In the novel, there wasn't much mention of the Gu family. The appearance of the Gu family was only mentioned when Lin Yize got rid of Gu Shao.
On the other hand, Xie Yaobai, an important collaborator of the male lead, was mentioned a lot in the novel.
The novel didn't go into detail about Xie Yaobai's identity and background. It only mentioned that Lin Yize got to know Xie Yaobai at a business gala, and the two of them started working together.
Xie Yaobai's business relied on the Lin family's power and convenience in logistics and transportation. Lin Yize also obtained a lot of information and "convenience" through Xie Yaobai. The novel's description of the "convenience" in Xie Yaobai's hands was very vague, but it could be seen that there was a big shot behind Xie Yaobai.
A few years later, Lin Yize and the Lin Group became the top existence in B City, and because of this, they had the power to deal with Gu Shao.
Xie Yaobai also rose along with the "east wind" of the Lin family.
In the process, it was mentioned that Xie Yaobai and Lin Yize worked together to get rid of a family with a long history.
The novel didn't mention which family this family was. After all, the male lead had gotten rid of countless cannon fodder and villains over the years.
But thinking about it carefully …
Could it be that the family that was dealt with in the novel was the Gu family?!
Thinking of this possibility, Gu Xi's face suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but shiver. The thoughts in his mind started to clear up bit by bit.
Connecting all of this together, the plot that Gu Xi had overlooked in the novel began to surface one by one.
If the Xie Yaobai in the novel was the current Gu Shao, then everything that would happen to the Gu family in the future, as well as Gu Shao's future, would make sense.
Gu Yaobai's birth mother, Yang Wanni, was just an ordinary nurse at the medical station. Because of her outstanding appearance, she was chosen by a mysterious higher-up.
After that, Yang Wanni and a few other good-looking young girls were often sent to that higher-up's place. Sometimes it was his residence, and sometimes it was a place to seek pleasure.
Because of the other party's status and oppression, Yang Wanni could only submit.
—
That night, Yang Wanni did not fall asleep while on duty. Instead, she was drugged with a drug that would cause her to lose her consciousness.
That night, Yang Wanni was in her office while Gu Qinghua was in his ward. The two of them didn't interact at all.
However, someone falsified the evidence of the scene and surveillance, making Yang Wanni believe that she was violated by Gu Qinghua, and she went to find Gu Qinghua.
Behind all of this, there was actually an even bigger conspiracy.
At that time, Gu Qinghua had only been a middle-ranking officer in the battalion. However, because of his outstanding performance and his repeated military exploits, his reputation had soared. In addition, Gu Qinghua himself was very capable. His future was immeasurable.
That high-ranking official was not used to Gu Qinghua's rapid advancement. Thinking that his position and power would be threatened in the future, he concocted such a scheme to destroy Gu Qinghua in advance.
The other party did not expect Gu Qinghua to find evidence so quickly and prove his innocence.
— —
In fact, Yang Wanni did not die of illness. She was killed by someone.
That high-ranking official knew that if he used Yang Wanni and the child to frame Gu Qinghua, the truth would be discovered very quickly. Therefore, he had someone fabricate Yang Wanni's death. He wanted to create the false impression that Yang Wanni had latched onto Gu Qinghua and that he could not explain himself. He was also afraid that it would affect his own future, so he secretly killed Yang Wanni.
Unfortunately, he did not succeed.
Since the framing was not successful, in order to deal with the aftermath, that high-ranking official could only let Yang Wanni die of illness.
— —
The storm of this incident took a long time to calm down, and that high-ranking official also gave up for a while.
However, that person never gave up on the idea of destroying Gu Qinghua and the Gu family. Especially after seeing that the Gu family and Gu Qinghua himself were not affected. Instead, their positions and the reputation of the Gu family grew.
The purpose of the person behind this was to destroy the Gu family. It took him many years to do so, but he did it.
As the other party's biological son, Gu Yaobai had done so many things behind the scenes to harm the Gu family. He was not completely used by the big shot. Living under the same roof, Gu Yaobai had always lived under the criticism of others and the shadow of the Gu family's biological sons. Therefore, destroying the glory of the three brothers of the Gu family had always been his wish.
As for Lin Yize, he also took advantage of the opportunity to destroy Gu Shao, causing Gu Shao to lose all of his family's fortune and lose all of his reputation.
"It's too scary …"
Thinking of all these things that were written or not explicitly written in the novel, Gu Xi suddenly felt a chill run down her spine.
She had originally thought that she was living in an ancient sadomasochistic novel filled with love and that everything that had happened was just a melodramatic love story between the male and female leads. She had not expected that there were so many terrifying things that were beyond her reach.
What was even scarier was that the person behind the scenes who wanted to destroy the Gu family seemed to be Old Master Gu's mentor.
