Captured Hearts: The Substitute Bride’s Gambit

Chapter 36: Chapter 36: No! Chapter 36: Chapter 36: No! Wen Nianyou immediately came out to smooth things over, “Alright, alright, stop arguing. We all know each other. What’s all this about? Chuyi, can’t you say less? Mrs. Qi is an elder. How can you be so disrespectful?”

“If you like acknowledging her as an elder, then do it. I don’t.”

“Oh, you’re still so obstinate, I really don’t know what to do with you.”

With a helpless expression on his face, Wen Nianyou’s voice softened again, “But, as a cleaner, holding such a valuable invitation doesn’t really help you, does it? How about giving it to me?”

As he spoke, he reached for the invitation in Lin Chuyi’s hand.

Lin Chuyi dodged his hand and laughed, “Wen Nianyou, you want this?”

“Yes, give it to me quickly!”

“Didn’t you just say my invitation was fake?”

“Oh, I was just joking with you, just saying things, why do you take it so seriously? You should be more magnanimous, don’t be so petty!”

Seeing the invitation was right in front of her, urgency shone in Wen Nianyou’s eyes as he grabbed Lin Chuyi’s arm, “Give it to me, quick!”

Lin Chuyi, looking down from her height, enjoyed seeing his anxious greed. Ever since they were young, whatever good things she had, Wen Nianyou would never let go, always snatching them away.

From something as small as a piece of candy to something as big as a boyfriend, he even snatched those.

And although he clearly wasn’t lacking money, he would still snatch away the one-dollar allowance given to her by Dad.

Now, he was trying to snatch away her invitation.

Lin Chuyi lowered her head and pried off Wen Nianyou’s fingers one by one, “Nope, not giving!”

Wen Nianyou was stunned, “What did you say? You’re actually not giving it to me? We grew up together, I’ve been so good to you. You won’t even give me an invitation? You’ve changed! You weren’t like this before. Before, you would give me anything I asked for!”

“I haven’t changed, those things you snatched, I never once thought of giving them to you. You snatched my things and I didn’t resist; did you really not know the real reason why?”

Lin Chuyi pushed him away and handed the invitation to the security guard.

After checking it, the security guard quickly opened the door for her, “Please come in, miss.”

Lin Chuyi stepped inside, but just before she entered, she suddenly turned around, “Wen Nianyou, even I could get an invitation, why didn’t your boyfriend get one for you? Don’t they have two? Why can’t he bear to give you one?”

After she finished speaking, she hooked a smile at the corner of her mouth, then strode into the banquet hall.

The door of the banquet hall closed quickly, and the scene of the mingling elite inside was blocked off as well.

Wen Nianyou’s face didn’t look good. She looked at Qi Yunfan and Mrs. Qi; both tacitly pretended to have heard nothing and handed over their invitations one after the other, heading straight into the banquet hall.

Qi Hospital had managed to obtain only two invitations this year after much difficulty; how could they possibly spare one for someone else? They felt they didn’t even have enough for themselves!

A few onlookers whispered among themselves, “That’s really pitiful. It seems like her boyfriend doesn’t take her seriously at all. Out of two invitations, he didn’t give her even one.”

“And she even tried to snatch someone else’s, shameless! Do they know how precious these invitations to the networking event are? How could she have the nerve to snatch one?”

“Ah, stop talking about it. It’s precisely because they’re so precious. When that beauty suddenly whipped out three, I also thought they were fake. If I had known they were real, I would have gone up and asked for one. Now someone beat me to it. There’s no way I can get in today; it’s so frustrating.”

“What’s there to be frustrated about? You didn’t recognize a good opportunity and missed it. That’s only natural! The people inside are big shots we can’t reach anyway. We got to watch a great drama from outside; this trip was definitely worth it!”

As Wen Nianyou listened to these comments, her face fluctuated between shades of green and white. She bit her lip so hard that she bled without even realizing it.

She took out her phone and dialed Lin Yueqin immediately. The phone didn’t connect, and only then did she remember that Lin Yueqin had been detained for providing a false testimony and was unavailable to help her torment Lin Chuyi.

No, she had to think of a way to get Lin Yueqin out quickly; only Lin Yueqin could deal with Lin Chuyi without any scruples!