The Counterattack of a Wealthy Family's Substitute

After finishing his meal, Su Che began to regret staying for dinner.

Why did she have to torture herself like this?

Watching Yao Yingxi take care of Xi Yuanchen, he suddenly felt an urge to raise someone like Yao Yingxi, someone who could do everything.

"Mr. Xi, could you please put your work aside for now?"

As Yao Yingxi was packing her things, she saw Su Che and Xi Yuanchen walking towards the bedroom, and she suddenly spoke up.

Xi Yuanchen turned back, glanced at her, said nothing more, and opened the bedroom door to go inside.

After finishing their meal, Xi Yuanchen also finished his injections.

Su Che packed his medicine box, and Xi Yuanchen looked at him and said, "You just saw the relationship between me and Yao Yingxi. Don't have any thoughts you shouldn't have."

His words hit the nail on the head; he wasn't stupid. He had just noticed the way Su Che occasionally glanced at Yao Yingxi.

Su Che stopped what she was doing and looked at him with a smile. "Yao Yingxi doesn't seem that important to you, does she?"

Yes, after meeting her several times and seeing Yao Yingxi taking meticulous care of Xi Yuanchen, and occasionally lying weakly on the hospital bed, he began to have designs on her.

It might be because my family of origin wasn't very happy.

When he was a child, he envied some of his classmates who came from poor families because they could eat their mothers' cooking when they got home.

When she returned home, all she faced was the nanny.

Xi Yuanchen replied with a gloomy face, "This has nothing to do with you."

Su Che scoffed, "This really has nothing to do with me, but it's so unfair of you to treat Yao Yingxi as a substitute."

After saying that, Su Che opened the door and went out.

Xi Yuanchen frowned and kicked the sofa hard.

Yao Yingxi came out of the kitchen after packing her things and saw Su Che carrying a medicine box. She went over to greet him, "Dr. Su, are you leaving?"

Su Che gave Yao Yingxi a deep look, his cold expression softened a little, he nodded, opened the door and walked out.

Su Che didn't consider himself an impulsive person, but he had acted impulsively today by talking to Xi Yuanchen about this, and he probably wouldn't come to the apartment again.

He wouldn't hide his feelings; he admired Yao Yingxi, but not to the point of liking her. Xi Yuanchen had a strong personality, and after today... their friendship would likely be strained.

It was already one o'clock in the afternoon when Yao Yingxi walked into the bedroom and saw Xi Yuanchen standing on the balcony smoking. Her brows furrowed immediately.

Her temper flared up instantly. She went to the balcony, snatched the cigarette from Xi Yuanchen's hand, and put it on the ground: "Mr. Xi, if you don't take care of your health, don't let me see you get sick in the future."

She was furious. She could tolerate someone working despite having a stomach hemorrhage without resting, but she couldn't stand someone smoking while suffering from stomach pain right under her nose.

Xi Yuanchen stared blankly at the person in front of him.

Yao Yingxi glanced at Xi Yuanchen, said nothing more, and prepared to turn and leave.

Xi Yuanchen realized what was happening, grabbed Yao Yingxi's hand, pressed her against the balcony, and leaned down to kiss her.

When Yao Yingxi came to her senses, she realized that she had somehow ended up kissing Xi Yuanchen on the bed.

He pressed Yao Yingxi down, continuing to kiss her and steal the oxygen from her mouth, until Yao Yingxi gripped his arm tightly, only then did he release her.

Xi Yuanchen warned sternly, "From now on, you are not allowed to invite anyone to the apartment for dinner without my permission."

Su Che felt jealous and uncomfortable looking at Yao Yingxi, as if someone was eyeing his prize.

Yao Yingxi didn't understand, but after thinking for a moment, she nodded.

This is not her home, so Xi Yuanchen's warning is not without reason.

After receiving her consent, Xi Yuanchen buried his head in her neck.

His warm breath tickled her neck, and Yao Yingxi wanted to pull away, but Xi Yuanchen grabbed her arm and said, "Don't move, I'm going to sleep for a while."

He was so busy recently that he didn't get much rest.

Smelling Yao Yingxi's unique fragrance, he unconsciously became a little sleepy.

Yao Yingxi didn't move, staring at the ceiling with her eyes open.

Although she didn't know why Xi Yuanchen suddenly changed like this, it couldn't be that he had fallen in love with her.

Yao Yingxi also drifted off to sleep, and didn't wake up until four o'clock in the afternoon.

She blinked and looked down to see Xi Yuanchen holding her tightly.

Yao Yingxi sighed. No wonder she dreamed of a python coiling around her.

Seeing that Xi Yuanchen was still asleep, she carefully removed his hand from her body and gently took it out of her embrace.

Yao Yingxi got out of bed, went to the bathroom to wash up, and then glanced at her phone to check the time. She realized it was only 4:50 pm.

She went into the kitchen, put the glutinous rice in the rice cooker, and at the same time started a fire to take the fish she had prepared at noon out of the refrigerator and put it in the pot to cook.

She plans to have fish porridge with Xi Yuanchen tonight.

After finishing, Yao Yingxi came out of the kitchen, went to the dressing room, took out her computer, and checked the information.

Suddenly, her phone rang. Yao Yingxi was engrossed in reading the documents, so she was startled.

She took out her phone and looked at the number: "Secretary Nan, what's wrong?"

"Miss Yao, are you home?"

"Yes, are you looking for Mr. Xi? He's sleeping."

Anan said on the phone, "Ms. Yao, I'm coming up now. The boss wants a document, and I've brought it over, but I kept calling you and no one answered before. I thought you weren't home."

Yao Yingxi paused. She had left her phone in the living room, and had kept it on silent for a while, so she wouldn't hear any calls.

The doorbell rang, pulling Yao Yingxi back to reality.

Yao Yingxi got up from the sofa, opened the door and saw Anan holding several documents in his hand, her brows furrowing slightly.

Anan handed the documents to her, and Yao Yingxi took them: "Secretary Nan, if I may ask, could Mr. Xi please deal with these documents later?"

Xi Yuanchen is sick and should be resting, but it's inhumane for him to have work delivered to him even while he's at home.

Anan chuckled: "I'm not quite sure about that, Miss Yao will have to ask the boss."

These documents could have been signed a little later, but Xi Yuanchen asked him to send them over, so he had no choice but to comply.

Yao Yingxi nodded. Asking Xi Yuanchen would be overstepping her bounds, so she couldn't possibly ask.

"Miss Yao, I'll head back now."

After Anan left, Yao Yingxi closed the door and carried the documents directly into Xi Yuanchen's study.

As soon as she entered, Xi Yuanchen came out of the bedroom. He couldn't find her in the living room or the kitchen, but he saw Yao Yingxi's computer in the living room.

Xi Yuanchen frowned unhappily, sitting on the sofa like a grumpy child who had just woken up, casually flipping through Yao Yingxi's computer.

I don't know where Yao Yingxi ran off to. She wanted me to come back, but she ran away instead.

Yao Yingxi came out of the study and saw Xi Yuanchen sitting with his computer. She paused for a moment and then closed the study door.

"Mr. Xi, the documents that Secretary Nan brought you have been placed on your desk in your study."

Upon hearing the sound, Xi Yuanchen glanced up at Yao Yingxi, then looked back at the computer.

Yao Yingxi sat down beside him.

Xi Yuanchen looked at her: "Have you considered what major to study after passing the self-study exam?"