Strike Back, Proud Goddess!

Chapter 80: Confront Xiao Jinning

Translator: Henyee Editor: Henyee

Hearing Liu Chengyu’s words, Xiao Jinning clenched her hands tightly. Why? Why did Chengyu treat her like this? He said he loved her, so he was nice to her. But why did he want to make these things known to everyone now?

If his parents found out she was not Lin Ru and Xiao Hongyi’s biological daughter, they wouldn’t allow her to stay with him, and then it would be the end of the world for her!

But why? Why did she have to carefully guard everything she had, while Xiao Rou was loved by so many people as soon as she returned?! It was not fair, not fair!

However, nobody paid attention to Xiao Jinning. When Xiao Hongyi and Lin Ru heard Liu Chengyu’s words, they were both stunned. Was Xiao Jinning not the one whom Liu Chengyu liked? But he had only seen Xiao Rou once...

“Chengyu...” Xiao Hongyi looked at Liu Chengyu hesitantly and asked in a low voice, “Do you love someone else, not Jinning?”

Liu Chengyu smiled and the elf-like face of a certain girl suddenly popped up in his mind. “I have always loved my fiancée, but my fiancée is Xiao Rou, not Jinning.”

Xiao Hongyi raised the corners of his mouth, but before he could force a smile, Xiao Jinning quickly came over. She stood in front of them, looking pitifully at Liu Chengyu, and said, “Then what about me? What am I?”

Liu Chengyu had thought Xiao Jinning had already gone away because she couldn’t accept what had happened tonight. To his surprise, however, she had been listening nearby. He gave a cold smile in response to her question and said, “Jinning, I hope you won’t get hung up on this matter. You will only feel more humiliated if I say everything clearly, right?”

“Then why don’t you just say everything clearly?” Xiao Jinning sneered. Even at this time, she still thought that Liu Chengyu had changed his attitude towards her due to a trick of Xiao Rou. Perhaps she had asked Xiao Yao to tell all these things to Liu Chengyu—how else could Liu Chengyu have come to know of these things so clearly?! She said coldly, “Since Xiao Yao has told you everything, you must have seen Xiao Rou. What has she done to you to make you treat me like this?”

Everyone present scowled at Xiao Jinning’s words, especially Lin Ru, who now regretted doing such things to her own daughter for a girl who was not biologically related to her. Thinking of this, she said coldly, “Jinning, what are you talking about?”

“Mom, do you feel regret?” Xiao Jinning coldly looked at Lin Ru and chuckled. “But it’s useless for you to feel regret now because your own daughter has already acknowledged others as her mom and dad. Do you want to acknowledge someone like that as your daughter?”

Xiao Jinning’s words touched Lin Ru’s sore spot. Her daughter didn’t have any feelings for her. She had called someone else “mom” without hesitation when she was asked to choose her mother.

“Who’s to blame for that?” Before Lin Ru could say anything, Liu Chengyu spoke again. Staring at Xiao Jinning’s feigned pitiful face, he sneered, “If you hadn’t put your necklace in Xiao Rou’s room to make Aunt misunderstand that she stole your stuff and hadn’t driven her out of her home, Xiao Rou wouldn’t have been so disappointed at Aunt, nor would she have chosen Xiao Yao’s family who were just a bit nicer to her at that time!”

“B*llshit!” Xiao Jinning shouted angrily, her eyes wide open. “How can you just believe whatever Xiao Yao told you?! She did steal my necklace!”

Lin Ru had believed that Xiao Rou had stolen Xiao Jinning’s necklace. When she drove Xiao Rou out of her home, she had felt so disappointed. Why had her daughter become like that? If she wanted something, she could have told her and she would have bought it for her, but how could she steal it?! That kind of thing was not something a decent girl would do! Unable to accept this, she had thus driven Xiao Rou out in a fit of anger.

But then she had a car accident. Her heart had ached for her despite still being angry with her, so she sent her to the best sanatorium, but didn’t go to see her once in the whole month. Then Grandpa Xiao came back, she went to pick her up, but she was not in the ward. She was so worried about her, fearing that she had an accident again, so she started to look for her like mad, and complained about her like mad. When she finally saw her standing in front of her intact, she had begun to scold at her without thinking, her heart full of complaints about her.

But the child seemed to have changed into a different person. She only treated her with cold eyes and cold words...

She was so angry that she wanted to leave her in the sanatorium and never look at her again, but Jinning had suddenly comforted her and asked her not to be angry...

Her mind was filled with wild thoughts. Lin Ru buried her head in her hands, not knowing whom to listen to.

Liu Gonghua and Xi Luoxian looked at Liu Chengyu questioningly. Xi Luoxian asked him, “Why do you know these things so clearly? Since you’re so clear about them, why didn’t you tell us earlier?”

If he had told them earlier, she would have stepped in to stop Lin Ru from acting stupid. Who would throw her own child outside, ignore her and even give her to someone else as a daughter?! She had seen that girl in the dinner party held for Grandpa Xiao. She had a graceful bearing and looked like a true fair lady. How could they have given away such a good girl to others as a daughter?!

If she had such a beautiful and sensible daughter, she would only dote on her... Wait... Xi Luoxian looked at Liu Chengyu and asked seriously, “Did you just say stealing? What is this about?”

Liu Chengyu smiled. Finally, there was someone who got the point. Recalling what Xiao Sa had done at that time, he raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, “Mom and Dad, please wait a moment. I’ll make a phone call and then I’ll show you something.”

What he hated most was lying. Since Xiao Jinning wouldn’t tell the truth, he could only expose her lies with the truth. He had thought that since he had loved her for so long, he didn’t want to be too harsh to her, but she didn’t give him the chance.

Xiao Jinning couldn’t help but panic at Liu Chengyu’s words, and her clenched hands became covered in sweat. Liu Chengyu took out his cell phone and called Xiao Sa.

On the other side of things, Xiao Sa and Xiao Jing had finally gotten rid of those journalists and had gone to the underground parking lot. As soon as they arrived, they saw Xiao Yao making a phone call with a frown. They immediately went up to Tang Xi and asked him, “What’s wrong?”

Tang Xi shook her head. She had used the all-purpose skill gifted by 008 to delete all the videos about Xiao Yao on the Internet and made them unable to be uploaded again, and once anyone tried to upload it, a virus would immediately invade their USB drive, delete all the videos it contained, and finally destroy it.

As for Xiao Yao, it was only natural that he wouldn’t let the journalist from Hongguang Entertainment get away with what he did, nor would he let off Hongguang Entertainment. An entertainment company that hired that kind of journalist should not exist.