Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride's Gambit

Chapter 222: Chapter 222 He’s Only Pretending to Be Nice to You

Chapter 222 -222 He’s Only Pretending to Be Nice to You

Lin Yueqin was in so much pain that she couldn’t even stand up. She fell to the ground, her face deathly pale, and looked at Ye Chuyi with a mixture of shock and anger. The intense pain rendered her speechless.

Ye Chuyi stood erect, looking down at her, and then she stepped on her fingers.

Another round of piercing, agonizing screams and curses ensued.

But Ye Chuyi seemed deaf to it all, her demeanor nonchalant: “I seem to remember, when I was little, you stepped on my hand because you thought the clothes I washed weren’t clean enough, Lin Yueqin. How much strength did you use then? Fifty percent? Seventy? Or was it all your might?”

With each word she uttered, she added a bit more pressure under her foot. By the time she reached “all your might”, all her weight bore down.

Lin Yueqin felt a cold sweat all over her body from the pain, unable to even scream. Trembling, she managed to squeeze out a few words through her clenched teeth: “I’m your mother, how dare you? You’re unfilial, gravely unfilial! A beast!”

“Now you remember that you’re my mother? Unfilial? Is this considered unfilial? Oh, that’s right, you don’t know yet, do you? Meng Li, who used to play with me as a child, her mother treated her badly, so she broke her mother’s leg then locked her in a corrupt hospital, claiming to be treating her. They’d shock her every day. And yet, people outside praised Meng Li for her filial piety, saying her mother was lucky to have such a good daughter.”

Ye Chuyi bent down, smiling at her: “What do you think, should I learn how to ‘care’ for my mother from her? Maybe send you to the hospital too. Perhaps, then the outsiders might also praise my filial piety.”

Lin Yueqin was finally struck by terror. The face of Ye Chuyi seemed to become unfamiliar to her.

She was no longer the little girl who used to take her beatings and scoldings. She no longer cowered. She was actually daring to fight back!

When had she become so cruel?

Lin Yueqin, fearful Ye Chuyi would actually break her entire hand and then her legs, quickly pleaded for mercy: “Xiaoyi, I was wrong. I have wronged you before, but is there such enmity between mother and daughter that can’t be resolved overnight? Why treat me like this? After all, I’ve given birth to you, raised you. If not for merit, then at least for hard work!”

“What merit do you have? What hard work? Let’s hear it.”

“I…”

Lin Yueqin was at a loss for words, unable to think of a single kind thing she had done for Ye Chuyi.

Ye Chuyi smiled coldly: “See, even you can’t come up with any merits. Shi Youjin could at least find a few kind acts he’s done for me, but you can’t find any. Maybe I really should send you to the hospital to ‘recover’ alongside Meng Li’s mother.”

Lin Yueqin’s fingers hurt so much they had gone numb; she feared they were completely crushed.

She was panic-stricken. She hadn’t yet seen her daughter take over all the wealth of the Wen Family and the Qi Family, hadn’t even reached the day to enjoy their fortunes. Her hand couldn’t be broken, and she could not be sent by Lin Chuyi to the hospital to “recover”!

Beads of sweat covered her forehead, born of either fear or pain: “Xiaoyi, actually, I am the one who truly cares for you. My beating and scolding you was all in the hope that you’d learn and grow. ‘Spare the rod, spoil the child’, ‘No discipline, no filial piety!'”

“Shi Youjin being kind to you, that’s all an act! He’d love nothing more than to see you ruined so he can have his way. He deliberately indulges your bad habits!”

“Believe me, I’m the honest and straightforward one, Shi Youjin is far more scheming. He is the cruelest and the most ruthless one! How else would he have killed two people?”

Ye Chuyi kept her foot on her hand, motionless, her expression turning cold: “Why would Shi Youjin want to ruin me? I’ve never heard of parents intentionally ruining their own child. Does he hate me that much? Why?”

Lin Yueqin was startled, regretting the truth she’d let slip out in her panic!

Ye Chuyi was not actually their child, which is why Shi Youjin wanted to ruin her; so that if the Wen Family ever found out the truth, seeing their biological daughter as an incompetent, worthless person, they would likely not want to take her back. They might even let Wen Nianyou continue being their daughter and inherit the entire family fortune.