Chapter 339 - 320: Blackmail-I

Before the night came, Li Lian spend more time with Li Jun Wei and Madam Li who was with Master Li. They were having talks that Li Lian could be on. Meanwhile, Mrs. Jin had left with Jin Nu Yuan and Zi Lingyu from the place.

Mrs. Jin pressed her forehead, she looked at Zi Lingyu whose face had turned back to how she looked before, bearing no single similarities to Li Lian and even her hair had curled when the water came upon her, drenching her entire body in the washroom that now had dried up.

"What happened to your makeup?" Mrs. Jin questioned and her severe expression had Zi Lingyu's throat to dry up. Jin Nu Yuan loved to see people in their predicament. It gave her a sense of superiority and fulfillment especially since what had happened this afternoon. Instead of making the air any lighter for Zi Lingyu, Jin Nu Yuan crossed her hand with a sigh from her lips.

"Have you gone deaf? Mother is asking you. Answer it." Jin Nu Yuan taunted, pressing her tone.

Zi Lingyu brought her hands together, clasping in front of her waist to then reply in a weak voice, "The faucet in the washroom broke and water splashed over me. I had no other way than to wash my makeup. When I tried to put on my makeup, Li Lian told me to eat as others are waiting."

On the name Zi Lingyu spoke of, Jin Nu Yuan's brows furrowed, "Then force your way. You are the guest you could do that," said the spoiled lady, not knowing that only people who are with wealth or who doesn't have shame were the only people who could push their pampered wishes.

Zi Lingyu didn't know the act. The tight order Mrs. Jin gave her was to follow every words the woman ordered and the moves Li Lian made. Mrs. Jin stood from her place, taking steps to Zi Lingyu. The woman saw Mrs. Jin walk and how her hand raised. In fear, she shut her eyes when she felt the soft feeling of hand on her shoulders. 

Zi Lingyu opened her eyes to see Mrs. Jin smiling toward her with a kind expression on her face. "Is that what happened? Li Lian must have tried to have your makeup ruined."

No, thought Zi Lingyu to herself. She saw how Li Lian was surprised and the woman has tried to find solution to the faucet that broke on her. It make Zi Lingyu to feel guilty to be on Li Lian's bad side when the woman looked kind.

"I don't think she did," said Zi Lingyu for Mrs. Jin to raise an eyebrow on her. 

"What do you mean by she didn't do it?" asked Mrs. Jin, questioning her words, there was the gaze that was slightly dangerous which make it hard for Zi Lingyu to speak up.

"The faucet broke on its own," and on her reply, Mrs. Jin's smile before her eyes. The quick change of expression, surprised the woman where she wished she could run from the room now.

Mrs. Jin patted her shoulders, the tap felt light before she turn to grip her shoulder, as if in intention to break her shoulder. "Was that what Li Lian told you? Lingyu you shouldn't believe in anyone easily. Did you forgot what happened when your parents believed in the wrong person?" The woman's voice dropped low like how Zi Lingyu's heart was when the plight her family in was mentioned.

A sullen expression set on Zi Lingyu's face but the woman said nothing. Mrs. Jin continued to whisper. "Because your parents believe in the work and invest their money to their empty promises, your house have been taken, the car, and your father almost killed himself. Do you doubt my words, Lingyu?" asked Mrs. Jin, her eyes moving to the corner of her eyes to meet Zi Lingyu's eyes.

Zi Lingyu closed her eyes to blink and replied, "I do not doubt your words, Mrs. Jin. I am very grateful for your kind gesture to lend my parents the help they are in need now."

"God love you my dear, that must be the reason why I am able to be here and help you now. I am in joy to be able to help you and your parents from killing themself with the debt the have." Each words Mrs. Jin said was like razor digging through Zi Lingyu's heart. The misfortune that had befall on her parents, happened just early this year. To Zi Lingyu, Mrs. Jin was like an angel who came to help her with the debt she had but at the same time the woman wasn't all kindness like how she perceive the first time she had met the woman. 

Mrs. Jin asked her for her help in return for Mrs. Jin's money help to her family. At first Zi Lingyu was skeptical with the help but the money was what she was need in order to avoid her parents from the debt that almost drive them to suicide.

Zi Lingyu wasn't all dumb. She could tell that Mrs. Jin's help require her to break Li Lian and Li Jun Wei's marriage. By whatever she was doing now, she slowly became poison to other's family which had the woman conflicted.

"If," started Mrs. Jin to make Zi Lingyu's heart almost stop. "If your parents who are needing their only help got taken away, they would not only live in the street but would have to starve or worse selling their organs to be able to afford the debt."

Zi Lingyu's eyes quickly snapped at Mrs. Jin. Her hands went to hold Mrs. Jin, "I will help Mrs. Jin, please do not take your help from us. The help you provide for us is our only salvation. Please," pleaded Zi Lingyu. She has seen how her parents were in distress and as their daughter, she didn't have the heart to see them depressed by the debt again.

Mrs. Jin squeezed Zi Lingyu's hand in return, and her hand moved to touch Zi Lingyu's cheeks, "I will never do such a heartless things my dear. I was stating the possibility." This had Zi Lingyu to do her hardest to smile in relief. "Which is why we will need your help just a little more." Mrs. Jin's smile dropped when Zi Lingyu wasn't looking, her malice had covered the smile she pulled upon meeting Zi Lingyu's gaze.