Chapter 1215 Why did you lie to me
Hadn't Li Jinxing been fine? Why had news spread that he was seriously ill and unconscious? Gu Wanqiu steadied her heartbeat, took two deep breaths, and began to organize her thoughts.
The cold wind was raging, and waves of chills crept up along the soles of her feet. Her body was trembling, and she couldn't tell whether it was the cold or the panic.
The radio station was still broadcasting the latest news about Li Jinxing. Li Jinxing was now unconscious and in danger of his life, which had caused unrest in Haicheng. Many business groups were in a panic, thinking about the cooperation they had just signed, the cooperation they were preparing for, and the cooperation that was halfway through. Of course, there were also many ambitious businessmen who were watching the fun and wanted to use this opportunity to hollow out the Li Group, take Li Jinxing's life while he was ill, and bite off a piece of meat when he was unable to preside over the group.
The panic slowed down her thinking process. Her brain had begun to become dull. It seemed as if wind was passing through her ears, causing a buzzing sound in them.
She looked inside the house and wanted to take a step forward, listen closer, and carefully judge whether she had heard it wrongly or was hallucinating.
Gu Wanqiu took a step forward, and the bodyguard beside her reached out to stop her: "Miss Gu, you can't go in..."
The radio was playing very loudly, and the bodyguard beside her naturally heard it. He wanted to stop Gu Wanqiu from listening, but it was obviously too late. Now he had to take her back first.
"Miss Gu, we should go back."
Gu Wanqiu lowered her eyes to look at the hand blocking her shoulder, and glanced at the bodyguards on both sides. She was nowhere to be found.
Gu Wanqiu lowered her head so that people couldn't see her expression, and no one knew what she was thinking.
Gu Wanqiu turned around and walked back, her whole body shaking. She tried her best to control her legs, but she was still tripped by a stone on the road and stumbled forward. Fortunately, the bodyguard next to her was very close to her and supported her in time when she fell forward.
She held the bodyguard's hand tightly and did not let go: "Li Jinxing, something happened. He is lying in the hospital now. He fainted when I left and has not woken up yet, right?"
She asked with a blank expression, her lips moving in and out.
The bodyguards did not answer her and stood there quietly, like pieces of wood.
Gu Wanqiu stood firm, released his hand, and continued to speak to herself, "Gong Qing doesn't give me a cell phone, no TV, no internet, and doesn't let me go out and communicate with outsiders... Is it because of this that he's afraid I'll know something happened to Li Jinxing, and that he lied to me?"
Gu Wanqiu raised her head and stared at the bodyguards without blinking. Her inquiring eyes made it impossible for the bodyguards around her to hide.
The bodyguard whose hand she grabbed could only say, "Ms. Gu, you'd better not ask us."
"I can't ask anything from you, because Gong Qing must have warned you not to tell me these things... So, the only person I can ask is him." It would be more accurate to say that Gu Wanqiu was talking to herself because she was caught up in some emotion rather than answering them.
It’s good that you know it, the bodyguard thought to himself.
Although they didn't say anything, their expressions and tones fully demonstrated that what Gu Wanqiu said was right.
Gu Wanqiu lowered her head and smiled self-deprecatingly. She was indeed the dumbest fool. No matter where she was, she was always cheated and sold out, and yet she still helped count the money.
"Give me the phone. I want to call Gong Qing."
"Mr. Gong is very busy at this time. If you call him, he may not answer."
"Give it to me!" This was the first time that Gu Wanqiu got angry at an outsider since she came here for so many days.
Seeing her tough attitude, the bodyguard could only take out his mobile phone and give it to Gu Wanqiu. Gu Wanqiu found Gong Qing's phone number and dialed it.
As expected, he didn't answer, so Gu Wanqiu made a second call. She was ready and knew that if Gong Qing didn't answer, she would keep calling.
When he called for the second time, Gong Qing picked up the phone and asked in a bad tone, "What's the matter?"
"Can I see you today?"
"Oh, it's Qiuqiu. I was wondering who it was..."
At this time, Gong Qing was holding an important meeting, all targeting the Li Group. He had been very busy these days. He didn't want anything to go wrong at such an important juncture, nor did he want to distract his attention to comfort Gu Wanqiu at this critical juncture.
