Chapter 97: Visiting in prison is so adorable!

The moment Jing Yu uttered those words, Wen Han knew that Gu Yuan was doomed.

Ultimately, investigating that money wouldn't be difficult; the An family members are all still alive. The fact that there's been no movement for over a decade suggests that someone is still protecting them.

Jingxu bankrupted the An family, but didn't completely wipe them out for the same reason. They had powerful connections; even if they didn't care about the family's reputation, they still had to give them face.

However, Number Five is different. He doesn't have close ties with Number One or Number Four's party affiliations, and his people didn't touch a single penny of that embezzled money back then. Now is the perfect opportunity to strike at their arrogance and demonstrate one's own integrity. Gu Yuan has just walked into the line of fire; if not him, who else should be targeted?

Before the next day even arrived, Gu Yuan was taken away for investigation. He had been stirring up trouble for No. 5 during the election, and now the embezzled funds belonging to the An family had also been exposed.

Gu Yuan has spent almost all of the billions of public funds. Wen Han estimates that even if he doesn't die, he'll never get out of prison.

In the early stages of the election, Gu Zong did not make any rash moves. He quietly stood on the side of number five in the middle of the process, successfully distancing himself from his foolish younger brother, so as to avoid the entire Gu family being held accountable later.

He got what he wanted. The old shareholders of the Gu Group originally supported Gu Yuan in order to check Gu Zong's power. Seeing that Gu Yuan had offended the new president, and that this would really shake the foundation of the Gu Group, they all turned against him and held a meeting overnight to push Gu Yuan out.

Just as Jing Yu had predicted, the lab incident was never exposed, but Gu Yuan was imprisoned for embezzled funds.

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To Wen Han's surprise, Gu Yuan completely absolved Gu Cheng of all responsibility, claiming that he was the one who did all the bad things from beginning to end.

After all, Gu Cheng is a minor, and no one would believe he has the ability to do these things.

To outsiders, he was still the young master of the Gu family, but things had changed long ago within the company. Gu Cheng's relationship with Gu Yuan was closer than his relationship with his father, Gu Zong. Who would believe there was no connection? To protect themselves, the shareholders couldn't wait for Gu Zong to exile Gu Cheng.

Now Gu Cheng's reputation at school has completely died down. It's not that he's become humble, but rather that he's lost interest in stirring up trouble after his uncle went to jail; he's just feeling down.

Even now, only Gu Cheng's group of followers remain loyal to him. When Wen Han passes by the corridor in front of their classroom after class, those thugs are still gathered around Gu Cheng, smoking and chatting.

This time, however, the principal didn't pretend not to see it like before, but sternly told Gu Cheng to put out the cigarette immediately.

Wen Han watched coldly from a distance. Seeing that Gu Cheng didn't speak, the group of henchmen could only sullenly put out their cigarettes.

After all, Gu Zong's attitude speaks volumes; Gu Cheng is no longer the only heir he has.

After the principal left, Jin Mingxuan's face darkened: "Those scoundrels who kicked us when we were down, they'll regret it later!"

“Exactly,” Xu Changyuan said, hands in his pockets. “Gu Cheng, you still have your brothers. We’ll make them all pay the price sooner or later, starting from scratch.”

Wen Han laughed. Starting from scratch, how can you start a business without money or power? Wasn't Gu Cheng able to be so arrogant and have such a smooth life for the first seventeen years of his life precisely because he had no shortage of money and power? Now he can't stand it anymore and feels that others are starting to kick him when he's down. How is he going to live in the future?

Zhang Yongqi remained silent, his expression indifferent. He probably knew the harshness of reality among these people.

He looked up and met Wen Han's gaze. Wen Han smiled and walked away.

"Wait!" Wen Han continued walking forward as if he hadn't heard, but Zhang Yongqi grabbed his shoulder. "Wen Han!"

Zhang Yongqi's expression was complicated. He looked at Wen Han's calm yet slightly mocking eyes, wanting to say something but unable to speak.

“It seems to be right here.” Wen Han looked around; it was still the same stairwell. “I kindly advised you not to mess around with Gu Cheng, but it seems you didn’t listen.”

Zhang Yongqi was pale, clearly he hadn't forgotten Wen Han's words.

He gritted his teeth and said, "I did nothing wrong."

“You did nothing wrong.” Wen Han gently shook her head. “I know you were just trying to fight for yourself, but you lost.”

Zhang Yongqi's family was even worse off than Wen Han's, with more mouths to feed, and he earned less money than Wen Qingke. Even if he got into university, his family's situation wouldn't improve. Wen Han could understand his hope of achieving success through Gu Cheng.

In the original drama, Zhang Yongqi, as Gu Cheng's right-hand man, did indeed become a successful person.

But now that he has lost, he is of no use at all.

Zhang Yongqi understood his implication and clenched his fists: "I lost, but do you think this is your achievement? It's just that we chose the wrong side and were suppressed by someone with greater power. What does it have to do with you?"

"It doesn't matter?" Wen Han laughed. "It's precisely because you chose the wrong side that you lost so quickly and can't recover at all. I'm laughing now, but you can't laugh, doesn't that mean I've won?"

"Study hard," Wen Han said. "At least your grades have improved."

Zhang Yongqi said with a self-deprecating laugh, "That's true, I can only rely on myself now. You're different, you and Jingyu are doing great together."

Wen Han's smile gradually disappeared, and Zhang Yongqi became happy when he saw this: "What, you're useless now that the birds are all gone? I thought your love was stronger than ever."

