Xu Ziyan was tired after playing all afternoon. She got into Fu Qiming’s car and immediately fell asleep, leaving Fu Qiming itching with curiosity. He really wanted to shake her awake and make her explain clearly in her heart, but Xu Ziyan slept soundly, not even waking up when the car behind them honked.
Fu Qiming even wanted to ask her, since she had just transmigrated here and they were all still strangers, how could she be so trusting of him? Wasn’t she afraid of being sold off?
No matter how anxious Fu Qiming was, he didn’t get any information the entire trip. Fortunately, they ran into Fu Yazhen and Zheng Wenbo as soon as they got home.
Fu Yazhen’s car was parked in front of theirs. Zheng Wenbo carefully helped Fu Yazhen out of the car, treating her like a porcelain doll.
Fu Yazhen smiled helplessly. “It’s not even two months yet, no need to be so careful.”
“Some people feel very uncomfortable in their first trimester, of course we need to be careful. So, are you tired from such a long car ride? Is your back sore?” Zheng Wenbo’s concern was written all over his face.
He had pursued Fu Yazhen for a long time before finally winning the beauty’s heart and had always cherished and protected her, earning a reputation as a devoted husband. In the year since their marriage, his care for Fu Yazhen had been meticulous and thorough. Fu Qiming couldn’t see any trace of him being a scumbag at all.
Then he suddenly heard Xu Ziyan’s inner thoughts: 【Wow, this acting really is worthy of someone who practices in front of the mirror every day. Oscar owes him a little golden statue. If all actors worked as hard as this scumbag brother-in-law, would they still worry about not winning awards?】
Fu Yazhen’s movements halted. She turned her head, her eyes full of scrutiny. Her mother had called and told her about the ‘heart’s voice’ matter, but hearing it for the first time still felt utterly unreal. This was too unscientific.
Fu Qiming quickly got out of the car to greet them. “Sis, come on, let’s go inside first. Mom and Dad are waiting.”
Zheng Wenbo was a bit surprised to see Xu Ziyan following behind Fu Qiming. This pair of siblings was like fire and water, how did they end up together? It seemed something had happened while he was away on his trip that he didn’t know about.
Zheng Wenbo smiled and said, “Ziyan, Qiming, went out to play?”
He wanted to exchange a look with Xu Ziyan. Xu Ziyan saw it but didn’t respond. She simply smiled at Fu Yazhen as a greeting and walked past them into the house. However, her heart was not calm.
【Ahhh! Zheng Wenbo was actually the wolf the original host let in! The original host had long noticed Zheng Wenbo had ulterior motives, but she was jealous of Fu Yazhen. She deliberately leaked Fu Yazhen’s whereabouts so Zheng Wenbo could play the hero saving the beauty, and revealed Fu Yazhen’s preferences so he could be extremely considerate.
If not for the original host’s meddling, the aloof sister would never have taken a liking to Zheng Wenbo!】
Zheng Wenbo was already used to Xu Ziyan’s young mistress temperament at home. He simply assumed Xu Ziyan and Fu Qiming had fought again. Seeing Fu Yazhen’s face change slightly, he quickly took her hand and walked inside. “Let’s go, sit down and rest first. I’ll ask Auntie Chen to make you a bowl of hot soup, it’ll soothe your stomach.”
Fu Yazhen nodded, her mind in turmoil, but her expression remained unchanged on the surface. This Xu Ziyan was indeed not the original one. Her eyes were different, her attitude towards her was different. The hostility was gone, replaced by a strange distance.
If this so-called ‘heart’s voice’ was real, then it meant Zheng Wenbo had approached her with ulterior motives from the very beginning. The year of marriage and the year pursuing her before that were all fake.
She turned her head and saw Zheng Wenbo’s concerned expression, and for a moment, her scalp went numb. The most intimate person by her pillow was acting. This was the most terrifying thing she had ever heard.
Seeing everyone sit down on the sofa, Xu Ziyan thought for a moment and sat down as well. The Fu family had been quite good to her. She could be rude to Ding Jie and Zheng Wenbo, but she still had to be polite to the Fu family.
Fu Dongfeng was the most composed. He opened his mouth to praise Zheng Wenbo. “When you’re out and about, little Zhen relies entirely on your care. Seeing how attentive and considerate you are with her, we are reassured.”
Li Yunhui seamlessly continued, “Yes, little Zhen is really lucky to have met you. Back then, you didn’t care about your own danger and saved her from that car accident. Now you take such good care of her. We don’t say it often, but we are actually very grateful in our hearts.”
