FULL NOVELXO Chapter 73
Ye Linhan was stunned, but a moment later, he smiled helplessly.
“Moxuan, are you still blaming me for advocating your marriage to Grandpa?”
What? Shen Qi was surprised. Ye Moxuan’s marriage was advocated by Ye Linhan?
Ye Moxuan smirked and didn’t reply to him anymore.
“You aren’t that young anymore. Moreover, you still have that leg injury, so you should find a person to take care of you. I knew the daughter of the Shen Family beforehand, so I proposed your marriage to Grandpa. Moxuan, you have to understand my good intentions.”
Shen Qi was initially surprised when she found out that Ye Moxuan’s marriage was advocated by Ye Linhan. However, her expression changed abruptly when she heard the back end of his sentence, thereafter she looked at Ye Moxuan subconsciously.
He knows the Shen Family’s daughter beforehand? Doesn’t that mean that he knew that I wasn’t Shen Yue at all?
Thinking about it, Shen Qi suddenly recalled the fact that he called out her actual name while he was speaking to her previously.
Back then, Shen Qi didn’t notice because she was used to being called Shen Qi, so…
When she thought about this, she was so shocked that she started to have cold sweats.
She then looked at the man who was sitting opposite her. The guy with the gentle smile and a warm gaze knew her identity for a long time, yet he didn’t expose her. Moreover, he was able to chat and joke around with her.
A man like him… A man like him… The more Shen Qi thought about it, the more she felt shivers down her spine as cold sweat started forming on her forehead.
“Shen Qi, what’s wrong?” Upon noticing her gaze, Ye Linhan looked at her. When he saw that she had suddenly turned pale and that her forehead was beaded with cold sweats, he frowned and asked out of concern, “You don’t look too good. Are you sick?”
His gaze was warm, and his voice was light and gentle like a breeze.
However, it was precisely why a man like him…
Shen Qi bit her lower lip and felt a chill coursing through her entire body.
Ye Moxuan noticed her reaction as well, thereupon he subconsciously frowned. “Hey, Miss Second-marriage, what’s wrong with you?”
Shen Qi’s lips quivered as she said in a shaky voice, “N-Nothing…”
“If there’s nothing wrong with you, then why are you sweating?” Ye Moxuan fixed his gaze upon her, and he didn’t look too happy. Was this woman getting used to lying, or did she take him for a blind man? He can’t believe that she was trying to refute such an obvious statement!
When she heard this, Shen Qi subconsciously wiped away the sweat from her forehead with her trembling hand. “I suddenly feel some discomfort in my stomach.”
“Qi, are you alright?” Han Xueyou noticed that she didn’t look too good. Hence, she stood up and asked her out of concern.
Everybody looked at her, and that caused her stress to increase.
As such, she quickly bit her lower lip.
“I only feel a little bit of discomfort; maybe I should go back first.”
With that, Shen Qi stood up almost subconsciously. Then, she didn’t say anything anymore as she walked directly outside. Meanwhile, everyone cast a bewildered look at her retreating figure.
After taking two steps, Shen Qi suddenly stopped and turned her head to look at Han Xueyou.
As soon as Han Xueyou stood up, Ye Moxuan pushed his wheelchair forward and said, “Since my wife isn’t feeling well, then may I trouble you to entertain Miss Han in my place, Linhan?”
Upon hearing that, Han Xueyou halted.
Ye Linhan smiled. “No problem, Moxuan, you can send Shen Qi home first. Shen Qi, take care, and be careful.”
“O-Okay…” Shen Qi stammered when she replied to him. Then, she looked at Han Xueyou worriedly. The latter was evidently dejected, yet she still waved her hand. “It’s fine. Don’t worry about me. You guys can go home first.”
“Okay!”
After they left, Shen Qi was walking in front. She was almost at the staircase when Ye Moxuan called out to her, “Hey, Miss Second-marriage!”
When she heard this, Shen Qi stopped before turning her head to look at him with confusion written all over her face.
“Come here!”
Shen Qi felt like a puppet on strings as she walked toward him obediently. “Is there something you need?”
Ye Moxuan tried to control his anger. “There’s a staircase in front.”
When she heard this, Shen Qi turned her head to take a look. “I know. Is there a problem?”
“A problem? Haha! Right, I wonder what can the problem be?” Ye Moxuan laughed coldly as he said, “I didn’t know that my wife was trying to kill me. Hmm?!”
After a moment of silence, Shen Qi finally understood. The staircase in front wasn’t a problem for her. However, Ye Moxuan was disabled; he couldn’t use the stairs as he was in a wheelchair.
With that thought in mind, Shen Qi went ahead and pushed him. “I’m sorry. I was lost in my thoughts, and I completely forgot about it. Let’s go to the elevator then.”
Shen Qi then pushed Ye Moxuan toward the elevator. Her fingers, which were trembling previously, had improved slightly. The air outside was indeed refreshing since Shen Qi felt incredibly stressed when she was under the same roof as Ye Linhan.
She suddenly sensed that Ye Linhan might look gentle on the outside, when in reality…
She didn’t dare to imagine it.
“You looked like you wanted to say something before you stopped and started trembling out of fear. What amazing thing did you discover?” Ye Moxuan, who was sitting in the wheelchair, asked coldly when Shen Qi was lost in her own thoughts.
“N-Not really.” Shen Qi shook her head. “My stomach didn’t feel good just now. It feels… much better now.”
She had not decided whether or not she wanted to tell Ye Moxuan about it. After all, his personality was like a ticking time bomb that could explode anytime. If she told him the truth, she didn’t know how he would react later.
Shen Qi thought to herself that if Ye Linhan really knew her identity, then why didn’t he spill the beans to Old Master Ye?
Logically speaking, he should be standing on the same side as Old Master Ye.
Was Ye Linhan her enemy or her ally?
“Hah! How dare you lie when you can’t even hide your own emotions?” Ye Moxuan’s mocking words caused Shen Qi’s expression to undergo a series of changes, yet she just gritted her teeth.
Ding! The elevator had arrived, and Shen Qi pushed Ye Moxuan inside.
They were the only people in that small space, so Shen Qi’s breath was unsteady. In the end, she couldn’t help but ask, “Why did you… want to investigate Shen Yue back then?”
When he heard this, he couldn’t help but smile. “I was wondering when you would crack.”
And here he thought that she was good at controlling herself.
Shen Qi frowned. “What do you mean by that?”
“Are you afraid that somebody would know your identity?”
Shen Qi clenched her fists. Back then, Ye Moxuan did run some background checks on Shen Yue before. Hence, when she married into the family, he knew instantly that she wasn’t Shen Yue. Moreover, Ye Linhan told him that he had done the same thing too, so that meant his older brother knew her true identity.
No matter how she looked at it, Ye Linhan didn’t look like a stupid man.
Did he deliberately let her know about this?
“Your elder brother said that he did a background check on Shen Yue, that means…”
“Hah!” Ye Moxuan laughed coldly. “It’s too late for you to realize it now.”
When she heard this, Shen Qi couldn’t help but widen her eyes as her voice went up an octave. “Ye Moxuan, you knew that your elder brother knew that I wasn’t Shen Yue since the beginning?”
“Of course.”
“T-Then, why did he not expose me?” Shen Qi bit down on her lip because everything was unbelievable. Ye Moxuan wanted her to leave the moment he knew her true identity. However, Ye Linhan didn’t. Moreover, he could call her by her name as usual and would even pat her head in such an affectionate manner while saying those sweet words to her.
What is happening?