The Counterattack of a Wealthy Family's Substitute

In a passionate encounter, Yao Yingxi was forced to endure repeated, violent thrusts. She gripped the sofa cover tightly beneath her, her eyes vacant.

After an unknown amount of time, the wild horse that had been galloping on his back finally dismounted.

Xi Yuanchen looked down at Yao Yingxi, who was lying on the sofa, his gaze icy, and a slight pain throbbed in his chest.

He walked naked into the bedroom.

Yao Yingxi's mind was still foggy, and she had no idea what would happen next.

The next day, Yao Yingxi, lying in bed, opened her eyes and blinked, only to find that she had been carried to the bedroom by Xi Yuanchen without her noticing.

She turned her eyes, and the beautiful scenes from last night flooded her mind.

Yao Yingxi got up from the bed and was about to wash up.

With a loud thud, she fell straight to her knees. Due to the intense activity last night, her lower body was burning with pain, and her legs were weak and trembling.

Because I fell on the blanket, my knees didn't hurt much, but my private parts were pulled and felt a little uncomfortable.

Yao Yingxi sat on the floor for a while until the pain subsided. She touched the headboard and slowly got up and walked into the bathroom.

The person reflected in the mirror had disheveled hair, red eyes, and pale lips, like a female ghost suddenly appearing in a mirror in a horror movie. If Yao Yingxi didn't blink, she wouldn't even know that the person reflected in the mirror was herself.

She looked down at the faucet on the sink and curled her lips in a self-deprecating smile.

Xi Yuanchen was right; she had no right to refuse.

If Xi Yuanchen hadn't appeared back then, she might have been sent to another man's bed by Xu Hengyuan without any means necessary. How could she have gotten revenge so quickly?

Yao Yingxi bent over and turned on the tap. Water gushed out, and she splashed it on her face.

The icy water stung her skin and flowed into her eyes, making her even more alert.

Yao Yingxi stood up straight, looked at herself in the mirror, washed up, and made sure she didn't look too disheveled before going out.

The living room was empty and quiet, with a pair of men's slippers placed by the door.

She didn't need to look to know that Xi Yuanchen had already left.

Yao Yingxi looked at the mess on the sofa, which was covered with sticky white slurry and had a faint fishy smell in the air.

With an indifferent expression, she walked to the sofa, gathered all the things on it, threw them into the washing machine, and then wiped them with a rag.

All day long, Yao Yingxi spun around like a top, wiping down everything in the apartment and washing everything that needed washing.

Xi Yuanchen hadn't returned for several days in a row, and Yao Yingxi no longer acted like a wife waiting at home for her husband to come back, making phone calls to inquire.

Thinking of this, Yao Yingxi gave a self-deprecating laugh.

She hasn't left the house for the past few days, and the refrigerator is now empty.

Yao Yingxi left for the supermarket at 11:00 a.m.

She pushed her cart toward the fresh food section, selecting seafood, and glanced around, noticing someone staring at her.

The gaze was quite aggressive, but Yao Yingxi didn't take it to heart, thinking it was just someone casually glancing at her while buying things.

That feeling is probably just me overthinking things.

After buying the seafood, Yao Yingxi pushed her cart toward the vegetable section. She picked out the vegetables and put them in the cart. Then she looked around, wanting to buy something else, but she still noticed someone following her, and that person was staring at her.

She turned her gaze back, her brows furrowing.

Yao Yingxi pretended to be nonchalant as she picked out items, her eyes looking elsewhere.

She breathed a sigh of relief when she realized she hadn't seen the person from before, and thought she had been overthinking things by staying home these past few days. How could anyone be following her?

After shopping at the supermarket, she walked out carrying a large bag of groceries, intending to flag down a taxi.

Looking around but no taxis passed by, she stood there for a while but still no one came.

Yao Yingxi had no choice but to carry her things out of the intersection and take a look.

As I turned the corner and walked to the intersection, I reached out to flag down a passing taxi.

Suddenly a van stopped beside her, and Yao Yingxi glanced at it.

When she saw the man who had been watching her in the supermarket, she instinctively wanted to run away.

The person grabbed her hair faster than she could and pulled her back, while simultaneously covering Yao Yingxi's mouth and nose with a cloth that was stained with something.

The things Yao Yingxi was carrying fell to the ground, and she leaned against the man, feeling dizzy.

The man picked her up and cursed, "You bitch, trying to run away?"

A van was driving on the highway, as if nothing had happened, everything was normal.

……

The quiet, abandoned factory reeked of a musty, damp smell that even the deep winter snow couldn't mask.

The man standing in the doorway looked menacing, with dark, rough skin, and he swore: "Damn, this woman is fucking beautiful. You wouldn't believe it, I just touched her face, tsk tsk tsk..."

His eyes gleamed with lust. Another man cursed, "You got off easy, kid."

After the two finished speaking, a man walked over with a few bruises on his face and asked the two people at the door, "Has the person inside woken up yet?"

The man who was swearing spoke up: "Boss, he's still not awake."

The man kicked him hard, "Go in and wake him up."

After being kicked, the foul-mouthed man quickly opened the dilapidated iron gate and went inside.

Yao Yingxi woke up, or more precisely, she was woken up by someone splashing cold water on her.

She slowly opened her eyes, and when she saw the person in front of her, the events of the day flashed before her eyes like a slideshow.

Yao Yingxi stared wide-eyed at the man in front of her; she knew she had been kidnapped.

Subconsciously wanting to touch him, he belatedly realized that his hands were tied to a horizontal pillar, leaving him suspended in mid-air.

She felt dizzy, possibly because she had been drugged and overdosed.

"Oh, you're awake, Miss Yao."

Yao Yingxi looked at the person from the source of the sound. Although the person had a few bruises on his face, Yao Yingxi remembered him.

It was that person, Li Zhi, who was following him and Xi Yuanchen, pulling on his hair.

Her face was pale, and she looked at the person with some fear.

"What? Don't you remember me?"

Li Zhi grabbed Yao Yingxi's hair, forcing her to look up and open her eyes to look at him: "Take a good look, who am I?"

Yao Yingxi's scalp tingled from the pulling, her nose throbbed with pain, and her eyes reddened. She barely opened her eyes and uttered a faint, "What do you want to do?"

She hadn't experienced being kidnapped, but she had experienced being followed and watching how Xi Yuanchen dealt with others.

I'm not as scared as I was at the beginning, just a little apprehensive.

"What do I want to do? Ha..."

Li Zhi snorted coldly, his eyes fixed sharply on Yao Yingxi, his grip on Yao Yingxi's hair tightening even more: "Xi Yuanchen swallowed so much of our Li family's property and killed seven or eight of my brothers, what do you think I should do?"

Yao Yingxi knew what Xi Yuanchen had asked the Li family for, but she didn't know how much it was worth.

Her face showed some astonishment. Although she knew that Xi Yuanchen had kidnapped those people, she did not know that he had killed them. Since she had not witnessed it herself, she did not believe it at all.