Zheng Wenbo just thought they had suddenly heard about Fu Yazhen’s pregnancy and were feeling sentimental, hence bringing up the past. He smiled and said, “It was only right that I saved her. It was love at first sight for me with Yazhen, I absolutely couldn’t bear to see anything happen to her. Besides, I worked so hard to win her over, of course I have to be good to her for a lifetime.”
He held Fu Yazhen’s hand and smiled. “Dad, Mom, just rest assured. With me here, I guarantee Yazhen will be comfortable every day. When the baby is born, I’ll take care of it too. I absolutely won’t let Yazhen get tired.”
【Hmph, it was clearly you who tampered with Fu Yazhen’s car to cause the car crash, then ran to save her. A self-directed and self-acted show, and you still have the nerve to pose as her benefactor, making her feel indebted to you.】
【You swapped Fu Yazhen’s vitamins for contraceptive pills, thinking she wasn’t worthy of bearing your child. Now with this unexpected pregnancy, you must be furious, right? And you’re still putting on an act here.】
Let me check… Good grief! This scumbag brother-in-law thinks the pills Fu Yazhen took must have affected the fetus. He hopes she gives birth to a deformed baby, exactly to make the Fu family grieve. Who knew later prenatal checkups would show everything was normal? So he, deciding to go all the way, pushes Fu Yazhen off the cruise ship.
Fu Yazhen drowns and gives birth to a stillborn, becoming a vegetable herself. Mr. and Mrs. Fu fall gravely ill all at once. Boohoo, why is it the original host who collaborates with the scumbag brother-in-law to take Fu Yazhen on that cruise? Why do I have to be involved in everything?
001, I really can’t follow this plot at all! By this calculation, I have at most five months left!】
Five months. That would be when the fetus was six and a half months old, a fully formed child. How could Zheng Wenbo bring himself to do it?
Fu Yazhen felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. Her hand slipped, knocking over her cup.
Zheng Wenbo hurriedly took her hand to check. “Luckily you didn’t get hurt. Are you too tired from just getting off the plane? Let’s go back to the room to lie down.”
The Fu family was also afraid Fu Yazhen would be too stimulated, especially since she was pregnant. They were just about to persuade when Fu Yazhen said, “It’s fine. I want to chat with Mom and Dad for a bit. By the way, you never looked for your biological family before. Now that we have a baby on the way, do you want to hire a private detective to try and find them?”
Zheng Wenbo had grown up in an orphanage. Hearing Fu Yazhen’s words, he almost couldn’t maintain his expression. He hurriedly said, “Look for what? They abandoned me, which means we have no fate. I won’t look. Let me go get the gifts. Mom, Dad, Yazhen brought back quite a few things for you.”
The luggage had already been taken upstairs by the servants. Zheng Wenbo went back to the room to get the gifts, thus avoiding the topic of finding his family.
Xu Ziyan drank her coffee boredly, checking the plot. [His father was that manager of the Fu family branch company twenty years ago, Zheng Liqiang. Zheng Liqiang was imprisoned and died of illness. His wife couldn’t repay the debts and jumped off a building to commit suicide. Before dying, she told Zheng Wenbo that the reason their family ended up so miserable was entirely because of the Fu family. It was Mr. Fu who broke the law, making Zheng Liqiang take the blame and forcing them, husband and wife, to their deaths.
So Zheng Wenbo, just a few years old, shouldered this deep-seated feud. He pretended to be lost and went to the police station, saying he didn’t remember his family. Back then, things like fingerprints weren’t recorded, so the police couldn’t verify his identity and had to send him to an orphanage.
All these years, Zheng Wenbo has been watching the Fu family, becoming the Fu family’s son-in-law, waiting for the opportunity for revenge.
Ding Jie felt the original host was always demanding promises and hard to control. Not long from now, he would make contact with Zheng Wenbo. The two would hit it off immediately and, by getting the original host to cooperate, would deal a heavy blow to the Fu family.
Actually, Zheng Wenbo was also using the original host. Because twenty years ago, he lost his parents and became an orphan, while the original host also lost her parents but became the Fu family’s second young miss, a wealthy heiress. He thought the original host was both poisonous and foolish, so he simply used her, stirred up her relationship with the Fu family, and dragged her into everything.
