Chapter 261: 260: Engagement Banquet (3) She can be alone, she doesn’t need anyone! (Third Update)

Translator: 549690339

The entire engagement party venue.

A video was being played on the massive HD screen.

In the video, Xin Zaozao was disheveled at the front door of the Xin Family’s villa.

The quality of the video wasn’t very clear, obviously recorded on a mobile phone.

Despite such a resolution, it was clear that the woman was Xin Zaozao, and the man kissing Xin Zaozao wasn’t Ji Baili…

The whole hall exploded in shock.

The host sharply ordered the staff, “Turn if off, now!”

This alarm caused the party atmosphere to become increasingly chaotic.

The video was abruptly cut off.

That moment, the venue instead fell silent!

All eyes were on the engaged couple on the stage.

Xin Zaozao’s hand was still firmly held in Ji Baili’s, held tightly.

But at that moment, Xin Zaozao seemed to no longer feel Ji Baili’s warmth.

She was biting her lip tightly.

She knew, Mu Cidian could never let her off so easily.

But she didn’t expect him to stoop to such a level.

When was this video sneakily recorded?

Yes.

That night, Mu Cidian claimed that he was drunk, and that it was his drunkenness that caused him to act in such a way!

In reality.

It was all for his revenge plot against her afterwards, all to humiliate her and make her lose face in front of all these people, to shame her beyond redemption.

The light was still shining on her, her face deathly pale, but right then, she did not cry; she stood there strong.

The banquet hall went from quiet to eerily silent, to chaotic. The staff cordially invited all the guests to leave the venue.

Without anyone making further comments, the engagement party ended abruptly.

Mu Cidian stood among the crowd, watching Xin Zaozao from afar. He watched her slender body tightly holding onto Ji Baili’s clothes, not seeking comfort, but steeling herself, forcing herself to stay strong.

He knew Xin Zaozao didn’t need him. At this moment, she might even want to kill him. Yet, he still moved towards the direct center of the stage.

His arm was forcefully grabbed by someone.

Mu Cidian turned to look at his mother.

“You’re not allowed to go!” Wan Quan said sternly.

Mu Cidian’s expression turned icy, as though blood would spontaneously fill his eyes.

“You’re not allowed to go, come with me,” Wan Quan tried to pull Mu Cidian away.

Mu Cidian, suppressing his anger, shoved her away abruptly.

It wasn’t a gentle shove.

Wan Quan staggered back several steps, and if no one had been behind her, she would have fallen.

She viciously glared at her son.

In front of so many, she could only lower her voice, “Mu Cidian, if you dare cross there, I will die in front of your eyes! I mean it!”

Mu Cidian didn’t seem to hear what his mother was saying.

He was heading directly towards Xin Zaozao.

His steps halted.

Song Zhizhi stood in front of him.

He looked at her.

“Now, I suggest you don’t bother her!” Song Zhizhi advised sternly.

Mu Cidian clenched his fists, it seemed he was strenuously controlling his emotions.

“Xin Zaozao doesn’t need you.” Song Zhizhi informed him with certainty.

Mu Cidian just looked at Song Zhizhi.

He looked up at Xin Zaozao again.

She had already let go of Ji Baili’s hand. Her face was still pale to the point of being frightening.

But she didn’t seem panicked, she just stood quietly, taking in all the shocking events happening around her.

His throat bobbed.

He said, “Please, stay with her.”

He knew he couldn’t reach Xin Zaozao now, he had no right to stand by her. He knew Xin Zaozao would not choose to commit suicide over this incident. But he worried about her being alone, alone to endure all the vilification and scorn coming from the outside world.

“That’s not up to you to decide.” Song Zhizhi told him directly, her words filled with great sarcasm.

“Mu Cidian, I actually thought you were a man!”

A man wouldn’t resort to such despicable tactics.

Any woman, right at her happiest moment, having such a big scandal suddenly being publicized… If it were anyone else, they might have collapsed by now.

Only Xin Zaozao.

Only she could bear such suffering.

At that moment, Mu Cidian did not offer any explanation.

What could he explain?’

At this moment, he wished he could bear all the humiliation Xin Zaozao was going through on his own body.

He turned around and left.

Wan Quan watched his son, then glanced at Song Zhizhi and quickly left.

Song Zhizhi watched the backs of the mother and son, her face also looking quite grim.

