After Xu Lei fainted that day, she woke up to find herself in a luxurious, bustling mansion.

She was shocked and confused, not knowing what had happened.

Later, she asked the servants, as there were servants in the mansion.

After asking them, she found out that it was an unfamiliar place, and importantly, she didn't know why she was there.

Later, through the servants, she learned that the place belonged to Xu Batian.

And upon knowing Xu Batian's identity, she was shocked.

Then she wanted to leave but was refused.

Xu Lei was angry and made a scene, but no matter how she acted out, the servants or the house staff would always stop her from leaving the mansion.

Xu Lei was stunned, realizing she was being held captive.

What could she do? She thought of calling the police or Ye Qiu, but she found that the phone couldn't make calls at all.

There was a computer. She wanted to post about it online, but after she sent out the message, it was like a stone sinking into the sea. Even if someone saw her message, they just thought she was spamming for experience.

After all, Xu Lei couldn't provide an exact location.

She wasn't even sure if she was still in Huaxia.

Later, feeling helpless, she chose to go on a hunger strike.

After a few days of refusing to eat, a middle-aged man appeared in front of her.

When she saw the middle-aged man, she was dumbfounded.

Xu Lei knew about her own background. She was three when she was sold, and although her memories weren't very clear, she could vaguely remember most of the things around that time.

She also had a rough outline in her mind of what her parents looked like, albeit blurry.

But when she saw the middle-aged man, she felt a sense of warmth and familiarity.

Later, with the persuasion of this man's warm voice, she agreed to eat.

In the following days, the middle-aged man chatted with her to relieve her boredom and played chess with her, which improved Xu Lei's mood significantly.

For some reason, she started to feel reliant on the middle-aged man, finding him very kind and bringing her a comforting feeling, as if she could find the long-lost fatherly love in him.

Like this, Xu Lei's mood improved a lot over a few days, and instead of thinking about leaving, she wanted to talk more with the middle-aged man.

Every day, the middle-aged man would come to talk with her, and it became a habit for her.

Until one day, she inadvertently heard from the servants that the middle-aged man was Xu Batian.

The very person who had confined her here, and Xu Batian's identity frightened her.

In the following days, she began to avoid him. The middle-aged man noticed something was wrong and scolded the servants harshly. Xu Lei, hiding at the door, saw Xu Batian's furious outburst and was scared.

After that, she avoided Xu Batian even more.

Then, one day, Xu Batian wanted to talk with Xu Lei as usual, but that day Xu Lei confronted him and said she knew everything about him and wanted to leave.

Xu Batian was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said, you can leave anytime, but remember, you are my daughter.

Xu Lei was stunned, never expecting Xu Batian to say such a thing.

She didn't know how to respond for a moment.

Afterwards, Xu Batian patiently explained their relationship to Xu Lei and produced the DNA test result from a day when he took Xu Lei's hair for analysis.

Looking at the result in her hand, Xu Lei was shocked, and tears uncontrollably streamed down her face.

She grew up in the home of her adoptive parents. She knew about this and knew she was sold here by traffickers.

But she had always kept this secret in her heart and quietly searched for her biological parents.

Unfortunately, her capabilities were limited, and she hadn't found them until now.

But unexpectedly, Xu Batian told her that he was her biological father, and that Xu Batian was such an influential person.

Of course, that wasn't important. What mattered was that she finally found her biological father.

Back then, Xu Batian asked Xu Lei if she hated him.

Xu Lei answered that she did hate him. How could she not? But it was childhood hatred, and as she grew up, that hatred had gradually faded a lot.

Upon hearing this, Xu Batian apologized to Xu Lei and recounted the past story.

However, he concealed the fact that Xu Lei's mother had sold her and instead said she was lost.

Upon hearing this, Xu Lei was relieved and soon recognized her father.

Then Xu Batian told Xu Lei to meet Ye Qiu and asked about Xu Lei's relationship with Ye Qiu.

Being questioned by her biological father made Xu Lei a little shy, but she still explained her relationship with Ye Qiu.

In her eyes, Ye Qiu was her man, the man she would protect for a lifetime.

After hearing this, Xu Batian nodded, made a decision in his heart, and henceforth, planned to consider handing over his company assets to Ye Qiu and possibly letting Ye Qiu become his successor in the future.

Today, Xu Lei left that secluded mansion and went to another villa in the city center owned by Xu Batian.

As Ye Qiu was coming today, she secretly went to the kitchen to prepare dinner.

The villa had two kitchens, one on the first floor and one on the second floor.

While she was calmly preparing dinner, she suddenly heard a cry of surprise from the second floor, which startled her.

"Rogue?" Xu Lei was shocked, then hurriedly ran out of the kitchen and shouted to the bodyguards outside, "Quick, someone catch the rogue!"

The bodyguards rushed in and looked at Xu Lei in confusion, "Miss Xu, what rogue?"

"Didn't you hear? It's on the second floor. The rogue is on the second floor."

The bodyguards looked towards the second floor, remembering that Ye Qiu had just arrived, and said to Xu Lei somewhat helplessly, "Miss Xu, I think you might want to go up and see for yourself. Maybe it's not a rogue?"

"What do you mean?" Xu Lei asked.

The two bodyguards exchanged a glance, sighing helplessly, "Mr. Ye just came, so the rogue on the second floor, uh rogue, it should be him!"

"What? Mr. Ye?" Xu Lei was taken aback, then covered her mouth in surprise, "You mean Ye Qiu?"

"Yes, it's Mr. Ye Qiu."

The two bodyguards nodded helplessly.

"Oh no, Ye Qiu must think it's me who is bathing!"

Xu Lei suddenly realized something, shouted, and rushed towards the second floor.

Watching Xu Lei's hurried departure, the two bodyguards exchanged glances and shook their heads helplessly,

"It seems that not only is Ye Qiu strong, but he also seems quite lecherous."

"Yes, I didn't expect that instead of approaching the beautiful Miss Xu, he would go for that woman, truly terrifying?"

He seemed to think of something and shivered.

His companion nodded, a look of deep apprehension in his eyes, "Mr. Ye Qiu really has a unique taste in women, ignoring a beauty for a dinosaur, quite a character, he is..."

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