…
Gu Xi held the spoon tightly in her hand, trembling slightly. Her palms were full of cold sweat, and she did not even notice that her knuckles had turned white from clenching.
Gu Shao, who was beside her, noticed that Gu Xi was acting strangely. He asked Gu Xi in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Gu Xi was brought back to her senses by Gu Shao's voice. She instinctively shook her head.
Then, she subconsciously glanced at Gu Yaobai, who was sitting opposite her. Afraid that he would notice, she quickly retracted her gaze.
Gu Xi tried very hard to resist the urge to leave the dining table and tell Old Master Gu and Gu Shao about the plot of the novel. She could not tell them now. If she told them about the novel, everyone would think that she was mentally unstable and might even alert the enemy.
"No, nothing," Gu Xi said softly as she bit her spoon.
Gu Shao quietly glanced at Gu Xi. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with Gu Xi, he relaxed his slightly furrowed brows.
"Don't eat if you can't finish it," Gu Shao said as he glanced at the mountain of food in front of Gu Xi.
He was worried that this girl would not be able to refuse Old Master Gu and Gu Yanlin's kind intentions and eat until she became sick.
After saying that, Gu Shao signaled to Gu Yanlin and the other two with his eyes.
"Okay." Gu Xi nodded.
—
Gu Yaobai and Gu Xueer stayed at the Gu family's house until dinner in the evening.
During this time, Gu Xi remained vigilant.
In the front hall of the Gu family's house, Gu Xi's hand had been subconsciously clutching the corner of Gu Shao's clothes tightly. It was not until Gu Yaobai left with Gu Xueer and the other party's car gradually drove away that Gu Xi heaved a sigh of relief and relaxed a little.
Until Gu Xi realized that Gu Shao, who was originally beside her, had disappeared without her noticing.
Gu Xi looked around in a panic and did not see Gu Shao. Then, she asked the people around her, "Where, where is my father?"
"My father, second uncle, and youngest uncle just went to the study," Gu Yanxiao explained.
Gu Yanlin also explained, "They probably went to discuss something."
He did not know what Gu Xi was thinking about in a daze just now. She did not even notice when the elders left.
However, looking at Gu Xi's stunned expression, Gu Yanlin secretly felt that it was funny. Haha, his little sister was too cute. Would she think that he was a weird brother if he poked her face?
On the other side, Gu Xi did not know what Gu Yanlin was thinking and nodded seriously.
Seeing that Gu Xi was a little absent-minded and thinking that she was bored, Gu Yanxiao and the others said, "Let's go, I'll take you to see something fun."
The 'fun' they were talking about was taking Gu Xi to Old Master Gu's place to see various photos of the Gu family in the past.
Of course, there were also ugly photos of them when they were young and ignorant.
—
"Xixi, look at this. Guess who this is?" Gu Yanlin pointed at a somewhat old photo in the album and asked Gu Xi.
"My father?" Gu Xi answered almost without thinking.
The photo should be of Gu Shao when he was a teenager. This was also one of the few photos of Gu Shao in the album, and it was obviously taken secretly.
"How did you know? I thought you would guess that it was my father, "Gu Chenyi said in surprise.
Second Uncle and his father looked very alike, especially when they were young. They were extremely alike.
Gu Chenyi had already made a mistake when he looked at the album previously.
Gu Xi glanced at Gu Chenyi, then pointed at the person in the photo and said, "Look, the color of my father's eyes is different from Little Uncle's."
Really …
Gu Chenyi: "…" So he was stupid.
"Next album, next album."
"Grandpa, how many albums do you have? Why do I feel like there are more than the last time?" Gu Chenyi muttered as he flipped through the other albums.
Originally, these people who couldn't sit still didn't like to look at photo albums. In the past, they were forced to look at them by Grandpa Gu.
However, Gu Xi was here today, and the three of them suddenly felt that this segment was very interesting.
"This was taken a few years ago. This is Big Brother, this is Gu Yanxiao, this is me, and this …" The three of them pointed at the photos in the album while explaining to Gu Xi the interesting things that happened during the photo shoot.
"F * ck!" Gu Chenyi almost jumped up when he saw one of the photos.
"Gu Yanxiao secretly took a photo of me and sent it to the group. When did Grandpa find it?!"
Although Gu Chenyi tried his best to destroy the evidence, Gu Xi still saw it. The photo should be from two to three years ago. In the photo, Gu Chenyi was sitting on the toilet with a bowl of snail noodles in his hand.
What a hardcore young man.
Gu Xi commented in his heart. Then, he raised his eyebrows and looked at Gu Chenyi. "Do you want to be there?"
Gu Chenyi: "…" What the hell do you mean by 'be there'?
