Su Youli is forced to marry as a substitute, suppressing her true nature to become the obedient replacement that satisfies Li Tingxi—servicing him in bed at night and working tirelessly by day.
...Chapter 685 Life is about to get chaotic again.
"Wenxi, Qin He won't care about these things." Su Youling didn't know how to comfort her. She herself had just come out of a mess in matters of the heart, and perhaps she wasn't as clear-headed as Wenxi.
Besides, she didn't know Qin He well enough.
If she had known things were this serious, she should have talked to Qin He first.
"Don't go to Qin He!" Wen Xi seemed to know what she was thinking, wiping away her tears as she said firmly, "Su Su, leave me some dignity. I need time to clean up this mess and can't cause Qin He any more trouble. He's just dating me, but my affair has turned everything upside down, making him a laughingstock..."
To be laughed at?
How exactly did this happen?
Why didn't she hear a single word about it?
“Wenxi…”
"I'm fine, I just needed to vent. I've been busy preparing for the competition, and I didn't want to get distracted. Now that my work is over, I need to take care of my personal matters." Wen Xi gave a wry smile and firmly grasped her hand. "Don't worry, the vacation you gave me is enough! I'll rush back to be your bridesmaid, I promise."
Looking into her red, swollen eyes, Su Youling's forced strength only made her more pitiful: "Okay, I'll wait for you."
"Alright, you've cried enough. It's time to get back to your manly self." Wen Xi took a deep breath and hugged Su Youling again. "I won't go back to China with you. I've already bought the tickets. I'm leaving right away."
"Going to Luoyi? Alone?" Su Youling was worried. "I'll hire a bodyguard..."
"No need. This time, I'll handle it myself. If Luo Yi is my inner demon, then this time I'll personally uproot him." Wen Xi gritted her teeth and said, "Damn it, if I don't show my teeth, does he think I'm Hello Kitty?"
Seeing her furious expression, Su Youling sighed and said, "Keep in touch at all times. Send me a video every day to let me know you're safe. Otherwise, if you suddenly disappear..."
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Even if some people aren't worried, the children will be very worried.
"Okay." Wen Xi blew her a kiss, turned and got out of the car briskly, quickly disappearing from the taxi...
Beep beep—
Just as Su Youling was frowning and trying to figure out a solution, a piercing horn blared outside. Before she could react, her car was rammed in the back.
"Mr. Su, that person deliberately crashed into us!" The driver said sternly, opening the car door. "I'll go find them and ask them what happened. This is a temporary parking spot; we didn't break any rules."
Su Youling wasn't paying attention to what was happening here. She was just thinking of calling Li Tingxi to subtly inquire about Qin He's situation when she heard a familiar female voice: "Did your family build this road? You can park your car wherever you want. Is the governor your father or something?"
That sound...
Su Youling rolled down the car window and finally saw the figure turn around.
With striking features and a haughty yet assertive demeanor, her face, adored only by light makeup, possessed a captivating allure capable of bringing ruin to a nation.
Seeing that a fight was about to break out over there, Su Youling pushed open the car door and got out: "Stop! Lao Yan, get in the car first, I'll handle this."
The driver, Lao Yan, was unwilling to leave her alone, but he withdrew his fist and stood obediently behind her: "Madam, President Li instructed that you must be protected."
Su Youling hadn't spoken yet.
The girl looked up at her, her expression not surprised: "Long time no see, sister-in-law... oh no, you and Brother Tingxi have been divorced for almost six years, it's not appropriate to call you sister-in-law."
"
Su Youling smiled faintly: "There's nothing inappropriate about it. We're getting married on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, which is only a month or so. You don't need to change how you address me."
Hao Tianyi is Li Tingxi's childhood sweetheart and the girl next door. Before he was recognized by the Li family, she lived with Li's mother in a not-so-wealthy town.
In a small town, there are no secrets. Orphans and widows like them were often bullied. Li Tingxi suffered a lot of scorn at a young age. Back then, the Hao family, their neighbors, took good care of them.
It wasn't until Li Qidong's mother learned of Li Tingxi and his mother's existence that she sent people to secretly harass and kill them. If it weren't for Hao's father risking his life to save Li Tingxi, none of this would have happened.
After that brush with death, Mr. Hao was paralyzed from the waist down and still has to rely on a wheelchair to live.
After gaining power, Li Tingxi spared no expense to settle his family in the country with the best medical conditions, giving them the best life and Hao Tianyi the best education.
Back then, not long after she married Li Tingxi and moved into the Li Mansion, this nominal sister-in-law returned from the private high school in a huff, taking advantage of her underage status to act recklessly and bully Su Youling openly and secretly.
Back then, she was married off in place of someone else, with no support or connections, and suffered countless hardships. Yet, Li Tingxi spoiled this younger sister without any limits, always blaming Su Youling for everything, regardless of right or wrong.
This younger sister is no pushover; she nearly made it through her wedding night.
Finally, it was said that Hao Tianyi's father's health had once been critical, so she hurriedly went abroad and stayed away for several years, only returning once a year during holidays.
If you think about it, they haven't seen each other for a long time.
The past events were vivid in her mind. She really didn't have a good impression of this younger sister; she was just shocked by how this little girl...
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It's Teye...
I never knew she had such great talent!
"What? You want to remarry? Why didn't anyone tell me?" Hao Tianyi's expression changed, and her arrogance vanished instantly.
"Weren't you dead? What are you doing back here now? What tricks did you use to make Brother Tingxi so devoted to you!"
"Why don't you go ask your brother Tingxi? I have no obligation to chat with you to keep you company." Su Youling glanced at the broken rear of the car and pointed to the surveillance camera not far away. "Hao Tianyi, you are fully responsible for this accident. If you dare to cause trouble in the street again, I will call the police."
"you……"
“You can try calling the police and see if your brother Tingxi will travel across the ocean to come and bail you out.” Su Youling said this with great confidence. “As the first place winner in this competition, your every move is under scrutiny. Any negative news will cause you trouble. Don’t blame me, your sister-in-law, for not reminding you.”
"Su Youling, what are you so smug about?" Hao Tianyi only found out after Su Youling's accident that the woman who married Brother Tingxi was just a substitute for Shen Xiyue.
Yet, all these years, she couldn't even beat a stand-in.
I'm so annoyed.
"Stop patting yourself on the back. The wedding hasn't even happened yet, and whether it will even happen is still uncertain. Don't act like you're the sister-in-law and boss people around." Hao Tianyi glanced at the reporters inside the venue, suppressing her anger. "These past few years have been spent pursuing my studies, and it's been a long time since I've had a proper get-together with Brother Tingxi..."
"See you back home," she declared triumphantly, leaving the driver to handle the accident before leaving herself behind.
Su Youling pinched the bridge of her nose: It seems that life after returning to China will be chaotic again.