Gu Nianzhi's heart skipped a beat. This was the first time Gu Yanran had mentioned her mother …
"You mean, before you were seven, you were with your mother and not with your father, Gu Xiangwen?" Gu Nianzhi immediately asked, "And your mother only gave you one meal a day? Why wasn't your mother with your father?! "
Gu Yanran was stunned by the question.
She rubbed her temples and finally said unhappily, "Does this have anything to do with our case?"
"Of course it does." Gu Nianzhi focused on answering her. She thought, Gu Xiangwen had bid for a pink diamond crown for his biological daughter when she was one year old. How could he let his daughter leave him?
This didn't make sense at all.
Gu Nianzhi refused to believe it.
Jin Wanyi frowned and stood up to say to Gu Nianzhi, "Plaintiff, please explain what the relationship is. I think we're already going too far. "
The judge nodded. "I agree to the defendant's lawyer's request. Plaintiff, please explain your reason for asking this question."
Gu Nianzhi thought this question was, of course, to prove Gu Yanran's identity. Gu Yanran's true identity was directly related to the ownership of the Gu fortune.
However, she currently didn't have solid evidence to prove that Gu Yanran wasn't Gu Xiangwen's biological daughter. Also, the fake "Gu Xiangwen" was still lying in the Special Operations Forces base hospital. If she rashly threw out this point now, it would only make Gu Yanran accuse her.
Therefore, she wouldn't take the initiative to say it. She wanted to beat around the bush until Gu Yanran couldn't help but reveal her "trump card."
And she still had to wait for an even more important witness.
Gu Nianzhi was very calm in court.
She quickly thought of an alternative reason and turned to face the judge. "Your Honor, Gu Yanran just said that she went to the orphanage with Gu Xiangwen when she was seven and saw the four-year-old Ye Xuan for the first time there. Now she's saying that she was with her mother and not with her father before she was seven. I think this statement is contradictory. "
Gu Yanran interrupted Gu Nianzhi and said with disdain, "When I was seven, my mother brought me back to Barbados to live with my father. It was also that year that my father brought me to the orphanage, and I saw the four-year-old Ye Xuan. Is there a problem with that? "
Gu Nianzhi smiled. "It's much smoother now."
Like squeezing toothpaste, she made Gu Yanran slowly squeeze out the truth from the past.
Gu Yanran frowned. "Are you kidding me?"
"How could that be? The court is a serious place, so please don't overdo it. "Gu Nianzhi retorted with a straight face, then regrouped herself." What's your mother's name? Where did you live seven years ago? Why did your mother separate from your father? "
"… You have to say that?" Gu Yanran was even more displeased. "This is my family's privacy …"
Gu Nianzhi's expression darkened. She walked to Gu Yanran's dock and knocked on the table. "Defendant, you're already in court, and it's a family inheritance case. Your so-called privacy is not protected here. If you don't say it, then what you said before has no factual evidence to support it, so it can't be used as testimony. "
"What did you say?! What I said just now was all true! Why can't it be used as testimony?! "Gu Yanran was furious.
"What you said is only your side of the story. If there's no evidence to support it, then I can make up dozens of stories like this, and all of them will be even smoother than what you just said. But can you believe it? Therefore, when the court hears a case, not only do they need witnesses, but they also need material evidence to make a reasonable and legal judgment. "Gu Nianzhi raised her eyebrows with a disapproving expression. She looked like she was telling Gu Yanran to continue making things up.
Gu Yanran didn't expect Gu Nianzhi to not believe her after she said so much. She couldn't help panicking. "It's up to you whether you believe it or not. I've said everything I can."
Gu Nianzhi took out a pen and paper to record. Without looking up, she said, "Say your mother's name and where you used to live. If you don't want to say the reason why your mother separated from your father for seven years, it's up to you. "
Gu Yanran shut her mouth. Like a clam, she couldn't be pried open again.
"Not saying?" Gu Nianzhi put down the pen. "Gu Yanran, you don't think I can't find out, do you?"
Jin Wanyi sighed and raised her hand to the judge. "Objection. The plaintiff's questions have strayed too far from the case."
The judge was silent for a while, then nodded. "Agreed. Plaintiff, please change your target to the Gu family's assets. "
Gu Nianzhi felt a bit regretful. She was so close to forcing out Gu Yanran's mother's name, but the judge wouldn't allow it.
