The Counterattack of a Wealthy Family's Substitute

"Boss, Miss Yao is now..."

"What's wrong now?" Upon hearing Anant mention Yao Yingxi, Xi Yuanchen became nervous and looked up at him.

"Miss Yao is now in the hospital."

Upon hearing this, Xi Yuanchen stood up from behind his desk: "Didn't you have someone following her all night? Why did she end up in the hospital?"

"Miss Yao last night..."

"What happened last night?"

“I walked around outside all night last night.”

Upon hearing this, Xi Yuanchen looked at Anan in shock, picked up his coat, and was about to go out.

Anan stopped him, saying, "Boss, if you go out now, the old man will definitely suspect that you and Miss Yao haven't really separated. That would ruin all your plans that have been going on for so long."

Xi Yuanchen shuddered, hesitated for a while, and then pulled his hand out of Anan's palm: "I'll go check on her, and no one will notice."

……

Lying on the hospital bed, Yao Yingxi was pale and all alone in the ward. Xi Yuanchen felt heartbroken looking at her, and tears welled up in his eyes.

When Su Zhi saw Yao Yingxi's medical record, he was shocked and quickly came over to confirm whether it was Yao Yingxi or someone with the same name. He then saw Xi Yuanchen standing at the door.

He frowned: "Yuanchen?"

Xi Yuanchen turned his head, and Su Zhi saw that his eyes were red and looked at Xi Yuanchen in shock.

Xi Yuanchen glanced at him sideways and asked Su Zhi, "How is she?"

Su Zhi entered the ward, and Xi Yuanchen followed him in. He looked down at Yao Yingxi.

Su Zhi looked at the medical record in his hand: "She caught a cold, her emotions were unstable, and something was found in her uterus. I don't know if it's early pregnancy."

Upon hearing this, Xi Yuanchen looked up at Su Zhi in astonishment: "What did you say? What do you mean, early pregnancy?"

Su Zhi stepped forward and said, "Yao Yingxi might be pregnant, but it was discovered too early. We don't know for sure yet, so we'll have to do another check-up later."

Early pregnancy?

He vaguely recalled what he had said to Yao Yingxi when he told her to get pregnant, and Xi Yuanchen suddenly grinned foolishly.

Su Zhi smiled and patted Xi Yuanchen on the shoulder: "She hasn't looked well these past few days. Be careful during this time, she might miscarry."

Su Zhi patted his shoulder and walked out.

Xi Yuanchen sat down next to Yao Yingxi, took her hand, and pressed it against his face: "Baby, I'm sorry."

Yao Yingxi slept for a whole day in the hospital, and Xi Yuanchen stayed by her side all day.

Anan walked in: "Boss, you really should leave, otherwise the old man will become suspicious."

"Let's finish this tomorrow. If he finds out, so be it."

Anan looked at Xi Yuanchen hesitantly: "Boss, isn't this too hasty?"

"So be it if it's rushed," Xi Yuanchen said calmly.

He couldn't take it anymore. In order to keep GP under his control and prevent Yao Yingxi from being in danger, he had been planning for so long, deliberately ignoring Yao Yingxi for half a month. He was about to go crazy from holding back.

Anan went out, and a little while later, Yao Yingxi woke up in bed. When she opened her eyes and saw Xi Yuanchen beside her, Yao Yingxi blinked blankly, thinking she was seeing things.

Xi Yuanchen stood up from his chair and kissed Yao Yingxi's cheek: "Are you hungry? What do you want to eat? I'll go out and buy it for you, okay?"

"Xi Yuanchen?" Yao Yingxi looked at the man in front of her in disbelief.

"Why don't you recognize your boyfriend after taking a nap?" Xi Yuanchen looked at her with doting eyes. If Xi Yuanchen hadn't been holding her hand, Yao Yingxi could feel the warmth from his palm and might have thought she was seeing things.

"What are you doing here?" Yao Yingxi asked, puzzled, after confirming that it was indeed Xi Yuanchen sitting next to her and that she hadn't mistaken him for someone else.

"Honey, I'm sorry. I'll make sure to explain things clearly next time. I'll keep this from you like this."

"What are you hiding from me?"

“I’ve always suspected what happened in the photo. My father might have done it. Also, I forgot to tell you, Ye An’an is back.”

Upon hearing this, Yao Yingxi froze in shock, and it took her a long time to find her voice: "Ye An'an? Is it the Ye An'an I know?" Ye An'an is back? So that's why Xi Yuanchen was ignoring her, but why is he telling her this now?

Xi Yuanchen nodded: "You could say it's her, or you could say it's not her."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "I don't know if you've heard any rumors lately, but there's someone who looks a lot like you. That's Ye An'an, but not the Ye An'an I'm with. Someone has had her face altered to look like her and is impersonating her."

That DNA wasn't real; he had suspected it as early as when Ye Xiaoya died.

The sudden death of someone who had been living peacefully for almost a year could be explained as a coincidence. After all, one can't predict what dangers might arise abroad.

But why did Ye An'an appear right after Ye Xiaoya died? At the scene of Ye Xiaoya's death, the police found a cell phone with a number that belonged to Ye An'an, but it was later determined not to be Ye Xiaoya's phone.

When the bodyguard first went missing, he became worried about that group of people. But before that, someone had been following Yao Yingxi. That group was in the shadows. When Yao Yingxi went to the hotel, someone took a picture of her.

When Xiu Yan went to pick up Yao Yingxi after class, although someone sent him a photo, he didn't completely believe it. Instead, he played along and deliberately ignored Yao Yingxi, making those people mistakenly believe that he had become tired of Yao Yingxi because Ye An'an had returned.

Knowing that Ye Xiaoya's death might be related to the fake Ye An'an, he secretly installed a listening device on Ye An'an's phone when he went to see Ye An'an that night. That's how he found out that it was Xi Zhishen who had sent the fake Ye An'an.

Although I couldn't see their faces, they were still relatives I had lived under the same roof for decades.

Yao Yingxi laughed and then started crying. She got up from the bed, met Xi Yuanchen's worried gaze, raised her hand and slapped Xi Yuanchen.

Although it wasn't the first time he had hit Xi Yuanchen, this time the meaning was different: "Xi Yuanchen, you are really cruel. Do you know how much I wanted to die when I heard that you didn't trust me, wanted to break up with me, and told me to get out? Because you gave me a home. Without you, I would be all alone, with no one to rely on, no one to care about, and no one to worry about me. You are really cruel."

Although the intention was to expose Xi Zhishen's true colors and cause the GP to change hands, Yao Yingxi now felt her heart ache terribly, almost suffocating, as she carefully recalled what happened between her and Xi Yuanchen yesterday.

"Baby, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Xi Yuanchen kept kissing her hand. Yao Yingxi reached out and hugged Xi Yuanchen's neck, bursting into tears as she thought about what happened at the hotel.

She cried and asked Xi Yuanchen, "If you hadn't noticed, would you have told me to get out, to leave, just like last night?"

Yao Yingxi asked this question simply to confirm her relationship with Xi Yuanchen and whether he trusted her.

"Do you know what Anan's answer was to me the other day when I asked him who I should choose after Ye An'an came back?"

Yao Yingxi was surprised to hear this, because she actually wanted to ask the same question.

Looking into her eager eyes, Xi Yuanchen knew what she was thinking. He got up, sat on the hospital bed, and reached out to hug Yao Yingxi.