Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 996: Betrayal (Ko-Fi Bonus 6/6)

Swoosh!

Bang!

Zhao Ziyan grabbed her hand and pulled her into the room before closing the door shut on Gu Yinyin’s face.

“…” Gu Yinyin stared at the door blankly, then muttered, “I’m also her daughter, right?”

…

Inside the room, Zhao Ziyan stared down at Gu Lan, her expression dark but if Gu Lan were to raise her head and look at her, she would see her lips trembling and the pity and heartbreak for her in her eyes.

Just a glance at her and Gu Lan would have understood that her mother wasn’t angry at her. Unfortunately, she was too ashamed to look directly at her.

“Who was it? Who did you do it with?” Zhao Ziyan asked, her voice coming out hoarse. Her fists were clenched so hard that her nails had dug into her palm and drew blood.

At the same time, a deep murderous intent brewed in her heart.

‘I swear… I will go to any length necessary to destroy whoever dared to lay their hands on my daughter.’ She roared in her heart.

“It was… Third Brother.” Gu Lan confessed.

“Huh?” Zhao Ziyan was stunned. Thinking she didn’t hear it right, she asked, “What did you say who it was?”

“It was Third Brother mother but please hear me out—” Gu Lan gathered her courage and looked up but she saw her mother swung her hand at her cheek. She flinched and instinctively closed her eyes, bracing for the slap.

But all that hit her face was air.

Opening her eyes, she saw her mother had stopped her hand right before it hit her and was staring at her in rage.

She had thought that thinking their family didn’t have any strength left, someone had forced himself on her but…

“You… how could you… With your brother at that?” Zhao Ziyan trembled, reeling in disbelief and horror.

Gu Lan kept silent and just looked at her.

A few moments later, Zhao Ziyan gritted her teeth and said, “Tell me why… did it happen?”

While she was really angry both at her and her son because they had done something extremely wrong but in the end, she was still their mother and couldn’t just go judging them without hearing their side.

Gu Lan was waiting for this and immediately said, “Mother, you must have already heard that Third Brother has suddenly recovered and now has the cultivation base of Muscle Refinement. But you don’t know what caused it.”

Zhao Ziyan frowned and her anger calmed down because these words told her they hadn’t done it just because they couldn’t contain their lust.

“What do you mean?” She asked, her eyes narrowing dangerously, “Was someone behind it?”

“Mother, it’s a good thing so don’t let your thoughts wander.” Gu Lan calmly said, then slowly and carefully told her what Max told her about the inheritance he got and how having sex with second sister-in-law and her had made him stronger than her.

Zhao Ziyan’s eyes had already become stunned when she heard Gu Chen had received an inheritance.

A few seconds after Gu Lan finished speaking, her expression rapidly shifted before it finally settled into an excited one.

“…Cheng’er was right. Our family’s luck has finally turned for the better.” She murmured, her eyes gleaming as she calculated how long Gu Chen would need to reach Bone Refinement and take charge of the family.

As for the fact that he had sex with Li Xiaomin and Gu Lan and needed to continue doing it with them and possibly others who he was emotionally closer to, it stopped bothering her altogether.

Unlike Gu Ruolan, who was hopelessly in love with their late husband and couldn’t see a mountain for a mountain when he and their relationship came into equation, she could see things clearly and therefore knew if they didn’t produce a Bone Refinement realm cultivator, what happened to their family wouldn’t be as simple as expulsion from the city. No, they would be utterly destroyed—their men would be killed to the last and the women would be captured and sold as slaves.

Compared to this reality, Gu Chen having sex with his family members and violating a man-made taboo was nothing.

Gu Lan sighed in relief when she saw her mother’s expression. She then asked, “Do you still think what I did was wrong, mother?”

Zhao Ziyan snapped out of her thoughts and looked at her youngest daughter a bit guilty. She then took a step forward and pulled her in her embrace, “Forgive me, Lan’er. I judged too quickly.”

At the same time, she felt happy that she had stopped her hand and didn’t slap her otherwise she would have felt more guilty right now.

“No need to apologize, Mother. I understand.” Gu Lan finally relaxed completely.

Right then they heard a commotion outside and frowned.

“Mother, come out quickly.” Gu Yinyin’s frantic voice sounded.

Zhao Ziyan and Gu Lan’s expressions fell. Something had happened and it wasn’t good.

When the duo walked out of the room, they saw three old men standing in front of the crowd of several people of the Gu Family. The three old men’s faces were dark and the others looked angry.

These three old men were from the branch line of the Gu Family and possessed the cultivation of Blood Condensation Ninth Layer. Their status and strength allowed them to become the only people apart from Zhao Ziyan and Gu Rong who had the authority to decide things for the family.

“What’s happened, Elders?” Zhao Ziyan asked, suppressing the unease in her heart.

“Shouldn’t it be us who should ask questions here?” One of the trio, Gu Lichen, snapped.

The other two, Gu Lizhu and Gu Lishu, also glared at her. But when they saw she looked completely clueless, Gu Lizhu frowned and asked, “Were you not the one who sold our family’s Weapon Repairing Shop?”

Boom!

An explosion went off in Zhao Ziyan’s mind when she heard it and her eyes widened in disbelief.

“What did you say?” she asked.

“Our Spirit Weapon Repairing Shop has been sold.” Gu Lishu snapped, “Don’t act clueless. Who but you has the deed of the shop? So it’s you who sold it. How dare you do it on your own! Do you really think you control the family now?”

Zhao Ziyan didn’t respond. Her head was ringing and her face had become pale.

‘Why?’ She thought.

The next moment, her disbelief was drowned out by the feeling of betrayal and an uncontrollable rage erupted in her heart.

“Where’s Gu Wencheng?!!!” She shouted, sweeping her gaze across the crowd.

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