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"Chi Xingye, stop right there!"
A sharp and penetrating female voice sounded rather unfriendly behind her.
Chi Xingye was drenched in sweat from running the marathon and was preparing to head to the locker room in the stadium to take a shower and change into clean clothes.
Unexpectedly, she was intercepted halfway.
Chi Xingye's eyes narrowed slightly, examining the imperious girl in front of her like a languid cat would, before she recalled her name - Wen Anlei.
Seemingly her half-sibling... sister!
The second young Miss from the Wen family.
"Chi Xingye, you're quite elusive!"
With a wave of Wen Anlei's hand, two tall men stood up and "kidnapped" her in broad daylight.
Being forcefully shoved into a high-end black car nearby, Chi Xingye actually became calm.
She knows, you can avoid the first but not the fifteenth.
She wanted to see what tricks the Wen family could pull on her!
Wen Anlei sat with her in the back seat.
As soon as she got in the car, she immediately covered her nose, her face full of disgust: "Chi Xingye, you stink! You're drenched in sweat!"
"Oh, you seem to have only run 3 kilometers of the marathon before giving up. No wonder! This is a sweat of honor, you are probably unable to sweat like that! Here, take a good sniff..."
"You're the dog here, you enjoy stinky smells! Get away from me, you're suffocating me!"
"Didn't you kidnap me in such a hurry because you wanted to smell my sweat?"
Chi Xingye asked, smiling as if she was intentionally misunderstanding.
Wen Anlei looked at her nonchalantly, able to laugh.
Suddenly she felt fire in her belly.
Thinking of the slap from last fight, her teeth itched with hatred for her.
That slap, what a stroke of luck!
On that day, Lin Yingying found the gift she had given to Helian Chengyan in Chi Xingye's drawer.
She got angry right away, Chi Xingye had taken her $200 million and hadn't even sent her gift!
What on earth did she send?
Could it be a gift from Chengyan to the prince?
Dare to play her!
Cheap people, looking for death!
Lin Yingying brought a group of girls to besiege Chi Xingye, who had paid $600 million in compensation that was causing her physical pain.
She was almost broke, and yet Lin Yingying was not appeased.
Wen Anlei, her bestie, was fanning the flames at the side.
A few words here, and a few there.
Made Lin Yingying feel that her missed chance with the prince and becoming the princess of DK were all because of Chi Xingye's mischief!
The more she thought about it, the more angry she became.
So, she raised her hand and delivered a slap to Chi Xingye...
"Slap!"
After the resounding sound, five vivid fingerprints landed on Wen Anlei's face who was sitting next to Chi Xingye...
Everyone was shocked!
Chi Xingye bent down to pat the dust off her clothes, and then slowly straightened up, seemingly unconcerned.
Both wronged and angry, Wen Anlei looked at Lin Yingying, then at the innocent face of Chi Xingye.
She was enraged!
This was definitely the beginning of a feud...
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Luxurious villa of the Wen family.
Wen Guofeng and his wife Zhao Meiru were seated in the main seats at the top of the hall, with the arrogant Wen Anlei standing beside them.
Chi Xingye stood in the center of the hall.
No matter how you looked at it, it seemed like a courtroom in session!
"Where have you been hiding all this time?" Wen Guofeng interrogated sternly.
He had truly underestimated her. She had indeed been capable of eluding him for more than two months!
"Thanks to your kindness, you demolished my mother's house and forbade all hotels in the Imperial City from allowing us, mother and daughter, to stay. Even now, we are not homeless." replied Chi Xingye with a smile tinged with nonchalant sarcasm playing on her lips.
"Don't misunderstand your father's intentions, he did so in the hope of making you move in with us." Zhao Meiru interjected with a laugh, gracefully trying to reason.
"Auntie, you took pains to demolish my mother's house just so you could invite me to live here?"
Chi Xingye snapped back with a laugh.
How could she not understand their motive?
She asked deliberately: "What about my mother? Will she be homeless? Or are you, auntie, comfortable with polygamy and wouldn't mind my mother also moving into your mansion to play the role of the head mistress?"
"You..."
"Moreover, Auntie, like I have said before, not every Tom, Dick and Harry can claim to be my father just because they say so!"
The beautifully maintained face of Zhao Meiru twisted in anger due to Chi Xingye's words.
She appealed to Wen Guofeng, her face full of grievance, "Look at the wonderful daughter raised by Chi Yu…"
Auntie?
Two wives serving one husband?
Truly, she had no manners!
"Chi Xingye, you have the good fortune of being my daughter in your eight lifetimes of cultivation. Don't be ungrateful!" retorted Wen Anlei, adding fuel to the fire.
"This man wants to play my cheapo father. He's certainly not qualified!"
Chi Xingye raised her lovely face, looked at Wen Anlei and asserted confidently. She was speaking to Wen Anlei but the message was meant for Wen Guofeng.
"Impudent!" bellowed Wen Guofeng, slamming his hand on the table in anger. He stared sternly at Chi Xingye for a minute and then, suppressing his anger, sternly commanded in a cold voice, "Stop acting bratty! You will move in with me now that you're on vacation. Stop running wild, behaving like an unruly child with no supervision!"
How "merciful" these Wen family members are!
A father, who hadn't met her for more than a decade, suddenly started to worry about the daughter of his ex-wife two months ago.
He violently knocked on the door and insisted on taking her to his home!
The stepmother and stepsister didn't even play the clichéd roles of shutting her out to avoid future disputes over inheritance, as usually depicted in melodramas.
Instead, they began plotting to make her recognize her family and be kept well inside the family for breeding purposes.
"This Friday, I will arrange a meeting with Mr. Luo Tian of the Luo family. If you perform well, I will gift your mother a new house as compensation."
After withholding for so long, Wen Guofeng finally revealed his true intentions.
Chi Xingye smiled and sarcastically praised, "You demolished the house and now you're generously offering to provide another one. Uncle, you're really generous!"
"..."
This was not the first time she had heard from Wen Guofeng's mouth that she should meet Mr. Luo.
And how is she supposed to "perform"?
By seducing him?
"Uncle, there's something I don't understand. Who is this Luo Tian? You give him so much importance. Is he remarkable?" Chi Xingye asked, feigning confusion.
Before anyone else could react, Wen Anlei promptly snatched the conversation and disdainfully explained to Chi Xingye: "You are really a fool! Who doesn't know in DK that the Luo family is of royal lineage, and Mr. Luo is an esteemed man with respectable social standing! If you can marry him, it would be an unimagined fortune that you accumulated over your past eight lifetimes!"
Chi Xingye nodded in agreement.
And then became further bewildered.
"Uncle, Auntie, I heard that you have two daughters. Apart from the one present here, the famous star Wen Zixin is also your daughter, isn't she? Now, since Mr. Luo is so outstanding, I can't understand why you wouldn't keep him for your precious daughter and instead insist on pushing me at him..."
They certainly won't be so kind!
Whatever the underlying secret, Chi Xingye didn't care.
Because she would never let them treat her like an item to be sold to the Luo family in exchange for immense profits!
Those words changed everyone's expressions and left them speechless for a while.
Having a huff, Wen Anlei was the first to lose her patience: "Chi Xingye, don't play innocent when you're taking advantage of the situation!"
"In that case, I'll let you have Mr. Luo!"
"Stop!" Seeing Chi Xingye turn to leave, Wen Guofeng threatened sternly: "If you dare not meet Luo Tian this Friday, don't blame me for not being kind to you and your mother!"
Gosh, I am so scared!