1 – The beautiful older sister he has longed for for so many years, he is finally going to marry her.
In the early hours of a midsummer night, the darkness was thick.
Sheng Xingyang, heavily intoxicated, lay sprawled across a soft, luxurious bed, her slender, fair fingers unconsciously clutching the high-quality silk velvet duvet.
The suite was dimly lit. With a throbbing headache and her consciousness fading, Sheng Xingyang felt a dizzying whirl in her head. Just then, a man carrying a certain intense, cool fragrance pressed heavily against her from behind.
He began to tug at her dress.
Sheng Xingyang wanted to resist, but her hands were weak.
The presidential suite was too dark, the floor-to-ceiling windows tightly sealed by thick curtains.
Not a sliver of moonlight could be glimpsed from outside.
Her thin dress was soon torn open. Sheng Xingyang struggled with all her might, but her strength was minimal, compounded by severe dizziness and overall exhaustion. After a few feeble attempts, her weak cries for help were silenced by the tall man behind her as he sealed her lips with a kiss.
Finally, everything was swallowed up…
After a fierce and exhausting ordeal, Sheng Xingyang fell unconscious.
The man lying atop her was also barely conscious, holding her as he drifted into a deep sleep. Just as both had passed out, the door to the suite was pushed open. A dignified, elegantly dressed woman entered. She cast a cold glance at the disheveled pair on the bed, her beautiful, refined face showing no emotion. She quietly instructed the bodyguard behind her, “Take A Yan away and send him abroad immediately for a business trip lasting several months. Seal off this incident—no one is to speak of it, and A Yan must not be told.”
“Also, notify the reporters who want to come up to go to another hotel. Don’t let them come here.”
What a miscalculation. On the very day A Yan was appointed as the CEO of Dongshen Airlines by the Fu family, he ended up drugged like this.
Fortunately, she arrived quickly. Otherwise, if the reporters had discovered and photographed this, it would surely have affected him.
After giving her instructions, the woman sighed in relief. She glanced at the woman on the bed, assuming she was a public relations escort.
Without paying much attention, she turned and left.
Eleven months later.
“Miss Sheng, push… the baby is almost out.”
In the delivery room of the obstetrics department, filled with the strong scent of formaldehyde, the midwife pressed mechanically and coldly against her legs, roughly peering beneath the sheets. While observing the baby’s progress, she uttered icy words urging her to push.
Sheng Xingyang had already pushed with all her might, her forehead and body drenched in sweat. But the baby seemed accustomed to staying in her mother’s womb, refusing to emerge no matter how hard she tried. What else could she do?
Seeing that the baby had only revealed a small head and refused to come further, the midwife had no choice but to say, “Miss Sheng, if you don’t push harder, we’ll have to perform an episiotomy with scissors.”
Hearing the mention of an episiotomy, Sheng Xingyang immediately began pushing with all her might.
But as she pushed, an immense wave of pain struck. Biting her dry, parched lips, Sheng Xingyang let out a scream and passed out from the pain.
This time, she remained unconscious for several hours.
When she finally awoke, she had already been wheeled back to the hospital room.
Her once prominently swollen belly was now flat and deflated.
Sheng Xingyang blinked her weary eyes, gazing at the empty white ceiling of the hospital room, her mind blank. Had she given birth?
Or was it…?
Just as she sank into postpartum delirium, the door to the room creaked open gently.
The person who entered was none other than her good friend, Dai Yutong.
Dai Yutong saw her pale, weak face and instantly felt both angry and heartbroken. How beautiful Sheng Xingyang was, yet now, after giving birth, she had become thin and haggard.
Anyone would feel heartbroken seeing this.
Looking again at the empty hospital room, not a single person from the Sheng family had come.
Were they truly demons?
After all, Sheng Xingyang was still a member of the Sheng family?
Even though the stepmother now held power in the Sheng family, it couldn’t change the fact that Sheng blood flowed in her veins.
Yet these people had cold-heartedly left her alone in the hospital room, uncared for and unattended—it was truly infuriating!
The more Dai Yutong thought about it, the angrier she became, wishing she could rush to the Sheng family and smash everything in sight.
But looking at her good friend in the hospital bed, she had no choice but to hold back.
After all, the Sheng family had wealth and influence—how could she and Sheng Xingyang possibly stand against them?
Dai Yutong could only take a deep breath, suppressing the fury in her heart, and sat down beside Sheng Xingyang, asking, “Yangyang, you’re awake?”
“Do you feel any pain anywhere?”
Sheng Xingyang raised her hand and gently pressed her forehead, her voice weak. “I ache all over.”
“You’ve been through so much, but you can rest assured—you gave birth to a beautiful little princess.” Dai Yutong sighed and said, “Yangyang, what do you plan to do with this child?”
“Should we send her to an orphanage? Otherwise, raising a child alone will be exhausting.” To this day, they still didn’t know who the child’s biological father was.
Back then, Sheng Xingyang had been drugged by Sheng Ruoxuan and left in a hotel… When she woke up, only Sheng Xingyang remained, while the man who had taken advantage of her was nowhere to be found.
They had no idea who had violated Yangyang.
