Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Immersing in her role very quickly, Ye Xingbei was already inquiring in the tone of an elder.
Being interrogated in an elder’s tone by a girl seven years younger than her—asking something that she was also afraid of and had a guilty conscience about—Bai Mengluan was so frightened that her whole body turned ice-cold and her fingertips trembled.
That year, she had planned to steal Gu Junzhu’s seed in a ploy to birth a son and increase her value to the Gu family. But unexpectedly, she didn’t manage to marry him successfully.
Today, Ye Xingbei had become Gu Junzhu’s wife instead.
While she… She only married to an illegitimate son without any rights to the inheritance, after endless plots and schemes!
The heavens were really too unfair!
Concealing the alarm and resentment within her, she smiled with difficulty, “Bei Bei, one year ago, I was severely injured and forgot a lot of things. What child are you talking about? I don’t remember anymore.”
“The child that you accused me of giving birth to with an unknown man!” Gaze like icy arrows, Ye Xingbei’s pinned them coldly on Bai Mengluan, “You threw the child to me and ran away. I raised that child for two days and searched everywhere for you. Before I could find you, the Jiang family members suddenly barged into my rental place and said that child was my b*stard son. They said that I damaged the Jiang family’s honor and chased me out of the house, all the way overseas!”
Gritting her teeth, she restrained the bitterness in her eyes and hate in her heart. “That year, I was only 16 years old and forced to leave my older brother. Exiled to a foreign country that I had never been to, there to live alone.”
Therein, the arduous hardships were obvious.
Acting like she had been frightened by her, tears pooled in Bai Mengluan’s eyes, “So-sorry, Bei Bei, did you make a mistake? I don’t know any child, I wouldn’t do that kind of thing…”
“Young Aunt,” Gu Yuanfang suddenly stood up and spoke politely, “You’re most likely tired from your journey and remembered the matter wrongly. Meng Meng’s body isn’t feeling good so I’ll bring her back first.”
Holding onto Bai Mengluan’s hand, he took her away with him.
Staring at their retreating back profiles, Ye Xingbei gnashed her teeth.
Leave?
They could avoid the question now but they couldn’t avoid the issue forever.
Today, she was back.
The people who had harmed her, she would settle the scores with them one by one.
The debts that they owed her, she would demand repayment from them one by one.
Until she could no longer see Gu Yuanfang and Bai Mengluan’s back profiles, she withdrew her gaze and kicked Gu Junzhu’s chair, “Hurry up and think of a way for us to quickly divorce.”
Gu Junzhu drank that last mouthful of porridge leisurely and wiped his lips elegantly, “Don’t keep dreaming. No one can change a matter once my father has decided on it.”
Ye Xingbei was furious.
Angry and alarmed, she was so frustrated that she could not eat a bite, but this man was still eating his meal like she was a performer—he had eaten everything as though there was nothing wrong!
Ye Xingbei smacked the table in anger, “Anyway, I won’t admit that you’re my husband. I want to move out!”
“It just so happens,” Gu Junzhu glanced at her, “I don’t want to admit that you’re my wife too. You’re welcome to move out!”
Ye Xingbei was extremely angry but she could not do anything, so she smacked the table fiercely again and turned around to leave.
“Remember to return after two days.” Behind her, Gu Junzhu’s voice traveled over, sounding as pleasant as shattered jade, “Three days after marrying, I have to accompany you to return to your parents’ place.”
Tripping over her feet, Ye Xingbei suspected that she had heard wrongly. Twisting her head to look at him in disbelief, “Return to my parents’ place? Since both of us don’t accept this marriage, why would you need to accompany me two days later?”
“This is Jiang city’s custom—if the newly-wedded bride does not return to her parents’ place, unfavorable matters will happen to the bride and groom’s families. ” Crooking his finger, someone appeared from the shadows and walked to his back, pushing the wheelchair for him. “If you aren’t afraid of my father tying you up all the way to the Jiang family to lose face, be my guest!”
“You…” Ye Xingbei was already so angry that she could not complete her sentences.
This man… He was sick indeed!
But it wasn’t a deathly illness; it was a mental illness!
*
One hour later.
At the Jiang city branch of the Star Sect International Entertainment Group.
The younger brother of the head of Star Sect International, Ye Xingli, stood behind a wide office table and smacked the table in front of those three bodyguards. “Useless! All of you are useless! “I was afraid that an accident might happen to Bei Bei, so I specially sent the three of you to protect her. In the end, you guys even went as far as to lose her! Just you wait for my brother to break your legs!”
Three large men lowered their heads, displaying a battered and ashamed expression.
Yesterday, when Ye Xingbei got onto the Jiang family’s car, the three of them sat in their bodyguard’s vehicle and followed behind Ye Xingbei.
For some reason, they felt drowsy and fell asleep.
When they woke up early in the morning, they discovered themselves sleeping in a hotel.
After asking the front desk, they said that the Jiang family sent them over and had already paid for their hotel rooms.
Hurriedly, they went to the Jiang family to look for her.
It resulted in them getting intercepted right outside the entrance.
They were told that Ye Xingbei was reminiscing with her family members for old times’ sake, so she would not accept guests.
They were guests?
No matter what, it was Ye Xingbei’s home so they did not dare to barge in forcefully. Bracing themselves, they came to report to Ye Xingli.
As expected, they were chewed out with a vicious tongue-lashing.
Picking up the car key, Ye Xingli strode out, “Why aren’t you moving quickly to gather manpower? Bei Bei is Star Sect’s money-maker. If she has been lost, you guys can just wait for my brother to skin you alive!”