A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 185: One Must Get Either the Person or the Heart

Chapter 185: Chapter 185: One Must Get Either the Person or the Heart

Even though Fu Weizhi had already offered her an opportunity, Xia Ran still couldn’t make up her mind.

After Li Sa left, she hurriedly left the bar and went home to discuss the matter with Su Lan.

The only person she could rely on now was Su Lan.

It was almost midnight by the time she got home.

Xia Tingyuan was still at the company and had not returned.

Su Lan, who had been worried about her, had not yet gone to bed. Seeing Xia Ran come in reeking of alcohol, she was both angry and distressed. She instructed the maid to make a sobering soup and went up to Xia Ran, chiding her, "Why did you go drinking again? Look at you, smelling so strongly of alcohol. Isn’t it uncomfortable?"

Xia Ran excitedly grabbed Su Lan’s hand, lowering her voice, "Mom, you’ll never guess who I met today!"

"Uncle Fu’s assistant came to see me! She said Uncle Fu also supports me being with Yanhe!"

A smile appeared on Su Lan’s face, "Really?"

"Really." Xia Ran nodded vigorously, recounting everything Li Sa had said to Su Lan, then looked at her hesitantly and somewhat distressed.

"It’s just that, I told her I’d been intimate with Yanhe, and the assistant said that if I could carry Yanhe’s child, Uncle Fu could make Yanhe divorce that bitch Shen Yanhe."

"But... I’ve never slept with Yanhe. Where can I even get a child?"

When she was dating Fu Yanhe previously, he respected her and did not engage in any sexual activity before marriage.

After the marriage contract with the Fu Family was cancelled, there was even less chance of any relationship with him.

The last time she dared to drug him, Fu Yanhe would rather endure touching Shen Yanhe than lay a finger on her.

"Also, I was drugged before, and the doctor said that since it took too long to get treated, it would be very difficult for me to get pregnant in the future. I can’t conceive a child..."

Xia Ran felt a wave of frustration.

When Su Lan heard about the inheritance promised by Fu Weizhi, she was also very tempted. She pulled Xia Ran over to the sofa to sit down and calmly thought for a moment, "It doesn’t necessarily have to be Fu Yanhe’s child, as long as it’s a child from the Fu Family, wouldn’t that be enough?"

"Difficulty conceiving isn’t really an issue, I have medicines at hand. Once you really have relations with someone from the Fu Family, we just have to try several times. Paired with the medicine I give you, I’m sure you’ll conceive!"

Xia Ran was stunned, "What do you mean, mom?"

Su Lan had a meaningful look, "In that generation of the Fu Family, although only Fu Weizhi has a child, Fu Weizhi still has two younger brothers, one is Fu Xiao, and the other ran off to the actors’ circle, severing ties with the Fu Family."

"Each of them is quite good-looking, but most importantly, they all have the blood of the Fu Family in them."

"If you get pregnant with a child from one of them and insist it’s Fu Yanhe’s, when the time comes for a DNA test, we can meddle a little and still get away with it."

Xia Ran frowned, showing a hint of disdain, "But mom, they’re all so much older than me, they could be my father, I... I can’t bring myself to do it."

She pursed her lips, "Besides, I only want to be with Yanhe... I like him."

"You like him but does he even look at you now?" Su Lan sighed, gently patting Xia Ran’s hand, "Silly girl, you need to realize that he no longer has you in his heart."

"If you can’t have his heart, do you also want to miss out on having him?"

Xia Ran fell silent.

She understood very well how much Fu Yanhe was repulsed by her now.

Which was why she was so unwilling to accept it.

She made up her mind, "No, whether it’s the person or the heart, I must get one of them."

She comforted herself that as long as she had Fu Yanhe’s body, she would eventually make him fall for her again.

Su Lan hugged her reassuringly, "It’s good that you understand. Sometimes, love isn’t important."

"In life, the most important thing is what you hold in your hands. Regardless of whether or not Fu Yanhe likes you after the marriage, as long as the child in your belly is born safely, he will have the right to inherit the Fu Family’s legacy."

"And you."

Su Lan placed her hand on Xia Ran’s lower abdomen, "Will be the mother of the Fu Family’s heir. By then, the Fu Family will belong to you and your child."

Xia Ran was persuaded.

But there was still the most important issue unresolved.

"But Mom, we don’t even know where Fu Xiao and Second Uncle Fu are right now. How... how am I supposed to approach them..." Xia Ran couldn’t bring herself to say the last two words.

Su Lan patted her back, confidently saying, "Leave this matter to me. Once I find out their schedule, I’ll arrange for you to get close to them."

-

Three days later, Su Lan found out Fu Xiao’s whereabouts.

Fu Xiao had returned from Jingcheng to Haicheng and went to the hospital to visit the sick Granny Fu.

To ensure a meeting with Fu Xiao, Su Lan specially dressed up Xia Ran and brought gifts to visit Granny Fu at the hospital.

However, they returned empty-handed.

After some inquiry, they learned that Fu Xiao, unable to stand the loneliness, had visited Granny for only two days before heading out to party at a bar.

After finding out which bar it was, Su Lan had Xia Ran apply makeup and intentionally visit the bar in the evening to have an "accidental" encounter with Fu Xiao.

"I’ve arranged everything for you," Su Lan said, applying lipstick to Xia Ran and whispering her plans to her. Finally, she patted her shoulder and said, "Whether you can succeed, whether you can win your Yanhe back, is all up to you now."

Xia Ran took a deep breath, nodded, grabbed her purse, and headed out the door.

-

Meanwhile, at the Heaven and Earth Club.

Inside a VIP room, Fu Xiao sat in a wheelchair, both legs in casts, his face still bearing the bruising from a vicious beating, drinking ominously.

Fu Xiao’s return to Haicheng wasn’t just to see Granny, but more importantly, to ask her for money.

Back in Jingcheng, he had been under surveillance by Fu Yanhe’s men, shackled in his actions, which he found terribly suffocating.

To vent his frustration, he took to gambling.

At first, the stakes were small, but somehow they grew bigger and bigger until the debt he owed reached several billion. With his own abilities, there was no way he could pay it back.

The creditors were pressing him hard. Just a few days ago, they had found him and given him a beating, even breaking both his legs.

He never imagined that the people who beat him were not from the casino, but sent by his dear nephew and niece-in-law.

Fu Xiao, who had always lived a life of luxury, couldn’t stand such suffering.

So, he thought of using the excuse of visiting Granny to have her clean up his mess.

But he hadn’t expected Granny to be so gravely ill that she could hardly speak clearly.

Fu Xiao feared that revealing his purpose might upset her so much it could make things worse, so he dared not speak a word and could only run off to drink his sorrows away.

But today, for some reason, the more he drank, the more irritable he felt, and his body grew increasingly hot, a certain desire surging in his lower abdomen.

Fu Xiao clicked his tongue, threw the bottle to the ground, took out his phone, and called his subordinate: "Bring Xu Huaiman over."

Xu Huaiman was a woman he had met in Jingcheng: beautiful, fun, and very much to his taste.

Thus, when he returned to Haicheng, he brought her with him as well.

The subordinate responded, "Yes, Third Master."

Fu Xiao felt feverish and leaned back, unbuttoning two buttons of his shirt. He closed his eyes, waiting for his subordinate to bring Xu Huaiman over.

It wasn’t long before.

The door was suddenly barged open from the outside.

Fu Xiao opened his eyes and saw Xia Ran, dressed in a tight black long dress, her face flushed, with beautifully applied makeup, stumbling into the room.

Fu Xiao frowned, "Xia Ran? What are you doing here?"

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