Chapter 546: Chapter 549: Cruelty
Ye Xingbei’s cheek hurt so much it was numb. She called out “Aunt,” struggling to ask Ye Zhitong why she was treating her like this. Ye Zhitong ordered, “Gag her.”
Liao Qing grabbed something and stuffed it into Ye Xingbei’s mouth.
Ye Zhitong finally stopped playing the zither and looked at Ye Xingbei: “Tie her up.”
Liao Qing took a rope from a Ye family bodyguard, tied Ye Xingbei’s hands and feet, and forced her to kneel on the ground.
Ye Xingbei was dumbfounded.
She didn’t understand why Ye Zhitong would suddenly flare up.
She knew Ye Zhitong and Ye Wuwei had always believed she was Jiang Zhengxing’s daughter, so they didn’t have much affection for her.
Yet she had been raised in the Ye family for five years, and Ye Zhitong and Ye Wuwei had never done anything bad to her.
Ye Xinglan and Ye Xingli doted on her, providing her with plenty of good food and drink, and Ye Zhitong and Ye Wuwei had never given her a hard time.
That’s why she confidently told the Gu family bodyguards earlier to rest assured, that she was merely seeing her uncle and aunt, there was no danger, and they didn’t need to follow.
But now, why…
Ye Xingbei looked at Ye Zhitong unwillingly, wanting to ask her why.
Ye Zhitong glanced at her faintly, like looking at a lifeless object, “Send her away.”
Liao Qing nodded and struck the back of Ye Xingbei’s neck.
Ye Xingbei was knocked out before she could utter a word.
A bodyguard from the Ye family came over and put Ye Xingbei into a large red box.
After the box was sealed, a pink bow was tied on the outside.
To the unobservant, it could’ve been mistaken as a surprise gift from a boyfriend to his girlfriend.
Done with the disguise, the two bodyguards carried the box away.
From beginning to end, Ye Wuwei was quietly making tea, never once raising his head.
*
Ye Xingbei was awakened by a bucket of cold water.
She opened her eyes to find herself lying on the ground, her clothes soaked with the cold water, shivering.
A voice sounded nearby, “Madam, she’s awake.”
Struggling to sit up, she found her hands and feet still tied, and the surroundings unfamiliar to her.
From the room’s décor, it seemed like a rarely-used basement.
She blinked the water off her eyelashes and saw the person standing in front of her clearly.
It was Wu Qizhen, the mistress of the Shi family and the mother of the Shi siblings.
Ye Xingbei realized then.
Wu Qizhen and Ye Zhitong were close friends, having known each other since they were little, and had a good relationship.
It was also for this reason that they planned to form a marital alliance, arranging for Ye Xinglan to marry Shi Qianling.
Thinking about the scene she had witnessed at the hotel, Ye Xingbei understood everything.
Yesterday, she instructed Yu Nuo to retaliate against Shi Qianying.
Shi Qianying, half-dead, was brought home to the Shi family, and surely her condition couldn’t be hidden from her mother Wu Qizhen.
When Wu Qizhen found out that Shi Qianying was hurt by her, she complained to Ye Zhitong.
So Ye Zhitong had her tied up, and given to Wu Qizhen, allowing Wu Qizhen to avenge Shi Qianying.
Thinking about the indifferent look in Ye Zhitong’s eyes at the hotel, and Ye Wuwei, who hadn’t even glanced at her from his spot by the window, Ye Xingbei’s heart ached.
How could they be so cruel?
Let alone the fact that she is not Jiang Zhengxing’s daughter and owes them nothing, even if she were, she is the daughter who was abandoned and disowned by Jiang Zhengxing.
Jiang Zhengxing never raised her, she has never benefited from him.
They hate Jiang Zhengxing, then they should take revenge on him.
But they did not seek Jiang Zhengxing, instead, they vented their anger and hatred for him on her.
Why?
What did she ever owe them?