Yuan Ya'er was badly hurt when she was knocked down. Both her knees were scraped to varying degrees.
When Yan Zhen saw her, she was sitting on the ground silently crying due to the pain, and there was a broken cake beside her. Looking up and finding that it was him who was driving, she was very considerate and told him that she was fine, asking him to hurry to celebrate Yuan Xi's birthday first. To show that she was okay, she even propped herself up from the ground and tried to take a couple of steps.
Watching her with her whole face wrinkled in pain but still trying hard to appear strong, he, who was already feeling guilty, somehow felt his heart ache.
Yan Zhen knew about Yuan Ya'er. She was the biological daughter of the Yuan family who had just been found after having been away for eighteen years.
His fiancée, Yuan Xi, actually had different biological parents.
It was said that when Mrs. Yuan gave birth, she was attending an event outside. By accident, she was bumped into during the event, which advanced her due date by nearly half a month.
To ensure a smooth delivery, the Yuan family found a nearby hospital for her to stay in.
Unfortunately, there was a serious shortage of hospital rooms those days. Even if it were someone of great importance, there was no way to arrange an independent room for Mrs. Yuan. She had no choice but to share a common ward with a group of strange women who had just given birth, and among them was Mrs. Xu, who was traveling from Xingcheng to Fengcheng.
It was Mrs. Yuan herself who took the wrong baby.
She had been in a coma after giving birth and hadn't seen her baby with her own eyes. Plus, she wasn't in a good mental state and didn't carefully check the birthday tag on the baby's foot. By accident, she took away the Xu family's baby. And Mrs. Xu also hadn't seen her baby. In a hurry to return to Xingcheng, she took the Yuan family's baby and quickly checked out of the hospital.
At that time, no one realized that the babies had been switched.
It wasn't until Yuan Xi was seventeen that the Yuan family discovered she wasn't their child during an unexpected blood - transfusion situation.
The Yuan family kept it a secret from Yuan Xi and secretly searched for several months before finding their missing daughter, Xu Ya'er, in Xingcheng. After a paternity test confirmed that she was indeed their child, they took her back to the Yuan family and renamed her Yuan Ya'er.
As for Yuan Xi, although there was no blood relation, the Yuan family still regarded her as their own daughter and let her continue to live in the Yuan family as their adopted daughter. Everything remained the same as before.
To help Yuan Ya'er integrate into the wealthy circle as soon as possible, the Yuan family asked Yuan Xi to take her to many banquets. That was how Yan Zhen met Yuan Ya'er, who always followed Yuan Xi like a little tail at these banquets.
However, Yuan Ya'er had lived in Xingcheng for eighteen years. Her adoptive parents' family was just of average means, and her living habits had nothing to do with the wealthy lifestyle. As a result, she seemed like an out - of - place alien at the banquets and even caused quite a few jokes.
At this moment, realizing that he had injured someone and seeing the broken cake beside her feet, Yan Zhen suddenly remembered that it was actually her eighteenth birthday today. Because of his mistake, her birthday was completely ruined.
Thinking about how she had always been laughed at as a country bumpkin at the banquets, Yan Zhen felt pity for her. He decided to take her to the hospital for a check - up first, buy her a birthday cake as compensation, and then rush to the bar to propose to his fiancée.
Yuan Ya'er refused a few times but finally got in his car and headed for the hospital when she found she couldn't refuse anymore.
At the hospital, Yan Zhen accompanied Yuan Ya'er through a series of examinations, including blood tests, CT scans, DR scans, and MRI. While waiting for the results, the two sat on the hospital bench and chatted casually.
Listening to Yuan Ya'er talk about her life in Xingcheng, he found that she was really a naive, straightforward, lively, and cheerful girl. Even after returning to Fengcheng and being exposed to the unfamiliar wealthy lifestyle, and being laughed at as a country bumpkin by so many people, she had never been sad. She had always been working hard and actively trying to change and integrate.
But at the same time, he also found that she was a bit self - conscious. Because Yuan Xi was so beautiful, and the Yuan family's wealthy lifestyle had polished Yuan Xi into a shining diamond. When Yuan Ya'er talked about Yuan Xi, her face was full of admiration and envy, and she kept praising Yuan Xi in front of him.
Somehow, Yan Zhen felt even more pity for this girl.
After that, the two chatted more and more happily and more and more speculatively. He even told her that he planned to propose to Yuan Xi today, and she gave them her blessings. He was happy to have made such a friend, and time quietly slipped away during their pleasant conversation.
When he finally realized it, the hands of his watch had already pointed to ten. Only then did he suddenly remember what he had forgotten. He quickly took out his phone, only to find that Yuan Xi had never called him even once during his absence from the birthday party.
He felt strange and dialed Yuan Xi's number, but no one answered.
He rushed to the bar with Yuan Ya'er in a hurry, only to find that there were only a few scattered guests left on the scene, eating snacks and drinking juice. Among them was Ji Xinyue, the daughter of the Ji family.
He once asked Ji Xinyue where Yuan Xi was. Ji Xinyue told him that Yuan Xi had left after receiving a phone call.
That night, Yuan Xi's phone was always unreachable. He always had a bad feeling in his heart. He searched for her like crazy in the places they had been to before, but he couldn't find her anywhere. And Yuan Ya'er, worried about him, accompanied him for the whole night.
They found nothing.
It wasn't until the next day that Ji Xinyue called Yuan Ya'er and said that a friend of hers had seen Yuan Xi go into a hotel with a man and never come out.
He and Yuan Ya'er rushed to that hotel together. After kicking open the door, they saw a scene that they would never forget and that made them extremely angry.
His white camellia, his treasure, was completely ruined.
That scene almost drove Yan Zhen crazy on the spot. He felt that his true heart had instantly fallen from the clouds to the dust and was shattered into pieces.
But at this moment, he still retained a bit of reason and took Yuan Ya'er to check the hotel surveillance.
The surveillance from last night showed Yuan Xi hugging a man and entering the hotel elevator. The surveillance from the next day showed the ugly, fat, and bald Guan Baocheng leaving Yuan Xi's room.
Although the face of the man wasn't captured in the first surveillance video, the clothes Guan Baocheng was wearing in the second video matched those in the first one.
Yuan Xi chased after them from the hotel room and knelt in front of him to explain. She said she didn't know how all this had happened. She said she had waited for him in the bar for a long time. She said she had called him several times but he hadn't answered, and she even opened her phone to show him the evidence.
However, there were no outgoing call records on her phone at all. Instead, there were only missed calls from him.
The consecutive surveillance videos and the completely inconsistent call records completely extinguished the fire of hope in his heart. So he also threw his phone in front of her and said to her:
Stop lying to me. I won't believe you. You're just a promiscuous woman. I misjudged you, Yuan Xi.
After saying that, he didn't even bother to pick up his phone. He pulled Yuan Ya'er and turned away from the hotel, ignoring her heart - rending cries behind him.