The high heel struck Huo Cheng’s face three times in a row, leaving red marks on his skin.
Huo Cheng covered his face, staring in disbelief at Wen Zhili, who was holding the high heel that had just slapped him.
Wen Zhili had always been gentle and cautious toward him, never hitting him like this before.
“You… you hit me?”
A flicker of delight flashed in Wen Yuxuan’s eyes as she immediately defended Huo Cheng: “Wen Zhili, you can blame me, hit me, but how can you blame Brother Cheng!”
Wen Zhili felt nauseous just looking at the two of them: “I’m hitting you two scumbags!”
Huo Cheng was so angry he wanted to retaliate, but at that moment, security guards rushed over and stopped him.
Huo Cheng could only watch helplessly as Wen Zhili entered the passcode, preparing to enter the room.
Huo Cheng was furious: “Wen Zhili, what’s gotten into you? You actually hit me!”
This woman always managed to provoke his emotions intensely.
A hint of malice flickered in Wen Yuxuan’s eyes as she said meaningfully, “Zhili, you’ve stopped imitating my clothes and started imitating my personality instead.”
Huo Cheng glanced at the straightforward, lively, and flamboyant Wen Yuxuan, then at Wen Zhili, who had suddenly become fierce and no longer wore black lace dresses. “So that’s it! I knew there had to be a reason you suddenly changed.”
He wore a mocking expression: “Wen Zhili, you’ve stopped imitating Xuan’er in your clothing and started imitating her personality instead! Trying to get my attention this way!”
Wen Zhili curled her lips, so exasperated she wanted to smash their heads: “Are your brains filled with pig shit? You’re overthinking it. Get lost, or I’ll call the police.”
With that, the door opened, and she turned to enter the room.
“Bang!” She slammed the door shut, shutting out Huo Cheng and Wen Yuxuan, the two pieces of trash.
No rush—she had plenty of time to settle the grudges from her past life and make them wish they were dead.
After being insulted, Huo Cheng’s face flushed red as he roared through the door: “Wen Zhili, you… you’re vulgar. Let me tell you, you can give up on this. Even if you play hard to get and go to great lengths to get my attention, I’ll never fall in love with you. You can have my marriage, but you’ll never have my heart.”
What Huo Cheng didn’t know was that the door was soundproof.
Wen Zhili didn’t hear a single word he said.
Wen Yuxuan pulled Huo Cheng away, saying as they walked, “Brother Cheng, Zhili is imitating my personality again to win you over. Are you really not bothered by it at all?”
Huo Cheng gently kissed Wen Yuxuan’s cheek: “Xuan’er, no matter how many tricks she plays, I won’t care about her. My heart belongs only to you. It’s just… I still have to ask you to endure being with me without a proper title…”
Huo Cheng’s eyes were filled with guilt.
Wen Yuxuan hid the darkness in her eyes and said generously, “It’s fine. As long as I can be with you, I can endure any hardship.”
Huo Cheng patted her head: “Mhm, just bear with it a little longer. Once I marry her and inherit the Huo family, we can be together openly.”
“Okay, I’ll wait for you forever.”
After taking a shower, Wen Zhili received a call from her grandmother.
When she first returned to the Wen family, her grandmother was the only one who welcomed her and truly cared for her.
“Lili, will you come to the family dinner the day after tomorrow?”
Wen Zhili said softly, “Grandma, of course I’ll come.”
After hanging up with her grandmother, Wen Zhili let out a long sigh.The thought of facing her biological parents filled her heart with nothing but bitterness…
But she quickly composed herself.
She still had important matters to attend to.
Since she had been reborn, she naturally intended to use the advantages of her rebirth to make a fortune.
Everything she had now was given by the Wen family.
She wanted to earn money on her own.
She took out a notebook and recorded all the money-making opportunities she remembered from her previous life, from age 19 to 25.
Wen Zhili had read an interview article and knew that Feiyu Technology Company would rapidly develop in these few short years, eventually going public. However, its founder, Mu Feiye, was currently struggling with funding, desperately seeking investments everywhere but meeting with repeated rejections.
Wen Zhili found Mu Feiye’s company phone number online and contacted him.
The next day, she met with Mu Feiye and invested her remaining savings and the money from selling her luxury items into his company.
Three years ago, when she returned to the Wen family, her grandmother had given her the three million in cash and a house left to her in her grandfather’s will.
Before his passing, her grandfather had already known that Wen Yuxuan was not his biological granddaughter. He had continuously sent people to search for her, but unfortunately, he hadn’t lived long enough to see her return…
After her return, she inherited three million in cash and a house, which greatly displeased her parents and drove Wen Yuxuan into a jealous frenzy.
Her grandfather’s will had not left a single cent for Wen Yuxuan.
In truth, the money her grandfather had originally left for her far exceeded three million, but her father had taken most of it to fill the company’s financial holes. Only the three million and the house remained because her grandmother had insisted on preserving them for her.
But back then, she had been so desperate to prove herself worthy of Huo Cheng and become his recognized future wife that she had forced her way into high society, pretending to be wealthy beyond her means. She had bought several luxury bags and clothes.
Most of her money had been spent on expensive watches, clothes, lighters, and other gifts for Huo Cheng, leaving her with only tens of thousands in savings.
