"As long as you can get the household registration book from the Ye family, I'll register our marriage immediately!" Ou Minghan said dismissively.
"Getting married doesn't necessarily require the household registration book. We can just print a household registration page at the police station," Ye Qin Ya said softly.
"You..." Ou Minghan's expression turned furious. He never expected to be tricked by Ye Qin Ya!
His intention in asking for the household registration book was to use her inability to produce it as an excuse to avoid registering their marriage! He hadn't expected Ye Qin Ya to turn the tables on him. Now, he had no choice but to marry her!
He burst into laughter in his rage, "Good, very good! Ye Qin Ya, you'll go to any lengths to marry me! I'll grant your wish. I'll take you to register our marriage next Monday, and you can take good care of the heart that belongs to Tian Tian!"
"Brother! I don't want to..." Ou Tian Tian said indignantly, but before she could finish, Ou Minghan interrupted her.
"Tian Tian, be good," Ou Minghan said with feigned concern. "To me, nothing is more important than your health."
"Then you're not allowed to be nice to her!" Ou Tian Tian said reluctantly.
"I promise," Ou Minghan cajoled her. Then, he said coldly to the servants, "Listen up! Although this woman will marry me, she is nothing more than the lowest servant in the Ou residence! Any of you can order her around, understand?!"
"Understood!" the servants replied in unison.
Ye Qin Ya's face turned pale. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she murmured, "Ming Han, I love you so much that I'd sacrifice everything for you. Have you ever loved me?"
Ou Minghan was extremely agitated. He walked to Ye Qin Ya's side with a somber expression.
Having been expelled from the Ye family, Ye Qin Ya no longer held any value to him, and he had no desire to appease her any further.
"Love?" Ou Minghan sneered. "Ye Qin Ya, do you know that my parents were driven to death by your parents! How could there possibly be love between us?!"
Ye Qin Ya's face turned deathly pale. In the next moment, she seemed to find some peace.
"Ming Han, so you've been carrying so much..." she said with a pained expression. "I will accompany you, stay by your side, and atone for my family's sins. If you feel it's not enough, take all of the Ye family's assets as well. However, can you please spare my family? Even though they've abandoned me, I still hope they can live a better life..."
Ou Minghan's heart burned with rage. He was almost driven to desperation by Ye Zhi, and Ye Qin Ya was asking him to spare the Ye family! Did he even have the ability to do so?!
"Ye Qin Ya!" Ou Minghan roared, grabbing her neck. "How dare you humiliate me!"
Ye Qin Ya's eyes widened in terror. She couldn't understand what she had said wrong!
Feng Jie, who had just entered the Ou residence, was shocked by the scene. He quickly stepped forward and said, "President, several investors are waiting for you. Please calm down, we should head over!"
Seeing that Ye Qin Ya was almost suffocating, Ou Minghan finally regained his senses. He flung his hand away, pushing Ye Qin Ya aside.
Without even glancing at Ye Qin Ya, who had fallen to the ground, he said to the servants, "Until I return, no one is to let her into any room!"
The servants quickly acknowledged his command.
Afterward, Ou Minghan left in a hurry with Feng Jie.
Ye Qin Ya, enduring the pain in her neck, struggled to get up from the ground.
"Splash—"
Heavy rain began to fall.
The servants all retreated into the villa, leaving only Ye Qin Ya stubbornly waiting in the courtyard.
The rain grew heavier. Ou Tian Tian, holding an umbrella, emerged from the villa and approached Ye Qin Ya.
She let out a "tsk" sound, walked behind Ye Qin Ya, and said, "I can't believe the Ye family raised a daughter like you. Just kneel there and wait!"
With that, she kicked Ye Qin Ya in the back of the knee. Ye Qin Ya's knees buckled, and she collapsed onto the ground.
Ye Qin Ya lifted her head and looked at Ou Tian Tian with a smile. "You are the sister Ming Han cares about. I forgive you."
Ou Tian Tian took two steps back in surprise, unsure of how to react. In the next moment, she said angrily, "Who wants your forgiveness? You're crazy!"
After speaking, Ou Tian Tian turned and left.
Not far from the Ou residence, a figure flashed by.
*
The rain stopped. Ye Zhi returned to the villa on the mountainside.
After accompanying Ye Yongxian back to the Ye family, she and Ye Yongxian had told Liu Lingyu everything that had happened. Liu Lingyu was naturally very saddened, but she supported Ye Yongxian's decision.
Seeing the elderly couple start to comfort and admonish each other about parenting, Ye Zhi wisely excused herself.
As soon as she returned to the villa on the mountainside, she saw her bodyguard had also returned.
In fact, when Ye Qin Ya left the Ye Corporation, Ye Zhi had already notified one of her bodyguards via text message to secretly follow her and see if there were any turning points.
However, after listening to everything the bodyguard recounted, Ye Zhi's young mind was filled with a multitude of question marks.
Ou Minghan, Ou Tian Tian, Ye Qin Ya, the Ou residence, rain, being punished to kneel – this all sounded very much like the original plot she had read!
Although the bodyguard, fearing discovery, hadn't dared to get too close and could only overhear snippets of conversations, Ye Zhi could piece together parts of it through guessing.
But she truly couldn't understand it!
She was absolutely certain that since arriving in this world, she had, through her own efforts, successfully steered the world away from the CEO-abusive-relationship genre towards a family business-war genre. Throughout this process, no one's life had been harmed.
Yet, Ye Qin Ya, solely through her own actions, had managed to revert the atmosphere around her back to the original plot. Were they deliberately enacting the original storyline?
Ye Zhi didn't know what to say. As expected, good advice cannot persuade a doomed soul, and compassion cannot save a self-destructive person.
"She just kept kneeling?" Ye Zhi asked, puzzled. "Was someone watching her, preventing her from getting up?"
"...No," the bodyguard replied.
"Then why didn't she get up and find shelter from the rain?" Ye Zhi wondered.
"...I don't know either." The bodyguard was also speechless.
Ye Zhi helplessly cupped her forehead. Forget it. If she could understand Ye Qin Ya's thought process, she wouldn't have been so angry that she cursed in a thunderstorm and was struck by lightning to transmigrate.
"What happened later?" Ye Zhi asked. "How did Ye Qin Ya fare?"
"Later, she fainted. The servants at the Ou residence, worried about her, carried her back into the villa," the bodyguard replied.
"How long did she kneel for?"
"About five or six minutes."
Ye Zhi: ...
The original book misled me!
The original book had a plot where Ye Qin Ya was punished to kneel in the rain, but it stated that Ye Qin Ya fainted after kneeling for five or six hours.
Now that she thought about it, that was completely impossible. Kneeling in a torrential downpour for five or six hours would likely lead to hypothermia and death. Human bodies were not that resilient.
It seemed that in the future, even if the original plot occurred, she would have to view it critically.