Only You: The Billionaire's Obsession-Chapter 213: Utter Despair

Gu Jiayin didn’t say a word, only slowly curled the corner of her lip, looking at the two clowns in front of her.

She occasionally glanced up at the sky weighed down by dark clouds and silently said, "Brother, today I will use the blood of our enemies to honor your soul."

The fierce wind blew over the cliff, mixed with the sound of flowing water, adding further chill under the gloomy sky.

Ye Zhilin was already frightened, and the more she prayed, the more the smell of burning paper money and candles intensified her eerie fear, making her constantly kowtow and beg for mercy.

The maid was not initially very scared; she was just playing along. But infected by Ye Zhilin’s fear, she grew increasingly panicked, especially since Ye Zhilin’s forehead had been smashed and was bleeding.

She knelt upright, looking from side to side, and felt a cold aura drilling straight into the back of her neck. Trembling slightly, she turned around and saw Gu Jiayin holding a crocodile skin whip, a black mask on her face.

"A ghost!" the maid screamed, then fainted from fright.

The life of a fool is just that unbearable.

"Thump," and the maid fell silent; Ye Zhilin, already extremely terrified, abruptly stopped all actions, cautiously calling the maid’s name. But after calling several times, she received no response.

Because she couldn’t see, the whole world was dark, which only amplified her fear tenfold. She felt her mental world had reached its limit. This unknown terror made her instantly collapse, suddenly sitting on the ground crying.

"Gu Qiyun, you unrelenting bitch, do you really want to kill me?"

"I did harm you, but who made your family background so good and you so pretty? You took away my man, I was jealous of you."

Ye Zhilin cried while babbling nonsense, like a full-fledged clown.

Gu Jiayin removed her mask with disgust, tucking her long hair behind her ear, in a chilling tone, "Ye Zhilin."

Ye Zhilin suddenly paused, blankly opening her eyes that could see nothing, feeling the cold wind rushing from behind. She asked tremblingly, "Gu Qiyun, is that you?"

"No," Gu Jiayin smiled, "I am her daughter, Gu Jiayin."

Ye Zhilin suddenly turned around, and though she could not see, she still faced towards Gu Jiayin’s direction, "Was it all you pretending to be a ghost?"

"That’s right," Gu Jiayin said, "and your eyes were blinded by me too."

Recalling how her once high society life turned into a mess because she lost her sight, Ye Zhilin’s teeth ground in hatred, "Gu Jiayin, I want you dead... ah!"

Before she could finish her words, a whip harshly landed on her face, leaving a ferocious scar there. Her body fell into the water like a wind-tossed leaf; she couldn’t see it, but her blood had dyed the water’s surface red.

Enduring immense pain, Ye Zhilin struggled to climb up, "Gu Jiayin, you bitch, even if I become a ghost, I won’t let you off."

Gu Jiayin let out a light laugh, "Ye Zhilin, today I’ll send you to hell. As for whether you’ll dare come back to find me after, we can talk about that once you’re a ghost."

"But," she said, "I think you won’t have the chance to find me because you’ll surely end up in the eighteenth level of hell when you die, so returning to the human world would be impossible."

Gu Jiayin swished the whip in her hand with a whirring sound, "Today, I’ll let you taste the pain of this crocodile skin whip."

Saying so, without waiting for any reaction from Ye Zhilin, the whip in her hand fell like rain, landing on Ye Zhilin’s body, splitting her skin and flesh wherever it touched.

"Ah... ah!"

On the mountain top, all that could be heard were screams of agony.

Gu Jiayin asked fiercely, "Ye Zhilin, when you and Qin Zhennan conspired to harm my mom and coveted the Gu Family’s wealth, did you think of today?"

Ye Zhilin, beaten to the point of being a bloody mess, curled up in the water, gasping and trembling non-stop, "Gu Jiayin, you despicable... bitch, if I die today, my son will never spare you."

Gu Jiayin laughed coldly again, "Don’t worry, I’ll gradually send your sons and daughters down to accompany you."

"You, you..." Ye Zhilin was so enraged that she couldn’t say another word, her face turned ghostly pale from extreme pain, "Gu Jiayin, give me a quick death, I can’t take it anymore."

Yet Gu Jiayin felt not the slightest compassion, beating Ye Zhilin to the point where not a single part of her body was untouched, and the water beneath her was wholly stained with blood.

Ye Zhilin, like a lost dog, curled up into a ball, barely clinging to life.

Life was slipping away with every moment, Ye Zhilin knew she wouldn’t survive.

At this moment, amidst blurry consciousness and acute pain, she recalled her entire life.

Finally, with one last breath, she said, "Gu Jiayin, you’re so pitiful, from your birth, you never knew who you were."

Gu Jiayin furrowed her brows, suddenly halting the kick she was about to make to send her off the cliff, "What did you say?"

Ye Zhilin weakly said, "You’re not Qin Zhennan’s daughter, nor were you born to Gu Qiyun."

Gu Jiayin suddenly clenched her fists tightly, staring firmly at the pitifully beaten Ye Zhilin on the ground, "Say it again, if you dare lie about a word, I promise you’ll beg for life but won’t be able to die."

Ye Zhilin gave a bleak laugh, "You’re in pain, aren’t you? The woman you’re trying so hard to avenge, she’s not even your real mother."

"Smack!"

The whip lashed out once more on Ye Zhilin’s body.

Gu Jiayin glared fiercely at Ye Zhilin, "Spare me your nonsense!"

"Hahaha..." Ye Zhilin laughed manically, "You have no idea that Gu Yachen and Sheng Qianchi are twin brothers, children of Gu Qiyun and Sheng Lanzhang, all planned by Qin Zhennan and Gu Shaohua..."

Ye Zhilin recounted the conspiracy of switching children from back in the day, with a simple goal: before dying, she wanted to use Gu Jiayin’s hands to kill Qin Zhennan and Gu Shaohua to fulfill her heart’s vengeance.

Gu Jiayin listened to each word that flowed from Ye Zhilin’s bloody mouth, almost unable to believe what she heard, as if the heavens and earth had switched places, and she was in the wrong time and space.

She wasn’t Gu Qiyun’s child, Gu Yachen wasn’t her brother, Sheng Qianchi was Gu Yachen’s sibling, and she didn’t know who she was...

Gu Jiayin was greatly shaken.

She was just a passerby, yet inexplicably designed into this conspiracy by Qin Zhennan and Gu Shaohua, enduring years of suffering, never having met her biological parents.

Suddenly recalling the past seven years, Gu Qiyun’s various punishments towards her, and the seven stark crocodile skin whip scars on her back, tears violently welled up.

So the mother she loved deeply had known she wasn’t her biological daughter for seven years, hence she treated her so harshly, using her for revenge?

Ha, Gu Jiayin, you really are a pitiful creature from birth!

At this moment, Gu Jiayin felt only one thing—complete despair.