Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride's Gambit-Chapter 276 - She Lied to Him
Chapter 276: Chapter 276 She Lied to Him
Chapter 276 -276 She Lied to Him
The rain drenched Ye Chuyi’s hair, droplets falling on her face, trickling down her chin.
Yet she hardly noticed.
She listened indifferently as Wen Nianyou exposed that she was the daughter of a servant and a murderer, a fake heiress of the Ye Family.
At the same time, she seriously considered whether, if she rushed to Sheng Tingyuan now, crying, telling him she deceived him out of necessity, and then pitifully begged for his forgiveness—while casually mentioning the surgery she had performed on his mother—he might soften and let her off the hook?
After all, she wasn’t the only one who’d deceived him; wasn’t there also the whole Ye Family?
If he were to blame someone, it should be the members of the Ye Family, since they were truly the masterminds behind this deception.
Was it because she’d been staring at Sheng Tingyuan for too long that he, very sharply, looked in her direction?
The sky was very gloomy, and the curtain of rain should have made her eavesdropping here safe, yet she was caught red-handed.
She clenched her hands nervously, like a child who’d done wrong, feeling rather helpless—she was a fraud, and impersonating the Ye Family heiress to marry him was the biggest lie and the most unethical thing she’d ever done in her life.
She watched as Sheng Tingyuan approached her with a cold and handsome face, each step seeming to weigh a thousand pounds, unable to move an inch.
Sheng Tingyuan quickly walked up to her, and seeing her drenched, took off his own suit jacket and placed it over her head.
His voice was as deep and pleasant as ever, not angry but somewhat anxious, “Why didn’t you call for me when you arrived? Are you angry?”
Ye Chuyi looked baffled. Angry? Shouldn’t he be the one who was angry?
What was he asking about? What was she angry about? Did she even have the right to be angry?
Before she could sort out her thoughts, the next second, she found herself wrapped in his embrace.
He whispered to her, “I didn’t want to talk to her; she insisted on stopping me, saying she had to tell me a huge secret about you. I was afraid she might harm you again, so I listened. If you’re unhappy, I won’t listen anymore.”
Ye Chuyi stared up at Sheng Tingyuan in shock.
So, he was afraid that talking to Wen Nianyou would upset her?
Wen Nianyou had just revealed so much, laid her secrets bare, and Sheng Tingyuan didn’t believe a word? He endured listening because he was afraid Wen Nianyou might harm her?
Ye Chuyi didn’t know whether to thank the magical fortune that rain brought or thank him for his boundless trust in her.
Guilt, self-reproach, relief, and an inexplicable tremor washed over her.
For the first time, Ye Chuyi felt that she didn’t deserve his trust.
Her voice trembled slightly, “Sheng Tingyuan.”
“Hmm?”
“Do you… not believe her words?”
Sheng Tingyuan raised his hand to wipe the rain off her chin, speaking softly, “What’s there to believe? This is the second time she’s confronted me with these allegations, and I know she has bad intentions.”
Ye Chuyi stared at him in a daze.
Wen Nianyou indeed had bad intentions, but the problem was, everything she said was true.
It was strange, normally Wen Nianyou was full of lies, yet when it came to her, regardless of gender, everyone easily believed her, all thinking she was a kind and pure good girl.
Now that Wen Nianyou was telling the truth for once, Sheng Tingyuan didn’t believe a single word.
For Ye Chuyi, this was a novel experience—at last, there was someone in this world who believed her over Wen Nianyou!
Unfortunately, this time she was the fraud.
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He had trusted the wrong person.
Ye Chuyi hung her head in shame, despising herself because even now, she didn’t dare to admit that she had deceived him.
