My Paranoid Girlfriend Asks Me to Be Her Kept Woman (Rebirth) - Chapter 15

“Dinner’s ready~” Lin Xiaolu had gone to the cafeteria, poked her head in, and then returned.

Lin Yi was still dazed by what the director had just said.

The director stood up and affectionately stroked Lin Yi’s head.

“Let’s eat.”

“After we eat, I have something to give you.”

Lin Xiaolu’s ears were sharp, and she heard it. “Director~ What treasure are you secretly giving Lin Yi?”

She smiled sweetly, but her eyes were cold and sinister.

It was like this again. Everyone sided with Lin Yi!

Even when giving something, Lin Yi got something all to herself, secretly and quietly!

Director Lin smiled faintly, put down the enamel mug in her hand, and changed the subject. “What did the cafeteria make tonight?”

“They made noodles with meat,” Lin Xiaolu answered.

“Let’s go eat some together. Those little rascals should be back soon,” Director Lin said with a smile.

Lin Xiaolu fell half a step behind and moved to stand beside Lin Yi after passing Director Lin. She threatened in a low voice, “Big Sister, think carefully about what I said earlier.”

“Aren’t you two coming?” Director Lin turned around and saw that the two behind her had not followed.

“Coming~” Lin Xiaolu answered eagerly. “Director, next time I’ll bring my boyfriend back for you to see!”

“Xiaolu already has a boyfriend?” the director asked in surprise. “Well, you have been graduated for quite some time.” Then she sighed emotionally.

“Hehe, next time I’ll definitely bring him over and let you take a good look at him.”

“All right. Let me see what kind of divine being managed to steal our Xiaolu away.” Director Lin smiled until shallow wrinkles appeared at the corners of her eyes.

In a place no one else could see, Lin Yi clenched her fists. Her body seemed to be fighting against itself, and even her beautiful jawline tightened into a straight line.

Lin Xiaolu’s threat kept looping through her mind.

“You like women, don’t you?”

Wuming’s voice also grew louder and louder.

A single Sea of Fate does not allow two conflicting lines of fate to exist. If you cannot find that person, all the efforts you have made in this life will cease to exist.

Everything would cease to exist. Then what meaning would there be in reliving this life?

“Lin Yi, sometimes people need to live for themselves. Don’t always accommodate others.”

Lin Yi raised her head and looked toward the road ahead. One wrong step led to a bottomless abyss, while the other side was also like walking on thin ice, trembling with fear.

So why should she hide her sexuality?

From the day she fell in love with Zhao Qi, she should have been open and honest.

This was not something shameful. They liked each other, loved each other, and acknowledged each other.

Zhao Qi had accompanied her through thorns and brambles. She should also be able to be completely honest in return.

Once Lin Yi made up her mind, she closed her eyes. The aura of rules was repelling the dark energy.

She called, Wuming.

I’m here.

I found her.

Wuming’s lotus petals trembled lightly. Lin Yi could not describe what that feeling was. She only felt as if everything was within her grasp.

Solemn, orderly, and cold.

This was the rules.

Under the rules, all were ants. Her soul trembled, and through a corner of the Sea of Fate, she briefly saw a scene from the past.

When Lin Xiaolu fell into a pool of blood, someone stood in the crowd and watched indifferently.

That was—Zhao Qi!

Her eyes snapped open.

“Lin Yi? Time to eat!” Aunt Gu called.

Lin Yi’s mind drifted for a moment. Director Lin and Lin Xiaolu were both gone.

Aunt Gu said, “I don’t know which one of you passed this habit to the other, but you and Xiaolu both love spacing out.”

Lin Yi tugged at the corners of her mouth. Aunt Gu walked quickly. “Hurry up. The noodles won’t taste good once they get cold.”

In the courtyard, the banyan tree’s branches and leaves swayed with the breeze. The dusky sunset cast silhouettes over everything. The leaves shimmered, the swing swayed, and night descended.

After dinner, Lin Xiaolu acted spoiled and wanted to see what Director Lin was going to give Lin Yi, but she was soon surrounded by the children of Happy Home, who had just returned.

Director Lin brought Lin Yi to the room where she rested. Cherishing it, she opened the safe inside her wardrobe and took out a box, handing it to Lin Yi.

“This was hidden in your swaddling clothes when we found you.”

Lin Yi’s pupils constricted. This was something that had not happened in her previous life!

She took the box the director handed her. When she opened it, she saw an exquisite golden longevity lock.

One side of the golden lock was engraved with the words “Long Life, Fortune, and Longevity,” while the other side was engraved with a zodiac sign and birth date. In the middle of the zodiac engraving was one character: “Yi.”

The director said regretfully, “When we found this, we were all very pleasantly surprised. But according to the information on the lock, we still could not find your biological parents.”

“Your name—Lin Yi—also came from the character on the lock, ‘Yi.’”

“I thought that people who would spend so much effort engraving a lock for their child shouldn’t be people who would easily abandon that child.” Director Lin smiled kindly. It was also time to return this item to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi stroked the engraved words on the lock. Director Lin had preserved the longevity lock very well.

Even after being taken out now, it still looked new, without the slightest damage.

She touched it again and again, then solemnly tried to hang it around her neck.

After trying for a while, she realized that the chain on the lock had been made according to the neck size of a child. For her, it was too short. She could not put it on at all.

Lin Yi looked at the lock with regret. The lock carved by a gold and silver craftsman several decades ago was still new, but she was no longer the infant in swaddling clothes.