Perhaps he himself didn't know that he had lost patience with Gu Wanqiu. His so-called love was nothing more than a stronger desire to win. He just wanted to vent his anger in front of Li Jinxing, who always beat him.
Not only does he want to get Gu Wanqiu, he also wants to destroy Li Jinxing's career step by step. Not only that, he also wants to get rid of Li Jinxing's child.
Gong Qing glanced at everyone in the conference room, then stood up and made a pause, indicating that he was going to answer the phone. When he reached the adjacent reception lounge, he said, "You called me suddenly. Have you decided to abort the child?"
Gu Wanqiu bit her lower lip, calming down, her hands clenching involuntarily. "I won't hit you, kid. I just want to ask you, what exactly was the drug I gave Li Jinxing? You clearly said it was an ordinary drug that wouldn't harm the body, so why is he still unconscious and in the hospital?"
Gong Qing frowned and narrowed his eyes: "Where did you hear this gossip?"
At this point, Gong Qing still wanted to hide it from her. Gu Wanqiu's breathing became heavy, and she felt a sharp pain in her heart.
"Gong Qing, why did you lie to me? The two pills you gave me were not sleeping pills, but deadly poisons. In order to bring down Li Jinxing, you took advantage of my trust and feelings. You clearly said... that the medicine had no harm to the body. Why... why did you lie to me? I trusted you so much!" At the end, Gu Wanqiu roared heartbreakingly, and tears rolled down her face.
Even through the phone, Gong Qing's ears were stinging from her voice. If he hadn't come over to answer the call, her voice would have been heard by everyone around him, even without the speakerphone. One could imagine... how crazy Gu Wanqiu was on the other end.
Gong Qing's eyes darkened, a cold look flashed across them, and his fingers fell on the glass. Gu Wanqiu knew everything, and he also knew that he could not hide it anymore. He felt uneasy and guilty. If possible, he did not want to choose to lie to her, but since he had chosen this path, he would not look back. After he figured it out, the uneasy guilt disappeared instantly.
"I'll go back and talk to you tonight. It's hard to explain over the phone."
After saying that, Gong Qing hung up the phone directly. He returned to the conference room and sat back in the seat of honor.
When the others saw him come back, they wanted to ask him something, but when they saw that he had a gloomy face after answering the phone and looked like he was not someone to be trifled with, they immediately stopped asking questions.
The atmosphere in the conference room suddenly dropped several degrees after Gong Qing took his seat. The atmosphere became more and more depressing. The deterrent power bursting out from him made everyone present dare not look at him directly. Even the secretary-general who had been working beside him lowered his head at this time.
"Let's continue discussing the previous issue, Secretary Zhang, and take note of the content."
Gong Qing listened quietly to the work report, raised questions and solved them, then he spoke briefly and quickly assigned the tasks, called on the general manager of the marketing department to arrange the various tasks, and then hurriedly took the car keys and left.
Gong Qing drove back to the small villa and waited for the bodyguard at the door to explain what had happened throughout the day.
I learned from the bodyguard that this was purely an accident and no one dared to gossip about it in front of Gu Wanqiu. The reason Gu Wanqiu knew about Li Jinxing was because she went for a walk outside today and heard the sound of a radio at someone else's door.
Gong Qing frowned and rubbed his back teeth. Anyone who knew him knew that this was a sign of his impatience.
He began to regret his soft-heartedness. He shouldn't have agreed to let Gu Wanqiu go out for a walk. If she hadn't gone out, there wouldn't be these troubles. Now he had to come back and solve them himself.
Gu Wanqiu came out after hearing the sound of the car. Seeing Gong Qing standing in front of the bodyguards, she walked over and said, "It was me who wanted to call you during the day. It's none of their business."
She had a cold face, a familiar face but no longer had the familiar emotions, and she no longer loved him.
Gu Wanqiu asked directly: "Why do you do this?"
"There's one thing you didn't explain clearly on the phone. I drugged him not only to bring him down, but the main reason was to take you away. I got the benefits, didn't you? If he doesn't die, you'll never be able to get rid of him. Do you think that if he had just given you an ordinary drug, you would be here safely now? I'm afraid he would have taken you back before you even leave Haicheng." Gong Qing didn't like talking at the door, so he walked around Gu Wanqiu and went inside.