Wen Han frowned: "Try talking nonsense again. Jing Yu and I are not in that kind of relationship."

His expression was serious, which startled Zhang Yongqi. Just as he was about to ask him what his relationship with Jing Yu was, Wen Han's eyes suddenly widened in surprise.

"Wen Han." Jing Yu walked over with a smile. "I haven't seen you since get out of class ended. What are you doing here?"

As soon as Wen Han saw Jing Yu's face, her gaze followed it. Jing Yu walked to his side and seemingly only then noticed Zhang Yongqi's presence: "Who is this? Do you have something important to discuss with him?"

Zhang Yongqi was so angry he almost ground his teeth to powder. They had met before, this guy was doing it on purpose!

"It's alright, he came over by himself," Wen Han said. "Let's go."

After walking a few steps, he seemed to remember something and turned back to stand in front of him.

Zhang Yongqi thought he had something important to say, but Wen Han couldn't hide his smugness. He didn't want to appear too smug, so he made a strange expression: "I'm not like you. I'm going to get into a prestigious university without taking the college entrance exam. This kind of luck is something that ordinary people like you can't have. Even if you're jealous, it's useless."

Zhang Yongqi: "......"

Hearing his words, Jingyu's previously sullen face brightened up. She was incredibly adorable.

"Host, his face has turned black."

"That's normal. If I knew that my classmates could go directly to prestigious universities, I would also be psychologically disturbed."

The system muttered to itself, "I don't think he was angry because you mentioned going to college, but because you actually went back just to talk about that."

"What did Xiang Yu say? Wearing fine clothes and not showing them off is like wearing them in the dark. What else can I say if I don't show them off and encourage him?"

They're not that kind.

“Host, there’s a saying, ‘Wealth and honor not returned to one’s hometown are like wearing embroidered clothes at night.’ That’s not a good saying; it’s a warning against flaunting one’s wealth in front of others.”

Wen Han complained, "You're so annoying. What can he do even if I tell him?"

The system has muted the microphone.

——

Based on the principle that more sins are no excuse, someone anonymously reported that Gu Yuan was conducting illegal experiments. The An family is also in trouble. Jing Xu let them off the hook more than ten years ago, but he hasn't forgotten the grudge and is determined to send them all to jail.

Jingzhao said that An Ning just ate dinner in silence after finding out.

Wen Han was still curious about one thing, and after she told Jing Yu, Jing Yu asked her to take a day off.

He met An Ning's father, who was also Jing Yu's maternal grandfather. When he saw Jing Yu, he became emotional and kept saying that he wanted to see An Ning.

"I'm your grandfather, Jingyu. Please let Xiaoning come and see me, okay? I know I was wrong. Tell him that Dad just wanted to see him one more time..."

Jing Yu watched him weep bitterly with a blank expression. An Lu's father was already dead, so he could only ask him. Wen Han asked, "Do you know who Gu Cheng's son really is?"

Although An Lu and Gu Yuan's relationship is definitely not ordinary, there is no conclusive evidence, and it cannot be denied that Gu Cheng is not Gu Zong's son.

If there were evidence, Gu Zong would definitely not show any mercy to Gu Yuan.

Jingyu's grandfather froze for a moment, his eyes darting back and forth between Wen Han and Jingyu: "I know, I know! As long as you agree to let me see Xiaoning, I'll tell you!"

Wen Han frowned and looked at Jing Yu, who nodded: "Okay."

Seeing that Jing Yu agreed, the other party breathed a sigh of relief: "Originally, we arranged for An Lu to marry Gu Zong in the hope that she could control the Gu family, but Gu Zong has been very cold to her since the marriage. So we were thinking, if all else fails, let Gu Yuan seize power."

“Gu Yuan and Gu Zong have a very good relationship. An Lu went to great lengths, and finally thought it would be better to use a child to keep him tied down.”

So, Gu Cheng is Gu Yuan's child? Wen Han raised an eyebrow, but the other party continued, "But the two brothers are very similar. An Lu accidentally gave the wrong medicine to Gu Zong. When we found out she was pregnant, we had no choice but to play along and make Gu Yuan believe that he was the father of the child."

"So Gu Cheng is indeed Gu Zong's son, right?"

The other person nodded, and Wen Han felt only irony. In the end, Gu Yuan still had nothing.

Having nothing more to ask, he stood up and said to Jing Yu, "Let's go."

Jingyu's grandfather grabbed the railing as if it were a lifeline: "Jingyu, you promised me you'd let Xiaoning come see me!"

Jing Yu asked doubtfully, "Don't you know that people can lie?"

The two men gave a cold laugh, ignoring the old man's curses behind them.

After going outside, Wen Han glanced at the sky outside the window and smiled, "Should we tell Gu Yuan? I'm really looking forward to seeing his expression."

“He knows.”

"What?"

“He knew Gu Cheng wasn’t his son,” Jing Yu said calmly, “but he still managed to distance himself from Gu Cheng.”

Gu Cheng is not his son, but he is An Lu's son.

Wen Han felt absurd and laughed, but her expression quickly turned cold: "You really are a romantic."

What was he angry about? Was he angry that Gu Yuan wasn't as furious and distressed as he had imagined, or was he surprised that someone was actually sincere towards Gu Cheng?

But in the blink of an eye, his expression returned to normal: "It's alright, at least Gu Cheng doesn't know yet."