Chapter 67

Chapter 67: Real Sisters With Different Parents

Xie Jing Yao was not stupid. Seeing how nervous Hou Wei Kun was made him think of those other men tangled up with Li Qian Xi.

His eyes flashed, and he asked in a casual tone: “Why are you so nervous about Li Qian Xi?”

Being reminded like that, Madam Xie quickly reacted too: “Right, Wei Kun, since when are you so close to Qian Xi?”

When Du An Rao heard that name, she showed a look of understanding.

[So he really is one of Li Qian Xi’s simps. But he doesn’t even count as a fish in her pond, at most he’s a little shrimp.]

Even as a little shrimp, he still played a big role at the key moment.

Hou Wei Kun was the son of one of Madam Xie’s cousins. That cousin had married the wrong man, a complete scumbag, and only managed to get a divorce after a bitter struggle.

Madam Xie felt sorry for her, and since they were relatives, she helped her out. Over time, the two families slowly grew closer.

But what Madam Xie did not know was that this junior who often came to visit their house, calling her “Auntie” and calling her husband “Uncle” so sweetly, had been jealous of Xie Jing Yao since he was small. He envied his happy family, his reliable father, his great resources, his good grades, and… his gentle, kind fiancée.

Hou Wei Kun’s jealousy toward Xie Jing Yao peaked after he met and fell in love with Li Qian Xi.

In his heart, Li Qian Xi was a spotless goddess, full of compassion and kindness. Even toward someone like him, who felt like mud that could not be shaped, she was still gentle and never showed any hint of dislike.

As an ordinary person, he did not dare hope to drag a goddess down into the mortal world with him. But why did Xie Jing Yao get to be so lucky?

Jealousy blinded his eyes and twisted his sense of unfairness toward Xie Jing Yao into deep hatred.

So when he found out that Jiang Yi Ming wanted to go against the Xie family, help Li Qian Xi break off the engagement with the Xie family, and even tried to stand on the moral high ground while doing it, Hou Wei Kun betrayed the Xie family without a hint of guilt, even though they had once helped him and his mother through the hardest time of their lives.

Du Yu Xi: “…”

This reason for turning on them was really hard to describe in words.

But when she thought about how he worshiped Li Qian Xi like a goddess, it was crazy yet somehow still made a bit of sense.

Right now, the more Du An Rao looked at Xie Jing Yao, the more she felt he was a tragic fool.

[What Hou Wei Kun doesn’t know is that the reason Li Qian Xi is so gentle to him is not because she’s kind and treats everyone the same. She only wants to act gentle and generous in front of the Xie family to earn goodwill. Once the Xie family falls, a little side piece like him will be useless. The saddest one is still some unlucky fiancé. Clearly, it was Li Qian Xi who fell for someone else and wanted to break off the engagement, but in the end he got stuck with the label of a man who abandoned his fiancée for another girl. Just thinking about it makes my head explode.]

Du Yu Xi subconsciously looked toward Xie Jing Yao, and as if he sensed her gaze, he turned his head to look back at her.

Their eyes met again without warning, just like the first time they saw each other.

Only this time, because of the engagement matter, both of them felt a strange, hard-to-name change in their hearts.

Hou Wei Kun did not notice this small moment at all. Facing the probing looks from the Xie mother and son, he was sweating nonstop.

“I… I’m just worried about you, Cousin. Qian Xi is your fiancée, she’ll be family in the future. Now the rumors outside sound so awful. Cousin, don’t you want to help explain things for her?”

As soon as he said this, the look in Xie Jing Yao’s eyes grew even clearer, as if he could see straight through him.

This made Hou Wei Kun’s heart pound. He thought that his little scheme had been exposed.

But in the next second, he heard Xie Jing Yao answer calmly: “My fiancée is the biological daughter of my mother’s good friend, Second Madam Li, Su Ying Rong.”

Hou Wei Kun’s heart jumped hard. Almost forgetting to hide his reaction, he raised his voice and demanded: “Cousin, what do you mean?”

“The literal meaning.”

The literal meaning… That meant, if Li Qian Xi really was the Li family’s daughter, then she would still be his fiancée, and it would be natural for him to defend her.

But if she was not, and that woman who looked so much like Second Madam Li was, then his fiancée would no longer be Li Qian Xi, and he would have no reason to stand up for her anymore.

Hou Wei Kun subconsciously turned to look at Madam Xie, hoping to hear a different answer from her. But her face was serious, and from beginning to end she had not refuted a single word Xie Jing Yao said.

Realizing this, Hou Wei Kun’s face twisted for a moment.

How could these two treat the treasure he worshiped like divine spirits this way? How could they dare? They deserved to die, both of them!

Just one look at his face and Du An Rao knew what he was thinking. She kept feeling that this guy’s mental state was not very normal.

Maybe he had never been a good person even before he met Li Qian Xi, but at least he still had some lines he would not cross.

Now, with Li Qian Xi there, the evil in his heart had been magnified, and his bottom line had dropped lower and lower.

Ye Meng Zhen, however, noticed something else. She stared with wide eyes and cried out: “Fiancée? So that man is the fiancé my brother ran into before, the one engaged to Li Qian Xi? The one from the Xie family?”

“…Yeah, that should be him.”

“Then does that mean he might become your fiancé now?”

Du Yu Xi turned her gaze away and shook her head: “The Li couple died long ago and left no DNA samples. My so-called human-trafficker mother is the same.”

She still did not know why the Li family wanted to hide the fact that they had Su Ying Rong and Li Gu Wei’s DNA samples. But judging from the way they had just treated her, it did not seem like they did not want to recognize her. They must have some other plan.

Since that was the case, she might as well spread this news and see if that played into some people’s hands.

Ye Meng Zhen stared: “So you mean, right now there’s no way to confirm if you two were really switched at birth?”

“You could say that.”

“I don’t care.” Ye Meng Zhen suddenly grabbed Du Yu Xi’s hand and said: “I think you’re the Li family’s child. So you have to steal that fiancé from Li Qian Xi and help me and my brother vent our anger. If you manage to do that, from then on you’ll be my real sister with different parents!”

Du Yu Xi: “…”

[Thanks for the offer, but I already have my own good sister. I’ll pass on this bargain.]

She had to admit, though, that all these years of managing her own image had worked somewhat for Li Qian Xi. She had more than a few supporters like Hou Wei Kun.

Even though most of those people had already been stopped by elders who had sensed that something was wrong with the situation, and did not dare come over to make trouble for the Du sisters, the cold, unfriendly looks thrown at them from time to time still made Du Yu Xi feel quite bothered.

What made her feel even more guilty was that all this only happened because of her, and it meant that at her very first banquet, Du An Rao had to suffer people looking at her differently.

Anyway, they had already met the people they needed to meet, said almost everything they needed to say, and basically reached their goal.

So she turned to ask Du An Rao, who was eating cake: “Do you want to go back now?”

Du An Rao lifted her head from the plate full of little pastries, looking completely blank.

[No way!!!]

Du Yu Xi: ???