A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 417 Shen Yanhe: Tell me, what were you thinking at the time?

Chapter 417: Chapter 417 Shen Yanhe: Tell me, what were you thinking at the time?

Song Shiwei subconsciously wanted to sit up but found that she couldn’t move at all.

She took a deep breath, squinted her eyes, and slowly turned her head, trying to see exactly where she was.

As her head turned slowly, she caught sight of a graceful figure sitting in the chair beside the hospital bed.

Song Shiwei squinted and asked hoarsely, "Jiang Luoshu?"

Had their plan failed?

A familiar voice, carrying a hint of chill, faintly rose.

"Look closely and see who I am."

Song Shiwei paused, thinking she might be hallucinating.

She slowly lifted her head, staring at the figure seated at the edge of the bed, blinking hard.

The initially blurry vision gradually cleared.

Song Shiwei finally got a clear view of the figure’s face.

She sat there dumbfounded: "He Miao? How come you are here? When did you return to the country?"

"You are now in Country M," said Shen Yanhe, her arms crossed, looking at her indifferently, "It was me who saved you."

"Do you have any idea, if Hang Mushan had informed me just a little later, you would have died on the road?"

The magnitude of information in her words left Song Shiwei stunned for a long while.

After quite a while, her stalled brain slowly started working, and she looked at Shen Yanhe with a bitter smile, "I’m sorry, He Miao."

Shen Yanhe didn’t respond to her apology but asked in a detached tone, "Tell me, what happened?"

When she was treating Song Shiwei just now, she found that her injuries were caused by a high-altitude fall, not only fracturing bones in her legs but also causing severe internal bleeding.

Fortunately, her head only had external injuries, with no signs of internal bleeding.

With nearly five hours of emergency treatment by her and Gu Yingxi, they finally pulled Song Shiwei back from the brink of death.

From the moment she was rescued, Shen Yanhe had a pent-up anger, waiting for Song Shiwei to wake up and to demand an explanation.

Otherwise, she couldn’t let go of that anger.

Song Shiwei was silent for a few seconds, then in a low voice, she honestly told Shen Yanhe everything that happened back in her home country.

As Shen Yanhe listened, her expression grew darker.

In the end, it was almost as black as the bottom of a charred pot.

Song Shiwei eyed her complexion, couldn’t help but shrink her shoulders, and gave a resentful chuckle, "Don’t look at all the injuries I have; Qi Yunqian is not without his share of wounds."

Her voice gradually softened, "Actually, I didn’t suffer a loss... "

Shen Yanhe took a deep breath, then another, gritting her teeth, she said coldly, "What exactly were you thinking at that time? Why did you agree to pretend with her to be kidnapped by the kidnappers?"

Song Shiwei fell silent, she too wanted to know what crap was in her head at that time, why she had agreed to Jiang Luoshu’s plan to act out such a melodramatic plot with a life-or-death choice.

Back in the hospital, Song Shiwei had agreed to cooperate with Jiang Luoshu.

Jiang Luoshu laid out her plan: she had hired kidnappers internationally, to capture both her and Song Shiwei, then notify Qi Yunqian to pay the ransom.

However, only one could be redeemed.

The plan initially went smoothly, and Qi Yunqian, as Song Shiwei expected, chose Jiang Luoshu.

What was supposed to follow was Song Shiwei acting desperate, jumping off the cliff onto a prepared air cushion below to fake her death and successfully escape.

But as the plan progressed, the kidnappers turned traitorous, demanding more money from Qi Yunqian, refusing to release them without it.

Meanwhile, Qi Yunqian’s bodyguards arrived, leading to a struggle with the kidnappers.

And during this chaos, Song Shiwei was thrown off the cliff by the kidnappers.

The place where she was thrown was not the area with the air cushion.

She could only vaguely remember breaking a few trees, the sound of bones cracking by her ear, and then she couldn’t recall anything else.

Song Shiwei just felt a toothache. She glanced at Shen Yanhe’s menacingly dark face and muttered, "Maybe at the time... my mind was filled with crap."

Shen Yanhe: "..."

She almost laughed out of exasperation at Song Shiwei.

Song Shiwei pursed her lips, feeling a bit aggrieved, "Little He Miao, look, I’m injured. Could you stop being harsh to me?"

"Heh," Shen Yanhe sneered coldly, "If it weren’t for your injuries, I would have taken action against you a long time ago."

Shen Yanhe mercilessly taunted, "I should have lifted your skull during the surgery to see what exactly is stuffed inside."

Song Shiwei: "..."

She silently shrugged her shoulders and dared not speak.

Shen Yanhe took a deep breath to calm her complicated and angry emotions and looked at Song Shiwei coldly, "All these messes were stirred up by Qi Yunqian, right?"

"Yeah," nodded Song Shiwei and added, "But I’m not involved with him anymore. Currently, in the country, I’m considered missing. He might think that I’m already dead."

"You seem quite proud of that?" Shen Yanhe’s eyes were indifferent, "Ah, right, you do have something to be proud of; after all, among everyone I know, you’re the first person who was almost killed by a scumbag."

Song Shiwei felt as if she had been stabbed in the chest.

She silently swallowed the surge of bitterness and spoke up, "I just don’t want to have any more ties with him..."

"I want to settle the score with him, it has nothing to do with you," said Shen Yanhe indifferently as she stood up, "Good, I can use your ’death’ to teach him a lesson."

Song Shiwei blinked, somewhat surprised as she watched Shen Yanhe.

Ever since she had reunited with Little He Miao, Little He Miao had always been tender and soft in front of her. She had never seen Little He Miao in such a cold and dashing demeanor before.

Caught off guard by this side of her, she was indeed a little slow to recover.

"Rest up," Shen Yanhe stretched lazily and turned to walk out, "Tomorrow I’ll send Song Yuche to visit you."

Song Shiwei was stunned, then lowered her gaze and softly responded, "Okay."

-

After leaving the manor’s sickroom.

As Shen Yanhe stepped outside, she saw Hang Mushan squatting by the door.

Upon seeing Shen Yanhe, Hang Mushan came over with a big grin showing his teeth, "Master! How’s your friend doing?"

"The surgery was very successful, she’s recovering well," replied Shen Yanhe indifferently, "You owe me an explanation this time, don’t you?"

"Taking away my two bottles of scar-removing cream, two vials of C02 serum, and three bottles of Longevity Pills, this is how you protected her?"

Hang Mushan’s grin instantly faded, and he scratched his head while grimacing, "Master, this really wasn’t my fault."

"I went to visit her as soon as I knew she was hospitalized, arranged for the best specialists to see her, and placed my people around the sickroom for protection."

"But I didn’t expect that she would manage to send them away, allowing her to be kidnapped..."

Hang Mushan spread his hands, "By the time I realized she was gone and found her with my men, it was already too late."

"But luckily I got there fast, sent someone to find her right after she fell off the cliff; otherwise, she would’ve been eaten by wolves."

As Hang Mushan spoke, his voice gradually grew quieter. He glanced at Shen Yanhe several times, tentatively asking, "How about... I return the scar cream to you?"

Shen Yanhe: "..."

"No need."

Shen Yanhe rolled her eyes and said, "You just need to do one thing for me, and we can call it even for this incident."

Hang Mushan’s tension eased, and he slapped his chest promisingly, "Sure, Master, just tell me, what do you need me to do?"

"Return to the country and bring Qi’s to the brink of bankruptcy," Shen Yanhe smiled faintly, "You can do that, right?"

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