Xu Ziyan shuddered. 【Cruel, truly cruel. As expected, wealthy families aren’t suitable for ordinary people like me. People’s hearts are truly devious and deadly.】
Li Yunhui and Fu Yazhen chatted idly about interesting stories from the trip, but in reality, all of them were listening to Xu Ziyan’s inner thoughts. When they heard ‘branch company Zheng Liqiang,’ Fu Dongfeng immediately remembered.
Back then, the state was encouraging economic development. He had opened several branch companies that were all performing very well; it was a time of great ambition and satisfaction. Who would have thought one branch would have an incident? The manager embezzled company funds and also signed several loss-making contracts in the company’s name, nearly implicating the headquarters.
He led a thorough investigation and discovered Zheng Liqiang was acting under the Ding family’s orders. The Ding family used such underhanded methods, so of course he retaliated fiercely. As for Zheng Liqiang, he directly called the police and had him sent to prison. Who knew Zheng Liqiang already had a terminal illness and died not long after entering prison.
Because it was discovered in time, Zheng Liqiang’s wife didn’t have time to transfer their assets. Their money was all recovered. He heard the Ding family’s company suffered losses and blamed Zheng Liqiang for not handling things well, intending to make them pay.
At that time, Fu Dongfeng spent great effort reorganizing the company. Coincidentally, Xu Ziyan’s family had that car accident while on a trip, with only her, a two-year-old child, surviving. The Fu family, remembering how her grandfather had saved Old Master Fu’s life when he was sent down to the countryside, adopted Xu Ziyan. The entire family’s attention shifted to Xu Ziyan, and naturally, they stopped paying attention to the Zheng family’s affairs.
Who would have thought Zheng Wenbo was Zheng Liqiang’s son? And he actually believed the Fu family had destroyed his entire family. How absurd!
Fu Qiming’s rage soared. He immediately stood up to go beat up Zheng Wenbo. Fu Yazhen quickly pressed him down and said, “You and Ziyan have been having conflicts these past few days, and you still want to kick her out of the house? Family members shouldn’t make such a fuss in the future. Twenty years of sibling affection is definitely something no outsider can compare to.”
She took her bag and wrote two checks. “I heard from Mom you both suffered some losses. Take these to spend. Don’t mess around and let outsiders laugh at us.”
She was twenty-eight, six years older than Xu Ziyan. The sisters had never been close. Every time the original host threw a tantrum, Fu Yazhen would give her pocket money to buy peace and quiet. But this time, giving money was her way of thanking Xu Ziyan for letting her know the truth. Giving too much wasn’t appropriate, so she gave a portion for now.
Xu Ziyan took the check and looked at it. 【Wow! Ten million yuan! That’s so many times more than the occasional three or five hundred thousand she gave before. Huh? This scene wasn’t in the original plot.】
Everyone’s hearts tightened, afraid she would notice something was off. Then they heard Xu Ziyan think: 【It must be because I told Fu Qiming about Li Dong and refused to help Ding Jie, making them think I’ve mended my ways. So they’re coming one after another to reward me.
Mrs. Fu gave me ten million. I originally had another ten million. Plus this, I actually have thirty million in assets now! Wait, and also a villa, two apartments, a luxury car, and a pile of expensive jewelry! I am too rich!
001, I said it wrong earlier. Wealthy families are so suitable for me! Just let me be a little freeloader in this wealthy family!】
001: 【Host, can’t you have a bit more ambition?】
【No, being crushed to death by money is ten thousand times better than dying miserably on the streets. I’ve decided not to leave. I’m going to enjoy the rest of my life in the Fu family, put down roots and sprout here!】
Xu Ziyan quickly put away the check, showing her most sincere smile. “Thank you, Sis. I’ll go get you some sweet soup.”
She ran to the kitchen, grumbling inwardly. 【This cheap older sister is so generous, I can’t just watch her get harmed either. But how do I remind her that the man by her pillow is a scumbag?
This scumbag brother-in-law acts so well; no one would believe me, right? Say straight out that I collaborated with him? Would they deal with me first then? Besides, I don’t have any evidence.
Maybe use the excuse that Li Dong has ill intentions to get them to vet everyone around them? That could work. Yes, let’s do it that way!】
Li Yunhui patted Fu Yazhen’s hand in silent comfort. Fu Yazhen let out a long breath, looked at Zheng Wenbo who was walking over with the gifts, and slowly regained her usual expression.
No matter what, since she now had the upper hand, the outcome between her and Zheng Wenbo would be for her to decide.