quail, they shrank their necks and laughed awkwardly, cooperating with her father to cover up the uncomfortable situation.

The whole group looked uncomfortable.

But Lin Lang had already checked out, and they had no way of dealing with her.

Lin Lang wasn’t surprised.

This was the ecosystem of the Lin family.

Good people never get rewarded, and kindness is always taken advantage of.

Just look at how her aunt’s tragic marriage ended or how her second uncle got manipulated by a sanctimonious figure.

Come to think of it, this family had been rotten to the core from the start.

Just look at the kind of people they’ve raised.
A self-interested, opportunistic leech, sucking the life out of others.

A clueless fool, manipulated and hoping the leech will give him a better life.

A scumbag gambler and wife-beater.

Oh, and a little bun, pushed into the fire by her parents and brother, and held down so she couldn’t escape. Well, she used to be that bun.

Later, she gathered the courage to divorce. Her parents, under the leech’s orders, came over every few days to scold and pressure her.

Then, she took a kitchen knife and caused a scene at the leech’s workplace, exposing all the awful things the leech had done, and told her biased parents, “Come at me again, and I’ll go to this place and curse that b*tch. Let’s see who outlasts who!”

The leech uncle wasn’t bold enough to match her.

He saw how serious she was and realized that if he kept pushing, she’d drag him down with her.

He was too precious to risk that, wasn’t he?

After that, they severed ties and acted as though she no longer existed in the family.

This family is a circus, where only by falling into decay can one rise to the top of the food chain.

But who’s really to blame? The biased grandparents, or the selfish, opportunistic leech of an uncle?

To Lin Lang, they were all the same. The three of them, working together, completing each other’s role—none could be left out.

Without the biased grandparents, there wouldn’t be such a selfish, opportunistic person. Without this person scheming in the background, the grandparents wouldn’t have pushed the other kids to this point.

When Lin Lang heard a voice, her younger sister Lin Yao brightly ran out, dragging Lin Lang back to the room, chattering away about her exam scores, how high her ranking was, and how the teacher said that with consistent performance, getting into Huada University wouldn’t be a problem.

“Then I can come visit you every weekend!”

Lin Lang’s expression immediately stiffened.

This won’t do.
“Of course, if you get into Huada University, you should really cherish it. You should focus on studying, not running around every weekend to play,” Lin Lang said.

Lin Yao looked at her sister with a knowing gaze: “I knew it, you’re just being difficult and heartless!”

Lin Lang then started using her usual persuasion tactics on her sister.

Not long after, their cousin came in.

She quietly closed the door and whispered softly to Lin Lang, “Third Sister, they’re out there quietly criticizing you, saying you’re ungrateful, heartless, and don’t care about them.”

Lin Lang sneered. “When they want to spend money on you, they treat you like an orphan. When they need something from you, they suddenly resurrect and return to the land of the living.”

She sighed wearily, “Forget it, if they’re not even human, there’s no point in caring about them. Let them run wild in this world.”

Lin Yao and their cousin Lin Man looked at her with bright eyes, admiration in their gazes.

They loved this sister so much!

She cursed with such grace!

It definitely wasn’t because, when this sister was at home, everyone treated them more politely, not the usual way of shouting and cursing.

Lin Lang looked at her cousin, who was only a year older than Lin Wei. With the family’s recent relocation and their finances more stable, yet she was still wearing cheap clothes that looked low quality.

She was clearly on a different level compared to her brother.

Lin Lang paused for a moment, thinking it wasn’t right to let her little cousin end up like her second uncle, Lin Man’s father, who was essentially a big fool.

“Man Man, don’t listen to your parents. They say your brother’s still young, and you should make more concessions and take care of him. Look at you—your whole outfit doesn’t cost more than 500 yuan, but your brother? His outfit is worth at least 10,000 yuan.”

Lin Man lowered her head, sounding confused. “But mom’s always been good to me.”

She had encouraged her to study hard and had always been willing to pay for her education.

Lin Lang spoke harshly, “Pigs are fattened up before they’re slaughtered.”

“Where the money is, that’s where the love is. This is a matter of twenty times the expense, twenty times the distance of love!”

“And is this twenty times the distance of love because it’s only a twenty-fold difference?”

“No.”

“The love they show you. Its bottom limit isn’t 500 yuan. It’s so cheap, there’s nothing that looks halfway decent, nothing they can use to fool anyone, cheaper than the 500 yuan you’re wearing.”

“And your brother’s love? Is it limited to 10,000 yuan? No. It’s just that your parents are so useless, this is all they can afford.”

“It’s not to say they don’t love you at all, or that you shouldn’t care about them in the future. Man Man, I have some advice, see if it makes sense to you.”

“Whatever they’ve given you, just give it back in kind. In the future, if your parents ask you for support, give them 500 yuan if they give your brother 10,000. That’s already more than enough!”

Lin Man hesitated, then nodded, “I’ll listen to Third Sister.”

Her third cousin not telling her to sever all ties and love was already a huge surprise.