The villainous second male lead at the beginning? No! He's the white moonlight!

An Wangshu was already used to being treated this way by the Ye family father and daughter. Since returning to this family, she had been beaten a total of 199 times in the past four years, and this time was exactly the 200th...

Sometimes she even wondered if this was what they meant by "spare the rod and spoil the child," otherwise why had her father and sisters only hit her for the past four years instead of others...

"You jinx! What kind of expression is that?! Do you think I'll go easy on you just because you're my child?! If it weren't for you, Xiaoxiao wouldn't be dead, and our son wouldn't have run away from home for four years! I'll beat you to death!"

Seeing An Wangshu's calm expression, with even a slight upturn at the corners of her mouth, Ye Xiao became furious. He pulled out his belt, raised his hand high, and prepared to let An Wangshu taste what it meant to be "stir-fried with a belt".

An Wangshu looked at the furious Ye Xiao, at the belt gleaming black under the light, her expression remaining calm, only her beautiful eyes, which were slowly closing, were now slightly bloodshot...

Snapped--!

The crisp sound was clear in the living room, but An Wangshu didn't feel the pain she was already used to. Instead, she found herself enveloped in a warm embrace...

Was it one of the older sisters who protected me?

No, no, no, they all loathe themselves and wish they were gone. After all, it was because of their arrival that their beloved younger brother had left. They'd rather be beaten...

Is that the maid...?

Ha, how stupid! As a servant, she dares to go against the boss, isn't she afraid of losing her job...

She couldn't help but open her eyes, wanting to see which foolish servant had protected her, but what she saw upon opening them was a face she should have envied...

"Ouch~ Dad, are you serious? You hit me so hard! It hurts so much!"

Ye Linyuan couldn't help but turn around and complain to Ye Xiao, who was completely stunned, before turning back to smile at An Wangshu in his arms.

"You must be my little sister? Little sister, you're so pretty. If Dad beats you badly, I'll be heartbroken."

Seeing Ye Linyuan grimacing in pain, An Wangshu remained completely numb, as if Ye Linyuan hadn't saved her, but rather some random passerby who had nothing to do with her...

However, when his gaze swept over Ye Linyuan's back, which had been struck by the belt, ripples appeared in his eyes, which were almost like a stagnant pool.

Why would her so-called older brother save her?

Is it to toy with oneself?

Oh, right, he just said he's pretty?

Whisper once said that all men are perverts, so it seems he's after my innocence?

Heh, that's true. Besides this passable face, I have nothing else to offer...

So how does he intend to manipulate himself?

He's been hit so hard with the belt, he'll probably torture himself terribly, won't he?

So what awaits me next? A whip? Candle wax? Or something else entirely?

Forget it, it doesn't matter anymore. It can't get any worse than before anyway. It's just losing my innocence. Even if he used me as a toy to satisfy his desires, so what? This is the retribution I have to bear. After all, I'm the one who caused the deaths of all his family members...

"son!!!!!"

"A-Yuan!!!!

"younger brother!!!!!"

Only then did the Ye family father and daughter react, rushing to Ye Linyuan's side in a flurry, lifting up his short sleeve, and looking at the red mark on his back with heartache.

"Ah Yuan, does it hurt? Let me blow on it for you, it won't hurt anymore."

"Bear with it, Ah Yuan. I'll get you some medicine to apply. Aunt Zhang, the first-aid kit! Quickly, bring the first-aid kit! Ah Yuan is injured!"

"120! Yes! Fourth brother, quickly call 120 and tell them someone here is injured!"

"Yes, yes, call 120! Where's my phone? It was just in my hand a moment ago!"

"Stop looking! Use mine, hurry up!"

Looking at the chaotic scene involving the Ye family father and daughter, Ye Linyuan said with some helplessness.

"I'm fine, I'm really fine, it's just a little bit, the swelling will go down soon."

Hearing Ye Linyuan say that everything was alright, the six people, including the father and daughters, the servants, and even An Wangshu, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After checking twice more to confirm that Ye Linyuan was truly unharmed, Ye Qingyan suddenly stood up and opened fire on Ye Xiao.

"Dad! How dare you hit A-Yuan?! You dare hit A-Yuan today, are you going to kick him out tomorrow for this shameless bastard?!"

"You've gone too far, Dad! If Mom knew you actually hit A-Yuan, she'd jump out of her coffin in anger!"

"That's right, Dad, you've gone too far this time! If you make A-Yuan run away this time, I'll... I'll run away with A-Yuan!"

"Count me in, count me in."

"Me too."

"If A-Yuan isn't here, I can't stay in this house for even a second longer. Wherever A-Yuan is, that's where I'll be!"

Seeing his daughters collectively lashing out at him, Ye Xiao panicked and quickly tried to explain.

"No, I didn't mean to, I..."

"Alright, alright, stop arguing. If you keep arguing, I'm leaving the country tomorrow."