Whenever she thought about this, she wanted to slap herself. Back then, she had been utterly blinded, too love-struck, spending so much money on Huo Cheng.
But then she calmed down again.
Sooner or later, she would make Huo Cheng spit out every penny he had taken from her!
Wen Zhili found a second-hand store and sold all her luxury bags and clothes.
However, due to depreciation, she only managed to sell them for five hundred thousand. Combined with her tens of thousands in savings, she invested it all into Feiyu Technology Company.
An excited Mu Feiye eagerly signed the investment contract with Wen Zhili.
When they shook hands after signing the contract, both wore satisfied smiles, each feeling they had gotten the better deal.
After meeting with Mu Feiye, Wen Zhili felt a moment of joy, followed by a sigh.
She still wasn’t rich enough!
She only had a few thousand left for living expenses.
There were many money-making projects she wanted to pursue, but she lacked the capital.
She regretted not memorizing a few lottery numbers in her previous life. Otherwise, she could have bought a lottery ticket right away and won hundreds of millions.
However, she quickly reignited her fighting spirit.
If she couldn’t buy lottery tickets, she would find other ways to earn money.
Once she had money, she would continue buying stocks that would skyrocket in the future, invest in promising companies with strong growth potential, purchase virtual currencies that would emerge later, and sell them before they crashed.
She would also buy a lot of gold!
In this second chance at life, she would not only seek revenge but also become a billionaire!
…
On the day of the family banquet.Wen Zhili prepared gifts and headed to the Wen family’s ancestral home.
This mansion had a history of over a hundred years.
In fact, the Wen family had once been prosperous, even rivaling the Huo family.
But ever since her grandfather passed away and the family business was handed over to her father, Wen Hai, it had nearly all been lost. Only three properties remained: this century-old mansion, the standalone villa where her parents lived, and the house she currently resided in, along with a company on the brink of collapse.
Wen Zhili shook her head.
Three years later, Grandma Wen passed away.
None of these three properties or the company were preserved—they were all squandered by her father.
Afterward, the livelihood of the entire Wen family relied on her subsidies.
The money she used for subsidies came from the 60,000-yuan monthly allowance she received.
The children and daughters-in-law of the Huo family each received a fixed monthly allowance of 60,000 yuan.
But even if she gave all 60,000 to her parents and lived frugally herself, they would only complain about her uselessness.
As Wen Zhili entered the mansion and was about to step into the living room, she heard her mother Liu Yanhong’s complaining voice:
“Mom, you can’t be so biased. You can’t leave all your assets to Zhili! You should leave some for Xuan’er too.”
Grandma Wen said coldly, “How much do you want to give her?”
“I think it’s like this: Zhili will marry into the Huo family in the future, so she won’t have to worry about food or clothing. But what does Xuan’er have? Why not leave all your inheritance to Xuan’er, so she has something to rely on? What do you think?”
Wen Zhili clenched her fists, the pain of her nails digging into her palms paling in comparison to the ache in her heart.
The truly biased ones were them…
“Shut up!” Grandma Wen scolded.
Liu Yanhong was about to say more when the housekeeper spotted Wen Zhili and called out, “Second Miss,” causing her to fall silent.
Wen Zhili pretended not to have heard anything, smiled, and walked into the living room.
“Grandma, I’m back.”
Grandma Wen beamed, “Lili, come sit. That qipao you’re wearing today looks lovely.”
Wen Zhili smiled and sat beside Grandma Wen, politely greeting, “Mother.”
Liu Yanhong responded with an indifferent “Hmm.”
Grandma Wen frowned and shot her a warning look, prompting Liu Yanhong to say, “Zhili, why haven’t you been visiting us often lately? Xuan’er often mentions you.”
Grandma Wen scolded, “Don’t bring her up again! Yanhong, you should care about your own biological daughter.”
Wen Zhili remained silent.
Liu Yanhong pursed her lips, “Understood, Mom.”
A short while later, Wen Hai, Wen Zhili’s father, also arrived.
Wen Hai exchanged only a few words with Wen Zhili before busying himself with a phone call to a business partner.
Seeing the couple, Grandma Wen was filled with anger but could only pat Wen Zhili’s hand.
Wen Zhili smiled, indicating she was fine.
She was already used to their cold or indifferent attitudes toward her.
Even though she was their biological child, in their hearts, she would never compare to Wen Yuxuan.
It was because a Taoist priest had once calculated that Wen Yuxuan’s fate was noble and auspicious, capable of bringing them wealth and prosperity, while she was labeled as having a “celestial loner” fate, destined to bring misfortune to her relatives and parents.
She only learned about this several years later.
What was laughable was that she had always thought she had done something wrong to earn their dislike, so she desperately tried to please them, hoping to win their smiles.
Her personality had become that of a people-pleaser.
The family finished their meal in seemingly peaceful silence.
Wen Zhili went to the backyard to personally help Grandma tend to the medicinal herb garden.Liu Yanhong, carrying a designer handbag, walked into the field with a furrowed brow and said impatiently, “Your sister likes the house you’re living in now. Let her have it, and you go rent another place.”
This house was the one left to her by her grandfather and one of the three remaining properties of the Wen family.
The house was registered under Wen Zhili’s name and was worth over three million yuan.
Liu Yanhong did not forget to add, “Tomorrow, go change the name on the property deed to your sister’s name.”