TL: Hua
In the end, Ye Rongxu’s pure white suit was “torn” and thrown on the ground. Then Qin Chaoyan suddenly picked him up, put him on the washstand, and pressed him down.
Ye Rongxu was caught off guard by the whole ordeal and hurriedly hugged Qin Chaoyan’s neck tightly for fear of falling. When he lowered his head, he bumped into a pair of dark eyes.
He froze for a moment, instinctively pinching the other person’s suit tightly.
Then he was held by the back of his head and pressed against the slightly cool mirror; his sobs and low cries were swallowed.
Qin Chaoyan’s kiss was fierce and relentless, a contrast to his cold and handsome appearance. He held Ye Rongxu in his arms, like a beast taking a soft and obedient animal back to its nest, and kissed him nonstop.
Ye Rongxu, with his forehead against the mirror, was panting softly. Through the mirror covered with a layer of mist, he could vaguely see his cheeks flushed and his misty eyes dazed, which was actually kind of gorgeous and charming.
He whimpered and raised his hand to cover his eyes, not daring to look, but his fingers were caught and kissed one by one.
“Xuxu, be good.” Qin Chaoyan coaxed him in a low and hoarse voice.
Ye Rongxu fell asleep later. It’s unknown whether Qin Chaoyan had helped him brush his teeth and wash his face.
When he woke up the next day, he covered his face with shame and deeply suspected that he was kissed to the point of lacking oxygen last night and fainted directly.
Fortunately, he fainted (fell asleep); otherwise, he suspected that he would be eaten alive by Qin Chaoyan.
After calming down for a few seconds, he suddenly remembered something. The account of last night had not been settled.
He hurriedly lifted the quilt and got up but looked down and saw that he was changed into a set of misty blue pure cotton pajamas.
Ye Rongxu: “…”
He took a deep breath and told himself not to think about how the pajamas were changed, but the tip of his ears still turned red.
He moved to the edge of the bed and saw a pair of fuzzy, cartoon rabbit slippers waiting on the floor in front of him.
Ye Rongxu: “…”
He took another deep breath.
Did Qin Chaoyan treat him as a child?
When he sat by the edge of the bed, the legs of the cotton pajamas drooped, and the soft fabric hung on the instep, creating a sharp contrast between matte blue and fair skin.
Qin Chaoyan saw this scene when he pushed the door in, and his movements paused slightly; his eyes deepened.
Then he walked quickly to the bedside, held him down, and said, “Don’t move.”
He half-knelt in front of the bed, held his thin, white, and beautiful feet, and reached out for the fluffy slippers, but his movements paused.
Ye Rongxu had been pampered since he was a child, and his feet weren’t used much. Even though the rehabilitation in the past two years was hard and the skin on the soles of his feet had been worn, the instep was still as delicate as jade, and the dark green blood vessels were faintly visible, as beautiful as a white jade sculpture.
Qin Chaoyan’s eyes dimmed, his fingertips unconsciously rubbing the foot he was holding. He suddenly remembered the time when he was taken to the hospital by Qin Qijiang’s bodyguard to apologize to Ye Rongxu, but the other party stepped on his chest with his foot.
At that time, he and Ye Rongxu didn’t get along. He ridiculed the bodyguard who peeked at Young Master Ye’s feet as a pervert.
But now…
He took a deep breath and suddenly felt that he was also quite perverted.
After calming down for two seconds, he put the fluffy slippers on the jade-white foot in his palm and then put on the other one.
After everything was ready, he stood up, wanting to carry Ye Rongxu to wash up.
Ye Rongxu turned his head away in disdain: “You didn’t wash your hands after touching my feet.”
Qin Chaoyan’s ears turned slightly red. His expression was a little unnatural, thinking that his subtle actions just now were noticed.
Ye Rongxu didn’t actually notice it. Instead, after he finished speaking, he felt that the word “touch” was not appropriate, so he said with a flushed face, “I mean, I can do it myself.”
