The Counterattack of a Wealthy Family's Substitute

"My child, my child!"

"Please give me back my child! I beg you!"

"He was perfectly fine inside me just now, how could he suddenly be gone? You're all lying to me! You must be lying to me!"

Yao Yingyue cried and grabbed Liang Yu, revealing a smile that was even more painful than crying: "Brother Liang Yu, these doctors are all lying to me, right?"

"The baby must have been impatient and came out early because it wasn't in my belly."

“Brother Liang Yu…” Yao Yingyue sobbed, looking up at Liang Yu intently, “Will you take me to see the baby?”

"Let's go see the baby!" Yao Yingyue said, reaching out to lift the blanket from her body and get out of bed.

Liang Yu had already cried once outside, and after finally managing to compose himself, seeing Yao Yingyue like this made his eyes well up with tears again.

He restrained himself from speaking, pressed down on Yao Yingyue's fidgeting hands, and comforted her, "Yueyue, why don't you get some sleep first?"

"You're not feeling well right now. Go to sleep first, and listen to me."

Yao Yingyue was no match for Liang Yu's strength; he held her hands down, preventing her from moving.

"Brother Liang Yu, I beg you..." Yao Yingyue lay on the bed, her hair disheveled and covering the entire pillow, tears streaming down her face, her hair soaked through, her voice hoarse: "Tell me the baby is alright, okay?"

Liang Yu looked at her, lowered his head, and tears streamed down his face. He said weakly, "Yueyue, I'm sorry, we can still have children. Don't be sad."

"Ah—" Yao Yingyue finally burst into tears. She stopped struggling and just cried with her eyes wide open.

At the doorway, Yao Yingxi stood stiffly, covering her mouth with her hand and turning her back.

Yao Yingxi quickly composed herself, wiped away her tears, walked briskly to the bedside, gently brushed the hair from Yao Yingyue's face, and whispered, "Don't cry, Yueyue, don't cry. I'm your older sister, I'm your older sister..."

Upon hearing Yao Yingxi's voice, Yao Yingyue's empty eyes, which had been filled with tears, flickered as she looked at Yao Yingxi. Before she could speak, large tears rolled down her cheeks: "Sister, my baby is gone! Sister, is this retribution?"

"I stole your boyfriend, I hurt you, and all the children suffered the consequences for me, which is why they left me!"

"Sister! It's all retribution! It's all my karma, isn't it?!"

Yao Yingyue cried loudly, her voice filled with despair. Her incoherent ramblings felt like a knife cutting into Yao Yingxi's heart. From some perspectives, Yao Yingyue was more like Yao Yingxi's mother.

She did so many things to hurt her, and even though Yao Yingxi couldn't accept it for a while, she never forced her. She just thought to leave everything to time and let time take away all the resentment in her heart.

Now, Yao Yingxi doesn't know whether time has become a cure or a poison between her and Yao Yingyue.

“No, the baby’s loss was just an accident.” Yao Yingxi bent down and hugged Yao Yingyue, holding her like they had on countless days when they depended on each other for survival: “Yueyue, believe your sister, it was all just an accident.”

"We can have more children in the future. The most important thing now is to take good care of our health."

"Will you listen to me?" Yao Yingxi kept whispering in Yao Yingyue's ear, but she kept crying.

The nurse came in with a sedative and, when Yao Yingyue wasn't looking, inserted the syringe into her wrist.

Yao Yingyue gradually stopped crying, her whole body went limp silently, and she closed her eyes.

Yao Yingxi looked at her face, which had suddenly become thinner, and tucked the blanket in.

Seeing Yao Yingyue in such distress that she seemed about to go crazy, Liang Yu rubbed his face hard and walked out of the ward.

Yao Yingxi stayed by Yao Yingyue's bedside the whole time.

She thought about it a lot, but couldn't come up with any clues. Yao Yingxi reached out and touched Yao Yingyue's hand with the IV needle in it, about to warm it for her, when her phone rang in her bag.

Yao Yingxi quickly walked out and answered the phone: "Hello?"

"Sister, it's me." Xu Xinya's sweet voice came through the receiver to Yao Yingxi's ear: "I wanted to ask, are you doing alright after losing your child?"

Yao Yingxi froze as she closed the door, her voice rising involuntarily before she lowered it again, remembering they were in a hospital: "Xu Xinya, what do you mean?"

Xu Xinya was about to apply nail polish when she smiled, put her phone on speakerphone on the table, unscrewed the nail polish, and slowly said, "It means what you think it means."

"You made me lose Mr. Zhou's project, so I have to get something back, right?"

"But you're so poor, and everything you own seems cheap and disgusting to me. After thinking it over, I realized that making those around you suffer along with you is the most satisfying way to vent my anger, so..."

Xu Xinya chuckled, but didn't finish her sentence.

Yao Yingxi's hands were clenched so tightly that she couldn't feel any pain. She gritted her teeth and said, "Xu Xinya! If you have a problem, come at me! Why did you hit Yueyue?!"

"Heh..." Xu Xinya scoffed, her tone no longer sweet as before, but turning gloomy and vicious: "Yao Yingxi, you think too highly of yourself, don't you?"

"You and Yao Yingyue are both ants that I can crush at will. What right do you have to say such ignorant things to me?"

"Yao Yingxi, you should be begging me now, begging me to let you two sisters go, begging me to have a change of heart and not bother with despicable people like you!"

"Xu Xinya!" Yao Yingxi roared, wishing she could stab her right away.

Xu Xinya chuckled as she listened to Yao Yingxi's angry voice: "That's right, Yao Yingxi, you should remember that you're the one who caused Yao Yingyue's miscarriage."

“If you hadn’t upset me and caused me to lose the project, I wouldn’t have hit her.”

"Oh, right!" Xu Xinya suddenly became cheerful: "Actually, you should thank me. Look, Yao Yingyue stole your boyfriend of three years and got pregnant. You can't say anything, so I found someone to make her have an abortion, which is just to vent your anger, isn't it?"

“Xu Xinya, you…”

Before Yao Yingxi could finish speaking, she heard someone in the ward say, "Girl, why did you pull out the needle? You shouldn't do that!"

She abruptly hung up the phone and hurried into the ward.

Yao Yingyue pulled out the needle from her hand, and blood flowed down the back of her hand. She held onto the bed railing and prepared to walk downstairs.

"What are you going to do?" Yao Yingxi walked to Yao Yingyue's side, looked down at her bleeding hand, and pressed the call button.

Yao Yingyue was pushed back onto the bed by Yao Yingxi. She looked at her, tears streaming down her face. It took her two minutes to choke out a sentence: "Sister...is my baby really gone?"