Director Lin stroked the dejected Lin Yi again, her voice gentle. “Do you have something else you want to tell me?”

Lin Yi’s hand tightened around the lock. She raised her head, wanting to speak but hesitating.

Director Lin’s gaze was warm, and her smiling face encouraged Lin Yi.

Lin Yi looked at the director. After a long while, she gathered her courage and opened her mouth with a hoarse voice. “Director, I have someone I love. She is a wonderful person.”

“But she and I are both women.”

Director Lin looked at Lin Yi in surprise and did not speak for a long time.

Outside the window, the daylight gradually melted into the darkness. The room was enveloped by the night. Director Lin felt around and pressed the switch on the wall. With a snap, the light drove away the darkness.

The old-fashioned fluorescent tube buzzed for a while after being turned on. Lin Yi’s heart, which had sunk into despair, wavered again in that buzzing sound. She waited for the director’s judgment.

But after turning on the light, the director held Lin Yi’s hand and pulled her to sit by the bed.

She thought seriously for a moment before speaking solemnly. “Although I’ve lived all these years, Lin Yi, you also know that I have never married.”

“My entire life has been devoted to this place.” At this point, the director’s gaze became distant, and there was not the slightest trace of regret on her face.

“Many people have asked me why I worked so hard and wasted my whole life on other people’s children.”

“Why didn’t I find a man to marry and give birth to my own life?”

“I once asked myself these things too.”

“But Lin Yi,” the director turned her gaze to Lin Yi, her expression firm, “I have never regretted giving up the chance to build my own family, because all of you are my children.”

Lin Yi held the director’s hand, already crying.

“Lin Yi, I don’t understand you all, but I love you children.”

“In the past, homosexuality was illegal. I’ve studied, I can read, and I can keep up with the times.”

“I know that society is more open now, and people are more accepting.”

Director Lin looked at this stubborn child, her gaze kind. “Many marriages between men and women still abandon healthy children. They still have divorce and arguments.”

“You simply love someone different. Loving someone is not a crime.”

Lin Yi had imagined the worst possible outcome, but she had never expected Director Lin to be this accepting.

She cried and threw herself into Director Mom’s arms, feeling terribly wronged.

From the moment she was reborn, to the changes in Zhao Qi—

She had been uneasy at every moment, yet she still had to face the world with strength.

Finally, under the director’s words, everything collapsed.

“All right, all right. You’re already so grown up, yet you’re still crying endlessly.”

“When the two of you have time, bring her over for me to see, just like Xiaolu.”

“I trust your judgment. She must be an excellent person to have won our Yiyi’s heart.”

“Mm!” Lin Yi choked on her sobs and looked at the director through tear-blurred eyes. The director wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes.

After comforting Lin Yi for a while longer, Director Lin looked at the sky outside, which had completely darkened, and said, “It’s getting late. Go back early.”

“Remember to bring the flowers.”

“Mm-hm.”

After untying the knot in her heart, a faint smile appeared on Lin Yi’s face. Her brows and eyes were clear, like a washed blue sky, sweeping away her previous hesitation and helplessness.

She watched Director Lin get up and go to the office next door to get something. In her heart, she silently called, Wuming.

Wuming’s lotus petals swayed lightly, giving off a soft glow in a field of azure blue.

I’m here.

What should I do? she asked softly, more relaxed than ever before.

Create chaos in the host body. Once the parasitic energy becomes unstable, you can retrieve it and let it go where it should go.

Wuming reminded her, Right now, the energy of the parasitic host is flourishing. Do not confront it head-on.

Be careful, and don’t let it discover you.

If the anomaly goes berserk, it will bring about a great disaster. Be careful that your soul energy is not struck.

Lin Yi nodded in understanding and took the bouquet the director handed her.

She saw that there was an extra card on it and asked curiously, “Director, what is this?”

Director Lin smiled. “I don’t have much to give. I’m borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha. Take them back and give them to the person you love. She’ll definitely be very happy!”

Lin Yi inhaled the rich fragrance of the flowers, and slowly, her entire face turned shyly red.

At the entrance of Little Sun Happy Home, the director and Aunt Gu stood by the gate, waving goodbye to them.

Lin Xiaolu closely followed Lin Yi into the taxi. She asked suspiciously, “What did you say to the director?”

Lin Yi’s gaze was still on the card. She could not be bothered to pay attention to Lin Xiaolu.

Lin Xiaolu still did not know that the only leverage she had been able to use had already been resolved by Lin Yi.

She snorted coldly. “Forget it if you won’t say. Have you thought about what I said this afternoon?”

In the end, Lin Yi still did not open the card Director Lin had written for Zhao Qi.

She thought this might become a secret that belonged only between the two of them in the future.

Carefully holding the bouquet, Lin Yi gently tidied the edges of the flowers and said absentmindedly, “What do you want?”

Lin Xiaolu was overjoyed inside, thinking Lin Yi had taken the bait!

She glanced at the taxi driver who was driving, lifted her chin, and snorted coldly.

She had thought Lin Yi had grown somewhat, but in the end, she was still so easy to control!

“We’ll talk on the phone when we get back.”

“For you, it’s not something difficult.”

Lin Yi turned her head to look at her, then lowered her gaze back to the flowers in her arms.

Indeed, it was not something difficult. It was nothing more than wanting to take the songs Lin Yi had written and put someone else’s name on them.

But if you want someone to perish, you must first make them go mad.

She knew what she was doing.