Jin Wanyi was also shocked by Gu Yanran's words. However, she remembered that Gu Yanran was her client, and the two of them were bound together for good or bad. In layman's terms, they were in the same boat.
Jin Wanyi saw the situation and immediately tried to stop Gu Nianzhi from continuing. "Objection! This question has nothing to do with this case. "
"We are fighting an estate dispute lawsuit here, and it is closely related to Mr. Gu Xiangwen. Lawyer Jin, may I ask why you think my question has nothing to do with this case? Then what question would be relevant to this case?! "
The judge glanced at Jin Wanyi and raised his hand at Gu Nianzhi. "Plaintiff, please continue."
He was confirming Gu Nianzhi's question.
Gu Nianzhi nodded at the judge and continued to look at Gu Yanran. "Defendant Gu Yanran, please answer my question. When did Mr. Gu Xiangwen give you only one meal a day? As the world's most famous hidden tycoon, why did he only give you one meal a day?! "
Gu Yanran instinctively raised her hand to rub her eyebrows. She thought about it for a long time before coming up with an explanation. She said weakly, "I was picky and didn't like to eat. It wasn't because my father didn't want to give me food. What was going on in your head? "
"You were picky when you were seven and only ate one meal a day. That's why you looked like a four-year-old?" Gu Nianzhi propped her hands on the defendant's stand and smiled at her. "Didn't your pediatrician call the police when you were so severely malnourished? This is child abuse. "
Children in western countries would go to the pediatrician regularly for checkups, and the doctor would urge them to go if they didn't want to.
If it was really as Gu Yanran said, and Gu Yanran only ate one meal a day because she was picky, then the pediatrician who checked the children every year would not let the parents go.
They would definitely call the police, and then the Social Security Department would intervene.
In serious cases, the parents would be deprived of custody of their underage children.
Gu Nianzhi told everyone about parenting in western society, then looked at Gu Yanran with amusement. "Who is your pediatrician? Can you tell me his name? If you were severely malnourished, your pediatrician would definitely have a deep impression. "
Gu Yanran did not expect Gu Nianzhi to dig so deep.
It seemed that no matter what she said, Gu Nianzhi would always be able to find unexpected loopholes in it and torment her to the point of exhaustion.
Gu Yanran stood up shakily and pointed at Gu Nianzhi's nose. "Gu Nianzhi, what else are you dissatisfied with? When has the Gu family ever wronged you? What has my father not done enough, and yet you have to contrive to make life difficult for me in every way. Actually, Father has been very good to you. Although you are an adopted daughter, Father has never treated you like one. He has always treated you better than his own daughter! "
Gu Nianzhi reached out to push Gu Yanran's finger away. Her eyes sparkled as she replied dryly, "You said I'm not his biological daughter, but Father treats me better than he treats you. If this is true, then it means that either you have a problem with your character, or you have a problem with your personality. Even your biological father doesn't like you and would rather like me, an adopted child. "
Gu Yanran's face twitched uncontrollably. She snapped, "Are you an idiot? How could you take my polite words seriously? "
However, Gu Nianzhi had no intention of letting her off the hook. Propping up her elbow with one hand, she waved the list of assets that Ye Xuan had given her in front of Gu Yanran with the other. Her fingers were as white as onion tubes. She stared into Gu Yanran's eyes. "Tsk tsk, so you're saying that what you said earlier was false? It can be seen that you are a downright hypocritical person. What's the point of saying all these empty words? Do you want me to be grateful? Or do you want everyone to praise you and say that it's a blessing to be on the losing end? Why don't I see you admitting that this list of assets is real? "
Gu Yanran's face had already turned purple.
Jin Wanyi was rubbing her hands anxiously on the side.
However, Gu Nianzhi was standing in front of them, so she couldn't remind Gu Yanran to stop talking.
In front of Gu Nianzhi, it was better to speak less.
