Chapter 34 "The Real and Fake Heiresses" The real heiress will sit on the judging panel (Chapter 17...)

Ye Xueli and Qin Nian still got married, because some things you have to experience for yourself.

Actually, when she typed, "Sorry, I went to bed early yesterday and didn't see it. Is it really okay? I'm so happy!" she was genuinely happy.

The thing you've been looking forward to all your youth is finally in your hands. Even if it's not quite the same as you initially expected, how can you not be overjoyed?

So she happily took the hand that her brother Anian extended, and on a sunny day when white doves were flying, she entered the sacred hall of marriage.

Then, in just six years, he realized he was really eating shit.

"You've gone back to your parents' home to complain again. It seems our Qin family has really wronged you in many ways." Ye Xueli's sarcastic words drifted over as soon as she returned.

She didn't even bother to look, turned her back, took off the scarf, hung it on the clothes hanger, and said wearily, "It's just my mother's birthday, I'm going home to see her. Mom, don't overthink it."

Qin's mother smiled sarcastically, unconcerned: "Calling each other so affectionately, anyone who didn't know better would really think she's your real mother."

Ye Xueli: ……

Aunt Qin, who was once gentle and kind, seemed to have changed after her marriage.

She used to hold her hand affectionately and say that no matter whether she was the Ye family's biological daughter or not, she had watched her grow up and she would treat her the same as everyone else.

Now, however, he keeps bringing up the fact that she was adopted, as if he wants to remind her all the time that she is not worthy of marrying into the Qin family.

Ye Xueli didn't want to argue with her, so she went upstairs. But after only a short while in her room, she came back out and stormed downstairs, her face full of anger. "Qin Zheng! What have you done!"

Her closet door, clothes, and bag were all covered in lipstick smears, and the perpetrator clearly only targeted her; Qin Nian's belongings were neatly placed aside, untouched!

She didn't know whether it was the prank or the differential treatment that angered her more, but in any case, she lost her temper for a moment.

Qin Zheng, who was playing with his toy train nearby, wasn't intimidated at all. Seeing her face contorted with anger, he happily stuck out his tongue and made a face: "Hehehe~"

Ye Xueli was instantly enraged; she really wanted to drag him over and slap him.

But before she could act, Qin's mother had already scooped Qin Zheng into her arms, coaxing her beloved grandson with a smile. Turning to look at Ye Xueli, her face instantly turned cold: "What are you doing? Little Zheng is only five years old, what can he understand? Isn't it normal for him to be a little naughty!"

"Besides, you're a mother, always running around outside and neglecting your family. You're so irresponsible. It's no wonder that Xiao Zheng won't acknowledge you when he grows up!"

Ye Xueli's chest heaved violently. Was she being irresponsible?

She married into the Qin family full of expectations, but suffered a heavy blow on her very first night as a married woman.

Qin Nian married her with a compensatory mentality of being full of setbacks, so naturally he couldn't be too gentle with her. She was also aware that she couldn't get pregnant right after getting married, but what did her wishes mean in front of Qin Nian? Qin Nian made it so easy that it was almost as if she didn't protest, leaving her alone and bewildered in the same place.

Why is everything so different from what she imagined...?

So when Ye Xueli first saw her mother after returning home from her wedding, she couldn't help but burst into tears.

Ji Yuxiu comforted her somewhat helplessly, asking what was wrong, "Didn't you already marry the person you always wanted to marry?"

Ye Xueli didn't know what was wrong with her. She could only keep wiping away the tears that shouldn't have come. She had so many grievances, but she couldn't say a word.

Even when Ji Yuxiu was furious and wanted to go to the Qin family to seek justice for her, she could only stop her from doing so, saying that she had not been wronged, because theoretically, she really had not been wronged at all.

Swallow your tears and force yourself to stay strong. So many people rush headlong into marriage with joy, how could marriage have no benefits at all?

She tried hard to find happiness in married life, but before she could, her child arrived first.

It was a terrifying feeling. Even though she was a child who had just left her mother's arms, there was already a child clinging to her.

She held the medical report blankly, not yet realizing what was happening, when everyone around her swarmed around to congratulate her.

Even Qin's mother, who had gradually begun to dislike her spoiled nature, and Qin Nian, who had never been kind to her, began to soften, and their eyes started to show "love" when they looked at her.

That's definitely something to celebrate, isn't it?

No matter how others change their attitudes, she still faces the most important thing: being pregnant, she can no longer participate in performances.

"I'll come back after I give birth," Ye Xueli assured her.

