Chapter 3: Leaving with Nothing? Eldest Sister Broke the True Young Master's Leg Overnight
Lin Qingge's voice wasn't loud, but it was like a handful of ice shards stuffed down everyone's collars, bone-chillingly cold.
A deathly silence filled the living room.
The muscles on Wang Xue's face twitched stiffly twice, her gaze somewhat evasive, not daring to look directly into her eldest daughter's bloodshot eyes.
She knew Lin Qingge too well.
As the valkyrie guarding the Northern Border, Lin Qingge spent the whole year fighting abyss monsters; the baleful aura on her was no joke. Usually, with Lin Ji by her side serving tea, pouring water, and massaging her shoulders and legs, this aura could be somewhat restrained. Today, her appearance clearly indicated that her pollution levels had exceeded the limit, and she was on the verge of exploding.
"Qingge, you just got back. Sit down and rest first."
Lin Zhenghai stood up with trepidation, trying to smooth things over. "Xiao Ji... he had some business and went out. Come, let Father introduce you. This is Xiao Tian, Lin Tian! He is your biological younger brother!"
As he spoke, he desperately winked at Lin Tian.
Although Lin Tian felt a bit intimidated, thinking of his S-rank Talent gave him a bit more confidence.
He took a deep breath, a well-behaved and flattering smile on his face, and walked over with the long-cooled cup of tea. "Hello, Eldest Sister. I am Lin Tian. I've heard from Mom and Dad for a long time that Eldest Sister is a heroine among women. Seeing you today, indeed..."
"Did I tell you to speak?"
Lin Qingge didn't even spare him a glance, nor did she take the cup of tea.
She only felt a splitting headache, as if her brain were being stirred by countless steel needles at once, her temples throbbing. That familiar, nauseating scent of blood surged in her nasal cavity, making her desperately crave the crisp, clean aura on Lin Ji.
In the past, at times like this, as long as Lin Ji stood by her side, without him even saying a word, that sense of comfort, like a spring breeze brushing against her face, could instantly calm her down.
But now, there was none.
In the air, there was only the smell of the cheap perfume on Wang Xue, and the... 'light' emanating from this strange boy in front of her that made her inexplicably irritable.
"Eldest Sister, I see your complexion isn't very good. Are you mentally exhausted?"
Seeing she didn't take the tea, Lin Tian wasn't discouraged. Instead, with a look of concern, he raised his right hand. "It just so happens I have a healing talent. Although I've just awakened, I should be able to help you alleviate it."
Buzz—
A pale white halo lit up in his palm.
Lin Tian looked confident. This was the S-rank Talent [Radiance]. Although he felt this light was a bit out of control, the books said the light element was best at suppressing negative emotions. Eldest Sister would surely look at him in a new light.
However, the moment that light lit up, Lin Qingge's pupils shrank abruptly.
To her, that light wasn't salvation at all, but an extremely piercing provocation!
Like an idiot shining a flashlight into the eyes of a patient with a severe migraine, the impurity-filled light elements instantly ignited the suppressed mania within her.
"Turn off that damn light for me!"
Lin Qingge roared. Without thinking at all, her body instinctively made a battlefield stress response.
She swung her hand violently, and the heavy marble coffee table was overturned like it was made of paper, crashing to the floor and shattering with a "boom."
Clatter—
The teacup shattered, tea splashed everywhere, and Wang Xue screamed in fright, shrinking into the corner of the sofa.
Lin Tian bore the brunt of it, being knocked over by the terrifying airwave. Before the light in his hand could even go out, he had already fallen flat on his face.
"Qingge! What are you doing?!"
Lin Zhenghai's face turned pale with fright. He pointed at her with a trembling finger. "Xiao Tian was kindly trying to treat you. Are you trying to kill him?!"
"Treat me?"
Lin Qingge pressed her throbbing temples, her figure swaying, the red light in her eyes growing more intense. "Disgusting me with this kind of trash light full of impurities—this is the genius you found?"
She snapped her head around, staring fixedly at Wang Xue. "I'll ask one last time, where is Lin Ji?"
That look was no longer a daughter looking at her mother, but a starving beast about to devour someone.
Wang Xue trembled all over. She suddenly realized that without Lin Ji, the 'punching bag' and 'fire extinguisher,' the balance in this home seemed to have completely collapsed.
"He... he left," Wang Xue stammered.
"Left? Where did he go?"
"He was... driven away by us."
