(The electrical supply equipnt in the small county town is outdated; half of the county is experiencing a blackout. I ran to a friend's house with the host computer to update this, so the update is a bit late, and I apologize to all my friends.)
Zhao Chengshuang's icy gaze swept across everyone in the room before finally settling on Lin Fuyuan. He asked in a deep voice, "Lin Fuyuan, you just said it. You bet your head that you didn't wrong Ye Zi, didn't you?"
Having made eye contact with Zhao Chengshuang, Lin Fuyuan felt sowhat flustered inside. But in front of so many younger family mbers, he still had to stand tall and asserted, "That's right, I did say that. What about it, Zhao Chengshuang, do you still want to argue on behalf of your so-called friend? I'm telling you, this is a matter for the Lin family and it has nothing to do with you.
If you want to help soone with the Ye surna, then get lost; we in the Lin family do not welco you!"
"Hmph!" Zhao Chengshuang snorted coldly and pointed at Lin Fuyuan, saying, "Lin Fuyuan, I'm afraid you won't be able to keep that head of yours!"
"What did you say!" Lin Fuyuan shouted in anger, and his son, Lin Tianyun, let out an even louder bellow, pointing at Zhao Chengshuang and cursing out loud, "Zhao bastard, don't get too cocky. If you dare curse my dad, I'll beat you to death!"
"Shut your mouth!" Zhao Chengshuang glowered at Lin Tianyun and then looked around, saying, "Who else wants to bet? Who else wants to claim Ye Zi is a bad person? Co out and make your bet!"
The crowd exchanged glances. Faced with Zhao Chengshuang's aggressive deanor, no one dared to step forward for the mont.
Old Lady Lin said angrily, "Zhao Chengshuang, this is the Lin family's place, and we do not welco you. Get out of here imdiately!"
Zhao Chengshuang replied coldly, "Hmph, when your brother-in-law asked
to call Ye Zi to save your sister-in-law, you certainly didn't talk to
like this!"
Old Lady Lin was at a loss for words and, grinding her teeth, she said, "Zhao Chengshuang, get out of here now; don't make us throw you out!"
"Rest assured, I will leave. But before I go, there are so things I need to say, and so things I need to do!" Zhao Chengshuang turned to look at Lin Fuyuan and said, "Lin Fuyuan, all things considered, you are an elder. I don't want your head, but if I prove that you have wronged Ye Zi, I want you to slap your own face thirty tis in front of everyone!"
"Zhao Chengshuang, don't be too arrogant, don't think that having a few soldiers as your elders ans you can order us around here in the Lin family!" Lin Fuyuan raged, "I warn you, if you can't prove that the Ye surna is innocent, I won't let you off either!"
"Then let's give it a try!" Zhao Chengshuang handed the disc to Lin Zhen Nan, saying, "Uncle, this disc can prove Ye Zi's innocence. You could play it here and see for yourself!"
Lin Zhen Nan, half in doubt, took the disc, and the eyes of all the Lin family mbers were suddenly focused on it.
"What's on the disc?" Old Lady Lin asked in a heavy voice.
"So very exciting footage!" Zhao Chengshuang, looking at Lin Tianhao, sneered and said, "I guarantee, the scenes on that disc are beyond your wildest dreams, the content, unimaginable."
Lin Tianhao had a bad premonition, but at the mont, being badly injured, he couldn't even sit up, let alone do anything.
Lin Zhen Nan fetched a TV and a player, put the disc in, and the Lin family mbers imdiately gathered around the TV, watching the screen intently.
The TV first showed static, and after about half a minute, an image finally appeared. The first thing seen was a huge head, and it was clear that the person was He Ziqiang.
"He Ziqiang!" exclaid the Lin family mbers who had seen his photo, while the others also looked shocked. The disc was actually about He Ziqiang, what exactly was the content?
It appeared as though He Ziqiang was setting up the cara; after quite a bit of ti, the angle shifted, revealing an open space surrounded by large rocks.
Seeing this open space, Lin Tianhao's face suddenly turned extrely pale. He recognized the place as the spot where Lin Yashi had been first kidnapped and hidden. It was also there that Lin Yashi had almost been assaulted, had she not bitten off her own tongue, those n would have likely violated her long before.
"What is this place? What is this?" soone asked in surprise, as He Ziqiang walked back and forth in the fra, seemingly testing the cara.
Zhao Chengshuang said, "Just keep watching; the exciting part will co soon."
The Lin family mbers all stared at the screen intently, while Lin Tianhao was sweating profusely, knowing all too well what was going to show up next.
After He Ziqiang adjusted the cara properly, the screen went blank for a while. About two minutes later, the image returned, showing a group of n throwing Lin Yashi into the open space.
"It's the younger aunt!" a mber of the Lin family cried out in shock.
"It really is the younger aunt!" More people recognized her.
"This is He Ziqiang kidnapping the younger aunt, taken when he first kidnapped her!"
