Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride’s Gambit

Chapter 390: Chapter 390: Escape from Death

Sheng Tingyuan held her tight and said, "I didn’t know you had lost them, but even if I did, why would I be angry? I wouldn’t get mad at you for losing anything. Moreover, you didn’t lose them; they were stolen by Wen Nianyou."

Ye Chuyi cried as she spoke, "Now I know she stole them. When I was a child, I didn’t realize she stole all my good things, my Hermès clothes, and my jade pendant, and even took away my mother from me!" noveldrama

Sheng Tingyuan looked up at Wen Nianyou, who was being pushed into a police car, and said softly, "Don’t worry, I will make her pay the price, I will take revenge for you, okay, Little Hehua?"

Ye Chuyi nodded vigorously, "Okay!"

Zheng Yan saw the two cling to each other, looking inseparable, and noticed Ye Chuyi crying profusely, so he thought she was scared by a kidnapping.

After the scene was secured, he approached and said, "Let’s first go to the police station to make a simple statement, then Miss Ye can go home. You’ve had quite a scare today and were also injured. We can get into the details tomorrow when you’re in a better state to recount everything at the station."

Ye Chuyi nodded her head, got into Sheng Tingyuan’s car, and followed the police car to the police station.

On the way, remembering Sheng Tingyuan mention he had been seriously injured and had spent forty days in the intensive care unit, she couldn’t help but ask, "How were you injured when you were a child? It must have been bad, what happened?"

Sheng Tingyuan held her hand tightly and said with a wry smile, "I was stabbed by Sheng Tianxing, right in the lower abdomen."

Ye Chuyi was startled, "Sheng Tianxing? Your father’s illegitimate son?"

"Exactly, that illegitimate son."

Sheng Tingyuan gently embraced her and continued, "He and I have always been at each other’s throats, constantly fighting. I always won, and every time he lost, he would cry to my father, who would then beat me. Each beating I took from my father was followed by an argument with my mother, and every argument made my mother fall ill."

"I didn’t want my mother to get sick again, so later when Sheng Tianxing attacked me, I didn’t fight back. I thought by stepping back and yielding, I could bring about peace, but that was not the case. Sheng Tianxing thought I was afraid of him, so he increased his attacks on me, and ended up stabbing me with a fruit knife."

"If I had been taken to the hospital in time, my situation wouldn’t have been so severe, but to conceal that his precious illegitimate son had stabbed me, my father didn’t take me to the hospital, instead just having a family doctor suture the wound and stop the bleeding. He also forced me to swear an oath never to tell anyone about the injury."

"I was young then, and thought that once the wound was stitched, it would heal, and I was also afraid of worrying and angering my mother, so I didn’t tell anyone. However, the wound got infected very quickly, I ran a high fever and lost consciousness. It was only when my mother took me to the hospital that she discovered the fruit knife had almost gone through my entire lower abdomen."

Listening to this, Ye Chuyi felt a sharp pain in her heart. She held Sheng Tingyuan tightly as if to alleviate his childhood pain and trauma.

Sheng Tingyuan felt her consolation, kissed her forehead, and went on, "My mother told me that at that time the doctors had already issued a critical illness notice, telling her it was too late for hope of recovery and to prepare herself mentally."

"But my mother refused to give up. She moved me to two other hospitals, yet I showed no signs of waking up. She then arranged for doctors and a hospital abroad and took me overseas for treatment."

"The medical facilities abroad were indeed more advanced at the time, and forty days later, I woke up. The first thing I saw was my mother by my side, but I almost didn’t recognize her. She used to be slightly plump, but by then she had thinned to the bone, and even her hair had turned white."

"The follow-up treatments also lasted a long time. I was unable to care for myself, suffering serious bladder damage—all taken care of by my mother."

"Over a year later, my mother brought me back to the country. I was still in a wheelchair at that time, but I went looking for you in the pavilion. When I saw the pavilion was demolished, I was upset for a long time. I knew I had missed our appointment."

Ye Chuyi held him tight, her voice trembling slightly, "Don’t blame yourself, it’s not your fault. It’s already incredible that you survived!"