So, since the biological father was unknown, and most importantly, Yangyang was still young, Dai Yutong felt there was no need for her to keep this child of unclear origin and waste her youth and career.
Sheng Xingyang closed her eyes, pondered for a moment, and said, “Let me see her.”
“Then wait a moment.” Dai Yutong stood up and went to push the baby’s stroller over.
After bringing it over, Sheng Xingyang supported herself on the bed frame and sat up. Seeing the fair, clean, and rosy-cheeked little girl in the stroller, although the baby’s features hadn’t fully developed yet, it was clear she had delicate and exquisite facial features.
Her beautiful big eyes were slightly closed, and her plump, rosy little mouth pouted as if wanting to drink milk, murmuring and moving her lips.
Seeing this, Sheng Xingyang’s heart instantly softened completely.
Perhaps this was the bond of maternal love.
Such an adorable child—the moment she laid eyes on her, she couldn’t bear to abandon her.
So what if the biological father was unknown?
This was her child.
She would raise her.
“Yutong, we can’t abandon the baby. I want her.”
Dai Yutong was shocked. “Yangyang, are you really going to raise the child alone?”
Sheng Xingyang reached out and gently touched the baby’s little hand. The baby, who hadn’t yet opened her eyes, seemed to sense her mother’s presence and instantly grasped her finger tightly in her palm.
Refusing to let go.
At that moment, Sheng Xingyang knew she could never abandon her.
Lowering her gaze, she said earnestly, “Yes, I’m going to raise her. She’s my flesh and blood.”
As for that man, let him be considered dead.
One year later, at a somewhat remote café in the city center.
Sheng Xingyang, holding her rosy-cheeked daughter Sheng Wanyu, who was still sucking on a milk bottle, wore a simple and clean white dress, sitting quietly by the window in the café, waiting for her blind date to arrive.
Outside the café, the scorching sun blazed like fire. Sheng Xingyang turned her face, her gaze solemnly fixed on the bustling crowd outside the glass window.
Unconsciously, the vicious words her cold-blooded father had spoken echoed in her ears: [“Sheng Xingyang, your sister is about to get engaged to the Lin family. You’ve given birth to a bastard child, which has already tarnished our Sheng family’s reputation. Now, either abandon this child or get married quickly. Our Sheng family can no longer tolerate you.”]
[“Don’t come and disgrace our Sheng family’s honor, or I’ll cut off Bai Cheng’s medical expenses and let him die in the hospital.”]
Ever since she made the decision to raise this baby girl, the Sheng family had no place for her.
They pressured her in every way to move out, including threatening her with her brother in the hospital.
If it weren’t for the shares she held from her mother, the Sheng family would likely have been ruthless enough to silence her and seize control.
But she wouldn’t let them have their way. The shares were reserved for her comatose younger brother in the hospital.
And as for her pregnancy, wasn’t it all thanks to Sheng Ruoxuan?
To steal her arranged marriage partner, Sheng Ruoxuan got her drunk and caused her to lose her virginity.
In the end, she replaced her and became engaged to her intended match.
She remembered all these things and would settle the score with them one by one in the future.
Now that the baby was already one year old, the Sheng family, fearing that raising a bastard child would disgrace them and worried she might try to seduce Sheng Ruoxuan’s wealthy arranged marriage partner, hurriedly arranged for her to get married.
To protect her brother and also to register her baby’s household, she had no choice but to agree to this deal with Sheng Father—arranged marriage through a blind date. Fortunately, she had made one demand: to reclaim the apartment that belonged to her mother.
Sheng Father had long looked down on her mother’s ordinary apartment.
Naturally, he was willing to return it to her.
As for her blind date partner, Sheng Father wasn’t responsible; it was her stepmother, Lin Meisu, who handled it.
What kind of person was Lin Meisu?
She had married into the Sheng family using seductive tricks and intensely disliked her. How could she tolerate the once high-and-mighty young lady marrying better than her own daughter?
Sheng Xingyang didn’t need to think hard to know that Lin Meisu wouldn’t introduce her to a high-quality marriage prospect.
Probably just some random, unattractive man dragged from the market?
But she didn’t care. Her purpose in getting married was to register her baby’s household. Once she stabilized her situation, she would divorce.
Sheng Xingyang pondered this as she gazed out the window.
Someone approached, footsteps light, so quiet that Sheng Xingyang didn’t notice. However, the baby girl in her arms saw the young man walking toward them. The baby, as if seeing her own father, began to fuss softly with her pacifier.
Soon, the young man reached their table.
Sheng Xingyang still hadn’t noticed, lost in thought.
Only when the man’s deep, magnetic, and pleasant voice, like that of a voice actor, drifted down from above her did she snap back to reality. She turned to look at the man whose voice could melt one’s eardrums.
“Hello, are you Miss Sheng Xingyang? I’m Fu Siyan, your blind date partner.” Fu Siyan’s peach-blossom eyes burned intensely as he gazed at the beautiful woman who stared at him in shock.
A certain unrestrained and intense possessiveness flashed in his eyes like a hook, instantly spilling out without restraint.
His gaze locked directly onto her porcelain-white face.
The beautiful sister he had yearned for all these years, from his youthful crush until now—he was finally going to marry her.