Chapter 734 is about his first love, whom he once loved very much.
The hospital reviewed the surveillance footage and saw that Shen Anning left on her own.
She hailed a taxi at the hospital entrance.
Qi Yue called Shen Anning, and the call went through, but Shen Anning didn't answer.
The whole thing took less than half an hour. She was still sick, so why did she suddenly leave the hospital alone?
She was perfectly fine at noon, but after winning the lawsuit, she was visibly happy, and her spirits were noticeably better when she came back.
Qi Yue really couldn't figure out what was wrong.
My eyelids were twitching uncontrollably.
My feeling isn't good.
Qi Yue knew he couldn't wait any longer; he had to find Shen Anning as soon as possible.
He called Zhuang Yu and said, "Check your wife's location."
"OK."
Zhuang Yu called five minutes later.
"Mr. Qi, we've found the right position for your wife."
Qi Yue sat in the Phantom, and as the car started to move, he asked, "Where is she?"
"Yes, at that villa on that popular beach in the suburbs."
Upon hearing this, Qi Yue's expression changed drastically.
...
The taxi stopped outside a villa area on a popular beach in the suburbs.
"Miss, outside vehicles aren't allowed in here, so I can only take you this far."
"I understand, thank you."
Shen Anning paid the fare, opened the car door, and got out.
The villas here are all private properties, and outsiders need to contact the owners and obtain their consent before they can enter.
Shen Anning walked to the window of the security room and said to the security guard, "We have already contacted the owner of villa 78 with a sea view."
The security guard glanced at the registration form. "Are you Ms. Shen? What are the last four digits of your phone number?"
Shen Anning gave the last three digits of her license plate number.
The security guard immediately and respectfully welcomed them inside, saying, "Go straight ahead, and you'll reach the Seaview Villa at the end."
"OK, thanks."
Shen Anning pulled her light trench coat tighter and walked in the direction the security guard pointed.
The wind was very strong at the beach in Beicheng in September. She was wearing this outfit at the hospital; it was an autumn style trench coat, which wasn't very windproof.
She put her hands in her coat pockets and quickened her pace.
After walking about a hundred meters further in, Shen Anning saw the villa.
She stepped forward and entered the courtyard, where the walls were covered with roses, their fragrance wafting towards her.
Shen Anning frowned slightly, coughed a few times, covered her mouth, and pulled up her mask to put it on.
A middle-aged woman, dressed in a nanny's uniform, came out and greeted Shen Anning with a smile: "Are you Miss Shen?"
Shen Anning nodded slightly.
"Our Miss Gong is on the second floor. I'll take you up there."
Shen Anning followed the nanny upstairs.
A balcony on the second floor facing the sea has been transformed into a sunroom.
Various flowers, grasses, and trees are planted in the sunlight.
Beneath a pavilion overgrown with vines, in front of an antique wooden tea table, a woman sat.
The kettle was bubbling and steaming.
The woman used tea tweezers to hold the teacup and poured out the tea...
"Miss Gong, Miss Chen has arrived," the nanny said respectfully, looking at the woman.
Upon hearing this, the woman paused, looked up, and began to look over.
A few meters apart, the woman's gaze met Shen Anning's.
The moment their eyes met, Shen Anning's breath caught in her throat and her back stiffened.
The woman had a delicate face, completely different from You Jingqiao.
But the one glance she gave Shen Anning a fatal sense of familiarity...
The woman turned her gaze to the nanny beside Shen Anning: "Aunt Qiu, go downstairs and prepare some snacks for Miss Shen and bring them up."
"OK."
The nanny nodded slightly, turned around, and went downstairs.
The woman looked at Shen Anning again.
Shen Anning continued to look at her.
"Miss Shen doesn't look well?" The woman looked Shen Anning up and down. "Are you sick?"
Shen Anning walked towards the woman step by step.
Finally, she stopped in front of the tea table.
She looked at the completely unfamiliar face in front of her, a pale face devoid of any expression.
However, her hands, which were tucked into her trench coat pockets, were clenched into tight fists.
"Aren't you going to sit down?" The woman looked up at Shen Anning. "My tea is quite good. It was personally selected and delivered by President Qi. I took tea ceremony classes abroad. Would you like to try some?"
A steaming cup of tea was placed on the table in front of Shen Anning.
Shen Anning lowered her eyes and glanced at them.
A moment later, she bent down and sat down.
The aroma of tea filled the air. Shen Anning, who also knew a little about tea ceremony, could tell whether a tea was good or not just by smelling it.
The way the woman brews tea is clearly something she's learned.
Her long hair was tied up with a hairpin, and the modern Chinese-style cheongsam she wore made her look even more gentle and intellectual.
The woman picked up her teacup, her fingertips delicate and graceful, and lowered her head to sip the tea.
Shen Anning stared at her face, her features, and even every inch of her skin.
They are not similar at all.
She is not You Jingqiao.
Shen Anning couldn't connect the woman in front of her with You Jingqiao.
Even if a person were to undergo a complete transformation, it would be impossible for them to change so thoroughly!
But her voice did sound very similar to You Jingqiao's, and on the phone, she did say some things that only the sisters knew.
