The Overnight Chosen Wife: Darling, Kiss Me Deeper

"What gray-haired boy?" Everyone was curious about what Ji Huifen had just stated.

The man momentarily forgot about Ji Feifei's demise and the fact that he had just learnt that Ruby was his daughter as he tried to recall the past.

"A boy from the Guan clan. Back then, the Guan clan was close to my family so that boy and I were naturally friends. Everything was peaceful and my grandfather and Old man Guan were especially close. Until one day, my grandfather found out something he shouldn't."

Xiehan and Ruby tensed up. This must be where it all started.

"The Guan family seemed to have a good relationship with the Li family on the surface but in real sense, they were accomplices."

"The Li family?" Xiehan asked curiously. Li Yuming's family?

Ji Huifen must have guessed what he was thinking. He shook his head. Not Li Yuming's family. I investigated her years ago and she came from a different family and merely had the same surname. Anyway, both the Guan and Li families were medicine practitioner families. They had many talents in the field of medical research but they did not use it to save lives; they used it to destroy humans just to earn a quicker buck.

Aside from producing harmful medicines and selling them to governments, they would make deals with parents who delivered unhealthy babies or those whose unborn babies were prone to suffer from long-term illnesses, and switch them out with healthy ones.

Sometimes, the weak babies would be given to poor parents who wouldn't be able to do anything about it even if they had suspicions. Sometimes, they would be killed.

Some of those babies could be nursed into perfect health by the geniuses in those families. However, not only were they not lucky, they were perhaps unluckier than those who were killed because they would be used as lab rats and if they proved to be useful, they would be fed with medicines to forcefully groom them into geniuses, then they would be forced to join the business of those families. It was an ongoing cycle and no one had ever found out. If someone did find out, they would not remain alive.

When my grandpa found out, he was shocked and wanted to flee the country with my grandma, my parents and me. However, Old man Guan was fast enough to catch up to him and tried to kill him.

On that day, the boy with gray eyes and I were playing together and happened to stumble upon their fight. The one who ended up dead was not my grandpa, but Old Guan.

We had seen it all and knew who was on the wrong, but the boy somehow forced himself to believe that my grandfather was at fault. He threatened to return for vengeance.

At the time, we all thought that the boy was speaking out of anger. He was my age after all. What could he do? Besides, we didn't hear anything about the Guan and Li families after that. I thought they had disappeared. Little did I know that he would be back… I don't know how he ended up with the surname Xia but this method of switching babies and using them is too much like them. Besides, he sent a letter to my father to threaten and inform him of his return."

The siblings remained silent as Ji Huifen sunk into thought.

He had noticed that Ji Feifei didn't look like any of their family members ages ago. Sometimes, he would be skeptical about it but he would brush it off since his suspicions didn't make much sense. Just like Wen Lin, he had thought that Ji Feifei might resemble her distant maternal relatives.

The siblings were in shock and so was Wen Lin.

He looked at the girl he had just learnt was his daughter and asked, "Ruby, did anyone try to do anything to you when you were little?"

If Xia Hanchen had switched them, then he must have wanted to use Ruby and kill her as a way to get revenge against the Ji family.

"Someone tried to kidnap me when I was in my early teens. Dad couldn't trace them even with all his connections." Ruby responded, thinking about the same thing.

"What happened to the Guam family?" Xiehan asked. It was strange that they disappeared into thin air.

"I don't know. I don't know how the boy ended up in the Xia family either." Ji Huifen couldn't come up with anything no matter how hard he thought about it.

Xiehan rubbed his brows. "Do you want to go to see Ji Feifei? She was our family for many years, after all."

Wen Lin had not entirely calmed down from the shock and trauma. Although Ji Feifei had been her daughter and they had shared a mother-daughter bond for many years, it would be a lie if she said that she was not happy to find out that her real daughter was alive. "I will go to see her even though it's not as her mother. She was still a baby when everything happened and did not know what had been planned out for her life, after all."

Ji Huifen was of the same opinion. "Everything she did later was her choice but I loved her before finding out the truth. I'll pay her my last respects."

Xiehan thought so too, so he made plans. Meanwhile, "We have a bigger task. To find out whether Xia Hanchen really is that boy. If he is, we will have to bring him and his family down if they still exist.

….

Meanwhile, Han Xichen made his way to Xiaoshi's apartment because he had missed her, having not seen her for the last three days.

She was puzzled when she saw her at the door. "You are here."

She wanted to dig a hole to hide in. How could Han Xichen come over when she was cooped up indoors and was still dressed in her pajamas? Even her hair looked like a messy bunch of red.

"May I come in?"

"Yes. Forgive my manners." She made way for him to get in and poured him a glass of fresh fruit juice.

"How are you?" He asked when he saw that she didn't look as cheerful as she always did. She looked tired and dull.

She sat down opposite him and relaxed herself, feeling happier now that she had company. Although she was nervous about her outlook, the man did not comment about it and that made her relieved since he didn't mind. "Many things have been happening lately. My boss was accused of stealing someone else's work, you must have seen it on the news."

"I did." The news had been so explosive that there was almost no one who didn't know of it.

"So I want to help them uncover the traitor. Boss Yu says it was a set up. Besides, now that the best hacker is unavailable, the software production department is much busier."

"You should have some rest ocassionally. If you work throughout without taking a break, you will only drain yourself and lose productivity. Do you want to grab a milkshake together?"

"Sure." She nodded. She had actually wanted to take a break, but she didn't have anyone to go out with since her workmates were just as busy as she was.

Hearing that they were going out, she disappeared into her room and freshened up at record speed, then changed into jeans and a black top and brushed her hair backwards.

When she left her room, she looked very pretty, though he didn't think she looked any less beautiful with her messy outlook a moment ago.

"Let's go." He led the way out. He was planning to make her walk a little so he had specifically told her to wear flat shoes.

As they walked, he stuck a conversation. "You haven't told me much about yourself."

"Haven't I?" She was puzzled.

"No. How come I never heard about you? I don't know what you like or dislike, your hobbies or your dreams."

She smiled slightly, realizing that she might have subconsciously assumed that he would be read into all her interests. "I love travelling around. But I decided to settle down and get a life for myself. What about you?"

He smiled at her way to shove the question back to him. "I don't have any hobbies I particularly like. I usually go along with what my friends want to do."

"You're the most simple yet complex guy I've ever met." She chuckled. He didn't have any favorite foods, was neither mild tempered nor temperamental, and now he didn't have any particular interests and neither disliked what his friends did? Why did it feel like he was too flexible to be true?

"Is it a bad thing?" He grinned.

"No. I wouldn't mind it." If anything, she would love to be around a man like him, since they would rarely clash on interests.

The man gazed at her for a moment, then slid his hand to her side to hold hers. He felt her hands tremble and saw her eyes widen. Ignoring her shock, he gently asked, "Shishi, would you take me along to travel around?"

*AN:

There are two Li families. Li Yuming's and Li Xiyan's. They are not relatives. Just the same way two people can share surnames in real life.