But after giving birth, when hormones and postpartum trauma made it impossible for her to do the things she used to do so easily, she finally understood what the troupe leader meant by the pity he had shown her back then.

For more than 20 years, the only thing Ye Xueli has consistently done is ballet, but now she can no longer do it.

Ye Xueli cried even harder than before, but the baby was born and the deed was done; Qin's mother and Qin Nian quickly lost interest in comforting her.

In the blink of an eye, all the costs she paid for childbirth seemed to be solely her own responsibility.

From that moment on, Ye Xueli cried less often.

She devotes all her energy to her child, and even with a nanny to help, she doesn't feel at ease and insists on doing everything herself.

She lost everything because of this child. If she can't even hold onto this child, what will she have left?

She cared so much about this child, but as soon as the child grew a little older and left her embrace, he would happily run to his grandma and dad, sticking his tongue out at her mischievously.

She sacrificed so much for him! Why does he have to help others hurt her now that he's grown up?

Ye Xueli didn't know why she was so angry, but she blurted out uncontrollably, "Go to hell."

Qin's mother was trying to cheer up her beloved grandson while enjoying Ye Xueli's impotent rage when she suddenly heard such a sentence and was taken aback: "What did you say?"

Hearing her question, Ye Xueli repeated herself clearly: "I told you to go die. You've experienced the same pain as me, yet you want to inflict that pain on me. What's the point of your life? I wish you would just die already."

Qin's mother: ...

"Ye Xueli! You've gone mad!"

Ye Xueli didn't stop. If she thought Qin Zheng was crazy, so be it. She turned to look at Qin Zheng, who was making a smug face.

"You're good at reading people's expressions, aren't you? Because everyone in this family sides with Dad, you think you can bully Mom too, right?"

"Then let me tell you, you and your idiot father are both mistaken!"

"This family all sides with Dad, not because he's capable, but because this family belongs to his mom and dad. Even if he's a good-for-nothing, he can still team up with a group of people to bully Mom."

"If you choose to take sides because of this, you're making a huge mistake. Mom is much more powerful than Dad! You've misjudged her!"

Qin Zheng stared blankly at Ye Xueli, whom he had never seen before, and then burst into tears: "Waaah! Mommy's mean! Grandma hit her! Grandma hit her!"

"Hehehe." Ye Xueli couldn't help but laugh.

After saying these crazy things to the grandmother and grandson, she didn't want to continue and turned to the nanny beside her: "Clean up my room."

The nanny wanted to help her, but seeing the expressions on Qin's mother and the young master's faces, she didn't know whether she should.

Ye Xueli looked at her expressionlessly: "Perhaps you also enjoy reading people's faces, but I can tell you the truth: after today, the Qin family will be completely finished!"

...

Qin Nian listened to her mother's tearful complaints on the phone, stormed back home, slammed the door open, and yelled at Ye Xueli, "Are you crazy! Do you know how busy I am outside? And you're just causing trouble for me at home!"

"What are you so busy with? What is there to be busy with in a pharmaceutical company that is constantly losing money and has the Qin family filling a bottomless pit?"

"What did you say?"

"What's there to hide? You're running a loss-making company every day, and you still have the nerve to say you're busy? If you were less busy, you could at least leave your parents with enough for their funerals."

Qin Nian: ?

When Qin Nian heard from his mother that Ye Xueli had gone mad, she thought the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were up to something again. Now she realized that Ye Xueli really had gone mad!

"What do you want? You don't want to live together anymore, do you?!"

"Otherwise, do I sound like I'm having a heart-to-heart talk with you?"

"Who was it that wanted to marry me in the first place? Now that you're a little upset, you can't stand it and have to make such a scene!"

"Wasn't it you? I still have the marriage proposal message on my phone. Are you getting forgetful?"

"Why do you think I married you?!"

"He was so devastated by Ye Xiqing that he wanted to marry her sister to make up for his fragile pride. But pride can be repaired, but strength can't."

"What did you say!"

Qin Nian had never hit a woman before, but Ye Xueli had completely enraged him, to the point that he took a few steps forward and was about to grab the woman who had offended him.

But Ye Xueli watched her quietly. When he got closer, she suddenly stood up and swung the thing in her hand. Qin Nian immediately let out a scream that was not human.

When you look again, there is a bloody, mangled gash on Qin Nian's face.

After getting married, Ye Xueli loved wearing extremely high, sharp heels that seemed to pierce the floor. But this time, she didn't wear them; instead, she aimed directly at Qin Nian's face.

