Chapter 72 Forcing Her to Reconcile with the Scumbag
"If your dad gives you a hard time, just mention my name. He won't dare to do anything to you." Yan Ting looked at Lin Banxia's face, worn out after two sleepless nights, and to his own surprise, felt a pang of pity.
"Thanks! I'll be going now!" Lin Banxia's emotions were a chaotic swirl.
She really must be lucky, right? Otherwise, someone like Yan Ting, a powerful figure from an influential family, wouldn't spare her a second thought.
Lin Banxia had just reached her front door when she saw a small group of people seated in the living room.
It was already past midnight, yet none of them had gone to bed. Clearly, they'd stayed up just to wait for her.
Lin Shiyi had returned earlier and had eagerly exaggerated the story of Lin Banxia refusing the marriage proposal on the yacht.
She had even gone into excruciating detail about how Lin Banxia was allegedly having an affair with another man.
Her stepmother, Cheng Rouyin, held a handful of sunflower seeds, idly cracking them as she enjoyed the spectacle.
Lin Shiyi, too, was triumphant, watching Lin Banxia's stiff movements with undisguised delight.
"You still have the face to come back here! Look at the mess you've made—trying to ruin the Lin Family, are you?" Lin Kunhuai glared at her with rage boiling over. He stormed toward her and slapped her across the face. "Are you purposefully trying to humiliate me? Do you have any idea how much effort I put in to get you tied to Huo Qinglin? And now? You dare to embarrass Huo Yanting like that, in front of so many people? Just wait and see. The Lin Family will crumble at the hands of an ungrateful daughter like you."
Lin Shiyi let out an unrestrained laugh, savoring the chaos, while Cheng Rouyin slowed down her sunflower-seed cracking and fixed her gaze on Lin Banxia, brimming with resentment. "Darling, the Lin Family really might be doomed now. That little jinx—she cursed her grandparents and mother to their graves, and now she's here to ruin us. I told you long ago we shouldn't have taken her back into this house, but you wouldn't listen. See what trouble she's caused now."