A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 248: Losing More Than You Gain

Chapter 248: Chapter 248: Losing More Than You Gain

Song Shiwei stood at the doorway, admiring Fu Yu’s disheveled appearance for a moment before she turned and headed to the restroom.

Having touched something filthy, she needed to wash her hands thoroughly.

Fu Yu struggled at the villa’s entrance for a while before she managed to stand up, trembling, using the luggage as support.

The pain in her knees made her inhale sharply. In a total mess, she dragged her suitcase from the villa, and with difficulty, hailed a cab to a nearby hotel.

On the way, Fu Yu bought a temporary SIM card and installed it in her phone.

After arriving at the hotel, Fu Yu took a shower. Looking at her reflection in the mirror, her face was swollen like a pig’s head with deep palm prints on both cheeks. Looking further down, her knees were bruised and swollen, a horrific sight.

Fu Yu’s face was somber and twisted as she limped toward the single armchair.

She sat on the armchair, took out her phone, and opened a locked album. Her eyes gleamed with a touch of madness, "Song Shiwei, you’re dead!"

Fu Yu used the temporary card to register a new WeChat account and added Qi Yunqian as a friend.

The request message she wrote was: I know Song Shiwei’s secrets.

Meanwhile.

After ending the call with Fu Yu, Qi Yunqian was planning to go find Song Shiwei, fearing she might be bullied by Fu Yu.

But he had drunk too much and felt dizzy, so he asked his assistant to buy him some sobering medicine while he waited in the car.

As Qi Yunqian rested with his eyes closed,

his phone buzzed. His face darkened slightly when he saw the friend request and accepted it.

Right after he accepted, the other party sent over three or four photos.

Upon seeing the first photo, Qi Yunqian’s pupils contracted sharply, his chest felt as if it was pierced by an arrow, the pain almost made him drop his phone.

In the first photo was Song Shiwei, still youthful, dressed in a prison uniform, her clothes half-off, pinned down by a woman whose hand was reaching into her pants.

In the second photo, the woman was naked, sitting atop Song Shiwei, her back to the camera while Song Shiwei looked towards the camera, her eyes filled with despair.

In the third photo...

Qi Yunqian’s grip on the phone involuntarily tightened, the veins on the back of his hand bulged, an indescribable rage filled his chest, darkening his complexion.

After sending the photos, the person kept messaging.

[Mr. Qi, hello. I was Ms. Song’s cellmate. After I was released, I saw your engagement party with Ms. Song and struggled for a long time before deciding to tell you the truth.]

[Ms. Song frequently used her body to curry favor with her cellmates during her time in prison. Her body is far from clean now!]

Qi Yunqian’s chest felt like it was pressed by a huge stone, making it extremely difficult to breathe. His face shadowed and his forehead veins bulged as he directly dialed Fu Yu’s number.

Fu Yu, in the midst of energetically scheming against Song Shiwei, was startled when she saw Qi Yunqian’s call, instinctively thinking he was calling to accuse her.

Then she remembered she had added Qi Yunqian with a different number; he couldn’t know it was her.

Qi Yunqian must have known she was kicked out by Song Shiwei and was calling to console her, she eagerly answered,

"Yunqian brother..."

Qi Yunqian’s voice came through cold and icy, "It was you, wasn’t it?"

Fu Yu was stunned, feeling somewhat panicked.

Qi Yunqian knew?

That was impossible!

Back then, she had bribed people in the prison to abuse Song Shiwei and take photos without Qi Yunqian knowing.

He couldn’t possibly know!

Fu Yu suppressed the panic in her heart and pretended to be clueless, "Yunqian brother, I don’t understand what you mean."

She bit her lip, sounding pitiful, "Yunqian brother, Shiwei sister just beat me severely, my face is swollen, and my knees are bruised. I was beaten so..."

Qi Yunqian coldly interrupted Fu Yu’s pitiful wailing, "Those photos you sent me, who gave them to you?"