Ji Baijian and Yin Qin both came towards Song Zhizhi.

Looking at Mu Cidian’s back, Yin Qin murmured, “I never thought Mu Cidian could be so bad! He’s a bit cold, but quite straightforward. When my grades were bad, he let me copy his homework!”

Song Zhizhi gave Yin Qin a sideways look.

How was that being straightforward?!

She turned and looked at Xin Zaozao, who was still standing there.

Standing there motionlessly.

Ji Baili was standing by her side, both standing there like stumps.

Until all the guests around were sent away.

Until the large banquet hall was only left with the few of them.

Ji Yunlei said, “You two, come over here!” His voice was cold.

Xin Zaozao pursed her lips and followed.

Ji Baili watched Xin Zaozao’s figure, her… straight back, walking step by step with firm determination.

At that moment, he felt like Xin Zaozao had suddenly changed.

She was different from the Xin Zaozao he knew from the business world.

At this moment, she seemed to become braver.

It’s as if one person could carry the sky; she didn’t need anyone else.

There was a pain in his heart.

He didn’t know where this pain was coming from?!

At that moment, he just followed Xin Zaozao’s steps, heading to a private room at the side of the banquet hall.

The private room was not small.

A place exclusively for VIP guests to rest.

Ji Yunlei sat on the sofa, with Zhang Qingmei next to him, their faces both cold.

Ji Baijian, Song Zhizhi, and Ji Baixing were all there.

Yin Qin wanted to stick around and watch the drama but was sent away by Ji Baijian.

So, at that moment, it was just Xin Zaozao, facing all the members of the Ji Family.

She stood in the middle of the private room, with Ji Baili standing next to her.

Suddenly there was a distance between the two.

And this distance, seemed to be intentionally maintained by Xin Zaozao.

Ji Yunlei said, “Xin Zaozao, tell me what’s going on!”

Xin Zaozao looked at Ji Yunlei.

At her tender age, there was no panic, no disarray; she calmly told everyone, “It’s just as you all saw, the man who kissed me was Mu Cidian.”

“You and your brother! It’s incest!” Zhang Qingmei’s face was awful, that moment she was indeed so furious that she didn’t know how to vent her frustration, originally such a good marriage, she had imagined all her son’s future, but at this moment… why are her kids always so troublesome?!

One Ji Baixin! Back then, she almost got kicked out of the Ji Family by Ji Yunlei, for Baixin’s issue, becoming a laughing stock for so many years.

Finally, it’s over, and now Ji Baili did this!

Who did she offend to have such hard luck all these years?!

“They aren’t blood relatives.” Ji Baixin spoke up.

Reminding her mother to watch her language.

‘You shut up!” Zhang Qingmei snapped.

Ji Baixin stopped talking.

Zhang Qingmei turned to Xin Zaozao, “Since you and Mu Cidian are like this, why do you still want to seduce Baili? Xin Zaozao, I used to like you so much. I really treated you like a daughter, but you did such a scandalous thing, how can you face Baili? Hasn’t Baili been good enough to you, why do you have to do this!”

Zhang Qingmei was getting angrier as she spoke.

Xin Zaozao’s fingers gripping her dress tightly, she said, in a sincere tone, “I’m sorry.”

“What’s the use of saying sorry? How will people look at our Ji family and Baili now?!” Zhang Qingmei was about to explode with anger.

“I will face the reporters and the media, I will clear up everything. It’s me who was not sensible, it’s me who doesn’t deserve Baili, I will clear the Ji family’s name.” Xin Zaozao said, with deep sincerity,

“From now on, I will no longer bother Ji Baili.”

“Xin Zaozao!” Ji Baili, who had not said a word till now, suddenly looked angry.

He didn’t say anything, and she just announced their end.

“Ji Baili.” Zhang Qingmei called out to him, “Don’t talk!”

“Why can’t I speak at my own engagement ceremony?!” Ji Baili’s repressed emotion suddenly burst out, “I won’t break up, no one can force me!”

“Ji Baili! Are you crazy? Do you still want to be with Xin Zaozao knowing what kind of person she is?!” Zhang Qingmei’s blood pressure seems to go sky-high!

But Ji Baili didn’t care at all, he suddenly grabbed Xin Zaozao’s hand tightly, “Let’s go!”