Chapter 195

Chapter 195 - 195 188 Exposing the Fake Fang Jiyins Plight (Make-up Chapter 195: 188: Exposing the Fake, Fang Jiyin’s Plight (Make-up Update) Chapter 195: 188: Exposing the Fake, Fang Jiyin’s Plight (Make-up Update) Fang Jiyin couldn’t swim.

Xie Shang let go, allowing her to sink into the water.

“Four...”

As she opened her mouth to call for help, pool water instantly filled her mouth and nose.

Xie Shang swam ashore and stood by the poolside, watching emotionlessly as the person in the water struggled.

Had Fang Jiyin not lied back then, he might have known of Wen Changling’s existence, and then he could have met her earlier, and everything that followed would have changed.

“Four... brother...”

As the water engulfed Fang Jiyin’s head, she reached out for rescue from Xie Shang.

Xie Shang looked on indifferently.

“You can’t wear the hat of a ‘savior’ for so many years without any consequence, right?”

Fang Jiyin’s struggles weakened, the splashes of water gradually calmed, and Xie Shang could clearly see her slowly sinking down.

“Xie Shang.”

Xie Yanli’s voice broke in inappropriately.

Yes, inappropriately.

Xie Shang looked at the still rippling water and felt somewhat regretful.

“What are you doing?” Not until Xie Yanli approached did she see Fang Jiyin in the pool, “Yingying!”

The victim had already sunk to the bottom of the pool.

Frantic, Xie Yanli’s legs went weak, and she collapsed on the ground. Unable to swim herself, she instinctively looked to Xie Shang, only to see him unmoved. In a panic, she yelled, “Somebody help!”

“Second brother, second brother!”

Xie Jiwen, hearing the cries, rushed over, confused by the situation, but as Xie Yanli called out her stepdaughter’s name while crying, he didn’t have time to ask any more questions and plunged into the water to retrieve her.

Then Aunt Wen, the driver Uncle Zhong, and Xie Jiwen’s wife Yan Meimei arrived, creating quite a commotion.

Xie Shang disliked the noise and walked away.

Xie Yanli shouted angrily, “Xie Shang!”

She suspected it was Xie Shang’s doing. He had always been a genuine troublemaker since he was young – at age eight he dared to keep snakes, by eleven he had broken other kids’ bones, at fifteen he flouted his elders by indulging in extreme games, at eighteen he nearly killed someone, and in his first year taking over the Su Family pawnshop, he’d driven an old man to jump from a building.

A person who could gamble with his own life for thrills obviously wouldn’t care about someone else’s.

With eyes red from rage, Xie Yanli trembled violently, “What madness has gotten into you? Why do this to Yingying?”

Faced with Xie Yanli’s accusations, Xie Shang acted as though deaf, his glance merely flicking over Fang Jiyin who had been hauled out of the water.

Still breathing, not dead.

It would be perfect if she ended up with a pair of damaged ears.

Containing a rising fury that wanted to unleash, Xie Shang left without a word.

At the door, Xie Jingxian stopped him, “Ji Fu.” He glanced toward the pool, “What happened?”

Fang Jiyin had regained consciousness, lying in Xie Yanli’s arms, gasping and coughing, unable to speak quiveringly.

Xie Shang’s gaze fell on her, sharp and cold like a sword aimed to pierce her bones and innards, “Fang Jiyin never saved me.

She’s an impostor.”

Xie Shang’s statement resounded clearly.

Everyone, including Xie Yanli, was stunned.

Xie Jingxian immediately looked at Fang Jiyin just to see her avoid eye contact, covering her mouth coughing violently.

Xie Yanli spoke up in defense, “What are you talking about? If it wasn’t Yingying who saved you then who did?”

Xie Shang’s demeanor was deep and calm, so serene it sent chills down one’s spine, not knowing if he would erupt the next second. That restrained menace was suffocating.

Xie Shang was raised by Xie Liangjiang until the age of ten and from there on by Xie Qingze, with Xie Jingxian also frequently giving guidance. He was a lawyer who though never practiced formally, handled several cases. He led the Su Family pawnshop into gray areas, and under him was an extensive network of contacts and information.

He was extremely intelligent, learning everything clean, and everything dark, adept at crafting the most thrilling and personally advantageous rules within the safety margins of the law.

Such a man, if he wanted to deal with someone, could have a hundred ways to do so if he were so inclined.

“I do not know if you’re pretending to be ignorant or genuinely unaware of this matter, aunt,” he continued, “it doesn’t matter, I’ll remember this against you too. You are grandfather’s daughter, and I have only tolerated it, but if you and your stepdaughter continue to appear before me and make me uncomfortable, then I can’t guarantee I’ll still be able to hold back.”

That was the last of the dignity he offered.

After saying this, he left, carrying with him a wet chill.

Xie Jingxian took a long while to snap back to reality, “Yingying, is what Ji Fu said true?”

Fang Jiyin weakly leaned against Xie Yanli, whining tearfully, “Grandfather...”

“I am not your grandfather.”

Xie Jingxian knew the kind of person Xie Shang was; he wouldn’t have lashed out without reason.

“So disappointed,” Xie Yanli spoke up for her stepdaughter.

Xie Jingxian, utterly disillusioned with the mother and daughter, sighed wearily, “From now on, don’t come to the Xie Family again.”

This meant severing ties.

Fang Jiyin was speechless with panic, her face ashen, she struggled to breathe and then began convulsing, her limbs spasmed, frothing at the mouth.

She had an asthma attack, unable to breathe, her body stiffened, trembling with clenched teeth.

“Yingying!”

Xie Yanli called out desperately, “Where’s the medicine? Quickly bring the medicine!”

The medicine was in Fang Jiyin’s bag.

Xie Jiwen nudged his wife Yan Meimei. Annoyed, Yan Meimei reluctantly went to get the medication, thinking to herself: Serves her right.

Xie Yanli had always looked down on Yan Meimei, thinking her unsuitable to enter the Xie Family due to her background.

“The ambulance is almost here, Yingying, hang in there.”

“Yingying!”

That night, Fang Jiyin was carried onto an ambulance and rushed to the hospital.