Before Qin Nian returned, she had been trying to calm her anger, but she couldn't!

She was filled with hatred! All the blood and sweat she had silently poured out over the years could only be repaid by seeing real, gushing blood!

Qin Nian screamed and covered his face, blood seeping from between his fingers. The real blood and pain instantly brought him back to his senses.

The crowd of onlookers could no longer bear to watch the spectacle. They huddled around Qin Nian in terror, staring at Ye Xueli with fear in their eyes.

She, who had never been noticed before, suddenly showed a real presence at this moment.

Qin's mother was both shocked and frightened by her only son's injury. She threatened him fiercely but weakly, "You crazy woman! If anything happens to my son, I'll make you pay!"

"That won't do."

Qin's mother looked at Ye Xueli with trepidation, only to find that Ye Xueli had not said those words.

He suddenly looked toward the source of the sound, and when he saw who it was, his already stiff body stiffened even more.

Ye Xiqing stood upright in the Qin family's courtyard, and no one dared to stop her. She stepped forward step by step, a smile on her face—

"No matter what my Ye family daughter has done, your Qin family has no right to punish her."

Qin's mother: ...

One rises as the other falls.

Over the years, the Qin family has been dragged down by the pharmaceutical research company that Qin Nian impulsively created, while the Ye family, under the leadership of Ye Xiqing, has flourished in both its main business and external ventures. Today, the Ye family is an existence that all the upper-class circles in X City look up to.

Qin's mother dared to embarrass Ye Xueli secretly at home, but she would never dare to continue to stand up to Ye Xiqing after she clearly revealed the Ye family's name. She could only try to reason with her in humiliation: "Didn't Miss Ye see what my son looked like!"

Ye Xiqing approached, pinched Qin Nian's chin, glanced at her casually, and smiled, "It's just a little blood, and there's no important tissue on her face, so what's the big deal?"

"Isn't the current operating situation of the Qin family company more worrying?"

Everyone in the Qin family fell silent, the air thick with tension.

Ye Xiqing brazenly led the murderous Ye Xueli out of the room, and only then did everyone realize that what Ye Xueli meant when she said they had misread the expressions was actually this...

...

After leaving the Qin family, Ye Xueli sat in the back seat with her head down, becoming unusually obedient.

Ye Xiqing sat next to her, one seat away, and crossed her arms: "Why don't you hit my temple?"

"People will die, right? If I kill someone, can you cover it up for me?"

"So you know, in a civilized society, using violence to solve problems sounds very outrageous."

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help it."

What's the use of saying sorry now? The fight is already over.

Since Ye Xueli chose to marry Qin Nian, Ye Xiqing has stopped caring about her, and Ye Xueli also likes to avoid her. She never expected that the first time she asked her for help would be for something like this.

Slightly speechless, I asked, "So what are your plans for the future?"

"I want a divorce."

Do you want the child?

"No, I don't want it."

"Why not? I've always believed that a child is a mother's asset from birth, and this kind of behavior of easily handing over a child makes me very unhappy."

"If you want it, I can fight for it too."

"Then forget it. A child that even the mother doesn't want is a worthless asset to take back. Although it's a pity about your initial investment, sunk costs shouldn't be involved in major decisions."

Ye Xueli: ……

"Moo—"

Ever since her outburst at the Qin family's house, she had fallen into an eerie calm, and now she was finally able to cry out loud.

She didn't know why she felt such heavy anger, but now she finally understood: she was furious about the sunk costs she could never recover.

They were also angry that she had put in so much effort, yet others could do nothing and easily take away her hard work, making everything she had become a joke!

Ye Xueli cried so hard that she completely ruined all the dignity she had maintained in the past. Ye Xiqing kindly handed her a tissue.

“Life has countless six-year periods, so it doesn’t matter if you waste a few more. Your postpartum damage is quite typical. Qingqing Technology has a group that systematically studies these sequelae caused by childbirth, and they have achieved some results. You can give it a try, and maybe you can return to the stage.”

"No!"

Ye Xueli blew her nose forcefully, panting as she spoke, "I don't want to think about the stage anymore. I just want to ask you, if you want to focus on running Qingqing Technology, do you still have the energy to take over the Ye family?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Xiqing decisively withdrew her hand from the tissue: "Even if I don't have the means, I won't give it to you. My things will always be mine, so don't get any ideas."

“I can help you! I am both a daughter of the Ye family and not a daughter of the Ye family. No one is better than me to do it!”

Ye Xiqing pondered for a moment, then handed the tissue back to Ye Xiqing.

That's not a bad idea.