A Substitute Bride With Multiple Identities
Chapter 45: Shen Yanhe’s Weakness

Chapter 45: Chapter 45: Shen Yanhe’s Weakness

The sound of sobbing coming from the hospital room paused, and then, the tightly closed door was pushed open from the inside.

A girl in protective gear, slender and delicate, walked out. She had stopped crying, but the redness around her eyes proved that she had just been in tears.

Shen Yanhe took off her protective suit and handed it to the nurse for disinfection. Her moist eyes, with a hint of red, looked at him pitifully, and her sweet, soft voice, slightly nasal, asked, "Mr. Fu, what’s wrong?"

Fu Yanhe’s gaze fell on her reddened eyes and those cat-like pupils that seemed to have been washed with water, so clear and bright. His brows furrowed slightly, and his hand resting on the armrest of the wheelchair clenched a little.

She had cried.

This realization made him feel inexplicably uncomfortable inside.

In the face of Shen Yanhe’s puzzled look, Fu Yanhe pursed his lips, his voice softened a bit, "You should come back to the manor with me first."

"Back to the manor? But I..."

Before Shen Yanhe could finish speaking, Fu Yanhe pointed at the spot on her chest and asked her calmly, "Do you really want to spend the night at Shen Huai’s side wearing these torn clothes?"

"If Shen Huai wakes up and sees you like this, how are you going to explain it to him?"

Shen Yanhe was startled for a moment, lowered her head to look at the sleeve of her own shirt, and only then did she belatedly remember that her clothes had been torn by Fu Yanhe in the car and were completely unwearable.

What she was wearing outside now was Fu Yanhe’s coat.

In the urgency of the moment, she had pushed this matter to the back of her mind.

It seemed she had to make a trip back to the manor after all.

Before Shen Yanhe could speak, Fu Yanhe added with a bit more force, "First come back to the manor with me, change your clothes, have some food, then come back here. Shen Huai won’t wake up so soon."

His tone was somewhat blunt, but to Shen Yanhe’s ears, it carried warmth.

At times, this man could be very kind.

She smiled faintly at him, her cat eyes still filled with tears, making her look obedient and soft. She nodded emphatically, "Okay, I’ll listen to you."

Something soft in Fu Yanhe’s heart seemed to have been struck, his eyes looking at her with a hint of warmth.

After telling the nurse to call her as soon as Shen Huai woke up, Shen Yanhe left the hospital with Fu Yanhe and went back to the manor.

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Meanwhile, Shen Yingying, who was in a hurry to leave, was stopped by two burly bodyguards.

Clenching the documents in her hand nervously, she eyed the two burly bodyguards blocking her path with wariness and said harshly, "What do you think you’re doing? Do you know who I am? How dare you block my way, get out of my sight right now!"

No sooner had her words fallen than a sinister voice suddenly came from behind the two bodyguards, "Shen Yingying, you little bitch, I’ve finally caught you."

Shen Yingying’s face changed color, and as she looked up, she saw the two bodyguards step aside, revealing Chen Haowu, who was being pushed toward her. His wrists and ankles were wrapped in bandages, his face swollen and bruised, looking extremely grotesque.

Chen Haowu’s eyes darkly fixed on her, like a venomous snake lurking in the shadows, ready to seize an opportunity to strike her, "You’ve made me suffer terribly!"

The days he spent in the hospital could only be described as agonizing. There was never a moment when his hands and feet didn’t hurt, but what pained him most was his now futile manhood, which had tormented him so much that he’d lost a great deal of weight. His hatred for Shen Yingying and Shen Yanhe intensified.

He wanted to flay their muscles, strip their bones!

During these days, he had also sent people to stake out the Shen Family’s residence, wanting to grab Shen Yingying.

But that little bitch was too cunning, staying inside the house for two straight days, forcing him to give up.

He hadn’t expected that he would just come out casually for some air today and run into the little bitch.

