Chapter 383: Unraveling a Mysterious Past
Reporters filled the film set, and the news of Wen Nuan’s pregnancy was everywhere. When Han Bi saw the newspaper, her eyes reddened. She bit her lower lip, her expression filled with grief.
*She’s pregnant?*
Wen Nuan’s pregnancy shattered the last bit of hope she had. She crumpled the newspaper and threw it away.
"Feimo..." she whispered Ye Feimo’s name. Her hollow voice echoed, repeating over and over, like a heartbreaking plea. He was going to have a child again. Did he remember the child they could have had together?
She clutched her heart, feeling a deep pain. Linda, seeing her distress, rushed over to support her. "I shouldn’t have let you see the newspaper."
Han Bi’s face was pale, filled with a sense of hopelessness. "How could I not know about something this big?"
"Han Bi, you’ve already decided to let go. What does her being pregnant or not have to do with you?" Linda said. "If you really couldn’t let it go, you would have agreed to work with Miss Du to harm Wen Nuan that day. Why wait until today?"
"I don’t know..." Han Bi covered her head in pain. Just then, her phone rang. Linda took it and saw that it was Du Yueying. Han Bi grabbed the phone. The ringing was like a final call. The day Du Yueying asked her to work with her to harm Wen Nuan, she had refused, and they had parted on bad terms. For the past few months, Du Yueying hadn’t called once.
For her to suddenly call now, she must be up to no good.
Han Bi’s heart felt like it was being held by a demon, tempting her to walk into an abyss. She struggled hard, throwing her phone away and covering her ears to block out the ringing.
After a few seconds, the phone rang again. Du Yueying was very patient.
Han Bi was terrified of Du Yueying. The woman had a gentle smile, but Han Bi was inexplicably afraid of her. She felt that Du Yueying was a terrifying person, a beautiful but poisonous woman.
Linda said, "Han Bi, this is your last chance with Mr. Ye."
Han Bi knew this, but she just didn’t want to admit it.
She picked up the phone and answered Du Yueying’s call. Du Yueying’s voice had a hint of a smile and a little mockery. "Miss Han is very busy. You finally answered my call. So, have you thought about it?"
"Miss Du, there’s something I’ve never understood. Why do you hate Wen Nuan so much? Is it just because she stole your qipao?"
Du Yueying said, "You don’t need to know my business. You just need to decide if you’re going to do it or not."
Han Bi gave a cold laugh, a hint of sharpness in her eyes. Du Yueying wanted to take down Wen Nuan but stay out of it herself. There was no way something so easy would happen in this world. She was dreaming. It wasn’t so easy to use someone else to kill.
"Han Bi, Wen Nuan is pregnant. You were also pregnant once. You also had a chance to have Ye Feimo’s child. Look at you..."
"Enough!" Han Bi’s face instantly turned pale, and her body trembled uncontrollably. How could she be so cruel, deliberately poking at her sore spots? The most hateful thing was that Du Yueying knew her so well, but she knew nothing about Du Yueying.
"Don’t get angry now. Just one time, and I promise, the person you want will come back to you," Du Yueying said softly, gently tempting Han Bi. Her voice was so gentle that it made you want to believe her.
Han Bi gave a light laugh. "Miss Du, has anyone ever told you that you’re very cruel?"
Then Du Yueying’s wild laughter came through the phone...
It went on for a long time.
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After a conference call with Tang Shuwen and Lin Diyun, Ye Feimo received a call from Rome. It was Mo Yao. "Feimo, Wen Nuan’s identity... is very special."
Ye Feimo frowned. "What do you mean ’special identity’? She’s a Miss Wen from the Wen family, my wife, and an Anning artist. What other identity could she have?"
Mo Yao paused. Ye Feimo heard the sound of a page being turned. Mo Yao seemed to be flipping through some files. "Wushuang saw the butterfly on Wen Nuan’s shoulder and got an identical tattoo. She met a couple in Egypt. They saw her without her sleeves on. Guess what?"
Ye Feimo’s heart suddenly pounded. The butterfly on Wen Nuan’s shoulder?
The advertisement for the 5203 perfume line had been out for a long time, so the butterfly on Wen Nuan’s shoulder was no secret. Besides, she often wore evening gowns that showed the butterfly on her shoulder.
"What happened?" For some reason, a sense of unease rose in his heart.
"The couple was Dudi’s parents. They mistook Wushuang for their friend’s daughter and said that the eldest daughters of their family all have this butterfly birthmark," Mo Yao said calmly. "The two major families of the inner circle are the Miao and the Long families. The Long family is even more mysterious than the Miao family. I’ve looked into their information, and the Long family is a matriarchal family. The eldest daughters all have this birthmark. Twenty-two years ago, the Miao and Long families fought over an ancient artifact. At that time, the Long family’s successor was betrayed by her confidant and was almost killed in the Aegean Sea. She fell into the sea and went missing. According to the information I’ve gathered, Long Xiushui was already pregnant when she fell into the sea. Later, the Miao family pushed the Long family to a desperate point to get the top spot in the inner circle. Now, the Long family members are all living under fake names and are nowhere to be found. The only thing we know for sure is that a woman with a butterfly birthmark on her shoulder is a descendant of the Long family. And Wen Nuan’s age perfectly matches the information I have."
"So what?" Ye Feimo asked in a low voice. He didn’t care if Wen Nuan’s last name was Wen or Long. She was his wife, and no one could change that. However, because of Xu Nuo, he knew that the Miao family was very strange. The Long family, as another major family of the inner circle, was probably just as strange.
Mo Yao said calmly, "The Du and Long families are related by marriage. Long Xiushui’s daughter and Dudi were engaged to be married before they were even born."
"That’s ridiculous!" Ye Feimo said with a cold laugh, clenching his fists. "What ’fiancé’? It doesn’t matter if Wen Nuan is a descendant of the Long family. Even if she is, so what? She’s my wife now."
Compared to Ye Feimo’s anger, Mo Yao was very calm. "All the families in the inner circle have a curse. The Miao family has one, and so does the Long family. You’ll have to ask Dudi what it is. I only know that the husbands of all the Long family descendants have died young, except for those from the Du family."
"Ridiculous!"
"Yes. The matters of the three ancient families can’t be explained by common sense. In the past, Xu Nuo and Xu Xing, one died and one lived. Big sister-in-law was reborn from the ashes, but she did die. It was just her soul that was reborn," Mo Yao said calmly. "I’m only telling you this so that you’re mentally prepared. Oh, and Dudi is in A City."