Gu Nianzhi lowered her head. Her long eyelashes, which resembled crow wings, fluttered rapidly to hide the waves in her heart.
To Gu Nianzhi, He Chengjian's description was like a happy family reunion between Qin Suwen and her.
She wished she could turn back time and return to the days when she was eight years old and lived carefreely by Qin Suwen's side. She wanted to enjoy the days of being doted on by her mother again.
But she didn't have that much time.
Qin Suwen's family was still waiting for her to avenge them.
Gu Nianzhi raised her hand and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes. She asked angrily, "Was she so kind as to give me a doll?"
He Chengjian frowned. "I didn't think there was a problem before. It wasn't until today, when I heard you talk about so many things in court that I remembered that it didn't seem normal."
"It's definitely not normal." Gu Nianzhi composed herself and gradually calmed down. "You know that she never loved me and didn't treat me as her biological daughter. Why would she suddenly care about my dolls? "
He Chengjian didn't say anything for a long time. After a while, he sighed softly. "… Later, I married her. After she married into my family, she threw away all your old dolls and made a new batch of them. She put them in the treasure house in your room."
Gu Nianzhi thought of the dolls of all sizes she had seen in her old room at the He residence when she had first arrived in this world. They were dressed in all kinds of clothes, and their hair was long and short.
The pinkish-purple dress was old, but the dolls were brand new. It was obvious that no one had played with them before.
However, Gu Nianzhi had long forgotten what had happened before she was 12 years old, so even if these dolls were old, she had no impression of them at all.
"… Why did she throw away all my dolls for no reason? It's fine if she threw them away, but she even replaced them with a new batch … She's really revealing her intentions … "Gu Nianzhi muttered. Her long brows, which were as long as mountains, were tightly knitted together. She couldn't understand Qin Yaoguang's intentions.
He Chengjian saw that Gu Nianzhi's thoughts were occupied by the doll. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Then do you still want to hear what happened that day?"
Gu Nianzhi looked up in surprise. "Of course." She paused and asked, "What else?"
She thought that He Chengjian had finished speaking.
He Chengjian stared at her and asked slowly, "… Do you really not remember anything at all? Didn't you say that you remembered everything? "
The corners of Gu Nianzhi's eyes twitched.
She had once said in court that she had recalled some of the past, such as how Qin Yaoguang had sent the Wen gardener couple to kidnap her.
Actually, that was all her inference. She didn't remember anything at all.
Now that He Chengjian had caught a loophole, she admitted frankly, "General He, I won't hide it from you. I actually don't remember anything. My memories before the age of 12 are still blank. "
He Chengjian looked at her with a complicated expression. After a while, he sighed and rubbed his forehead with his hand. His brows furrowed.
He thought about it and finally decided to say it.
He Chengjian closed his eyes and said to Gu Nianzhi, "… After I answered the phone, I didn't say much and hung up. Because I only have three minutes. "
"Then, I left the study and went to the dining room to have breakfast with Susu. After breakfast, I'll go to the military headquarters for a meeting. "
"I'll be gone for a few hours."
Gu Nianzhi's eyes darted around when she heard this. "… How long did you and Susu eat breakfast together?"
"Not long, just half an hour," He Chengjian said disapprovingly. "There's too little time. I can't do anything about it."
It wasn't that he didn't have time to talk to Qin Yaoguang, but he would rather use the time to have breakfast with his wife.
Gu Nianzhi's impression of He Chengjian changed a little.
He Chengjian still looked at Gu Nianzhi and said slowly. Gu Nianzhi's smile, which she couldn't retract in time, froze on her face, and her expression was almost twisted.
Her hands trembled, and even her voice trembled. "What, what, what … what did you say?!"
"I said …" He Chengjian repeated what he had just said. "I received a call from the orderly saying that something had happened at home."
"I interrupted the meeting and rushed back from the military headquarters."
"I met Ah-Chu at the door. He also rushed back after hearing that something had happened at home."
"… Susu's study has been strictly guarded. The doctor, police, and military police are on guard around our house."
He Chengjian closed his eyes. His voice was hoarse, and he was already choking with sobs. However, he still forced himself to describe the scene at that time.
"… Ah-Chu and I walked into Susu's study and saw her lying not far from the door. Her face was bruised, and her eyes were about to pop out. Her expression was even a little ferocious. Her hands were on her neck, and her fingers were covered in blood. There were also bloody marks on her neck. It was as terrifying as if she had strangled herself to death …"
"And you, holding your doll, squatting by the wall at the door, screaming hysterically."
"Ah-Chu carried you out from the wall. You kicked and hit him as if you didn't know him."
"Ah-Chu had no choice. He knocked you out and carried you back to his room personally. He asked my personal secretary to take care of you."
"Later, Ah-Chu and I watched the surveillance video in the corridor. Only then did we find out that at the beginning, you were holding your doll and banging on the door in front of Susu's study while crying and screaming."
"Susu, open the door! Susu, open the door! Susu, come out! Susu, come out! "
He Chengjian's ears seemed to still echo with the young Gu Nianzhi's sorrowful cries.
He supported his head with his hand, as if he could no longer bear the burden. Even his voice had aged a lot.
"… The surveillance cameras in the corridor showed that the orderly heard your cries and ran upstairs to push the door of the study, but found that he couldn't push it open. He couldn't open it even with the spare key. In a panic, they broke the lock on the door with a gun before kicking the door open. "
He Chengjian lowered his head. "… You were still young at that time. When the door opened, you were the first to rush in. When you saw Susu's death, you couldn't stand the scene at all. When you saw it, you immediately screamed hysterically."
