The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

Lanni looked at Ruby meaningfully, then glanced at Xiehan with "I told you" written all over her eyes. 

Xiehan's eyes darkened. 

Ruby knew what he was thinking and quickly explained, "All I wanted was to get a little closer to Xiehan as a friend. I didn't expect…" 

Her statement trailed off, as though she was too troubled to say anything. 

Lanni scratched the part behind her ear. This was unbelievable! After lying to everyone, making everyone worried over a lie and trying to seduce Xiehan, she now wanted to act wronged by pushing the blame onto Lanni and accuse the latter of invading her privacy? 

While she did invade her privacy, she didn't have much choice. Would she have to investigate Ruby if she didn't start scheming? 

Not willing to argue with her, she grabbed Xiehan's hand. "My love, let's go." 

"Mmh." He led the way out of the ward. 

Lin Jian, who had not reacted since receiving the bombshell, looked at Ruby in disbelief. 

All along, she had been acting strange but Lin Jian decided to believe her, even when all the signs proved him wrong. He hadn't completely believed it even when Lanni showed the proof but when she admitted it through her own lips, his world shattered. 

As though seeing through him, Ruby held a hand out to him. "Lin Jian, listen to me. They got it all wrong… " 

"I won't be such an idiot." Disappointed, Lin Jian walked out. 

___

Neil Chan's villa. 

The man looked more disappointed than Lin Jian was a while ago. He shook his head as he studied his daughter, who had left the hospital since the cat was already out of the bag. 

" You had such a tiny task to do. All you had to do was pretend to be sick, which you were doing quite well. How could you mess it up?" 

Ruby played with her fingers, in disbelief about the mistake she made. She still couldn't believe that just because of a moment of impatience, she had given herself away. Besides, "Who would have thought that Lanni would be so suspicious? She had already investigated everything even before she came to the hospital." 

Neil still couldn't make much sense of it. "I've been meaning to ask, how the hell was she able to get a voice recording from our house? If I remember correctly, we were in my study when we talked about it and… damn it!" 

"Dad?" Ruby's eyebrows scrunched up when her dad suddenly cursed. 

Neil huffed in anger. "You have been tricked, do you know that?" 

"What do you mean?" Ruby didn't understand. 

He held her by the shoulders so she would look into his eyes. "With the tightness of the security in this villa, do you think it is possible for her to have snuck into the house and placed a bug in the study? It's not possible for her to have used someone from the inside either. Besides, she would need to have known that we were up to something in order to think of bugging our house." 

Ruby frowned. Indeed, the villa's security was unprenetable. Ever since someone tried to kidnap her when she was a teenager, Neil had employed a new security team from an internationally renowned organisation. Even the kitchen maids were specially trained to be loyal. Besides, their basic salary was multiple times more than that of regular bodyguards, so they definitely couldn't be bribed using money. Threatening one of them was not a possibility either, since their formation in the villa did not allow anyone to do anything secretly. Basically, it really was impossible for Lanni to have snuck in a bug. 

"Then how did she…" 

Neil patted his daughter's head like she was being too naive. "You, my dear, have been tricked. She could have just created a voice recording using our voices and used a conversation she thinks we could have had. Since you were shocked, you wouldn't even realize that you have been tricked."

Ruby widened her eyes in disbelief. Now that she thought about it, the conversation from the recording didn't seem to be what they had discussed word for word. 

She slapped her forehead. "I'm sorry dad. I ruined everything. I was just so devastated when I realized that someone else knew that I'm not your daughter that I didn't see through the trick." 

Neil rubbed her head to comfort her. "It's alright, it's normal to make mistakes. And what do you mean you're not my daughter? Biological or not, you're my little princess—you have always been." 

Ruby emotionally hugged him. 

Having been spoiled by him all her life, the worst day of her life was the day she found out the truth—that she was not the Chans' biological daughter. 

The past was quite dramatic. 

___

Neil and his wife had been trying to get pregnant for years in vain. Just when they had given up and were about to opt for adoption, the wheel of fortune turned in their favor, and his wife finally conceived. 

However, that was far from the end of their problems. When their daughter was born, she had a weak heart and died before even letting out her first cry. 

Neil's heart was shattered when he heard the news. After all, this child had carried all their hopes. He had been looking forward to becoming a dad. He didn't want to imagine how heartbroken his wife would be when she learnt the news. 

Just as he wondered how he would bring himself to break the bombshell to her, he overheard a pair of nurses arguing about how to handle a newborn baby girl. Apparently, she had mysteriously appeared in the hospital and her origin couldn't be traced, hence there was no one to take care of her. Since they wanted to give the baby up for adoption, he decided to take her. He initially wanted to tell his wife the truth but seeing how overjoyed she was when she woke up and saw the little redhead, he couldn't bring himself to break her heart. 

Hence, it turned into a secret that lasted fifteen years. He was planning to wait for Ruby to be an a.d.u.l.t before telling both of them the truth, but fate had other plans in store. One of the nurses from fifteen years ago decided to tell Ruby's mother the truth. 

___

Neil blinked and looked at his daughter as he thought of the past. When she learnt that Ruby was not her daughter, his wife had divorced him for having lied to her, so the only family he had now was this precious daughter. 

Noticing his gaze, Ruby smiled back at him. She couldn't find the right words to accurately describe her feelings. When she learnt that she was not the princess she had always thought she was, but instead an abandoned baby who was picked up at birth, her world had come crumbling down on her. 

She was devastated when her mother left, but the most fortunate thing was that Neil didn't treat her any worse. He still adored her and pampered her like his own biological daughter. In fact, if there was a choice, she would forget the past and pretend she never learnt the truth. 

Because the truth was much worse than it seemed. 

Neil would never have thought that by deciding to adopt the baby he thought was motherless, he had slotted himself into a deadly conspiracy—A conspiracy that had lasted two decades. He never would have thought that the helpless girl had merely been robbed of her true life. Still, he was glad that he decided to take her. Otherwise, she might have been killed just to make sure the truth never got out. 

Ruby let out a sigh when she thought about it. "Sometimes, life can be more twisted than movies. Who would have thought…" 

Neil patted her shoulder. "I will say it again, Ruby. You are my daughter no matter what." 

"I know, dad. But I still want to tell them the truth." It wasn't that she was unsatisfied with Neil as a father—she had never been. It was only because she couldn't stand the deception that innocent people had to face as a result of what happened in the past. Besides, they both knew that the worst was yet to come. Although the plans of those people had failed, it didn't mean they wouldn't try to harm her family. After all, they now lived with an impostor, which was like a ticking time bomb. Most importantly, everyone had a huge misunderstanding about her now—especially Lanni. 

Neil knew what his daughter was thinking. He breathed out a sigh. "What do you want to tell Xiehan then? The truth about Ji Feifei—that she is an impostor? That the Ji family might be in danger? Or that you are his biological sister?" 

***

Did a bombshell just break? 

*Runs around with flailing arms.*

A tiny summary just in case I got anyone confused (I hope I didn't) 

—Someone conspired to switch the Ji family's baby at birth, and slotted in Ji Feifei, then discarded Ruby. 

—Neil Chan adopted Ruby to take the place of his dead baby. 

—The nurse told Ruby's Foster mother the truth when she was fifteen, but she and Neil found out the truth(about the conspiracy) much later after doing some digging. I hope it's clear enough!