Chapter 422: Chapter 422: Not What You Think

“I’m short, not tall and magnificent like you, CEO. Naturally, my feet are also very small.” Ye Xian touched her head, “CEO, I’m walking around your house in socks. You don’t mind, do you? If you do, I can go home and change into a pair of slippers.”

When she finished speaking and saw that he was silent, she turned to leave.

“Ye Xian, what exactly do you want to do?”

“Did Ye Shaowen send you here?”

Indeed, he firmly believed that she and Ye Shaowen had an improper relationship. Now that things had come to this, whether or not to wear slippers didn’t matter anymore.

“CEO, I have something to tell you!”

Ye Xian turned around, gazing at him resolutely.

Bo Tingshen sat on the sofa, his long arms slowly crossing over his chest, “Speak.”

Where should she begin?

Ye Xian took a deep breath. When the Ye Family first started to emerge in the Imperial Capital, their eldest son, Ye Juncheng, was kidnapped. When he was rescued, his entire personality had changed, which terrified Father Ye and Mother Ye. Thus, when their precious daughter Ye Xian was born, they both doted on and worried about her. A boy might be safer; even if kidnapped, he could still come back unharmed, but a girl…

Father Ye and Mother Ye then came up with a method. They ‘adopted’ her out to an ordinary family, but they didn’t want her to change her surname. They went to the maternity hospital at the time and found a woman surnamed Ye, settled on a price, and made it happen.

The Ye Family pulled some strings to have the hospital issue a certificate, verifying that the woman surnamed Ye had given birth to twins. At that time, rural household registration was lax. Once the woman surnamed Ye reported twins, the registration simply listed Ye Xian as male, without considering the possibility of fraternal twins.

As a result, Ye Xian’s identity card listed her as male from childhood to adulthood. However, Father Ye and Mother Ye didn’t mind; after all, they had a birth certificate. When she came of age, they would find a suitable opportunity to correct her household registration and ID, and announce her identity as the eldest daughter of the Ye Family.

Once everything was settled, Father Ye and Mother Ye certainly didn’t want their little princess to leave their side. They paid a high price to bring the woman surnamed Ye to their home to work: on one hand, hiding her true identity, and on the other, allowing Father Ye and Mother Ye to watch over her as she grew up.

More than a decade ago, the internet was not widespread, so no one could uncover these matters now, no matter how hard they tried. The original owner was so bold as to dress in drag and join the entertainment industry because, aside from her female identity, all other records were flawless.

“CEO, actually, my relationship with Ye Shaowen is not as the rumors suggest, nor as you might think.”

At the mention of Ye Shaowen, a light slowly gathered in the dark depths of Bo Tingshen’s eyes, eventually narrowing into a pinpoint, “Oh? What relationship do you think I have in mind?”

“Just, just a lover relationship!”

“Then what is your relationship?”

“Actually…” Ye Xian clenched her fists, making up her mind, “I am his lifesaver! He supported me financially before because he wanted to repay me for saving his life!”

“What?”

The man’s brow furrowed slightly, obviously disbelieving her tall tale.

“Really!”

Ye Xian looked at him with utmost sincerity. To prove she wasn’t lying, she even pulled out her ID card.

“I was born in a poor mountain village. I may not know much, but I am particularly good at swimming. When I was young, my mom worked at the Ye household and took me with her. One day, when everyone in the Ye family had gone out, Ye Shaowen was particularly mischievous, insisting on going out to play. He ended up at a scenic lake, accidentally fell in, and I jumped in to save him. Since then, he has been extremely grateful, always obliging, and so have the elderly Ye couple. That’s why, the last time at your house, I told Aunt Bao that I knew Xia Hewan because of this relationship.”