Jin Wanyi still had some tricks up her sleeve …
Gu Nianzhi put away the pen and paper and said, "Gu Yanran, I'm very sorry to hear that your mother abused you. I hope you won't …"
Gu Yanran interrupted her and said stiffly, "My mother didn't abuse me. Don't think too much. "
"Oh? Giving a seven-year-old child only one meal a day isn't that abuse? "Gu Nianzhi shook her head." Forget it. I'm just being nosy. Anyway, as long as you're happy. "
Gu Yanran clenched her fists and held it in. She was worried that she would think of her days before she was seven years old and still couldn't hold it in. She glared at Gu Nianzhi's back and said, "Of course you don't know what it's like to be poor. At that time, we had no money and could only eat one meal a day. That was because we only had enough money to eat one meal! "
Gu Nianzhi suddenly turned around. Gu Yanran didn't have time to retract the resentment in her eyes, so Gu Nianzhi saw it all.
She walked in front of Gu Yanran and suddenly asked, "Gu Yanran, you're Gu Xiangwen's illegitimate daughter? Your mother is Gu Xiangwen's mistress? "
"Nonsense!" Gu Yanran was shocked, then blushed. She slammed the table angrily and stood up. "Don't talk nonsense! My mother … my mother … is my father's legitimate wife! "
"Really? Is there a marriage certificate? "Gu Nianzhi smiled at Gu Yanran and clapped her hands." Legitimate wife? That's great! Where do we register? Marriage certificates are easy to check. Gu Yanran, you can finally produce a decent piece of evidence to prove your identity! "
Gu Yanran was speechless. She held onto the table of the defendant's stand, her body swaying slightly, and her eyes flickered.
"… Say it! Is this also a private matter?! " Gu Nianzhi spread her hands and looked around the courtroom. "Everyone from the legal profession, would the court's request for a marriage certificate violate a citizen's privacy?"
Of course not. This was one of the identity documents with legal effect.
Gu Yanran was stunned for a long time before stammering, "… Well … I wasn't even born when they got married. How would I know where they registered it? Also, how would the younger generation see something like a marriage certificate? "
"… Since you don't know where they registered it and haven't seen their marriage certificate, and your parents have always been separated, what right do you have to say that they are legally married?" Gu Nianzhi had always been the type to pursue any loopholes and try to expand the other party's loopholes.
Gu Yanran threw out such a big argument but couldn't produce any substantial evidence. It was already very suspicious.
Gu Nianzhi didn't say anything else and only stared at Gu Yanran quietly.
Her gaze was so intense that Gu Yanran found it hard to breathe.
Jin Wanyi glared at Gu Nianzhi. She didn't expect Gu Nianzhi to turn Gu Yanran from Gu Xiangwen's legitimate biological daughter to an illegitimate daughter!
"Objection. The plaintiff is using baseless speculation to figure out my client's identity. This is an attempt to discredit her. "Jin Wanyi stood up again to object.
Gu Nianzhi shot back at Jin Wanyi. "Your client is using baseless stories to fabricate her identity. This is an attempt to swindle me."
"… What right do you have to say it's a story?!" Jin Wanyi was furious. "Do you have any evidence?"
"What did Gu Yanran say just now? Did she have any evidence?" Gu Nianzhi snorted. "We can send someone to the orphanage in Barbados to investigate and find out what happened all those years ago."
At this moment, Ye Xuan, who had been silent all this time on the big screen, said with a strange expression, "… That orphanage in Barbados had a big fire a few years ago. Many people died, and all the information from that year was burned."
Gu Nianzhi immediately turned to look at Gu Yanran and sneered. "What a coincidence. Gu Yanran, you've destroyed everything or anyone related to you and my past. "
"What are you talking about? I'm also very sorry about the Barbados orphanage. What are you hinting at? "Gu Yanran relaxed and regained some of her elegance.
She slowly sat down and leaned back against the hardwood chair in the courtroom. She felt a little awkward.
"Gu Yanran, since we're at this point, I'll tell you why I'm asking about your past and your mother."
Gu Nianzhi returned to the plaintiff's stand and took out a form she had made herself to show everyone the reason.
"Everyone, please take a look. First, more than a year ago, after Gu Yanran found out that I was her missing sister, all the servants in the Gu family in Barbados died in a kidnapping case. As far as I know, many of those servants had worked for the Gu family for more than a decade or two.
Second, Ye Xuan is now saying that the orphanage from that year was also burned to the ground. So no one knows what happened to 'Sister Ranran' at the orphanage back then. "
"Third, Gu Yanran refused to tell us her mother's name or where they lived before they went to Barbados. She also couldn't produce her mother's marriage certificate with Gu Xiangwen."
"Finally, when we checked Gu Yanran's school records, other than the fact that she attended a butler's school in England, there were no other records. All these signs indicate that Gu Yanran was trying to hide her true identity! "
Gu Yanran's eyes narrowed.
How did Gu Nianzhi know that she attended a butler's school in England?!
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This was the second update, and the monthly tickets had been delivered to her. She had monthly tickets for the third update today, so she tried her best to get the third update …
A reminder to everyone about the recommendation and monthly tickets ~ ~ ~
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