Shen Anning watched the woman put down her teacup before speaking, "You said on the phone that you are You Jingqiao, what proof do you have?"
"I have no evidence." The woman looked up at Shen Anning, smiling before speaking: "Whether you believe it or not is up to you."
"If you are Jingqiao, then why haven't you come back or contacted me all these years? And why are you suddenly contacting me now?"
The woman looked at Shen Anning and said, "Mrs. Qi, what are you afraid of? Even if I come back now, the plane crash was an accident. You can rest assured that your Mr. Qi will not have to bear any legal responsibility for it."
Shen Anning stared at her, feeling confused for a moment.
She couldn't accept that the person in front of her, a complete stranger from head to toe, was You Jingqiao.
But she did know about those things from back then.
But she insisted that she was You Jingqiao, and Shen Anning had no evidence to prove that she wasn't.
If that's the case, let's see what she's really up to.
"That nanny called you Miss Gong." Shen Anning sized her up. "And what about your identity and your appearance? What's going on?"
“I was indeed going to board that plane back then, but after I checked in, the Gong family suddenly found me. That’s when I found out that my mother had been deceived all along. My biological father, who was supposed to die in an accident, was actually still alive. He was the heir of the Gong family. He had a relationship with my mother when he was young. After my mother gave birth to me, he got tired of arguing about daily necessities. He wanted to go back to the Gong family, but the Gong family wouldn’t allow him to take my mother back. So they conspired to fake my mother’s death.”
"After returning to the Gong family, he continued to be the heir, provided that he accepted the family's arrangements and the arranged marriage. The current eldest daughter of the Gong family is my half-sister. If nothing unexpected happens, she will also be the future heir of the Gong family. Because my biological father committed too many sins when he was young, Madam Gong died in childbirth. The eldest daughter's mother's family is the Lian family of Longcheng, a family that the Gong family cannot afford to offend. So even though Madam Gong died, no one in the Gong family dared to advise my father to remarry, and no one dared to neglect the eldest daughter of the Gong family."
At this point, the woman looked at Shen Anning and raised an eyebrow slightly: "Do you think that everyone who does bad things in this world will be punished?"
Shen Anning frowned as she looked at her, but did not answer.
“Here I am…” The woman didn’t care about her attitude and pointed to her right side, “I’m missing a kidney, which I gave to my good father.”
Shen Anning was stunned.
Seeing her expression, the woman smiled with satisfaction: "He's hit the jackpot. He got a kidney and will live for another 10 or 20 years, plus another daughter. Now I'm not called You Jingqiao, I'm called Gong Xinyue. He said I should thank him. If it weren't for him finding me, I would have died in that plane crash the day I boarded that plane. He wants me to be grateful and to learn how to be the most qualified heiress, a tool ready to contribute to the family's arranged marriages at any time."
Shen Anning processed this information.
After a moment, she asked, "So, all these years you've been living under the new identity of Gong Xinyue?"
"That's right. Of course, I haven't been back all these years. It's not that I don't want to come back, but the Gong family won't let me return to the country until I become a qualified tool for a marriage alliance."
Gong Xinyue gave a cold laugh, "They wouldn't even let me come back for my mother's funeral, but I know you secretly gave her a sum of money for the funeral."
Shen Anning said calmly, "I just feel that your stepfather is too heartless, and I don't want Aunt You to leave in such a tragic way."
“Whatever the reason, I am very grateful that you are willing to pay this money.” Gong Xinyue paused, then said, “I only recently returned to China because my dear father thinks I meet the criteria of a tool for marriage.”
Shen Anning sized her up.
She couldn't immediately tell whether what she said was true or false.
She thought she would ask her godmother to investigate and verify the information when she got back today.
Now, she needs to find out how much Qi Yue actually knows about this.
When did you get in touch with Qi Yue?
“We got in touch whenever he went on a business trip.” Gong Xinyue smiled coldly. “Aren’t you surprised that Qi Yue lied to you? He said he was on a business trip, but actually he was abroad with me.”
Shen Anning stared at her, trying her best to control her emotions, "Why did you do this?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than the sound of a car came from the courtyard.
Gong Xinyue looked at Shen Anning, her pink lips curving upwards.
Then, she stood up, walked to Shen Anning's side, and placed a beautiful hand on Shen Anning's shoulder.
She slowly leaned down, her pink lips covering Shen Anning's ear, and said in a voice only she and Shen Anning could hear, "I didn't tell him that I am You Jingqiao. I only told him that I was his first love, whom he loved very much."
Shen Anning was suddenly stunned!
She turned to look at her in disbelief, then glared at her. "Do you know what you're saying?"
“An Ning.” Gong Xinyue gently stroked her pale, bloodless cheek with her fingertips. “I know he has amnesia. You love him so much, but he has forgotten you so completely. A person like him does not deserve your love. You should break up with him.”
"You're insane!" Shen Anning's emotions, which she had suppressed for many years, finally erupted, and she abruptly shoved her hand away—
"ah!"
The woman gasped and fell to the ground.
Shen Anning stood up, looking at Gong Xinyue on the ground in disbelief.
She didn't use any force at all!
"Chen Anning!"
A man's angry roar rang out, and Shen Anning turned her head—
Qi Yue walked straight toward them with a cold face.
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