Chapter 166 The Mad Aunt's Love Turns to Hate!
Gu Beichen helped Su Yue up and slowly spoke.
His voice wasn't loud, but it was like a heavy lead weight hitting the center of the living room, instantly sucking all the air out of the room.
Just moments ago, Gu Beixiao and Chu Jingya were at each other's throats, but now it was as if the pause button had been pressed. The anger on their faces froze, and they stood there dumbfounded.
The eyes of the rest of the Gu family also focused on Chu Jingya.
Gu Beichen's expression changed.
All the warmth in those eyes, which were always full of tenderness and doting, has vanished, replaced by scrutiny, inquiry, and a chilling coldness.
He was like a startled tiger; though he didn't roar, the dangerous aura emanating from his very bones enveloped the entire living room.
What he held in his arms was his whole world, a treasure he was willing to protect with his life.
Anyone who dares to make her show such an expression is his enemy.
Chu Jingya felt a chill run down her spine from his gaze, and her legs trembled.
She opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word; her mind went completely blank.
She knew she had said the wrong thing, that she had revealed a huge secret that she shouldn't have said.
"Yueyue, I...I didn't mean to..." she said, looking at Su Yue with a sob in her voice.
Su Yue quickly recovered from the dizzying shock.
She felt Gu Beichen's arm around her shoulder tightening, his muscles taut like iron.
This man was expressing his anger and protectiveness in his own way.
A warm feeling welled up in Su Yue's heart. She gently patted Gu Beichen's hand, signaling him to calm down.
Then, she looked up at Chu Jingya, whose face was pale and who was at a loss for what to do.
The shock and pain from before had been forcibly suppressed in those clear eyes, replaced by a reassuring gentleness.
"Jingya, don't be afraid."
Su Yue's voice was very soft and gentle, like a spring breeze brushing across a lake.
"Come here and sit over here."
She pulled Gu Beichen aside, making room for Chu Jingya.
Chu Jingya seemed to have found her pillar of support, and almost involuntarily moved over, carefully sitting down on the edge of the sofa, as nervous as a prisoner awaiting trial.
"I'm fine."
Su Yue reassured the worried Gu family members before turning back to Chu Jingya.
"I'm just... too curious about what happened to my father back then."
She lowered her eyes, her voice carrying just the right amount of vulnerability and confusion.
“You know, I’ve never had a father since I was a child. Everyone told me he was a traitor. Now that he’s finally been proven to be a hero, I still know nothing about him.”
"You just said... what exactly happened between your aunt and Huo Shouzhen?"
These words were spoken with sincerity and without a trace of questioning, only the younger generation's curiosity and exploration of the elders' past.
This is more effective at disarming people than Gu Beichen's cold scrutiny.
Chu Jingya's eyes immediately reddened.
Looking at Su Yue's pale face, and thinking of all the grievances she had suffered since childhood, she felt an overwhelming sense of guilt and regret.
Coupled with the anger she felt from being angered by that bastard Gu Beixiao, the two emotions intertwined, causing her to completely lose control.
"It's all my aunt's fault! Chu Yanran! She's a crazy woman spoiled rotten by my grandma!"
Chu Jingya seemed to have found an outlet, and she poured out all the resentment that had been building up in her heart for many years.
“Our family and the Huo family were old friends. My aunt, Chu Yanran, was spoiled and domineering from a young age, always getting whatever she wanted. At that time, Captain Huo Shouzhen was a promising young man, the most dazzling rising star in the military region, and my aunt took a liking to him at first sight!”
"She thought all the men in the world should fall at her feet, so she sent my grandmother to the Huo family to propose marriage."
At this point, Chu Jingya curled her lip in disdain.
"And what happened? Captain Huo Shouzhen is an upright person and didn't like her arrogant behavior at all. More importantly, he already had someone in his heart at that time!"
Su Yue's heart clenched suddenly.
"Who is the person in his heart...?" She heard her own voice trembling slightly.
Chu Jingya glanced at her and said cautiously, "It's...it's your mother, Aunt Chen Shuting. Back then, they were deeply in love and were the envy of everyone in the compound."
really.
Su Yue closed her eyes, forcibly suppressing the surging sour feeling.
"Then what?"
"And then my aunt was rejected in public!"
Chu Jingya's tone was full of disdain for her relatives.
"Who is Chu Yanran? She's a pampered young lady who can do whatever she wants in the Beijing compound. She's never suffered such humiliation in her life. She felt completely humiliated on the spot and has hated Captain Huo Shouzhen ever since!"
"She thinks Captain Huo made her lose face in public because of your mother; it's simply love turned to hate!"
"From that day on, she went crazy!"
Chu Jingya lowered her voice, as if she were talking about some shameful family secret.
“She keeps whispering in my grandma’s ear, saying that Captain Huo Shouzhen looks down on our Chu family, that he’s arrogant and doesn’t know what’s good for him! She even makes baseless accusations that he associates with people of bad class background and that he has ideological problems!”
“My grandma dotes on her daughter the most, she treats her like a precious gem. Hearing my aunt say this every day, she also started to have a prejudice against Captain Huo.”
"Later...didn't Captain Huo go on a mission?"
Chu Jingya's voice lowered, tinged with fear.
“When the news of his accident came back, he was labeled a ‘traitor’... My aunt, she... she was at home, and she was even a little smug.”
“I heard her say to my grandmother with my own ears, ‘Now look how arrogant that ungrateful man can be! This is what happens when he offends the Chu family!’”
"She said that she made that ungrateful man pay the price he deserved!"
Every word was like a poisoned knife, stabbing precisely into Su Yue's heart.
She always believed that her father's tragedy stemmed from the betrayal of the traitor "Vulture" and from Su Guohua's despicable nature.
But she never expected that there was such a vicious hand pulling the strings behind the scenes!
Just because of rejection, just because of ridiculous jealousy and resentment, the Chu family mother and daughter used the most vicious pillow talk and their family's power to pour boiling oil on the father's already difficult situation and ruthlessly trample on him!
They were also the murderers who killed their father!
A bone-chilling coldness spread from the soles of Su Yue's feet all the way to her limbs and bones, finally gathering in her heart and solidifying into a block of ice that would never melt.
The color drained from her face, and her lips turned pale.
Gu Beichen was heartbroken beyond measure. He disregarded everything else and immediately pulled his wife's cold body into his arms, using his own body heat to warm her.
"Yueyue..."
Su Yue leaned against his strong chest, listening to his steady and powerful heartbeat, and her wildly beating heart slowly calmed down.
A boundless hatred churned deep within her eyes, but in the end, it transformed into a still, stagnant calm.
She took a deep breath and straightened up slightly from Gu Beichen's embrace.
She looked at Chu Jingya, whose face was full of guilt and who was almost crying, and spoke again.
This time, her voice no longer carried the gentleness and vulnerability of before, but only a calmness devoid of any emotion.
"Your grandma and your aunt."
Where do they live now?
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