The more he said, the more mistakes he made. Gu Yanran was a painful example.
"What's wrong? Not talking anymore? You haven't explained these contradictions yet. " Gu Nianzhi slowly leaned forward and almost asked Gu Yanran's face. "Gu Yanran, there's one more thing. Ye Xuan was seven years old when he first met that little girl. You're three years older than Ye Xuan. If that little girl was you, then you should be ten years old, not seven. Your math was probably taught by the school janitor. I'm guessing that even the physical education teacher wouldn't be able to teach math at your level. "
Gu Yanran's heart skipped a beat. Even her eyelids couldn't stop twitching.
She turned her head and saw Jin Wanyi's anxious expression from the corner of her eye. She immediately understood and shut her mouth. She sat down and didn't continue Gu Nianzhi's conversation.
Gu Nianzhi had one hand behind her back and the other on the defendant's stand in front of Gu Yanran. She smiled and said, "… Or you're actually ten years old and look four? Tsk tsk, then it wouldn't be normal malnutrition. It would be congenital … dwarfism … "
She looked Gu Yanran up and down. "But looking at you, although you're not tall, you're definitely not short either. You're definitely not a dwarf. Since we've eliminated the possibility of you being a dwarf, then it's impossible for you to look four years old at ten! "
As she spoke, Gu Nianzhi turned to look at the big screen and asked Ye Xuan, who had been quietly listening to Gu Nianzhi and Gu Yanran's conversation, "Ye Xuan, please describe what little Gu Nianzhi looked like at that time. Also, how did you know her age?"
Ye Xuan had already memorized this incident and recalled it countless times.
He could answer even with his eyes closed. "That little girl was fair and chubby. She had naturally curly hair and wore a small sun hat. Her arms were fair and tender like lotus roots. Uncle Gu carried her in his arms and patrolled the entire orphanage. As for her age, it was actually just a guess. I only remember that her height was similar to a little girl in the orphanage. That little girl was four years old. "
At that time, he was also rather small and skinny. He was alone in the corner and didn't dare to squeeze to the front.
That child, who was well protected by his father, saw Ye Xuan sleeping on the ground in the crowd.
She merely pointed, and Ye Xuan's fate was changed just like that.
The corners of Gu Nianzhi's lips curled up as she walked back to Gu Yanran and Jin Wanyi's defendant stand. Gu Nianzhi knocked on the defendant's stand. "Did you hear that? That four-year-old girl was fair and tender, and her arms were as fat as lotus roots. There's no way she was a severely malnourished patient. So, Gu Yanran, you're lying. I have reason to believe that the inventory of the Gu assets you provided was also fake! "
Gu Yanran's heart was pounding. She couldn't help but push Jin Wanyi to get her to speak.
Jin Wanyi composed herself and coughed. "Gu Nianzhi, Ye Xuan's words also have no evidence to prove what happened that year. Don't you think you're nitpicking if you only listen to his side of the story, and it's the testimony of someone whose credibility is very low? "
Gu Nianzhi spread her hands. "Your client, Gu Yanran, spoke incoherently and was caught lying by me, so you came out to smooth things over. Lawyer Jin, if we want to speak in the language of the law, don't get in the way of me continuing to cross-examine the witness and the defendant. "
Jin Wanyi laughed coldly as she threw a folder onto the defendant's stand in front of her. "Fine, ask away. When you're done, I can ask as well. "
"Ok, please wait a moment." Gu Nianzhi raised her hand politely and turned to gesture at Ye Xuan on the big screen. She continued to ask, "And then? Then why were you sent to boarding school in the United States? "
Ye Xuan looked at Gu Nianzhi quietly for a while before replying honestly, "Uncle Gu hired many teachers for me to teach me some basic knowledge. I worked very hard for the past three years and practically studied in isolation. Every year, that little girl came to the orphanage with her father, who was Uncle Gu. The first time she came, it was like a festival for me. "
Gu Nianzhi's eyes were a bit moist. She pursed her lips and looked up at the ceiling of the courtroom for a while. "Continue."