Having finished speaking, he pushed himself up from the bed with his hands, slipped his feet into the fluffy slippers, and, with a slight tremble in his legs, managed to stand.
Qin Chaoyan froze, watching him stand up with a flash of surprise in his eyes. He hesitated and wanted to reach out, but he didn’t dare to, like an excited parent who saw his child taking his first steps.
Ye Rongxu was so tired that his breath was unstable from just standing up. He looked up and glared at Qin Chaoyan: “What are you doing? Help me.”
Qin Chaoyan came back to his senses and hurriedly stretched out his hand.
“Go wash your hands first.” Young master-with-mysophobia-Ye was mad again.
Qin Chaoyan hurried to wash his hands, and his steps were a little messy, as if he was being directed around.
Two minutes later, he finally regained his calm and rationality and supported Ye Rongxu as a human crutch.
“Xuxu, can you walk?” He couldn’t help but ask softly.
“I’m… walking, aren’t I?” Ye Rongxu was so tired that he gasped and his calves trembled.
Qin Chaoyan couldn’t help but be happy for him, but thinking of yesterday, he hesitated: “I saw that you couldn’t stand steadily yesterday.”
Ye Rongxu coughed dryly: “Still need more practice. Crutch would be helpful, but it’s too ugly.”
So he still often sits in a wheelchair.
Qin Chaoyan looked disapproving: “What did the doctor say? Shouldn’t you practice regularly? And you don’t look ugly with crutches…”
Before he finished speaking, Ye Rongxu suddenly stopped walking.
Qin Chaoyan paused and looked at him in confusion.
Ye Rongxu: “Have you seen me with crutches? How do you know if I’m ugly or not?”
Qin Chaoyan smiled and said, “You look pretty with anything.”
Ye Rongxu snorted, his ears slightly red, then he stretched out his hands.
Qin Chaoyan: “?”
Ye Rongxu: “Hold me, I’m tired of walking.”
Qin Chaoyan curled the corners of his lips and picked him up horizontally by the waist.
After dilly-dallying for half an hour to freshen up, Qin Chaoyan carried him downstairs for breakfast.
Ye Rongxu drank seafood porridge and took a bite of crab soup dumplings, eating with satisfaction.
After putting down his chopsticks, he picked up the wet towel on the table, wiped his mouth, and asked reservedly, “This chef is very skilled. Where did you hire him?”
Yesterday’s dishes were also delicious.
Qin Chaoyan put down the soup spoon and said gently, “If you like, I will cook for you every day in the future.”
Ye Rongxu: “Uh.” So you made it?
His eyes wandered, and he said embarrassedly, “You don’t have to make it every day.”
So Qin Chaoyan went to rob the groom after cooking yesterday? Isn’t he afraid of being late?
After thinking about it for a while, he retracted his thoughts. Seeing Qin Chaoyan looking at him, he coughed and said, “Okay, let’s continue to settle last night’s accounts.”
Qin Chaoyan froze. Is there still an account to be settled from last night?
Ye Rongxu said in a serious tone, “You haven’t told me why your uncle insisted on forcing you to break up with me and what grudge he has against our family. Why is he targeting me, or even… dealing with me?”
He was referring to the car accident that year and the kidnapping more than three years ago.
Ye Boxuan has found out about the car accident in recent years and confirmed that Xie Yunming had planned it and almost implemented it, but he didn’t have time. As for the kidnapping, he actually participated in it.
Ye Rongxu didn’t understand. He didn’t offend Xie Yunming, right? His mother probably didn’t either.
But whether it was the failed plan for the car accident or the subsequent kidnapping, they were all aimed at taking lives. How big is the hatred, and how much resentment is there?
It can’t be just because Xie Yunming is a psychopath, right?
Regarding this, Ye Boxuan has also investigated but can only confirm that Xie Yunming is not targeting the Ye family but rather harboring hatred towards Lin Xue.
