A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 172: She’s Keeping a Young Lover?

Chapter 172: Chapter 172: She’s Keeping a Young Lover?

Mad?

Shen Yanhe’s eyes flashed a trace of cold light, "That would indeed be letting her off easy."

She lowered her eyes, her hand resting on her stomach.

She hadn’t forgotten, there had once been a brief life here.

It was her negligence, her failure to keep it.

Fu Yanhe keenly sensed her spirits were somewhat down.

He shifted the topic and asked her, "Do you want the Shen family’s company?"

"Indeed, your father Shen Zhong has shares in the company, and as his daughter, you are entitled to inherit them."

Shen Zhong was Shen Yanhe’s father.

And he had been missing for fourteen years.

The last time she saw him, she was just seven years old.

Shen Zhong had just finished a drug research project and came out of the institute to take her and Shen Huai out to the streets for fun.

However, halfway through their day out, he received a call from the institute about an urgent project that needed his help, so he sent her and Shen Huai back home and went to the institute himself.

After that, he never returned.

His mother had reported him missing.

After she had grown up, she also reported him missing, but to this day there was still no news of him, no knowing whether he was dead or alive.

Upon hearing his name, Shen Yanhe felt somewhat dazed for a moment.

She narrowed her eyes, her expression becoming colder, "I don’t need it for now."

"I need to focus on developing the medication for Shen Huai, I don’t have time to manage a company."

Fu Yanhe didn’t insist, he nodded slightly, and glossed over the news.

He extended his distinct, exceptionally long hand towards Shen Yanhe, "Could this beautiful lady give me a hand?"

Unable to restrain a smile at the corners of her lips, Shen Yanhe reached out and took his large hand, "Of course, handsome sir."

The two looked at each other and both smiled.

-

Meanwhile, in a remote women’s prison.

Shen Yingying, covered in stains and emanating a sour stench, tiredly returned to her cell from working.

She saw Gandanxue curled up in the corner, neurotically muttering something to herself, and unable to suppress her anger, strode forward and kicked her in the back, "It’s all your fault! You’re to blame!"

Gandanxue cried out in pain, her body stumbling forward, her head banging against the wall.

Her previously muddled brain cleared a bit, she clutched her bruised forehead and turned around in disbelief, "Yingying, why are you hitting me! I’m your mother!"

"Because you are my mother! That’s why I’m hitting you! If it weren’t for you, would I be in prison? Would I have ended up like this?"

Shen Yingying roared furiously, her face full of resentment, "If you had tried a little harder, had a little spirit, taken the proper path, gone on your knees to beg Shen Yanhe, maybe I would have been out by now!"

"Now look! Both of us are in prison! Are you happy now?"

"Didn’t I do all that because of you? Why don’t you blame your dad! Your dad doesn’t care about you, he’s out there keeping mistresses and second wives, now he even has another child!"

Heart cold and angry, Gandanxue raised her hand and slapped Shen Yingying hysterically, shouting, "Only I look after you, this ungrateful wolf! You lack gratitude fine! But to hit me! You deserve to be put in prison by Shen Yanhe!"

"I should have never cared for you, should have let you rot in here!"

Shen Yingying’s face twisted to one side from the slap.

She screamed and, disregarding everything, lunged forward to start fighting brutally with Gandanxue, "So those are your true thoughts! You never thought about saving me! You wicked woman! You deserve to be abandoned by Dad!"

No one knew how desperate Shen Yingying felt when she saw Gandanxue also end up in the prison.

The greater her expectations had been before, the more she hated Gandanxue when she saw her.

She hated that Gandanxue lacked the ability to rescue her and even got herself involved as well.

All hope was utterly extinguished.

Shen Yingying couldn’t help but vent her anger on Gandan Xue.

Ever since Gandan Xue had arrived, they had argued and even fought.

It was as if the two were not mother and daughter, but enemies.

They would rot in this quagmire for a lifetime.

-

Over the following week,

Shen Yanhe began to frequent the laboratory, busily preparing for her research.

A single person, no matter how dedicated, certainly couldn’t handle the research of a drug alone.

So, her second senior brother generously lent her his assistant, Jiang Yifeng.

Having prepared all the necessary equipment and materials, Shen Yanhe planned to visit the hospital to inform Ye Min and to notify Fu Yanhe before immersing herself in the lab for the upcoming period.

Just after Shen Yanhe had greeted Ye Min and was leaving the hospital, she was about to hail a cab back to the Fu estate,

when several bodyguards dressed in suits appeared before her, speaking respectfully, "Miss Shen, the madam invites you."

Shen Yanhe’s eyebrows slightly raised, her gaze landing on the black Rolls-Royce parked nearby.

The car window slowly rolled down to reveal Fu Shuqin sitting inside, dressed in a maroon cheongsam, looking expressionlessly at her, "Get in."

The moment Shen Yanhe saw Fu Shuqin, she remembered the issue of Xia Ran going to complain to her and the call she made to Fu Yanhe from a week ago.

It had been such a long time without any word from her, Shen Yanhe had thought that Fu Shuqin would no longer trouble her and Fu Yanhe.

But there she was, waiting for her.

Shen Yanhe did not show any hints of weakness as she approached with confidence. The bodyguard opened the car door, and she got in, sitting across from Fu Shuqin.

The car window slowly rose.

Inside the car, Shen Yanhe and Fu Shuqin sat facing each other.

Sitting upright, Shen Yanhe’s delicate, pale face wore a light smile, "Grandma, what did you want to see me for?"

Fu Shuqin’s eyes held a dismissive light, her expression cold as she smirked, "I am not your grandma."

"You, young lady, quite have some tricks up your sleeve."

Fu Shuqin pulled out a stack of photos from her bag beside her, placing them on the small table that had risen in the car,

"Not only are you keeping a lover outside, but you’ve also ensnared Yanhe to the point of distraction. My, my, aren’t you something."

Shen Yanhe glanced at the photos.

The photos showed her and Jiang Yifeng together.

The two appeared intimate, with Jiang Yifeng leaning in, his head close to hers, as if about to kiss her cheek.

In reality, it was a moment when they were buying common medicinal materials in a traditional medicine shop, and Jiang Yifeng had discovered counterfeit drugs in the herbs he was responsible for and was merely bending down to tell her.

Shen Yanhe looked up, her face devoid of any panic, and instead, quite calmly, asked in a gentle voice, "Grandma, what are you implying?"

Fu Shuqin hadn’t expected Shen Yanhe’s response to be so calm. Raising her eyebrows slightly, a flicker of surprise crossed her eyes.

She said indifferently, "You know what I mean."

"You wouldn’t want Yanhe to see this photo, would you?"

"As long as you divorce Yanhe, I guarantee he will never see this photo."

"If you are worried about money after divorcing Yanhe, this old lady will give you five million for free."

Fu Shuqin’s eyes were faint, looking at Shen Yanhe with pride, "Five million, enough for you to support your lover and that sickly little brother of yours."

Shen Yanhe’s smile remained, but the warmth in her eyes cooled by degrees, "I’m sorry, Mrs. Fu."

Without addressing her as grandma anymore, she said directly, "I won’t divorce Yanhe."

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