Grandpa Xia looked at his granddaughter. Although he didn't like her princess-like temperament, she was different. The wisdom in her almond-shaped eyes surprised him, and he even saw the resemblance of his deceased son in her face.
Just as Xia Yixin was secretly pleased with herself for teasing Wang Cheng, she suddenly heard Grandpa Xia speak up.
“Now that Yixin is back in China, she should go back to the Xia family ancestral home as soon as possible. I’ll have your cousin help you pack up and come back with me immediately. There are some things I need to ask you.”
"Grandpa, the ancestral home isn't..." Wang Cheng swallowed the rest of his sentence under Grandpa Xia's cold gaze. No one had ever lived in the ancestral home except for Grandpa Xia and Xia Yixin's deceased parents. He was shut down by Grandpa Xia's words, "You are a member of the Wang family."
However, on second thought, he felt there was nothing to worry about, because he saw that Xia Yixin's face was full of reluctance.
How can someone who is used to living in a high bed with soft pillows adapt to a dark house with a strange smell?
But after he waited for a long time, she just shrugged and said, "Okay, I'll stay anywhere anyway."
Damn, has this princess lost her mind today?
After the old man left, the bodyguards who had been following him like deaf and blind men switched back to elite mode and respectfully followed behind him.
In comparison, the original owner's bodyguards and thugs were like a flock of quails.
Xia Yixin heard the notification sound as she wished: "Ding! Successfully prevented Grandpa Xia from having a heart attack, reward 10 points."
Wang Cheng's men were left in the room.
Wang Cheng said in a strange tone, "Sis, are you really going back to the ancestral home? Let me tell you, that house is gloomy, the stairs are practically falling apart, and there's a weird smell. Plus, you definitely can't throw a party there." He urged, "Why don't you go stay at my villa on the mountain? I'll put in a good word for Grandpa. You can do whatever you want there. Or you can just go to Las Vegas and visit my mom?"
The reason Xia Yixin returned to China this time was because she was dumped by her aunt Xia Ping, who went to Las Vegas to pursue love again. To put it bluntly, that woman thought she was too troublesome and went off to have fun on her own.
Looking at Wang Cheng's abysmal acting skills, Xia Yixin thought the original owner of this body was really stupid to be fooled like that.
She was too lazy to argue with him, so she yawned, lay down on the sofa, frowned, and pretended to be impatient. "Wang Cheng, are you stupid? Although that old man doesn't have much real power, we still have to give him face. Otherwise, if he kicks me out of the Xia family, will you support me? I have a headache. My luggage is upstairs. Get out of my way and stop getting in my way."
"..." Wang Cheng, who had already been rebuked several times today, clenched his fists in anger. He really wanted to beat her up, but when he thought of his years of planning, his smile twisted.
"Okay, I'll take some people up right away. Oh, by the way, sis, I remember I asked a few friends to come and keep you company. Where are they?"
He was still not convinced and didn't understand what was going on.
"Oh, they're here. They were so boring, I kicked them out. And what kind of junk did they bring? It's all stuff they've been playing with since overseas. I tried it, it wasn't fun, so I threw it all away. It wasn't even as good as the drinks I had abroad. Plus, someone ruined my mood. Wang Cheng, are you interrogating me?"
Xia Yixin's almond-shaped eyes were filled with coldness.
Wang Cheng shuddered, and when he looked again, Xia Yixin still looked annoyed.
He must have misread it. How could that brain-dead princess possibly see through his scheme?
"No, how could that be? I'm just concerned about you." He smiled insincerely.
Xia Yixin really didn't want to watch his cringeworthy acting anymore. She closed her eyes and snorted coldly, "If you care about me, stop talking nonsense. My luggage is upstairs. Call me when you're done packing. I'm going to sleep for a while."
Wang Cheng wanted to ask something, but seeing that Xia Yixin had already closed her eyes, he swallowed his words. He gave a wink and led a few bodyguards upstairs, ostensibly to pack their luggage, but secretly to interrogate her. He had set up a trap, but how come the cooked duck flew away just as he was about to get his hands on it?
The system was a little worried at this point: "Host, Wang Cheng will definitely suspect you."
"So what if I have doubts? The original owner was always the kind of person who would jump to conclusions."
Xia Yixin suddenly felt a spasm in her stomach.
"What's wrong with the host?"
"It's nothing, this little pain is nothing." Xia Yixin didn't expect the original owner's body to be so weak. Those medicines still had an effect. Fortunately, it was her first time taking them. As long as she got through the first night, she wouldn't get addicted after taking them again.
This little bit of pain is nothing to her, who has endured the excruciating pain of muscle atrophy before.
It actually made her thinking clearer.
"System, according to the original story, the villainous boss Lu Yan hates Xia Yixin because she tormented him. So if I ignore him from the beginning, draw a clear line, secretly fulfill his wishes, cultivate him, and find him another woman, do you think I can theoretically raise his happiness level to 100?" Xia Yixin's imagination ran wild.
The system grunted, "That's true in principle... but you forgot he's known you since you were a child. If he finds out it was you who did those things in secret, that kind of pervert... wouldn't he just... *snap* it!"
Xia Yixin felt a chill run down her neck and just wanted to complain, what exactly did this little wolf cub go through to turn him into such a twisted personality! Wait... he seemed a little abnormal even when he was a child.
The image of the six-year-old child stabbing the perverted hospital director with a scalpel flashed through her mind, and her head began to ache more and more.
Suddenly, "Ding! Male supporting character's happiness level -399 points."
Xia Yixin sat up abruptly. Huh? The villainous boss just gave her a point of goodwill? Hehe.
"Host...you're so easily satisfied," the system quipped.
"Tsk, although I don't know why, this trend is good. Contentment brings happiness." She smiled, finally revealing her first smile since transmigrating, which was indescribably gentle and beautiful.
Wang Cheng lingered upstairs for a long time before coming down, and kicked the bodyguards a few times as he went down.
"What good are you bunch of useless trash? You don't even know a person's name, and you just let him go!"
It turns out that Lu Yan was spotted by the original owner in a bar and kidnapped, but he didn't say a word for a whole day and night, let alone his name. The bodyguards didn't take him seriously at all.
Wang Cheng vaguely felt that Xia Yixin had changed, but upon closer reflection, he felt it was just a coincidence. After all, Xia Yixin had always been a princess, impulsive and unpredictable. The only exception was the boy she brought along; Xia Yixin was interested in him, and he could have easily taken advantage of him. What a pity!
He couldn't get involved in the Xia family's ancestral home, so he could only try to persuade her to go abroad as soon as possible.
On the way back, Wang Cheng talked a lot about how dark and gloomy the Xia family's ancestral home was, and how he had tickets to some rare and limited-edition merchandise sales abroad.
Xia Yixin also pretended to be completely coaxed.
Watching Wang Cheng leave with a satisfied look on his face, Xia Yixin smiled wryly.
I went back to my ancestral home, found a bedroom, asked the family doctor for some medicine to treat my stomachache, took it, and fell asleep.
The sun was just beginning to set.
The three-story laboratory building of the First Medical College of the capital was silent at dusk. Just six months ago, it was bustling with activity, but now it was a mess, as if a robbery had taken place there.
The large sign at the entrance listed the laboratory's researchers, and Xia Yixin would have been very surprised if she were there, as one of them was named "Professor Lu Yan of the Medical School".
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