Driven to a breakdown by the baleful aura, Wang Xue simply let go and shrieked, "The paternity test results came back; he's not of our Lin family blood at all! What's wrong with making him get lost? Are we supposed to keep that waste to split the family inheritance? Qingge, wake up! Xiao Tian is your biological younger brother!"
"Driven away...?"
Lin Qingge froze for a moment, as if she didn't understand those words.
The next second, a towering rage instantly broke through the dam of her reason.
"Who gave you the nerve?!"
Boom!
A visible airwave erupted from her, and the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room were instantly covered in cracks.
"Lin Ji was in this home for eighteen years, working like an ox for you all and regulating my mental sea! Without him, I would have lost control and died on the battlefield long ago! And you call him a waste?!"
Lin Qingge's eyes were blood-red as she approached step by step. "Do you have any idea how much the military spends every year to find the top-tier potions that can soothe an S-rank esper's riot? And he was the best medicine! You actually threw the medicine away?!"
Lin Zhenghai and Wang Xue were completely stunned.
They only knew that Lin Ji was gentle, could cook, and could give massages. No one had ever associated him with 'medicine.'
"Sister... Eldest Sister, don't be angry."
At this time, Lin Tian finally scrambled up from the floor.
He was unwilling to accept this.
Clearly, he was the protagonist, clearly he was the S-Class Genius, so why was Eldest Sister's mouth full of that waste Lin Ji?
He grit his teeth, enduring the pain in his knees from the fall, and approached again, trying to pull Lin Qingge's sleeve. "Eldest Sister, that Lin Ji must have used some means to deceive you. You're not thinking clearly right now. Let me help you..."
"Get lost!"
Lin Qingge's nerves were now strained to the limit; any creature approaching her would be judged as a threat.
Especially this man in front of her who emitted an aura that disgusted her.
The moment Lin Tian's hand was about to touch her, Lin Qingge instinctively raised her long leg. It was the force used to shatter the skulls of abyss monsters on the battlefield, carrying a sharp whistling sound—
Crack!
A crisp sound of bone fracturing that made one's teeth ache echoed through the hall.
"Ah—!!!"
Lin Tian flew out like a ragdoll, slamming hard into the family portrait on the wall, smashing the frame to pieces before crashing heavily to the ground.
His right lower leg was bent at a bizarre ninety-degree angle. The broken bone shards even pierced through those expensive suit trousers, and blood instantly stained the carpet red.
"My leg! My leg is broken! Mom! Help!"
Lin Tian rolled frantically on the ground clutching his leg, his shrill screams even more piercing than the thunder from before.
"Murder! Murder!" Wang Xue threw herself over like a madwoman. Looking at her son's deformed leg, her tears and snot flowed freely. "Lin Qingge! Are you crazy? This is your biological younger brother!"
Lin Qingge's chest heaved violently. After throwing that kick, she had cleared up a bit, but the ferocity in her eyes hadn't diminished in the slightest.
She looked coldly at the wailing Lin Tian on the floor, as if looking at a fly she had swatted to death.
"Can't even withstand a single kick from my stress response, and this is the S-Class Genius you're so proud of?"
She sneered, her voice cold as ice. "waste."
Having said that, she completely ignored the chaotic scene behind her. She grabbed the collar of the already terrified Lin Zhenghai and lifted the hundred-plus-pound middle-aged man with one hand.
Lin Zhenghai's feet left the ground, his face turning the color of pig liver, his hands weakly slapping his daughter's arm. "Qing... Qingge, I am your father..."
"Tell me, when did Lin Ji leave? Which direction did he go?"
Lin Qingge brought her face close to his. In her bloodshot eyes surged a madness that made one's blood run cold. "If I can't find him, there will be no need for this Lin family to exist anymore."
Looking into his daughter's eyes, which didn't look like those of a living person, Lin Zhenghai finally realized one thing—
Without Lin Ji, the Lin family wasn't some prestigious household at all, but a hunting ground for these madwomen.
"He... he just left not long ago... went towards the urban village area..." Lin Zhenghai squeezed out a few words tremulously.
Lin Qingge let go.
Lin Zhenghai slumped to the ground, panting heavily.
Lin Qingge didn't even spare a glance at the parents or the leg-broken 'genius' as she turned and strode out into the curtain of rain.
Before leaving, she stopped her pace. With her back to everyone, she dropped a sentence that made everyone feel as if they had fallen into an ice cellar:
"Call the third and fourth sisters. Tell them that if Lin Ji can't be found, the few of us sisters might as well wait to die together and be buried with the Lin family."