Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride’s Gambit

Chapter 374: Chapter 374: You’re poor, and so is your thinking! Chapter 374: Chapter 374: You’re poor, and so is your thinking! Yueqin clutched her painfully aching stomach, looking at Wen Nianyou in disbelief. “Youyou, how could you do this to me? I’m your mother!”

“Just because you are my mother, I have to do this to you! Who else is to blame for you failing to make me Ye Jinyu’s daughter?!”

Wen Nianyou, furious, exclaimed, “When I was little, I once went back to the Ye Family with Ye Jinyu. I can’t clearly remember Ye Chongzun’s face, but I distinctly remember that he didn’t like me! Because I bit into every single pastry, because they were too hot I carelessly threw them on the floor, because I disliked the look of the plate, I directly smashed it!”

“And these habits were all cultivated by you! You told me that as the young Lady of the Wen Family, I could be as wilful as I wanted, that wasting things didn’t matter!”

Yueqin began to cry out loud, “Did I say something wrong? If a pastry is thrown away, so be it, doesn’t the Wen Family have an abundance? What are the Ye Family, a bunch of paupers? So concerned about a thrown pastry!”

“Every time pastries were made, weren’t you the one who insisted on tasting each one? After all, they were made for you, and you could eat them however you wanted.”

“I swapped you to the Wen Family so you could enjoy the good life; if even eating pastries requires so much thought, what’s the point of being the young lady? Of course, you should do whatever you wish, smash plates or bowls, it should be your whim, and no one can say anything to you—not even Lady Wen!”

Listening to all this, Nianyou almost collapsed to the ground in anger.

Pointing at Yueqin, she extended her arm, “You! You’re indeed just a maid with no sense of decency! You have no idea what a true young lady should be like. You’re poor, and so is your thinking! You’ve made me like some vulgar upstart, turned me into a laughingstock for others!”

After being scolded for so long, Yueqin finally couldn’t hold back anymore. She shouted, “Without me, you wouldn’t even have become the young lady of the Wen Family, nor would you have enjoyed such a wealthy life! You ought to thank me, not scream at me! I’ve sacrificed everything for you; you should be showing me filial piety!”

“You don’t deserve my filial piety, you’ve almost ruined me!”

With that, Nianyou turned and walked away.

She approached the parked cars by the roadside, pressing her face against the glass and looking inside with effort, from one vehicle to the next, until she finally spotted some loose cash inside one of the cars.

She turned to Yueqin, following behind, and commanded, “Find a stone and smash the window!”

Hesitating for a moment, Yueqin nonetheless followed her command, picked up a stone, and shattered the car window.

That’s when Nianyou realized that the keys had not been removed from the car.

Overjoyed, she immediately opened the door and got into the car.

Fearful of being left behind, Yueqin hurriedly got into the car as well. “Are we going to sleep in the car tonight? My stomach hurts a lot, I want to go to the hospital.”

“What hospital? Just bear the pain! I haven’t cried out for a hospital, so why are you?”

Nianyou started the car and drove off into the distance.

Unable to hold back, Yueqin asked her, “Where are we going?”

“Where else but to the Wen Family? My clothes and bags, along with so many luxury jewels, are all there; I have to take them back. All those are mine, I won’t let Ye Chuyi get them for nothing!”

“Can we even get in? Didn’t they change the locks the day before yesterday when we tried to go back?”

“We have to get in, even if we can’t!”

Nianyou stepped on the accelerator, speeding all the way and quickly arriving at the Wen Family Villa.

Inside, the villa was shrouded in darkness, the door securely locked. The once warm home now had an eerie feeling.

The door was unbreakable. Nianyou, with great effort and standing on Yueqin’s back, finally climbed over it.noveldrama

Once inside, Nianyou unlocked the door to let Yueqin in.

The two of them sneaked into the villa and after searching around, their faces turned sour.

“Everything’s gone; it’s all been taken!”

Nianyou was nearly spitting blood. “Ye Chuyi, you even dared to take my things; I will not let you off!”

Yueqin was also irritated. “How could they have cleared the house so thoroughly? Are they not living here anymore, or has the villa already been sold?”