His tone was stern and terrifying, filled with anger, "Or did you, behind my back, bribe the people in the prison to bully Shiwei?"

Fu Yu instinctively shuddered and tried to feign ignorance, "What photos? Yunqian brother, what are you talking about?"

"Stop pretending. Very few people know my private number, and among those who have had conflicts with Shiwei, there’s no one else but you."

"Moreover, people in prison can’t possibly have cell phones unless someone is operating on their behalf. Otherwise, how could she possibly have these photos?"

Fu Yu’s forehead instantly broke out in a cold sweat, her complexion turned ashen, and her heart was thrown into turmoil.

She had just been focused on taking revenge on Song Shiwei and hadn’t thought about this at all!

A slip through the net!

Qi Yunqian’s cold voice came through, "Fu Yu, answer me."

Biting her lip, both frantic and annoyed, Fu Yu blurted out, "So what if it was me? Song Shiwei is not a good person in the first place!"

"If it weren’t for her, the one marrying you would have been me, and the one living in that house would have been me too!"

"Do you know what else she did to me today besides hitting me? She actually kicked my knee, making me kneel before her!" Fu Yu said hatefully, choking up as she spoke.

"I’ve never suffered such humiliation in all my life! The suffering she endured in prison was what she deserved!"

Having received a definite answer, Qi Yunqian’s expression turned exceedingly frosty in an instant, his gaze dark as water, his hand gripping the phone suddenly tightened, and his heart was swept with regret.

It was his mistake.

He had been blind, had believed Fu Yu’s words, and allowed Shiwei to suffer so greatly.

"Fu Yu, I’ve told you before, Shiwei is my bottom line, and now, you’ve crossed it."

Listening to his words, Fu Yu felt a sudden chill down her spine, her heart filled with turmoil, "Yunqian brother, I..."

"Fu Yu, over the years, any favors between us have already been repaid. Now, let’s settle the accounts of these years."

Fu Yu finally felt fear, sobbing painfully, "Yunqian brother, you can’t do this; I did all this because I love you too much! I didn’t want to lose you! It should have been me, your childhood sweetheart, who became your wife, not her!"

"Yunqian brother, you can’t be so cruel to me. I clearly love you the most, I..."

Qi Yunqian, unable to stand her words any longer, hung up the phone directly.

When the assistant finished buying the hangover remedy and got back in the car, he immediately sensed the suffocating low pressure inside.

He carefully looked at Qi Yunqian’s cold, icy face, "President Qi?"

Qi Yunqian closed his eyes briefly, suppressing the anger within him, and swallowed the hangover remedy from the assistant’s hand.

Then he took out his phone, saved the photos sent by Fu Yu, cropped out Song Shiwei’s figure, leaving only the picture of the woman who had bullied her, and sent it to the assistant, "Find the woman in the photo within a day."

Qi Yunqian’s voice was calm, yet it hid violence, "Bring her to me, and also thoroughly investigate what exactly happened during Song Shiwei’s two years in prison."

The assistant shuddered, nodded his head, "Yes, I’ll arrange it right away."

After all was done, Qi Yunqian, as if he had lost all his strength, leaned back in the chair, his voice hoarse, "Drive to the Riverside Villa."

Assistant: "Yes."

-

Meanwhile, in a hotel.

After Qi Yunqian hung up on her, Fu Yu was incredibly panicky.

She truly feared that Qi Yunqian would settle accounts with her.

The Fu Family no longer had anyone who could protect her.

She nervously bit her fingers, forcibly trying to calm herself down.

After thinking hard, Fu Yu actually found someone who could protect her.

She decided to go to Aunt Qi, to show her the photos.

On one hand, Yunqian wouldn’t lay a hand on her for Aunt Qi’s sake.

On the other hand.

She didn’t believe that after seeing these photos, Aunt Qi would still accept Song Shiwei as her daughter-in-law!