But in Ye Boxuan’s memory, his wife Lin Xue has always been gentle and kind to others and has never offended Xie Yunming. He really doesn’t know why this person hates her.
Qin Chaoyan’s eyes darkened. He apologized when he heard Ye Rongxu mention these two things.
“I’m sorry.” He whispered, “Xie Yunming… hates your mother.”
“He did those things to hurt you and your mother for me and my mother.”
Ye Rongxu was stunned and couldn’t believe what he just heard: “For you and Aunt Zhao?”
Qin Chaoyan nodded; his eyes were dim, and he repeated in a hoarse voice what Xie Yunming said when he met him that year.
After listening, Ye Rongxu was thinking: Is this person sick in the head?
“In the name of revenge for Aunt Zhao, he planned a car accident to harm my mother, just because he thought it was my mother’s phone call that…”
He paused when he said this and looked up at Qin Chaoyan.
Qin Chaoyan knew what he was worried about and said, “I know it was an accident; only Xie Yunming believes otherwise.”
Ye Rongxu nodded, but he still couldn’t calm down, especially since this matter involved his mother, which made him angry.
After calming down for a few seconds, he couldn’t help but ask, “Do you know what my mother said on the phone?”
Qin Chaoyan nodded, then hesitated. “I have a recording. Do you… do you want to listen?”
“Yes.” Ye Rongxu nodded firmly.
Qin Chaoyan looked at him, and after making sure that he could handle it, he took out his mobile phone and played the recording from that year.
[… Hey, Yunzhao, are you still in the Qin family? Come out quickly; I have something urgent to tell you. Qin Jingxu is not your child, Qin… Bang! ]
Anxious voices mixed with noisy electric currents sounded in the dining room.
Ye Rongxu’s eyes turned red when he heard half of it. After all, it was the last words left by his mother before she died.
But he stubbornly played it over and over again, as if he wanted to listen to it endlessly.
Just when Qin Chaoyan was worried and wanted to stop him, he finally turned off the recording, raised his head, sniffed, and asked, “How did my mother know that Qin Jingxu was not Aunt Zhao’s son?”
Qin Chaoyan hesitated and explained, “According to Xie Yunming’s words and some of the information I found, my mother’s personal freedom should have been controlled by Xie Yunming at that time. Aunt Lin has a good relationship with my mother and suspects that she was controlled by Xie Yunming. During that time, she investigated Xie Yunming’s whereabouts, and coincidentally, Xie Yunming was looking for me at the time. Aunt Lin found out about this through investigating Xie Yunming.”
Ye Rongxu was puzzled: “Xie Yunming controlled your mother’s personal freedom?”
Qin Chaoyan frowned and speculated, “I suspect that Xie Yunming has inappropriate feelings towards…”
So Aunt Lin took his mother away from Xie Yunming’s residence, which made Xie Yunming so angry. Unfortunately, on the day his mother was taken away, she passed away in a car accident.
Ye Rongxu’s eyes widened in surprise, and then he rubbed his face to hide his surprise.
Then he frowned and analyzed, “It’s impossible. My mother is not the kind of person who would interfere in other people’s emotional affairs. She definitely doesn’t know about Aunt Zhao and Xie Yunming. At most, she went to pick up Aunt Zhao that day. In addition, I later heard from my aunt that my mother was busy helping me find a famous doctor during that time, and she had no time to investigate Xie Yunming.”
In fact, Ye Rongxu himself remembered it very clearly. During that period, he was sick and was particularly delicate and clingy. In addition to helping him find a famous doctor, his mother spent most of her time with him. How could she have time to interfere in Xie Yunming’s affairs?
“No, my mother didn’t know from Xie Yunming that Qin Jingxu was not Aunt Zhao’s son.” He suddenly opened the recording, listened carefully again, and then said affirmatively, “Listen to the last part…”
After playing it once, he turned off the recording and analyzed, “She said, ‘Qin Jingxu is not your child, Qin…’ Who does the second ‘Qin’ refer to?”