Sensing Ye Xiao's obvious pleading look, Ye Linyuan quickly pulled out his trump card, which brought this farce to an end.

Once everyone had quieted down, Ye Linyuan turned to look at An Wangshu, who had completely calmed down. He was startled when he saw her lifeless eyes.

No, it's one thing for the real young master to become the real heiress, but has the real heiress already turned evil?

Then all that belt slap I just took was for nothing?

However, thinking about what An Wangshu had been through all along, Ye Linyuan felt that even if she had suffered in vain, it was still the suffering she deserved.

Ye Linyuan is the adopted son of the Ye family, while An Wangshu is the biological daughter of Ye Xiao and Shen Yuexiao.

In Haicheng, the Ye family is one of the eight major families. However, the Ye family is known for its female dominance. Ye Xiao's generation had four siblings, but Ye Xiao was the only male heir.

Later, Ye Xiao and Shen Yuexiao, the daughter of the Shen family in the neighboring cloud layer, got together because of true love and soon got married.

Five years after her marriage, Shen Yuexiao continued the strange genes of the Ye family, giving birth to five daughters in four pregnancies. She desperately wanted a son.

If it weren't for the Ye family's long-standing tradition of having daughters, Shen Yuexiao would have thought she had been set up by the Ye family.

In their quest for a son, the Ye family used every connection they had, even going so far as to consult a fortune teller in the capital who was a long-lost master. The fortune teller predicted that their fifth child would be a son.

Therefore, with Shen Yuexiao pregnant with her fifth child, the entire Ye family, from the great-grandfather generation to Ye Qingyan's generation, carefully awaited the birth of the Ye family's only male heir.

The whole family eagerly awaited the birth of a male heir in the Ye family.

Coincidentally, Ye Linyuan's biological parents were also at the same hospital on the day Shen Yuexiao gave birth.

Two couples gave birth at the same time and finished cleaning up at the same time. When the nurses brought them out, the Ye family subconsciously assumed that the boy was theirs. In addition, Ye Linyuan's biological parents had always wanted a daughter. In the end, a careless nurse thought that both families knew whether they had given birth to a boy or a girl. Therefore, through various coincidences, Ye Linyuan became the young master of the Ye family by mistake, while An Wangshu became the little princess of the An family.

The Ye family dotes on their only son, Ye Linyuan, while the An family also adores their little princess.

Four years ago, a car accident left An's parents severely injured and in urgent need of blood transfusions. Unexpectedly, both parents had rare blood type (Rh-negative), while An Wangshu only had type B blood...

Finally, amidst An Wangshu's despairing gaze, her loving parents collapsed on the operating table due to excessive blood loss...

Because they learned that their beloved granddaughter/granddaughter of over ten years was not their son/daughter's biological child, and that their son/daughter had even died on the operating table from excessive blood loss due to not receiving a timely blood transfusion, all four elderly people fell ill and passed away shortly afterward...

Having lost her family, An Wangshu, who was immersed in self-blame, quickly found the hospital where she had worked through the connections left by her parents, and soon found the Ye family.

At that time, everyone in the Ye family, from the patriarch's generation to Ye Qingyan's generation, was completely numb. But looking at Ye Linyuan, whom they had raised for seventeen years, everyone in the Ye family liked him very much and couldn't bear to part with him. So, after discussing it, they decided to just go with the flow and make Ye Linyuan the only male heir of the younger generation of the Ye family!

The old master's only requirement was that Ye Linyuan must have a son with a younger member of the Ye family to inherit the family business!

Whether or not to get married is a minor matter!

As for An Wangshu, they plan to take her back to the Ye family through adoption.

Unexpectedly, Ye Xiao and his daughter had just adopted An Wangshu that morning and hadn't even returned home yet when the housekeeper informed them that Ye Linyuan had left without saying goodbye, leaving only a letter saying that he had gone abroad and that everyone should not worry about him, and that he would give everything to the real young master who had been found.

Now, everyone in the Ye family was filled with hostility towards An Wangshu. Everyone thought that An Wangshu was a jinx. If it weren't for her, how could the Ye family's most beloved young master have gone far away, causing the Ye family to be on the verge of extinction? It was all her fault!

After all, she has already killed six people, so it's not surprising that she would cause the Ye family line to end as well!

If she's not a jinx, then who is?

So during the four years Ye Linyuan was away, everyone in the Ye family, including her biological father Ye Xiao and her five older sisters, treated An Wangshu very badly and beat her quite a bit. Even the old master Ye said that even if he died, he would not allow An Wangshu to take the surname Ye.

If it weren't for the fact that An Wangshu was no different from someone from the Ye family, Ye Xiao wouldn't want her to stay at home at all, let alone have anything to do with her!

As for An Wangshu, she had no objection whatsoever, nor dared to have any. On the one hand, she still longed for family affection, and on the other hand, she felt guilty towards Ye Linyuan and the six members of the An family. So no matter how the Ye family treated her, she never retaliated, and was completely submissive.