Chapter 72 Car Accident
Far away in another corner of the city, the argument in the coffee shop was far from over.
Gu Jue said impatiently, "Second Uncle, I know you're advising me to go back because you care about me, but I really don't want to go back to that home!"
Gu Muxi said calmly, "That is, after all, your home. Your parents are very worried about you since you've been away from home for so long."
Gu Jue: "My parents only have eyes for my older brother. In their eyes, no matter how hard I try, I will never be as good as him. Just like this time, my older brother actually got engaged to Chu Xiang! My parents clearly know that Chu Xiang was engaged to me before, but now they let my older brother do whatever he wants. If I did something so ridiculous, they would have kicked me out of the house long ago!"
Gu Muxi said, "Brother, sister-in-law has their concerns. A-Jue, you're not young anymore. You can act impulsively and say you don't want to go back to the Gu family now, but have you thought about what will happen in the future?"
Gu Muxi's gaze fell on the woman sitting next to her. "I heard that Miss Su is pregnant?"
Su Ruanruan's body stiffened slightly.
Gu Muxi asked, "Miss Su, do you plan to have this child?"
What did he mean by that question?
Su Ruanruan straightened her back. With her self-respect and independence, she would never back down just because the other party was rich and powerful. "I know the Gu family looks down on me, but this child is mine. I want to give birth to the child. Your Gu family cannot bully others and take my child away."
Gu Jue was moved by Su Ruanruan's decisiveness and determination in protecting the children. He held Su Ruanruan's hand and said, "Ruanruan, I will protect you."
Gu Muxi chuckled. "Miss Su, you don't actually think the Gu family wants to see this child born, do you?"
Su Ruanruan paused for a moment.
Gu Muxi smiled and said, "Your relationship with Ajue is not legitimate. Ajue is the young master of the Gu family. If he is to marry, he should marry a young lady of equal social standing. You and this child will only be obstacles."
Gu Muxi said slowly, "Don't think of yourself as too important. No one in the Gu family will fight you for the child, because your child is destined to be unimportant to them."
Su Ruanruan felt as if she had been slapped hard. She gripped the hem of her clothes tightly, her expression extremely ugly. Undoubtedly, this was a humiliation for her, and naturally, she felt extremely angry.
"Is this how the Gu family looks down on people?" Su Ruanruan stood up, furious. "The Gu family doesn't want this child, but I do!"
Gu Jue quickly stood up to comfort Su Ruanruan, "Ruanruan, don't be angry, I'm different from them."
Gu Muxi smiled and said, "I'm just telling you the reality. Miss Su seems a bit naive. No one in the Gu family is looking forward to the birth of your child. So how much of a chance do you think you have of giving birth?"
This already constitutes a threat.
Gu Jue said angrily, "Enough, Second Uncle! You've always been very good to me, and you're the person I respect most in the Gu family. But why are you forcing me like my mother and the others? Can't you even think about me?"
Gu Muxi: "It's precisely because so few people in the Gu family care about you that I have to care about you. Ajue, if you continue like this, you'll only make your grandfather more and more disappointed in you. Have you thought about what you'll do in the future? What do you have to compare with your older brother? What will you have to live a peaceful life with?"
"I'm doing just fine now that I've left the Gu family!"
"That's because you're the young master of the Gu family, that's why you can live so carefree now," Gu Muxi said. "If the news of you severing ties with the Gu family gets out, you can see if the people who are helping you now will change their tune."
Gu Jue: "The Gu family, it's always the Gu family! Why do you all think I can't survive without the Gu family?!"
His dissatisfaction reached its peak, and Gu Jue didn't want to talk to Gu Muxi anymore. He grabbed Su Ruanruan's hand and walked out of the store.
Gu Muxi followed her out, "Ajue, you can't keep being so willful!"
Without turning his head, Gu Jue pulled Su Ruanruan across the road. The more people mentioned the Gu family under the guise of doing it for his own good, the deeper his resentment became. From birth, in everyone's eyes, he was inferior to his older brother.
Now that he's grown up, in their eyes he's still that good-for-nothing child, as if he can't survive in this world without the Gu family!
Looking at the young man's resolute face, Su Ruanruan couldn't help but be lost in thought. She had told herself to protect her heart, but today, he was willing to break with the Gu family to protect her and their child, and her heart still couldn't help but be moved.
Su Ruanruan: "Gu Jue, we..."
A loud crash came from behind, and the road was in complete chaos.
Gu Jue turned around and cried out, "Second Uncle!"
...
A group of people quickly gathered outside the hospital's operating room.
Gu Chaoyang and Chen Wanrou were the first to arrive. Gu Chaoyang didn't even glance at Gu Jue, and sat down quietly to wait. Chen Wanrou stood in front of Gu Jue, raised her hand, and slapped him.
This was the first time Chen Wanrou had hit Gu Jue, and she had put a lot of force into the slap.
Gu Jue lowered his head in guilt and didn't say a word.
Su Ruanruan shielded Gu Jue behind her and faced Chen Wanrou directly, saying without any politeness, "This was an accident, it's not Gu Jue's fault, you can't blame him."
Chen Wanrou laughed in anger, "Yes, it's not Gu Jue's fault, then it's all your fault! If you hadn't deliberately gotten pregnant and tried to use the child in your belly to tie my son down and climb the social ladder, would so much trouble have happened!"
Just as Chen Wanrou was about to slap Su Ruanruan again, Gu Jue grabbed Chen Wanrou's hand, "Mom, don't touch her."
Chen Wanrou trembled with anger, "Fine, Gu Jue, so you're abandoning your family for this woman now, is that it!"
Gu Jue remained silent.
The old man and woman arrived with Gu Heng and Chu Xiang. As soon as they reached the operating room door, the old woman couldn't help but burst into tears, "Muxi, you can't be hurt! You're my only son! You absolutely can't be hurt!"
The old lady was genuinely heartbroken. She had always treated Gu Jue well, which deepened Gu Jue's sense of guilt. He released Chen Wanrou's hand, walked to the old lady, and whispered, "I'm sorry..."
The old lady looked at Gu Jue with teary eyes. Her feelings for him seemed complicated. She resented him for causing Gu Muxi's accident, but she couldn't bear to slap him like Chen Wanrou had.
The old man sat opposite Gu Chaoyang. The two men, father and son, were equally composed, silent and unmoved, as if they were detached from the situation.
Chu Xiang quietly asked Gu Heng, "Is your second uncle seriously injured?"
Gu Heng nodded. "That's what the hospital said on the phone."
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