"That bastard He Ziqiang, he's really got so nerve, huh? To actually have the ti to record this stuff at a ti like this!"
The Lin family mbers were seething with anger, and Old Lady Lin's face was also iron blue as she watched with gritted teeth the scene on the screen where her daughter was thrown to the ground. They had not seen these images before and could only guess in their hearts what kind of treatnt Lin Yashi had endured.
Now, seeing it for real, everyone was furious, itching to kill He Ziqiang with their own hands to get even!
The video did not last long before it paused for about a minute, and then the scene abruptly changed. Soone ca walking in from outside of the pile of rocks, and upon seeing this person, the expression on everyone in the room froze. After a good while, people slowly turned their heads, staring incredulously at the pale-faced Lin Tianhao on the bed.
The person who stepped out in the footage was none other than Boss Lin. That ant the hidden cara set by He Ziqiang was ant to capture Boss Lin!
Boss Lin, breaking out in a cold sweat, knew at this mont that he was completely finished. Not only was he about to lose the protection of the Lin family, but whether he could even leave alive remained an unknown!
Of course, so others' expressions changed dramatically as well. Lin Fuyuan's face turned incredibly awkward. He had been adamant that it was Ye Qing in cahoots with He Ziqiang, leading the whole Lin family to be at odds with Ye Qing in order to defend Lin Tianhao.
But who could have imagined that it wasn't Ye Qing who was in league with He Ziqiang, but rather Lin Tianhao, whom he had always defended? This footage was like soone continuously slapping his face with a heavy hand!
"Tianhao, what the hell is going on here!" Finally, Old Lady Lin snapped back to reality and asked with gritted teeth.
All eyes in the room turned to Lin Tianhao; the footage had said everything—Lin Tianhao was the one who had betrayed the Lin family.
Faced with the stares of the Lin family mbers, Lin Tianhao just sweated profusely, his mouth agape, unable to utter a single word.
"Is there a need to ask?" Zhao Chengshuang said coldly, "Do you know why the older cousin was easily kidnapped twice? You were convinced soone was in cahoots with He Ziqiang, weren't you? Now you see who was in cahoots with him!"
Zhao Chengshuang coldly glanced at Lin Fuyuan and said, "It's true what they say—you can know soone's face but not their heart. Now you get what it ans to know soone's face but not their heart, right? The very person you've been protecting, treating as one of your own, the person you've desperately tried to protect, is the one who colluded with outsiders and hurt your own family.
And the one you've always considered your enemy, the one you've forced into a corner, the one you've repeatedly sought to kill, the one you've had private detectives hunt down... turns out to be the person who saved Hua Yu once and older cousin twice. The Lin family, hahaha, the Lin family, is this how you handle matters? Is this the style of the great clans, of the wealthy? Pah!"
The Lin family mbers were red-faced with sha, and no one could refute Zhao Chengshuang at this point. The affair with Lin Tianhao was like a huge bomb that had devastated the Lin family, shattering their pride into pieces.
These people, who constantly spoke of family honor and unity, were being betrayed by their own family, a laughable situation indeed.
On the television screen, Lin Yashi was pinned to the ground by those n, her clothes nearly torn apart. She scread for help, desperately struggling to escape, but her cries and struggles were powerlessly futile against the several grown n.
Watching Lin Yashi suffer, most people's eyes turned red. Lin Yashi was arguably the kindest person in the entire Lin family, having good relationships with everyone. Seeing her suffer like this, a fla of unstoppable rage kindled in each person's heart.
What infuriated the people most was the fact that Lin Tianhao, who they had considered family, who had virtually grown up in the Lin family and always been protected by them, was just standing to the side, watching everything unfold without lifting a finger to help Lin Yashi or even showing the slightest inclination to stop it—just watching, as if rely a bystander, without a trace of emotion!
"Lin Tianhao, fuck your ancestors!" Finally, a young man cursed out loud, furiously charging to the bedside and punching Lin Tianhao in the face.
A few others imdiately joined in, dragging Lin Tianhao off the bed and kicking and beating him. At that mont, no one stopped them, because everyone wanted him dead.
"Well cursed!" Zhao Chengshuang sneered from the side, "You all share the sa ancestor, don't you? This cursing is quite interesting indeed!"
At that mont, no one bothered to counter Zhao Chengshuang's mockery. Only Old Lady Lin sat dejectedly on the nearby sofa, looking as if she had aged decades in just monts. Zhao Chengshuang's words trembled her heart. Yes, these people shared the sa blood, and now they were here killing each other, such an absurd situation.
She wanted to stop all this, but watching the scene of her daughter biting off her tongue, seeing Lin Tianhao's indifferent observation, her heart was continuously bleeding. She was so heartbroken she felt like beating Lin Tianhao herself!
"Enough, don't beat him to death!" Finally, Lin Zhen Nan intervened to stop the crowd, by which ti Lin Tianhao had already been beaten bloody and his appearance was pitiful.
"Uncle, this kind of person should just be killed outright!" a young man said indignantly.
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