The Counterattack of a Wealthy Family's Substitute

Yao Yingxi rested in the bathroom for a while, and only slowly went to wash her hands after the leg pain had subsided somewhat.

After washing her hands, Yao Yingxi glanced at herself in the mirror and noticed that her lipstick was a bit smudged, so she took out another lipstick from her bag and touched it up.

After everything was finished, as I turned to leave, I suddenly bumped into someone.

Yao Yingxi's bag was knocked away, and the other person stumbled and fell to the ground. Her bag also fell to the ground, and all the contents of the bag spilled out.

"I'm sorry." Yao Yingxi quickly went to help Wang Wan up. "Are you hurt anywhere? Do you need to go to the hospital?"

"Are you blind?!" Wang Wan looked at Yao Yingxi, her eyes filled with disgust and contempt. "How could you bump into me in such a wide space?"

Yao Yingxi reached out and helped her up: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. Did you hurt yourself anywhere? If so, we'll go to the hospital."

Wang Wan's face darkened, but she didn't say much. She straightened her clothes and hair, and seeing Yao Yingxi standing to the side watching her, she said angrily, "Didn't you see you knocked all my things over? Pick them up!"

Seeing that Wang Wan was alright, Yao Yingxi turned her back to pick up her things.

Wang Wan didn't look at her, but saw another silver handbag on the ground and walked over to it.

Yao Yingxi picked up all of Wang Wan's belongings and handed them to her, saying, "Check if anything is missing."

Wang Wan looked at her, her eyes filled with clear disgust and disdain. She took her bag and walked quickly outside.

Yao Yingxi frowned, picked up her handbag, and walked out as well.

Xi Yuanchen and Anan had disappeared. Yao Yingxi searched around but couldn't find them. When she went to a quiet place to make a phone call, she suddenly heard a commotion coming from the banquet hall.

She glanced at it and continued calling Xi Yuanchen. The phone rang several times but no one answered, so she hung up.

Four or five security guards entered the banquet hall. Yao Yingxi looked around and decided to go to the area across the hall where the tables and chairs were set up to rest for a while.

She had just sat down when she heard a familiar voice say, "Her! It was her who bumped into me just now! Maybe she took my bracelet while she was at it!"

Upon hearing this, Yao Yingxi looked up and saw the girl she had bumped into earlier walking towards her.

Wang Wan stood in front of her, her face full of anger: "Take out your bag and let me see it!"

Yao Yingxi looked at her and, after hearing her previous sentence, roughly knew what had happened. She stood up, frowned, and said, "I'm sorry, Miss, I accidentally bumped into you, but I didn't see any of the bracelets you mentioned. You're saying I took it? You'd better have some evidence!"

Many people looked over, and some even surrounded the two of them.

"You want evidence?" Wang Wan looked at Yao Yingxi: "Let them search you. If they find anything, the evidence will be there."

Wang Wan's words were so certain that Yao Yingxi felt something was off.

Yao Yingxi's face turned cold: "What right do you have to search my things, and even try to search my body?"

"My bracelet was perfectly fine on my wrist, and it just disappeared after I bumped into you!" Wang Wan's voice was loud enough to be heard clearly from several meters away.

Yao Yingxi felt something was wrong, but couldn't quite put her finger on what it was.

She didn't know the woman in front of her, and they had no grudges or conflicts. If she had to say there was one, it was that she had bumped into her earlier.

Her outburst felt like a clumsy conspiracy.

Yao Yingxi looked at her coldly without saying a word.

Wang Wan had previously told the banquet organizers that she had lost a necklace worth two million yuan, and that if it couldn't be found, she would sue them and make their business impossible to continue.

The organizer is a newly established small company, and if their reputation is ruined because of this incident, it will be difficult for them to continue doing business. However, it would be understandable if Wang Wan said that their employees claimed that other employees took their things, since they are not from the same social class and it is possible for someone to be falsely accused. But Wang Wan insisted on pointing at Yao Yingxi and saying that she took the things.

The organizer's boss was also in a difficult position, but since things had escalated to this point, he had no choice but to say, "Miss, I'm sorry, but Miss Wang insists on... so I'm sorry to trouble you, but could you please let Miss Wang take a look at her bag?"

Yao Yingxi looked at the boss of the event organizer and could understand his helplessness, but she was not someone who could be easily manipulated.

She looked at the organizers, then at Wang Wan: "I'm sorry, I don't care what you think, but don't even think about touching my bag."

Wang Wan originally thought that Yao Yingxi looked gentle and weak, and that as long as she made a fuss, Yao Yingxi would definitely give in and let them inspect the bag. However, Yao Yingxi's reaction was not what she expected at all.

"You!" Wang Wan looked at Yao Yingxi, so angry that she wanted to slap her across the face.

Suddenly, Wang Wan's phone rang. She glanced at Yao Yingxi and answered the call.

After hanging up the phone, Wang Wan's anger vanished instantly. She looked at Yao Yingxi and smiled, "We were just looking at your bag, and you won't let us see it..."

Wang Wan raised her voice at the end, paused, and added, "Does that mean you're feeling guilty?"

Seeing the change in her, Yao Yingxi realized that Wang Wan must have been instigated by someone to cause her trouble.

But who would cause her trouble or embarrass her?

Yao Yingxi looked around but didn't see a single familiar face.

"Miss Wang, you're so sure I took your necklace. What if you search my bag and don't find it?"

"Impossible!" Wang Wan quickly denied the question the moment Yao Yingxi finished speaking.

Yao Yingxi smiled, placed her bag on the table, and said, "Then you can look at it. But..."

Before Yao Yingxi could finish speaking, Wang Wan had already opened her bag and taken everything out.

Yao Yingxi didn't have much in her bag, just a few things: lipstick, loose powder, and perfume. She knew perfectly well that the stylist had prepared these for her, but…

Besides these three items, a ruby ​​bracelet actually fell out of her bag and lay quietly on the table.

Wang Wan grabbed the bracelet and showed it to everyone, sneering, "This is my bracelet! You still say you didn't take it! I'm calling the police!"

The onlookers' gazes towards Yao Yingxi instantly changed, and under Wang Wan's pressure, the hotel manager dialed 110.

Wang Wan looked at Yao Yingxi and continued to speak disdainfully: "These days, cocktail parties are becoming less and less classy; any kind of person can get in."

"You can tell what kind of person a woman is just by looking at her!"

Yao Yingxi remained silent, looking around, but still couldn't find anything.

Seeing that Yao Yingxi was ignoring her, Wang Wan could no longer hold back and raised her hand to wave it down.