"One day, three years later, I finished elementary school and middle school with excellent grades. To reward me, Uncle Gu took me and that little girl on a vacation. " Ye Xuan lowered his head slightly as he spoke. "That little girl's temper became worse and worse. She was very gloomy and didn't speak much. She was a bit different from three years ago. However, Uncle Gu was still very good to her and always asked me to be considerate of her. He said that her health wasn't very good, so I had to give in to her. Actually, Uncle Gu didn't have to say that. Even if that little girl was healthy and had a bad temper, I still wouldn't despise her or ignore her. "
Gu Nianzhi's heart skipped a beat as she looked at Ye Xuan nervously. "And then?"
"And then … And then I accidentally fell into the sea. That little girl was surprisingly good at swimming. She was only about seven or eight years old, but she swam fast and steadily. She caught me by surprise and saved me."
"She saved me, but she also became very ill. Although Uncle Gu didn't blame me, I knew that he still felt bad. After that, he immediately sent me to boarding school in the United States. That little girl was still hospitalized at the time, so I didn't even have time to say goodbye to her. "
Gu Nianzhi finally knew that Ye Xuan and little Gu Nianzhi had such a history.
"… That's a pity. That little girl was so good to you, but you mistook her for someone else." Gu Nianzhi shook her head regretfully.
Ye Xuan looked at her and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Wasn't the "little girl" referring to her?
"I mistook her for someone else, but I was intentionally misled by someone else." Ye Xuan sat up straight and looked in Gu Yanran's direction through the camera. "When I was in boarding school in the United States, there was once an online friend who kept chatting with me anonymously. Later, I checked her IP address and discovered that it was from Uncle Gu's house. I knew it was you, that little girl. "
During the eight years he was in boarding school in the United States, he was actually very lonely and didn't have any close friends.
That was because there were more than a thousand people in that school, and there were very few people from ordinary families like him. They weren't even in the same class.
"But one day seven years ago, that online friend suddenly stopped coming online. I waited for a few days and finally called the Gu's. At the time, it was the Gu's servant who answered. After the servant answered, my 'online friend' came online that night. " Ye Xuan finished speaking and looked in Gu Yanran's direction with a half-smile. "… So from that time on, the little girl had already changed. Right? Gu Yanran? "
"How did you know it was that day?" Gu Nianzhi asked curiously. She had no memory of that time at all, and she didn't remember being a bad-tempered little girl when she was young …
But she was still considered kind-hearted.
Ye Xuan said, "Four years ago, I finally found out about Uncle Gu's accident and rushed back to help … the Gu's. Then I found out that Uncle Gu had gotten into an accident seven years ago. The day he got into an accident was also the day Gu Nianzhi went missing at sea. My anonymous online friend also stopped coming online for a long time from that day onwards. "
"If you already knew that the little girl had gone missing at that time, why didn't you look for her?" Gu Nianzhi couldn't help asking.
Ye Xuan hung his head a little uneasily. "I didn't know she was missing at the time. Gu Yanran already told me she was chatting with me. She didn't go online for those days because she was dealing with her parents' plane crash and searching for her missing sister, Gu Nianzhi. I just found out that Uncle Gu adopted another daughter while I was gone. Her name is Gu Nianzhi. "
This reason did make sense.
With such a big thing happening at home, how could he still chat with his netizens as if nothing had happened?
He chatted with Gu Yanran about their childhood, and Gu Yanran was able to keep up with him. He had some doubts at first, but Gu Yanran's casual style of chatting dispelled those doubts.
When Gu Nianzhi heard this, she suddenly had something she couldn't understand.
If what Ye Xuan and Gu Yanran said was true, then Gu Nianzhi had disappeared while out at sea.
Then why did she end up in a car in the downtown area of C City of the Huaxia Empire?!
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