This time, he wouldn’t let her get away!

Looking at Chen Haowu, who seemed somewhat unhinged, Shen Yingying felt a tinge of fear inside but managed a forced composure, offering him a smile uglier than tears, "Second Master Chen, please, calm down. I had no idea things would turn out this way."

"But the person who made you what you are now is Shen Yanhe, it has nothing to do with me."

"If it weren’t for you saying she was fair game, would I have ended up like this?" Chen Haowu’s face twisted ferociously as he glared at Shen Yingying with venom, "Ultimately, the person who ruined me and turned me into a cripple is you! Shen Yingying! You must take responsibility!"

"If you don’t take responsibility, I’ll send the audio recording of your call, where you told me I could do whatever I wanted with Shen Yanhe, to the Fu Family."

Shen Yingying’s complexion changed, and her grip on her purse tightened suddenly, crinkling the document bag.

This damned Chen Haowu, he had recorded the call she made to him?!

Seeing her sudden change in expression, Chen Haowu smirked with satisfaction, his laugh low and creepy, tinged with morbidity, "Shen Yingying, I’ve done my research well."

"Shen Yanhe is your cousin, and she’s also the wife of young master Fu; you’re all related by marriage. Tell me... if young master Fu finds out that his cousin intentionally offered his wife for others to play with, how do you think he will deal with the Shen Family?"

Shen Yingying clenched the hand holding her purse, her voice trembling slightly as she spoke, "You, you mustn’t forget, the person who laid hands on Shen Yanhe was you. If you send that audio to the Fu Family, the Chen Family won’t end up any better off!"

Chen Haowu looked at her with a sinister gaze, laughing strangely, his voice laced with ruthlessness, "Our Chen Family, we’ve already got nothing good left to lose, and the Shen Family won’t escape either."

"At worst, we’ll go down together."

In Haicheng, who doesn’t know that young master Fu is protective over his people?

Anyone who dares to cross him must be ready to go bankrupt.

In just these last two days, the Chen Family’s assets had already halved, with nearly every new order and project being intercepted by the Fu Family.

No matter how they tried to salvage the situation, it was futile.

Their only hope now was to successfully secure the piece of land they were competing for with the Xia Family.

A chill sank into Shen Yingying’s heart; Chen Haowu had clearly gone completely mad since his injury.

He was even capable of uttering something as extreme as mutual destruction.

All this, it was all because of that little bitch Shen Yanhe!

If it weren’t for that little bitch, she wouldn’t be in her current predicament.

"Second Master Chen, please, stay calm," Shen Yingying inhaled gently, her voice gradually softening, "When the snipe and the clam grapple, it’s the fisherman who benefits. If we destroy each other, it would do no harm to the actual mastermind behind all this, but rather, it would be to their advantage."

"Don’t you want to take revenge on Shen Yanhe? I know you’re wary of young master Fu, but I know where Shen Yanhe’s weakness lies."

Chen Haowu stared intently at her and asked in a deep tone, "Where?"

Shen Yingying said, "Shen Yanhe’s weakness is her brother, who she depends on for her life and has grown up with."

"He’s in the same hospital as you, with a severe hereditary disease. If he’s exposed to the outside world, it could kill him."

"She cares deeply for her brother, even begging on her knees for my mother to find someone to save him. If he dies, Shen Yanhe will definitely be devastated."

A thought stirred in Chen Haowu’s mind.

He knew that the best way to get back at someone wasn’t to kill them, but to make their life worse than death.

If he could make Shen Yanhe watch her brother, the person she relied on most, die right before her eyes, she would undoubtedly suffer greatly.

But...

Having been burned once by Shen Yingying’s schemes, Chen Haowu had wised up. His gaze remained darkly fixed on her as he said, "You take action."

"I give you half a month’s deadline. In half a month, I want Shen Yanhe to watch her brother die in front of her, then you pay me eighty million, and we’ll call it even between us."