Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride's Gambit-Chapter 192 - Like Her

Chapter 192: Chapter 192: Like Her

Chapter 192 -192: Like Her

Auntie Wang responded cheerily, “Alright, Young Madam.”

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Sheng Tingyuan looked at her helplessly, “I only ate one of yours.”

“I had only three left!”

Ye Chuyi stuffed the remaining two into her mouth, and after finally managing to swallow them, she asked Sheng Tingyuan, “Don’t you feel anything unusual?”

Sheng Tingyuan raised his eyebrows slightly, “What kind of unusual?”

“Don’t you feel uncomfortable?”

“Why would I feel uncomfortable?”

“No stomach ache?”

“None.”

“No pain anywhere else?”

“What are you trying to say?”

“Nothing, I just saw you got bumped in the restaurant and wanted to make sure you weren’t hurt.”

Ye Chuyi stood up, picked up the plate, and went back to the kitchen. In a moment, she brought out another plate of meatballs.

They were freshly made, crisp and fragrant; Ye Chuyi wished she could take Auntie Wang to work in the hospital cafeteria, so the food would be delicious.

She couldn’t help but ask Sheng Tingyuan, “How much is Auntie Wang’s monthly salary?”

Sheng Tingyuan looked at her, slightly amused, “What are you going to do, poach Auntie Wang?”

“Hmm, that was indeed my intention.”

“My mother pays her a salary of twenty thousand a month, with a bonus on top; but she has been with my mother for nearly thirty years, fiercely loyal. You probably won’t be able to poach her.”

“Hmm, just asking.”

Ye Chuyi, finally satisfied with food and drink, felt comfortable. Her eyes and brows relaxed, “I’m going upstairs.”

“Mm.”

Sheng Tingyuan watched her leave, slightly lost in thought.

Her wanting to poach Auntie Wang showed that she didn’t plan on staying in the Sheng Family forever.

Night deepened.

Auntie Wang brought out another plate of fried meatballs, then tidied up the kitchen and left.

One of his men came in and whispered, “Young Master Ting, Meng Li’s background has been checked.”

Sheng Tingyuan picked up one of Ye Chuyi’s favorite meatballs, tasting it as he said, “Speak.”

“Her family is indeed in some difficulties, and her mother is seriously ill and bedridden; the relationship between mother and daughter is not good. She herself has opened a small pharmacy, but due to poor management, it’s making a slight loss. She seems to have a good heart, and these past two days, she has even delivered medicine to the elderly and children for free.”

“Does she have any friends?”

“Yes, she doesn’t have many friends, and almost all of them are daughters from wealthy families. She has been bullied and suppressed by those young masters and misses, but she still tries to ingratiate herself with them because if she doesn’t, she would suffer even more severe bullying and retaliation.”

“How did she get the scar on her face?”

“No one knows how she got that scar, but her friends all say it must have been from her mother hitting her when she was a child. She is an illegitimate daughter; her father abandoned their mother and daughter, and her mother feels that her life was ruined because of her, so she often beats and scolds her.”

Sheng Tingyuan was silent for a moment, then said indifferently, “Quite similar.”

The underling didn’t dare to speak; he knew what ‘quite similar’ the Young Master was referring to—it was that Meng Li resembled the girl Young Master had been looking for all along.

Just when he thought the Young Master might take care of Meng Li, he heard him say, “That restaurant where I went with the Young Madam tonight, make it go out of business quickly, and that Meng Li shouldn’t appear in any restaurant again. Spread the word, say that a waitress offended me, lost her job, and the restaurant went down with her.”

It was a warning to others, to prevent more women from causing trouble and setting their sights on him.

The underling was somewhat surprised by his order, but he didn’t dare to ask more and left after responding.

Sheng Tingyuan washed his hands and went upstairs, entering the master bedroom only to find Ye Chuyi’s figure absent.

He turned and went to the room next door, only to discover upon trying the door that she had locked it from the inside.

Sheng Tingyuan stood outside the door, unsure whether to be angry or to laugh. In his own house, she was guarding against him to the extent that she wouldn’t even let him through the door.

He shook his head and went back to the master bedroom.

The next day, Ye Chuyi woke up full of energy. After breakfast, she took a different path from Sheng Tingyuan and drove her second-hand car to the hospital.

She didn’t go to her office but first sought out a colleague from the laboratory department she was acquainted with. She took out a transparent bag containing a slightly damp tissue, “Doctor Zhen, could you help me analyze what drug components are in this?”