"I was f * cking framed by Gu Yanxiao!" Gu Chenyi howled. "It's so embarrassing!"
Gu Yanxiao glanced at Gu Chenyi indifferently. "What do you mean by 'framed'? Didn't you want to eat it yourself and have to go to the toilet to eat it? "
"It's all your fault."
At that time, Gu Chenyi had an appendicitis operation. The doctor didn't let him eat too much, but the problem was that he was hungry.
Therefore, he tricked Gu Yanxiao into secretly buying food for him.
He didn't say that he wanted snail noodles! This was what Gu Yanxiao bought on his own.
If he wasn't so hungry that he was about to hallucinate, he wouldn't have eaten it.
But as he ate, Gu Chenyi realized that it was actually quite delicious.
"If you didn't buy it for me and fool me by saying that this thing has a strong taste and that it won't be discovered in the toilet … I would be a fool to believe you!" Gu Chenyi complained. He could only blame himself for being too young.
Gu Yanxiao held back her laughter and patted Gu Chenyi's shoulder seriously. "Don't worry, I won't send this ugly photo of you to the girls in school who like you."
"You're making me even more f * cking worried." Gu Chenyi rolled his eyes at Gu Yanxiao and took the photo album. "No, I have to destroy it now. Also, delete the photos on your phone!"
Before Gu Chenyi could do anything, Old Master Gu's voice came from behind.
"Delete what?! This is our Gu family's history. "Old Master Gu glared at Gu Chenyi. He had specially collected these photos and asked his subordinates to print them out. They would be full of memories in the future.
Gu Chenyi was speechless. No, he didn't want to become this "history".
"But there's no photo of Xixi." It was a pity.
Old Master Gu sighed regretfully.
They hadn't seen Xixi when she was a child. The only photo they found was that when Xu Jiaofeng of the Lin family deliberately took Gu Xi out and was about to throw her away, a kind-hearted reporter sent her to the police station and took the photo for publication.
In the photo, Gu Xi's body was dirty and her face was full of tears. She was still tightly holding the half of the lollipop that was left after she fell. Her eyes were helpless and scared.
Old Master Gu's heart ached when he saw that photo. He didn't dare to look at it again.
Xixi must have been very cute when she was a child.
Gu Yanlin and the others also thought in their hearts.
"There weren't any before, but there will be more in the future," Gu Yanlin said.
"Haha, yes, there will be more and more in the future."
"Come, come, let's take a photo now." Gu Chenyi took out his phone.
The few of them took a few selfies with Old Master Gu.
Fortunately, they were good-looking enough, so they didn't look so ugly.
After the commotion, Gu Xi's fear and worries about the plot of the novel and Gu Yaobai's words faded a lot.
However, Gu Xi didn't forget about that matter.
"Oh yes, Grandpa, do you have a photo of you from before?" Gu Xi asked.
This question made Old Master Gu happy. "Haha, Xixi still wants to see Grandpa's photo?"
"Yes, yes." Gu Xi nodded.
Seeing this, the old man's heart was at ease. He ran to his cabinet and rummaged through it. He found a very old photo album.
Looking at the message on the first page of the album, this photo album should have been collected by their grandmother.
"Look, these are the photos of Grandpa when he was just sent to the army …" Old Master Gu introduced the photos to Gu Xi one by one.
Most of Old Master Gu's photos were official photos of his upper body, as well as some group photos.
This was exactly what Gu Xi wanted to see.
Gu Xi flipped to a group photo with names written at the bottom. Her gaze fell on the names at the bottom. She searched very carefully, but unfortunately, she didn't find anyone with the surname Xie.
She flipped through a few more photos. The only person with the surname Xie seemed to be younger than Old Master Gu. He probably wasn't the teacher of Old Master Gu who had harmed the Gu family in the novel.
However, Gu Xi still didn't want to give up. She pointed to the person with the corresponding name and asked, "Grandpa, who is this person?"
"This one?" Old Master Gu leaned over and tried to recall before saying, "This person isn't from our class. He's from the third class …"
"What's wrong?" Old Master Gu asked suspiciously.
Gu Xi quickly shook her head and said, "Nothing, I just feel that this person looks a little like the young man who has been very popular recently."
Upon hearing Gu Xi's words, Old Master Gu didn't take it to heart. He muttered, "Young ladies nowadays like this kind of appearance. This kind of appearance wasn't popular in the past."
"Grandpa, do you have any other photos?" Gu Xi asked reluctantly.
"That's all. I didn't like to keep photos when I was young. These were all taken care of by your grandma." After pausing for a moment, Old Master Gu smiled and looked at Gu Xi. "What's wrong? Xixi, do you still want to see photos from the past?"
Gu Xi nodded, then shook her head and found an excuse. "I realized that Grandpa was super handsome when he was young, so I wanted to take a look."
