Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 490 - 472 Awakening

Chapter 490: Chapter 472 Awakening

Hearing the repeated message "Sorry, the number you have dialed is not in the service area." over the phone, Baili Chengye was suddenly overcome with the urge to tear Qi Xinrou apart.

Could it be that she had found out something and was deliberately hiding?

After putting away his phone, Baili Chengye searched the small apartment until he was certain that Qi Xinrou’s clothes and those expensive pieces of jewelry were still there; only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

Good, she hadn’t run away.

He had invested real emotions in Qi Xinrou, along with a substantial amount of money and material things. If she dared to take off just because his family had become unfortunate, he would definitely not let her go easily.

He grabbed some clothes and was ready to leave; he reached the doorway, then suddenly turned back to select the more valuable pieces of Qi Xinrou’s jewelry to pocket. After pocketing them, he casually searched through more things, and finally found a 100,000-yuan fixed deposit receipt in Qi Xinrou’s lingerie drawer.

So she had secret savings?

He thought of how Qi Xinrou had been acting spoiled the night before, saying she had spent all her money. His face changed several times as he struggled to believe that he could have been mistaken about her.

He had always thought Qi Xinrou was different from other women—kind and understanding. He didn’t consider her indifferent to money, but she also wasn’t materialistic like those other women, who only cared about money.

He never expected she would...

Baili Chengye sighed, feeling as though his dreams had shattered. Perhaps all women were the same after all; he had really overestimated her in the past. But nowadays, he had no capacity to fuss over this anymore.

In the end, he tucked the deposit receipt into his own pocket and spent some more time to also find Qi Xinrou’s ID card, planning to withdraw the money from it later—

Having this money would be good; if by any chance things went south with the company, at least these funds could sustain him for a while.

Thinking of how most of his property and cars were bought in the company’s name, Baili Chengye felt a tremor in his heart—if the company failed, it was highly likely he would lose all of that. He had been mocking Zhao Xuan yesterday, planning to humiliate and teach her a lesson in the next few days, but now he had become like a clay Buddha crossing a river, hardly able to support himself.

Could it be Zhao Xuan casting spells behind his back?

The thought flashed through Baili Chengye’s mind, only to be quickly dismissed with a shake of his head.

Zhao Xuan’s grandfather was still in the hospital, and he was certain that he wouldn’t be able to get out. Those secret medicines had cost a fortune and were hard to trace... Although he wasn’t involved in the initial planning of this, they didn’t keep it a secret from him.

They chose to act against the Zhao Family because their financial strength was sufficient to fill the Bai Family’s deficit. Once her grandfather was gone, Zhao Xuan—a "miss" who was all alone and knew nothing—would have no way to turn things around.

The more prudent approach would have been to wait until he married Zhao Xuan before slowly plotting, but he had no feelings for Zhao Xuan whatsoever. He even found her enjoyment in bullying Qi Xinrou and flaunting her good family background in front of Qi Xinrou utterly repulsive.

The person he had always liked was Qi Xinrou. He had already compromised too much for his family’s sake. The thought of having to stay by Zhao Xuan’s side for several more years, fawning over someone he thoroughly detested, was unbearable.

Anyway, Zhao Xuan was so foolish that she had been easily coaxed earlier on to take out all her private savings to fill the gaps in her own company. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have recovered so quickly, nor would they have been able to plan on bringing down the Zhao Family.

Zhao Xuan’s usefulness had already diminished, so naturally, a woman who was stripped of everything wasn’t worth his while anymore.

Despite doing that to Zhao Xuan, Baili Chengye didn’t feel a trace of guilt. He believed it was only right; everything he took from the Zhao Family, from Zhao Xuan, was in exchange for humbling himself and pleasing her and her grandfather. It was what they deserved.

As he always did, Baili Chengye used this reasoning to settle his conscience.

After leaving the house, he drove straight to the bank, used both Qi Xinrou and his own ID cards to withdraw the fixed deposit, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, feeling a little more confident.

When he arrived back at his own home, he headed straight for his parents’ room. Upon twisting the doorknob and finding that it wouldn’t open, he knocked. After a while, Cheng Ping came to open the door. Seeing him, she threw herself into his arms and burst into tears, "Chengzhi, your father... what are we going to do?"

"Mom, stop crying. All the accounts under either the company’s name or Dad’s have been frozen. You need to check quickly if there’s any cash or fixed deposits left at home," Baili Chengye, who always had a bit of a cleaning fixation, looked down at his clothes with a hint of disgust at the teardrops that had stuck to them.

"The company’s and your father’s accounts have been frozen?" Cheng Ping seemed a bit stunned, then continued to cry even more miserably, "We don’t have much cash in the house. We usually just withdraw money when we need it. The family has only just started to recover, how could we have had time to make fixed deposits? Even my jewelry has only been acquired recently, and it’s not much, nor very valuable. What are we going to do now?"

"..."

Baili Chengye frowned deeply, somewhat disbelieving of his mother’s words. Even Xinrou, who only handled fifty to sixty thousand a month, had managed to secretly save up a hundred thousand. His mother handled even more money, so how could she not have saved any?

Women ah, even at times like this, they still have their selfish thoughts.

For a moment, the two fell silent, neither giving a thought to Baili Xiangsong, who had been taken into custody.

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"Grandpa."

Seeing Zhao De’an finally open his eyes, Zhao Xuan, who had been tense since he was wheeled into the operation room, finally relaxed, bursting into tears and tightly clutching her grandfather’s withered hands. "I almost thought I would never see you again... I’ll call the doctor to come and check on you right away."

"Xuanxuan, don’t cry. Your grandpa will be fine. Look at you, your eyes are as red as a rabbit’s," Zhao De’an said while trying to lift his hand. Apart from feeling weak, he didn’t sense anything else wrong with himself, and even found the energy to tease Zhao Xuan: "Grandpa didn’t mean to scare you, I just got so angry that I suffered a rush of blood to the head and fainted. There’s actually nothing serious. My health has always been good, I shouldn’t even need to be in the hospital. Look, now that I’m awake, isn’t everything fine?"

How could he possibly be willing to die before ensuring everything was taken care of for his beloved granddaughter’s secure future?

The mere thought of the Bai Family’s wild ambition made Zhao De’an’s teeth itch with hatred. Like father, like son—in his view, Baili Chengye would be no better, so he was definitely not a good match. It was just a pity that Xuanxuan liked him.

No, he had to find a way to gradually work on Xuanxuan’s mindset and encourage her to leave Baili Chengye.