Rekindled Hearts: The Tycoon’s Reluctant Love
Chapter 439 - Chapter 439 Chapter 437 She Saw Everything

Chapter 439: Chapter 437: She Saw Everything! Chapter 439: Chapter 437: She Saw Everything! In the following days, Xia Yiwan showed no signs of oddity.

Their interactions were as sweet and loving as ever.

In the morning, when he got up for work, she would even take the initiative to tie his tie.

Soon it was time for Xia Yiwan’s prenatal check-up, and Yanxi accompanied her in the morning to get it done.

After the check-up, when Xia Yiwan stepped out of the doctor’s office, she saw Yanxi standing by the window in the corridor, on the phone.

She tiptoed over.

When she was just a few steps away, she stopped.

“Okay, I’ll come over later.” Seemingly realizing there was someone behind him, he turned around to look.

Xia Yiwan stood not far away, watching him with a bright smile.

“I’m done with the check-up!”

Yanxi ended the call and took the check-up report from Xia Yiwan’s hand, “Is everything okay?”

“Pretty good.”

“Let’s go, I’ll take you back.”

Xia Yiwan hooked her arm into the man’s, “Do you have something busy to do later?”

“Yes, I have to have dinner with a client.”

Yanxi took Xia Yiwan back to the Yan Family.

After Yanxi left, Xia Yiwan took out her phone, her pretty little face clouded over, “He’s gone out. If I’m not wrong, he’s probably going to see that woman. Follow him well, and if you can capture them together, I’ll pay you double the price!”

Xia Yiwan knew that tracking Yanxi by herself would only lead to being discovered by him.

So, she hired a private detective for a high price.

She didn’t want to be deceived by him any longer.

Better to know the truth than to keep hiding from it; whether she confronted it or not, the result would be the same.

After the call, Xia Yiwan returned to the bedroom. Looking at the woman in the mirror whose eyes slowly reddened, she felt utterly foreign to herself.

Why had she become like this?

Previously, no matter what she faced, she remained as optimistic as a little sun.

But recently, how many times had she secretly cried?

Just the thought that Yanxi might have betrayed their marriage made her heart feel as if it were being torn apart!

Xia Yiwan rested her forehead on her fingertips, biting her lips hard.

In her heart, there was even a slim hope that perhaps everything was just her conjecture, not reality, and that Yanxi wouldn’t do anything to wrong her!

Waiting for information from the private detective was undeniably a tormenting and painful process for Xia Yiwan!

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Yanxi did indeed go to see Shi Ying.

Since the last time Shi Ying gave him a denim jacket, he had not seen her for a few days.

Fearing that Xia Yiwan would become upset if she knew, he tried his best to avoid any suspicion.

But today was Shi Ying’s birthday.

As someone who had once done him a favor, he couldn’t possibly ignore her birthday.

Shi Ying had booked a Western restaurant. When Yanxi parked the car at the entrance and walked in, it was just Shi Ying alone.

Shi Ying sat by the floor-to-ceiling window. Today, she was dressed to the nines, wearing a silver mermaid evening gown, her hair done up in a princess style, and her face was adorned with delicate makeup.

The sunlight from outside filtered in, shining on her, making her skin glow white, her features exquisite and untouched by dust, like a fairy descended from heaven.

Yanxi sat across from Shi Ying, “How could I let you book the restaurant? Let me pay for it later.”

Yanxi handed a box to Shi Ying, “This is your birthday gift.”

Shi Ying opened the box, which contained a diamond necklace.

“Thank you.”

Yanxi raised his hand slightly, and the restaurant manager came over with the menu.

After ordering, in less than ten minutes, all the dishes were served.

Yanxi cut the steak and handed it to Shi Ying.

Shi Ying picked up the fork, speared a piece, and brought it to Yanxi’s lips, “Thank you, this is your reward.”

Yanxi was taken aback for a moment.

Seeing the tender smile in Shi Ying’s eyes, he subconsciously turned his head away.

“You eat it yourself!”

Shi Ying did not retract her hand, her beautiful face tensing up ever so slightly, “Yanxi, have you started to dislike me too?”

Yanxi furrowed his long eyebrows, “Why would you think that?”

“Before, you used to come at my every call and cared deeply for me, but recently, you hardly pay attention to me. Now when I offer you a piece of steak, you even avoid it? If you don’t dislike me, what is it then?”

Looking at the tears welling up in Shi Ying’s eyes, a troubled expression appeared on Yanxi’s handsome face.

“Sister Shi Ying, we were younger before, plus I wasn’t married…” Yanxi pressed his lips together tightly, “Now I have a wife, and although I am clear with you, I am afraid she will misunderstand.”

Shi Ying’s long lashes quivered, “Everyone knows I like Ah Ting, and I regard you as a brother. Can’t a sister feed her brother a piece of steak?”

“Or do you want to become distant and estranged from me like Ah Ting?”

Yanxi didn’t take the steak, so Shi Ying continued to hold her fork out. She stared at him steadfastly, tears of grievance and sadness rolling down her eyes.

Yanxi found himself somewhat at a loss because of Shi Ying.

Not wanting her birthday to be spoiled, he opened his mouth and ate the piece of steak she fed him.

Then he took the fork from her hand and exchanged it with the one in his plate that he hadn’t used.

Neither of them noticed that across from the Western restaurant, a private detective captured the whole scene of them eating together.

After the meal, Yanxi drove Shi Ying back to the seaside villa.

…

After waiting for about an hour, Xia Yiwan received the email from the private detective.

Xia Yiwan opened her mailbox and found the photos neatly packaged in an attachment.

Xia Yiwan clicked through them one by one.

Seeing the image of a handsome man and a beautiful woman sitting in a Western restaurant, laughing and talking intimately over their meal, Xia Yiwan’s face began to turn pale.

The high-definition photos shattered the last sliver of hope and longing at the bottom of her heart completely.

Everything around her seemed to fall silent. Suddenly, her body became very cold; all the warmth seemed to be sucked away by a giant syringe, leaving only a foggy haze of confusion and a heavy feeling of suffocation.

It turned out that her intuition all along had not been wrong!

He had been deceiving her all along with his sweet nothings and sugar-coated words!

Now that the truth was revealed, she felt as though she had plunged into an abyss.

He was too cruel; gentle deception was more corrosive than poison!

After an indeterminate amount of time, Xia Yiwan called the private detective.

Once the call connected, she asked with a hoarse voice, “Where did they go after dinner?”

“To a seaside villa!”

Xia Yiwan pressed her lips together tightly, “Okay, send me the address.”

Soon, Xia Yiwan received the location from the private detective.

Xia Yiwan changed into a fresh set of clothes, left her room, and drove toward the seaside villa.

There was a beautiful garden in front of the villa, with a fence covered in green vines and the villa walls painted in several dreamy colors, all very beautiful.

It completely matched the environment of the villa in Xia Yiwan’s dreams.

She remembered telling Yanxi once that she wanted a villa like that in the future, facing the sea, with fences covered in green vines, walls like those in a fairy tale.

How had Yanxi responded to her at the time? He had said it was easy; just give him some time, and he would give her a big surprise!

So this was the surprise he had prepared for her!

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