After pausing for a moment, Gu Xi quickly added, "Old Master was also a handsome old man."
Gu Xi's words amused Old Master Gu. He waved his hand and said, "Back then, we didn't care about whether one was handsome or not. Being capable was the most important thing. Hahaha."
Although he said this, Old Master Gu felt smug in his heart.
…
Gu Xi's gaze fell on the photos that Gu Chenyi had just sent to the group chat. Her heart felt warm, and she couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
No matter if it was in the past or now, this was a very happy family.
Whether it was for the sake of the plot or for the selfish motives of some big shots, why should the Gu family be used as cannon fodder …
Gu Xi shook her head silently. A look of determination flashed across her eyes.
—
On the other side.
Gu Shao, who was discussing business in the study, received a message on his phone at the same time. He had received a few photos that Gu Chenyi had sent to the group chat.
"These guys." Gu Feng looked at the photos and smiled.
When he saw Gu Xi smiling brightly with her sons in the photos, Gu Shao's gaze softened a little.
Gu Shao put away his phone and continued the previous topic. "They still lack some necessary evidence for the time being."
"Maybe we can use Gu Yaobai as a breakthrough point," Gu Xuan said.
"We can consider it," Gu Feng said.
Gu Shao didn't express any opinion.
The three of them talked about how Gu Feng had been seriously injured during a mission.
At that time, although Old Master Gu was old and had gradually retired to the second line, it was still the time when the Gu family was in the limelight.
In addition, the three sons were very capable, which made the Gu family even more famous for a time.
Many people said behind their backs, "The Gu family is probably going to rise to a higher level."
At that time, Gu Feng didn't even rely on the Gu family's power in the army. He relied on his own merits and reached a very eye-catching position in less than five years.
However, at that time, Gu Feng encountered an explosion during a mission that was supposed to have no risks. He was seriously injured and even became disabled.
Unlike Gu Shao and Gu Xuan, the eldest son of the Gu family really liked the atmosphere in the army. If it weren't for that incident, Gu Feng would definitely still be in the army now and definitely wouldn't be a civilian job.
—
As for the accident that was full of doubts, at first, Gu Shao found some evidence that pointed to Gu Yaobai, so he sent someone to arrest Gu Yaobai.
However, later on, the Gu family found more evidence and found that this matter was more complicated than they thought. Gu Yaobai was one side, but there were many people who were really involved.
They could only blame the Gu family for being too big a tree that attracted too much attention.
And the mastermind behind that accident was the person behind Gu Yaobai. That person's identity was not simple, but he was also a teacher that Old Master Gu respected very much.
This was also why Gu Shao didn't stop Old Master Gu and Gu Feng when they bailed Gu Yaobai out.
On the surface, outsiders saw that Gu Shao had a falling out with Old Master Gu because of this matter and directly left the Gu family.
But in reality, Gu Shao inherited the position of the head of the Gu family. On the surface, he left the Gu family, but in reality, it was to protect the Gu family.
"Sigh, what a pity …" Gu Xuan sighed softly. "If it weren't for the fact that Gu Yaobai's clues were too important, his matter would have been resolved long ago."
Gu Feng's injury previously didn't have much to do with Gu Yaobai, but what happened on the day of his engagement party was indeed Gu Yaobai's doing.
Back then, Gu Xuan and his wife were only engaged, so naturally, they didn't consider having children so early. But Gu Yaobai did something in private: Gu Yaobai wanted to frame Gu Xuan's newlywed wife for having sex with Gu Shao, and even arranged for the exposure of the next day.
Fortunately, Gu Shao noticed something was wrong in advance and informed him. Otherwise, with the Gu family's influence at that time, it might have really caused a lot of trouble.
Although it wasn't the "accident" back then, and Xixi, the little cutie, wouldn't appear, Gu Yaobai's wrongdoings couldn't be offset just like that. Those were separate matters, and the debts that should be settled still had to be settled.
Unfortunately, the person behind Gu Yaobai had been in a high position for many years and had too many intertwined networks. Even today, on the surface, the other party had retired, but in reality, the power behind him still existed.
The other party couldn't easily deal with the Gu family, and the Gu family was also not strong enough to deal with the other party.
"It won't take long." Gu Shao lowered his eyes and said in a low voice.
…
After the three of them finished their discussion, they came back from the study to the living room and saw that Gu Xi had already fallen asleep on the sofa, wrapped in the blanket that Gu Feng's wife, Wang Pei, had covered her.
"The three of you should look at the time when you're discussing." Wang Pei complained, then looked at Gu Xi and smiled. She turned to Gu Shao and said, "She's probably tired from playing today. I asked her to sleep in the room, but this girl refused and insisted on waiting for you to come out."
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