Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride’s Gambit

Chapter 336: Chapter 336 The Debt Collectors Are Here Chapter 336: Chapter 336 The Debt Collectors Are Here “I was the one who drove her away.”

Ye Chuyi slightly raised her eyebrows, “Did she tell you that her house was sold by me?”

“Yes, what about it?”

“Her house wasn’t sold by me, she sold it herself, and she gave all the money from the sale to Wen Nianyou.”

Ye Jinyu was stunned, “Is that so?”

“If you don’t believe me, you can have someone check the transaction records at the agency center, or look into Lin Yueqin’s bank statements to see whose account the money went into.”

“There’s no need to check, I believe you.”

Ye Jinyu now trusted her daughter more than anyone else, her expression somewhat numb, “Lin Yueqin has been lying to me all along, blaming everything bad on you. She always spoke ill of you in front of me, probably because she was afraid I’d like you, afraid that we mother and daughter would recognize each other!”

“What about Youyou? Tell me, did Youyou always know her true heritage? Has she been deceiving me too?”

Ye Chuyi looked at her nearly shattered appearance, somewhat reluctant to tell her the truth.

However, Ye Jinyu seemed not to need her to reveal the truth.

Having been mother and daughter with Wen Nianyou for so many years, how could she not have noticed any oddities in her?

It used to be that she never thought otherwise, simply assuming that because Lin Yueqin had raised Wen Nianyou, it was normal for her to be close to Lin Yueqin.

Her hand trembled, her voice growing hoarse, “Do you know, Youyou liked to whisper secrets to Lin Yueqin, and she often went to the servant’s room to find her in the middle of the night. She thought I didn’t know, but I was actually just pretending not to.”

“I used to be so envious of Lin Yueqin. I felt that Youyou trusted her more than she trusted me. My daughter wouldn’t confide her troubles or share her little secrets with me, but she would with Lin Yueqin.”

“I couldn’t understand why it was like that. I thought it was because I wasn’t good enough as a mother, so I tried even harder to be good to Youyou, meeting whatever demands she had.”

“Now, I finally understand that it wasn’t because I wasn’t good enough, but because I simply couldn’t compare to Lin Yueqin, who is her real mother.”

Hearing this, Ye Chuyi felt extremely pained.

It turned out that over the years, she was not the only one enduring inexplicable grievances and pain, her mother was too.noveldrama

She stepped forward and hugged her mother, “Mom, it’s all in the past now. She’s not your daughter, not close to you, you don’t have to care about it.”

“I am your daughter, ever since I was very young, I’ve always felt a strange closeness to you, always wanted to come to you and talk. It’s only now that I understand where this closeness came from. You are my real mother, we are connected by blood, which is why I always wanted to be close to you.”

Ye Jinyu hugged her, whispering, “Actually, I’ve had that idea too, feeling sometimes that you resemble me, even dreaming that you were my daughter. But such thoughts seemed too absurd, I could only blame myself for thinking too much. I never imagined that Lin Yueqin would switch my daughter.”

She didn’t just feel that Ye Chuyi resembled her, she had also often felt that Wen Nianyou resembled Lin Yueqin, both in personality and appearance.

But she was too foolish, all the clues were there, yet she ignored them all, firmly believing that Lin Yueqin couldn’t be a bad person.

As mother and daughter were comforting each other, two men barged into the living room.

Ye Chuyi frowned slightly, seeing the two men, one with a bald head and the other with a tattooed arm, both wearing thick gold chains around their necks and wrists, obviously from the rougher parts of society.

She stood up, “Who are you? Who let you in? Get out!”

The Bald Man glanced at her and threw a contract onto the table, “Wen Xingye borrowed two hundred million in cash from us, agreeing to return it after six months. Now the time is up, and he’s neither returning the money nor answering calls!”

The Tattooed Arm Man, biting on a toothpick, with a face full of hardened flesh, said, “It was agreed that if the money wasn’t returned, this villa would belong to us!”