"You've returned to the situation when you first came to our house. You're like a frightened little beast, hugging your doll and hiding here and there. No matter who comes close to you, you'll punch and kick them. There's no way to communicate at all."
"At that time, I was so shocked by Susu's sudden death that I couldn't care about you at all. It was Ah-Chu who comforted me while taking care of Susu's funeral. At the same time, he stayed up all night to take care of you."
"I was running around outside, forcing the police to solve the case within a time limit. However, the forensic examination showed that Susu died of a sudden congenital heart attack."
"I don't know what happened, but her heart suddenly moved violently, causing it to contract weakly and lack of blood supply. She gradually suffocated, so she scratched her throat desperately, wishing she could pierce her throat."
"And you fell back into isolation. Ah-Chu moved home from school. Just like Susu did back then, he took care of you without sleeping or resting. Only then did you gradually recover."
"Later, the police psychiatrist looked for you several times, but you only knew that Susu wouldn't open the door for you. As for what happened after that, you don't remember anything at all."
"Every time the psychiatrist came to ask you, you would collapse for a long time."
"Ah-Chu couldn't take it anymore. He refused to be questioned by the police psychiatrist again, and he told me not to involve you again."
"Considering that you were young at the time and had a previous record of mental illness, the police erased all information about you from the case according to the rules."
"The orderlies at home only knew that your father, Gu Xiangwen, had come to see Susu. The two of them went to the study to have a secret discussion."
"Not long after Gu Xiangwen left, the orderlies heard your cries. When they went upstairs to take a look, they found that Susu's study door had been locked from the inside."
"They couldn't open the door no matter how hard they tried, so they broke in."
"… After they found out that something had happened, they quickly called Ah-Chu and me."
Gu Nianzhi's heart tightened when she heard this. She clutched her chest and said anxiously, "… It can't be my father! It really can't be my father! General He, you have to believe me! "
"… I want to believe you. I used to believe that he wouldn't do such a thing."
He Chengjian didn't say anything else. He could tell that Gu Xiangwen had a perverted crush on Qin Suwen. He didn't believe that Gu Xiangwen would really harm Qin Suwen.
However, when they went to look for Gu Xiangwen to assist in the investigation, they found that he had already "escaped".
He had left in such an orderly manner and dealt with his matters cleanly.
All the information in the laboratory that he and Qin Yaoguang had collaborated on had been destroyed. Even Qin Yaoguang's information about Gu Nianzhi had been destroyed.
"… Our investigation shows that your father disappeared in a very premeditated manner."
"Tell me, at this time, he was the last person to see Susu. If we didn't suspect him, who else could we suspect?"
Gu Nianzhi shook her head desperately. "No! No way! My father … "
"You don't have to say anymore." He Chengjian raised his hand to stop her from continuing. "Your father has already passed away anyway, so I won't pursue his fault anymore."
"But …" He Chengjian's tone suddenly became murderous. "If there's any evidence that Susu's sudden death wasn't that simple, I definitely won't let off those who have their hands stretched too far!"
Gu Nianzhi took a deep breath. "General He, can I go out now? I want some peace and quiet. "
"Go ahead." He Chengjian rubbed his temples. "I want some peace and quiet too."
..
Gu Nianzhi pushed open He Chengjian's car door and got out. A gust of wind blew. It was a summer day, but she actually shivered.
Huo Shaoheng turned around and saw that she had come out, but her little face was deathly pale.
He walked over silently, put his arm around her shoulder, and led her away from He Chengjian's bulletproof car.
Gu Nianzhi snuggled into Huo Shaoheng's warm embrace and felt her courage return to her body bit by bit.
She took out her phone and rubbed it for a while. She recalled what He Chengjian had said just now, and her heart suddenly skipped a beat. She called He Zhichu.
"Young Master He?"
He Zhichu's voice was very soft. She didn't know what he was doing. He lowered his voice and replied, "Yes."
Gu Nianzhi also whispered, "… I remember when you went there, you brought a doll that I played with when I was young."
He Zhichu was stunned. Why did Gu Nianzhi suddenly mention this? He thought about it for a moment before nodding. "Yes, but you don't remember anything."
He Zhichu had flown into a rage over this.
But at that time, Gu Nianzhi didn't understand why He Zhichu had lost his temper at all. She only felt that he was moody, like a lunatic..
But now, Gu Nianzhi only wished that she was a lunatic.
"… Is that doll really the one I played with when I was young?"
"Yes, it's your first doll. You've had it with you since you were six years old. But then … you were taken away, and this doll is with me. "
It was placed at the head of his bed, and he could see it every day when he opened his eyes.
Later, when he went to the other world, he also brought it with him to escape the fate of being "purged".
"That's great!" Gu Nianzhi's voice suddenly rose.
He Zhichu: "…"
"Young Master He, is that doll still with you? I mean, did you bring it here? "
Gu Nianzhi's heart was pounding. She was afraid that He Zhichu would say that he hadn't brought it here. That would really be "a thought to heaven, a thought to hell"!
Fortunately, He Zhichu was silent for a while before saying awkwardly, "… I brought it here. What do you still need it for?"
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This was today's first update: Chapter 1886, "A Thought to Heaven, a Thought to Hell".
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