The Counterattack of a Wealthy Family's Substitute

"Why are you going back so early? Is your boyfriend waiting for you to come back for dinner?" Min Yue raised an eyebrow, a faint smile playing on her lips.

Yao Yingxi nodded: "Mm."

"Alright then, I was hoping to gossip with you, but it seems I won't have the chance," Min Yue said with a sigh.

"What gossip?" Yao Yingxi asked, puzzled. There hadn't been any big news lately, and Min Yue wasn't the type to gossip about campus life.

“I saw a news report on CCTV this afternoon. A Chinese student studying abroad in Haicheng was gang-raped and killed, and then cruelly dumped in the wilderness by those people.” Min Yue said indignantly, “When I watched it again just now, the forensic doctor determined that the real cause of death was being hit with something.”

Upon hearing this, Yao Yingxi's face turned pale. She frowned, opened her mouth, and then realized that her whole body was trembling.

"Yingxi, Yingxi, are you alright?" Min Yue saw her trembling and thought she was frightened, so she quickly shook her.

Yao Yingxi shook her head: "I have something to do, Min Yue, I'll go back first."

This news has already caused quite a stir; Xi Yuanchen should know about it by now.

Feeling uneasy, she walked hurriedly towards the school gate.

Min Yue frowned as she watched Yao Yingxi's anxious back.

As she reached the door, Yao Yingxi looked around but couldn't see any bodyguards. Her brows furrowed, and she was extremely anxious. Remembering her previous kidnapping experience, she remained vigilant and didn't move, intending to wait for the bodyguards.

She waited for a while but still didn't see the bodyguard come. Yao Yingxi took out her phone and dialed Xi Yuanchen's number, but no one answered.

She frowned, feeling anxious, and put aside the possibility of danger or Liang Pingyin, and reached out to flag down a car.

A red BMW stopped in front of Yao Yingxi, and without even considering whether it was a taxi, she got in.

She dialed Xi Yuanchen's phone number again and again, wanting to ask him why the bodyguard hadn't come to pick her up, and also to tell him that she had gone back.

But no one answered the phone. When Yao Yingxi put her phone down, the car had been driving for almost ten minutes. She looked out the window and realized it wasn't the way home. At first, she thought she hadn't told the driver.

Yao Yingxi turned back and saw that the driver had flipped the horseshoe crab reagent upside down, and frowned.

Thinking she was just imagining things, or that the driver simply had this habit, she said, "Driver, I'm going to Lanjiang Apartment."

The driver in front didn't say anything and kept driving.

They drove further and further away, showing no intention of turning around or stopping.

Yao Yingxi also felt something was wrong. She raised her hand and pounded on the back seat of the driver's seat: "Stop the car, I want to get out, stop the car, who are you, stop the car."

"Stop the car?" a woman's voice rang out, laced with sarcasm. "Yao Yingxi, do you think I'd let you park the car?"

The person in front turned their head to look at her, and when Yao Yingxi saw Liang Pingyin, she was shocked: "How could you..."

"How did I end up here?" Liang Pingyin smiled. "You got into my car yourself, so how do you think I'm here?"

Yao Yingxi reached out and twisted the car door: "Stop the car, Liang Pingyin, what do you want to do? Stop the car! I told you to stop the car, didn't you hear me?"

She hadn't been paying attention because she was in a hurry, so she just got on the bus without looking. She didn't expect Liang Pingyin to be waiting for her, and she screamed in fear.

Having just witnessed Liang Pingyin holding a knife and trying to kill him in front of everyone, he knew without guessing that she hated him to the core.

Now that she's in the car with Liang Pingyin, she knows what kind of outcome she'll face.

Thinking about this, Yao Yingxi felt a chill run through her body.

"Stop the car? Yao Yingxi, what kind of joke are you talking about?" Liang Pingyin's voice became sharp: "Hasn't Xi Yuanchen always loved you? Tell me, what would he do if he saw your body reduced to ashes?" She smiled: "I think that would be quite a sight."

"Liang Pingyin, you're crazy, you're crazy."

"Yes, I've gone mad. It's all because of you and Xi Yuanchen that I've gone mad." Liang Pingyin roared, "If it weren't for you and Xi Yuanchen, my father would be dead, and I would be like this now, with no home to go back to?"

"Yao Yingxi, all of this is because of you. If it weren't for you, I would still be Xi Yuanchen's fiancée. It's all because of you!" He roared, his voice shrill, driving with one hand and flooring the accelerator.

The car shot off like a rocket. Yao Yingxi wasn't wearing a seatbelt and was gripping the overhead handrail tightly.

"The Liang family's bankruptcy is entirely your own doing; Yuan Chen never interfered." She believed that Xi Yuan Chen would never have interfered in this matter or kept it from her; he was definitely not that kind of person.

"Just because he didn't interfere doesn't mean he did it. Yao Yingxi, my family went bankrupt because of Xi Yuanchen, and you too. If Xi Yuanchen hadn't publicly released that video on the internet so blatantly, would my family have gone bankrupt? Would the Zhao family have broken off the engagement with me? Yao Yingxi, tell me, would they? It's all your fault. I won't let you get away with this today."

She laughed, "Oh, right, I forgot to tell you, I've already had those bodyguards knocked unconscious. Don't expect Xi Yuanchen to come and save you right away; he'll only see you burned alive." Her sharp voice was filled with pleasure, as if she already knew what Yao Yingxi's corpse looked like then.

Yao Yingxi frowned deeply: "Just like this?"

"Yes, why aren't you satisfied with this?" Liang Pingyin laughed as she drove, the car veering wildly. Fortunately, the area was relatively remote with few vehicles, otherwise there would have been an accident long ago.

Yao Yingxi's heart jumped into her throat. She gripped the overhead handrail tightly and said, "Liang Pingyin, do you know that what you're doing is a crime? Your father is dead, but have you thought about your mother? Do you want her to experience the pain of losing her father once, and then suffer the pain of losing her son?" Her heart raced as she forced herself to calm down and persuade Liang Pingyin.

Liang Pingyin laughed as if she had heard something incredibly funny: "Yao Yingxi, what are you thinking? Do you think I don't know? Don't try to play the emotional card with me."

She gritted her teeth and said, "How dare you bring that up? If it weren't for you and Xi Yuanchen, my dad wouldn't have died."

"Your dad must have been so angry with you that he fell and died, right?" Yao Yingxi said casually, making up her guess when she saw that the woman wouldn't listen to reason.

Upon hearing this, Liang Pingyin seemed to go mad, screaming, "Yao Yingxi, I'll kill you!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she turned around abruptly, placed one hand on the keyboard, and glared fiercely at Yao Yingxi.

If it weren't for the seatbelt holding her back and restraining her movements, Liang Pingyin might have suddenly lunged at Yao Yingxi.

Seeing Liang Pingyin's agitated emotions, Yao Yingxi immediately understood that her guess was correct.

Liang Yuansheng was so angered by Liang Pingyin that he fell to his death.

"Drip..."

A car honked its horn, and Yao Yingxi snapped out of her daze and shouted, "Liang Pingyin!"

Liang Pingyin also came to her senses at the same time. She gritted her teeth and glared at Yao Yingxi. She took control of the steering wheel. Although she didn't want to live anymore, she didn't want to die before Yao Yingxi.

She wanted to see Xi Yuanchen's expression of regret and unbearable pain.

Didn't he love Yao Yingxi? Letting him witness Yao Yingxi being burned alive, yet helpless to do anything about it, would surely be quite a spectacle.