I Got Rich in Period Fiction-Chapter 549 - 543: If Life Could Start Over (4)

Ye Hongyuan seemed quite satisfied as he looked at Liu Ying in this state.

He was in no rush, taking his time to survey the few people in the room. Although their ages differed by a few years, they had nearly all grown up together, doing many things behind the adults’ backs that were not permitted, sharing secrets and common interests. When they were together, they talked about the future, their dreams, and their aspirations.

In those days, they truly were naive to the taste of sorrow, but now, all that had changed, and everything and everyone had become unrecognizable.

They could never return to the past.

Ever since that incident, their tightly-knit group had disbanded.

His gaze settled on Liu Ying, the woman he once deeply loved.

His eyes were cold and stern, yet his voice was unusually soft, as if afraid of startling Liu Ying.

"Liu Ying," he said, "DNA testing wasn’t advanced in the past, but now it’s possible. Let’s go do the test to determine whether Ruoruo is Zhou Hai’s daughter or mine. We need a conclusion."

If the previous shock was not enough, Ye Hongyuan’s statement was like a bolt from the blue, or a huge stone thrown into a calm lake!

Zhou Hai thought he was hallucinating.

With bloodshot eyes, he strode towards Ye Hongyuan and grabbed him by the collar, hissing venomously, "Ye Hongyuan, you are out of line, you’re being too presumptuous. Don’t think that I can’t handle you. If you anger me further, I won’t let you off easily."

Zhang Zening stepped forward, his hands rough and deformed yet powerful, and pulled Zhou Hai away. He spoke with profound meaning, "Let’s talk this out properly. He’s already in a wheelchair now. Do you expect to repeat what happened back then, Zhou Hai? It’s not possible anymore, and I hope you don’t act rashly."

Zhou Hai’s face turned livid, his eyes blood-red, but Ye Hongyuan disregarded him, only gazing at Liu Ying, "Liu Ying, you slept with me first, and then you slept with Zhou Hai, so it’s hard to say whose child she really is."

Liu Ying was as pale as a ghost, wishing she could just die then and there.

Her tears immediately covered her cheeks, and looking at Ye Hongyuan, she shrieked crazily, "Ye Hongyuan, you’re spouting nonsense, you’re slandering me!"

Ye Hongyuan snickered, "Liu Ying, you just don’t see the coffin until you’re crying tears. Do I need to present evidence of your slander? Do you want me to recount the scene that day, describe it here in this projection room?"

"Shut your mouth!" Liu Ying abruptly stood up, her body trembling. Staggering a few steps, she grabbed the corner of a nearby table, her eyes filled with hatred. "You promised me you’d never tell anyone. Why break your word, why go back on your promises?"

Ye Hongyuan raised an eyebrow amusedly, "Liu Ying, as a woman who has done so many wrongs, always pursuing your own interests, how can you be so naive as to trust a promise?"

Zhou Hai couldn’t stand to be in the projection room any longer. Without even looking at Liu Ying or anyone else, his mind seemed a bit muddled.

This blow left him not knowing how to face it.

Just as he was staggering towards the door, Ye Hongyuan raised his voice from behind, "Zhou Hai, if you agree to the test, we can do it quietly. If you don’t, I will go through legal channels with my lawyer."

Zhou Hai paused, his trembling hand clutching the doorknob, his veins bulging from the strain. His teeth were clenched tightly, and he felt a stifling sensation in his chest. He jerked the door open with force and, without looking back, left.

Liu Ying couldn’t care about anything else. She steadied her legs, took a few difficult steps, and then, with a clench of her teeth and a hate-filled gaze, looked at Ye Hongyuan, "Ye Hongyuan, you really are full of it."

Then, standing tall, she turned her cold voice to Xiao Wei, almost defiantly, "Xiao Wei, you wish to reconcile with Zhou Hai, but that’s never going to happen in this lifetime."

Xiao Wei’s gaze was deep and silent as she watched Liu Ying, saying nothing.

And Liu Ying quickly headed in the direction Zhou Hai had gone. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

They all lived in the same compound, never even leaving the main gate, so the three people inside the house were not worried about Zhou Hai and Liu Ying’s safety.

Xiao Wei let out a sigh, didn’t ask anything, and then said, "Little Yuan, I’ll take you home."

Ye Hongyuan looked at Xiao Wei, eyes also reddening, and with a choked voice, said, "Sister Weiwei, what I said just now was the truth, and Liu Ying was with me willingly. We were planning to get married... but then my family had an accident the next day, and her family had an accident as well. I think she didn’t necessarily choose Zhou Hai because she liked him so much, but because at that time, Zhou Hai was her best option."

Ye Hongyuan was, of course, clear about what type of man Liu Ying liked.

Even though the Zhou family had power and influence, Zhou Hai’s personal appearance really didn’t meet Liu Ying’s standards for choosing a spouse.

She remembered that once she had inadvertently made fun of Zhou Hai for being too short and of average looks, even questioning how Xiao Wei could have fallen for Zhou Hai.

And he could have never imagined that, in his moment of desperation, Liu Ying would tell him that she was pregnant with Zhou Hai’s child and that she was going to marry Zhou Hai.

So in a fit of rage, he wanted to strangle Zhou Hai to death.

But he had not expected that a fruit knife casually picked up by Zhang Zening would cripple him for life, Ye Hongyuan never to stand tall again.

Now, speaking of the past grievances and disputes only brought pain and despair, nothing more.

Not even a trace of happiness was left behind.

He covered his face, allowing tears to cover his cheeks.

For that willful youth, those wayward days, he had paid a steep price.

If only life could be rewound, how wonderful that would be!

...

Whether right or wrong, for the time being, things could only be left as they were. Xiao Wei didn’t pay much attention to the child support or the stuff she sent.

Because the current state of the Zhou family was definitely chaotic.

For Zhou Hai, who was kept in the dark, these matters were a deep humiliation, and it would be strange if he could bear it.

In this matter, Xiao Wei knew that reasoning herself was only one aspect, but not the whole story.

The biggest factor was that living with Zhou Hai was really a stretch; their philosophies did not align, there was no common language, yet she had to maintain the harmony of the family, to be a good wife, a good mother, so she endured it all.

If it hadn’t been for Liu Ying, she would have been like many couples, staying together for the sake of the children, settling for a lifetime.

She could easily agree to the requests made by Liu Ying because, in the end, she no longer had feelings for Zhou Hai, but undeniably, the connection between them wouldn’t break because they still had a son and a daughter.

But these things could only be buried in Xiao Wei’s heart.

Therefore, towards Zhou Hai, Xiao Wei had a hint of tolerance.

She didn’t hate him; on the contrary, if possible, she hoped Zhou Hai would have a happy life and not be affected by her in terms of his marriage and emotions.

But she hadn’t expected that there were so many things she didn’t know in between.