Gu Wanqiu looked at his cold back, her breathing trembling. "Gong Qing, you've changed. You've really changed. You've become a completely different person. You're so scary now that even I can't recognize you. If I knew you were giving him an untreatable poison, I wouldn't have given him the drug."
Gong Qing turned around, a cold sarcasm on his lips. He didn't say anything, but grabbed Gu Wanqiu's hand and walked into the living room, then pressed her onto the sofa.
He looked down at her condescendingly: "Gu Wanqiu, take back what you said, I'm tired of hearing it. When you say I've changed, shouldn't you examine yourself? How similar are you to the person you were seven months ago? Li Jinxing is now lying in the hospital poisoned. He deserves it. You shouldn't regret drugging him. What you should regret is not drugging him earlier. He has done so many excessive things to you and me. He also killed your family. He lied to you and made you pregnant with his child. He forced you to give birth to this bastard that shouldn't exist and made you keep it until it was seven months old. People like him deserve to die a thousand times. It's not a pity that he died! He is finally going to die now. Shouldn't we open a bottle of wine and sing a song to celebrate?"
Gu Wanqiu's ears were buzzing, her vision was beginning to blur, and her whole expression was one of disbelief.
Happy? She couldn't be happy. She hated Li Jinxing, but she hadn't thought about letting him die. If he died, what would happen to Siyan and Sixu? Siyan had personally brought that bowl of drugged ginger milk to Li Jinxing. If Siyan knew that Li Jinxing's accident was because of that bowl of ginger milk he had brought, how much pain would Siyan suffer, how much would he hate her? This was originally a matter between them as adults, and it shouldn't be borne by a child. Siyan was the most innocent.
Gu Wanqiu tried to speak calmly, "Gong Qing, have you ever considered that if something happens to Li Jinxing, many innocent people will be implicated?"
"Innocent people? When Li Jinxing was targeting me, wasn't I innocent?" Gong Qing thought of something and changed his tone, sounding cold and disdainful. "The innocent people you're talking about are his two children, right? It seems that not only did you have feelings for Li Jinxing, but you also gave your heart to his two children. But what do those two children have to do with you? They were just born by someone else. Li Jinxing wanted to use these two children to control you, hoping that you would stay with him because of your soft heart. The more you worry about them now, the more you fall into Li Jinxing's trap."
In Gu Wanqiu's opinion, Gong Qing is a very empathetic person. He established a fund association to rescue children, donated money to build schools so that poor children can go to school, and rescued children who had no money to treat their illnesses.
He said he likes children.
Gong Qing is now blinded by hatred and interests. In his eyes, these immoral things that cost a life are nothing.
He only wanted one thing, and that was to kill Li Jinxing.
"Gong Qing, you are not me. You haven't personally experienced the days of getting along with them. Although they are not my children, they sincerely regard me as their mother. They are really good to me. They love me and believe in me. They are obviously reluctant to let me go, but after knowing that I am unhappy, they still let me go.
Gong Qing, I'm not asking you to think from a mother's perspective. But even as a bystander, you should know that children shouldn't bear the brunt of adults' hatred.
They were only five years old, and I had already left them. They had been without a mother since they were young. Do you want them to lose their father too? Gong Qing, you have saved so many children... Don't become a murderer." She was begging Gong Qing. Not only did she want the two children to have a normal life, she also wanted Gong Qing to maintain his original kindness.
But Gong Qing wouldn't listen to anything now. He had saved many children, but he was unwilling to be soft-hearted when it came to Li Jinxing's child.
So what if I'm responsible for the loss of life? Who hasn't been implicated in a few deaths in this position?
Gong Qing asked, "Then what do you want me to do?"
Gu Wanqiu thought Gong Qing was persuaded by her words, so she opened her mouth and said, "Antidote."
"Want to save Li Jinxing? Gu Wanqiu, you want to be a saint, but I'm not willing to be a saint." Gong Qing didn't speak harshly. This light and indifferent tone made people feel the derogatory meaning in his words.
"I've changed now, but that's because Li Jinxing forced me to do so. And you... you blame me for hiding something from you and lying to you, but when you were involved with Li Jinxing, did you ever think about how I, who was kept in the dark, endured all that?"
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