“If it still refers to Qin Jingxu, the words my mother didn’t finish might be ‘Qin Jingxu is the son of so-and-so,’ that is, my mother knows whose son Qin Jingxu is. But at that time, Xie Yunming didn’t even know, so if my mom learned about this through investigating Xie Yunming’s whereabouts, how could she know more than Xie Yunming?”
“The second possibility is that if the second ‘Qin’ refers to you, it means that my mother already knew that you were Aunt Zhao’s son at that time, but the reason is the same as before: Xie Yunming didn’t know; how could my mother know more by investigating Xie Yunming?”
“Finally, there is another possibility…”
Qin Chaoyan’s expression became serious. He took over the conversation and said, “The second ‘Qin’ refers to Qin Qijiang.”
As for other people with the surname Qin, it doesn’t match.
“That’s right.” Ye Rongxu pressed his thin white fingers on the table, curved them into a small arc, and continued, “But there is another question. What does this sentence mean? Qijiang replaced your child? Qin Qijiang planned to do something…”
The former is obviously unlikely, because when the truth about Qin Chaoyan’s life was revealed, Qin Qijiang was indeed unaware, and the child could not have been replaced by him. In addition, Zhang Yun also pleaded guilty.
Zhang Yun is not a good person. If Qin Qijiang is also involved in this matter, can he not be dragged into the water?
“So that sentence may be ‘Qin Qijiang planned to do something,’ combined with what my mother said before, this sentence should originally be ‘Are you still in the Qin family? Come out quickly; I have something urgent to tell you. Qin Jingxu is not your child; Qin Qijiang planned to do something…’Does this seem like telling Aunt Zhao that the Qin family or Qin Qijiang is in danger?”
That’s why he asked Xie Yunzhao if she was still in the Qin family and asked her to leave quickly.
Otherwise, as Xie Yunming said, the matter of the child being replaced is indeed a big deal, but is it necessary to tell the mother so urgently? More or less, they would have considered the other person’s ability to withstand it, such as letting the other person mentally prepare herself first.
Moreover, since she had already said on the phone that the child was fake, why did she say, “Come out quickly”? Combined with Lin Xue’s anxious tone on the phone, this sentence is probably not about meeting with Xie Yunzhao to discuss Qin Jingxu’s issue.
Even if she wanted to meet to discuss this matter, with Lin Xue’s temperament, her tone would not be so anxious. Because the matter of the child being replaced is important, but not so urgent.
So the greater possibility is that this sentence, “Come out quickly,” is just to let Xie Yunzhao leave the dangerous place quickly, that is, Qin’s house.
This can explain why Lin Xue was anxious to tell Xie Yunzhao about this on the phone.
But before Lin Xue finished speaking, Xie Yunzhao had a car accident, and Lin Xue also fell down the stairs.
At that time, the police did not get the recording, and there was no evidence pointing to human intervention. They could only speculate that Lin Xue heard the sound of Xie Yunzhao’s car accident and, in the heat of the moment, fell down the stairs.
But if Lin Xue didn’t know about the child swap through investigating Xie Yunming, from whom did she learn about it? Could it be that at the same time she knew about it, she also knew that Xie Yunzhao was in danger, and that’s why she rushed to make that call?
If everything is really as speculated, then what happened between his mother and Aunt Zhao back then is probably not an accident.
“Pah!” Ye Rongxu suddenly slapped his hands on the desktop and said, “Qin Jingxu, back then, when my mom had an accident, there were eyewitnesses. Qin Jing Xu is the witness; he proved that my mom was in too much of a hurry when she went down the stairs and accidentally fell down.”
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👀👀 if the rat is the “witness” then 100% the Qin scumbag had a direct hand in her fall, or at least saw some Qin goons do it.