A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 228: Fu Yanhe: Can You Forgive Your Boyfriend Just This Once?

Chapter 228: Chapter 228: Fu Yanhe: Can You Forgive Your Boyfriend Just This Once?

At that moment.

Jiang Yun indeed found herself in the kind of desperate situation Shen Yanhe had described, barely able to fend for herself.

The scandal of Fu Yanhe being a fraud had yet to be resolved.

Fu Xiao, having been arrested for kidnapping Xia Ran and committing intentional injury, sparked a revelation of a hit-and-run case from fourteen years prior.

Consequently, the Fu Family Group’s image suffered a major blow, with its stock value evaporating almost by the minute.

In just a single day, it had already evaporated nearly eight points.

Most of the projects they collaborated on had suffered significant losses, and they were faced with a hefty breach of contract compensation.

One after another, these issues were beyond Jiang Yun’s ability to deal with.

Her first action was to call Fu Weizhi, hoping he would return from abroad to take charge of the situation, but she couldn’t get through at all.

In desperation, she made a call to Fu Yanhe, initially intending to negotiate a truce and ask for his assistance to help the Fu Family through this crisis.

But the phone was hung up after just one ring.

By the time she tried again, the call would not go through.

Fu Yanhe had blocked her.

Jiang Yun was restless with frustration, feeling a fiery lump in her chest that she could neither swallow nor spit out.

Right then, an assistant entered holding a cellphone, looking at her and saying, "Madam, the old madam just called and asked you to go to the police station to bail out the Third Master Fu. Try to make peace with the Xia Family at all costs, any condition they propose is acceptable."

"Bail him out? Does she think what Fu Xiao did was trivial? That’s a serious matter involving kidnapping and murder! How am I supposed to bail him out? Should I offer my own head?" Jiang Yun slammed her phone onto the ground in exasperation and growled lowly.

"Does she even realize the magnitude of the impact Fu Xiao has caused the Fu Family? And she talks of bail! I’d like to bail her..."

Jiang Yun swallowed the curse that was on the tip of her tongue, her chest heaving violently as she spoke, "I won’t bail out Fu Xiao. Next time she calls, just hang up."

"If she bothers you, block her. Let her get up from her bed and bail out her beloved youngest son herself!"

The assistant nodded silently, "Yes, madam."

"Right, have you scheduled a meeting with the new executive director of FY Group in Daxia?" Jiang Yun calmed her emotions a bit and asked the assistant.

The only way to recover the losses of the Fu Family Group now was to establish a connection with the FY Group.

If they could connect with FY Group, the current losses wouldn’t matter much.

They could even rise to an international level under FY Group’s leadership.

"No, the whereabouts of that executive director are quite secretive, few people have seen him," the assistant said, hesitating slightly before adding, "However, I learned today that the executive director might go to the FY Mall tomorrow afternoon."

"It seems he’s going there to pick out a gift for his girlfriend."

Jiang Yun’s eyebrows twitched slightly, a frown forming as she felt a bit regretful, "He actually has a girlfriend?"

When she had learned that the FY Group’s new executive director sent to Daxia was a man, she had once considered connecting Fu Yu with him.

If Fu Yu could marry him, the Fu Family wouldn’t have to worry about being without a leader, and their status could climb even higher.

Unfortunately, he already had a girlfriend, and probably wouldn’t have any interest in Fu Yu.

The assistant nodded in affirmation.

"Then arrange it. Set the press conference for tomorrow morning at nine o’clock. After the press conference, go to FY Mall, we must meet the executive director face to face," Jiang Yun commanded.

Assistant: "Yes, madam."

-

Inside the villa.

Fu Yanhe sat in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, glancing towards the entrance from time to time. Even as the sky darkened, he still hadn’t seen Shen Yanhe’s figure appear.

His eyes grew increasingly dim. He slightly lowered his gaze, looking at the cellphone in his hand, and sent a message to Shen Yanhe.

[.]: Yanyan, have you finished dealing with the matter? Do you need my help?

The message was successfully sent, proving that Shen Yanhe wasn’t so angry as to have blacklisted or deleted him.

But, there was still no reply from her side.

Qi Fang came over with a file in his arms, placed it on the coffee table, and cautiously glanced at Fu Yanhe, remembering the video he had seen on the internet today, as well as the cold interaction between Fu Yanhe and Shen Yanhe earlier.

He hesitated before speaking, "Master Fu, after Miss Shen found out about your identity... did she get angry?"

Fu Yanhe didn’t avoid the question and responded with a faint hum.

He twirled the prayer beads on his wrist and lifted his eyes to look at Qi Fang, asking earnestly, "Do you know how to coax a girlfriend?"

"You’ve asked the right person, Master Fu." Qi Fang chuckled softly, "To make a girl happy, giving her gold, silver, jewelry, clothes, and bags is the most basic."

"But since Master Fu has made a rather serious mistake this time, besides using tricks, the most important thing is—"

Qi Fang raised his finger to his chest, "Sincerity."

"Sincerity is the ultimate killer move."

He looked around to make sure that Shen Yanhe wouldn’t suddenly come back before leaning closer to Fu Yanhe, "We could try this..."

-

Two hours later, a car parked outside the villa.

Shen Yanhe stepped out of the car expressionlessly, her brows slightly furrowed with fatigue.

No sooner had she steadied herself than she looked up and saw that the usually brightly lit villa was, unusually, completely dark.

Her brows furrowed slightly, "Is there a power outage?"

Wu Fang, who stepped out behind her, sneaked a glance at his cellphone and said with a calm expression, "Yes, I just received a message from Qi Fang. A wire on the generator got chewed by a rat."

"Madam, please go in. I’ll fix the generator."

Shen Yanhe nodded slightly, without suspicion, and walked inside.

As soon as she entered the villa, Shen Yanhe felt something odd beneath her feet.

Before she could stop and look down, a crisp "snap" sounded ahead of her.

Suddenly, the space in front of the villa twinkled with stars, and countless pink petals drifted down from the sky.

These stars flew awkwardly before her, slowly forming several large words: Yanyan, I was wrong, please forgive me, I will never lie to you again.

And it didn’t end there—the large lights above the villa were turned on, illuminating Fu Yanhe clad in a well-fitted black suit, holding a large bouquet of roses.

The surrounding light was dim, but the man illuminated by the beam of light had very clear brows and handsome features. His gaze was fixed on Shen Yanhe, the gentleness in his eyes softening his usual cold demeanor.

Fu Yanhe took step by step closer to Shen Yanhe, stopping in front of her. His gaze tender and entwined, he handed her the bouquet of roses and said sincerely, "Yanyan, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have kept things from you and made you angry."

Shen Yanhe kept a poker face: "..."

Her CPU was fried.

Who on earth, gave Fu Yanhe such a terrible idea?

Drones, petals, flowers...

Such a, such a tacky way to reconcile...

Fu Yanhe couldn’t help but take two more steps towards Shen Yanhe and asked softly, "Yanyan, could you... forgive your boyfriend just this once?"