She pushed Xu Yanlai away and took a few steps back. Looking at Xu Yanlai, she spoke coldly, “Mrs Jiang, you got the wrong person! I’m not your daughter. Your daughter is called Jiang Siyou while my name is Ye Xingbei! I don’t have anything to do with you guys. I’m here today to see Grandpa.”
Xu Yanlai was stunned for a moment. Then, she wiped the tears from her face with all her strength as she cried, “This child! Are you still blaming Dad and Mom? You You is the child who was mistakenly taken from someone else’s family but you are our biological daughter! I carried you for 10 months before giving birth to you. Six years ago, your Grandpa had already explained this clearly to you. Our family still has the paternity test from that year so we can’t be wrong!”
“Is that so?” Ye Xingbei looked at her and raised her brow as she sneered. “Can’t be wrong?”
Seeing Ye Xingbei’s profound sneer, Xu Yanlai’s heart started panicking and she suddenly had a bad feeling.
Could it be… Did Ye Xingbei know what happened that year?
No.
That wasn’t possible!
Afraid that the Xie family would come to snatch the child, the old master carried Ye Xingbei to the family’s second branch. Aside from them and the doctor who came to check up on Ye Xingbei, no one else knew about this matter.
As for that doctor who had examined Ye Xingbei, the old master gave him a large sum of money and made him bring his whole family to immigrate abroad.
The only insider who knew about this had taken Old Master’s money and gone abroad.
20 years had already passed since the affair with the exchanged children. How could Ye Xingbei possibly know about that matter from so long ago?”
Knowing that Ye Xingbei was unaware of the truth, she was certain that she would be able to cajole Ye Xingbei into changing her mind.
After all, when Ye Xingbei had been brought home to the Jiang family by Old Master that year, she had done many, many things to please her since she particularly craved love from her—this ‘biological’ mother.
Unfortunately, she hated Xie Qinyue.
Upon remembering that this was Xie Qinyue’s daughter yet she would have to nurture her and even split the family assets with her when she grew up, Xu Yanlai felt strong loathing. Hence, she found an opportunity to exchange her with Jiang Siyou.
She would rather raise a foster daughter who had no blood relation to her than raise Jiang Zhengwei and Xie Qinyue’s daughter!
At that time, she had done the exchange very discreetly. Apart from Jiang Zhengxing, no one knew that Xie Qinyue’s daughter—Ye Xingbei—had been switched with a girl whom she had bought from outside.
That was until 15 years later, when Old Master suddenly discovered Ye Xingbei’s similarity in appearance with Xie Qinyue from outside.
A seed sprouted in Old Master’s heart. Investigating the matter secretly, he found out what had happened in the past. Regardless of her and Jiang Zhengxing’s opposition, he brought Ye Xingbei back to the Jiang family and recognized her as their daughter.
This matter caused her and Jiang Zhengxing to feel as if they had a bone stuck in their throats.
Again, they would rather raise a b*stard child without blood relations to them than nurture Jiang Zhengwei and Xie Qinyue’s daughter.
As a result, they agreed to Jiang Siyou’s suggestion. Taking advantage of the Old Master’s comatose state from his illness, they bribed Bai Mengluan and foisted her unwanted b*stard child onto Ye Xingbei forcefully. Accusing Ye Xingbei of having a dubious character and chaotic private life, they drove her out of the Jiang family.
After Old Master’s illness improved, Ye Xingbei had already vanished.
Old Master sent people to look for her for a long time but he couldn’t find her.
Although Old Master was angry, he was only left with Jiang Zhengxing—this one child out of his three sons. No matter how angry he was, he could only reprimand him several times but he didn’t even dare to raise his hand against him.
They were emboldened with the knowledge of that.
They originally thought that they had completely cast away that nightmare—Ye Xingbei.
But they never expected that the Gu family would suddenly look for their family’s daughters for a marriage of convenience.
Both Jiang Siyou and Jiang Lingyu did not want to became widows but the Jiang family did need this connection by marriage.
Therefore, Jiang Siyou thought of a way to find and bring Ye Xingbei back to marry Gu Junzhu.
She thought, since Gu Junzhu was a person on the brink of death—who would not be able to live for many more days—and Old Master Gu was also getting older, the Gu family’s Gu Yuanfang would have the final say in future.
Bai Mengluan was her sister’s daughter. She was Gu Yuanfang’s wife now.
So Gu Yuanfang was her nephew-in-law.
When Gu Yuanfang becomes head of the Gu family, would Ye Xingbei—a widow—still be able to live a happy life in the family?
By marrying Ye Xingbei to Gu Junzhu, her daughters could shake off the fate of becoming a widow and even turn Xie Qinyue’s biological daughter into a lonely widow for all of her life. She could kill two birds with one stone, so why not?
Hence, Ye Xingbei was manipulated into marrying Gu Junzhu in this manner.