Chapter 186 Old Mrs. Chu's "Sacrifice of Family for the greater good"
Old Mrs. Chu could no longer hear what the housekeeper said after that.
She felt a bone-chilling cold rush from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head.
The first card she played not only failed to harm her opponent in the slightest, but also cost her a key player she had been hiding for many years!
The other party... the other party actually predicted all her moves!
Furthermore, in an even more ruthless and decisive way, they severed her arm!
At this moment, for the first time, the old lady of the Chu family, who had held sway over Beijing for decades, felt fear.
"Smack!"
A crisp sound broke the deathly oppressive atmosphere in the living room.
Grandma Chu's most beloved Jianzhan teacup was smashed to the ground, shattering into pieces, with tea and tea leaves splashing all over the floor.
Her wrinkled face was contorted with extreme anger, and her chest heaved violently.
"Good! Well done, Gu Jia!"
"What a wonderful Su Yue!"
She squeezed out those words through clenched teeth, her voice hoarse like a broken bellows.
Director Ma has been arrested.
The charges were harboring enemy agents' families and leaking military intelligence.
Once this label is pinned on him, not even a god could save Director Ma, let alone himself.
The first card she played not only failed to harm Su Yue in the slightest, but was instead dealt a devastating blow by the opponent, severing one of the arms she had cultivated over many years!
This is neither an accident nor a coincidence.
The other party anticipated all her actions and, through a channel she couldn't understand at all, stabbed her directly to the highest level!
This is no longer a minor power struggle within the household.
This is an attempt to uproot her and the entire Chu family!
For the first time, Old Mrs. Chu felt fear, a chilling feeling of being targeted by an unknown beast and about to be torn to pieces.
However, before she could even catch her breath, the Gu family's second, even more intense attack had already begun.
"Madam! Something terrible has happened! Something terrible has happened!"
The butler stumbled in, his face drained of color, and his voice trembled.
"Outside...a lot of people in uniforms have arrived! They say it's a joint investigation team from the Industry and Commerce Bureau and the Tax Bureau!"
"They...they seized all of the young lady's shops and properties!!"
"What?!"
Grandma Chu suddenly stood up, her vision went black for a moment, her body swayed, and she almost fell to the ground.
The butler, his voice trembling with tears, continued, "The bank called too, saying that all of Miss's accounts have been frozen! Not a single penny can be withdrawn!"
The economic lifeline has been completely severed!
Chu Yanran's shops and properties have been the Chu family's main source of income over the years.
Now, it's all over!
The news spread faster than the wind.
In less than half a day, the area in front of the Chu family's house had completely changed.
Those relatives and friends who usually tried their best to get in and called her "Madam" and "Sister Yanran" more affectionately than anyone else, all disappeared without a trace as if they were avoiding a plague.
A few servants wanted to go out to buy some groceries, but as soon as they reached the alley entrance, they were pointed at and spat on by their former neighbors, who called them "traitor's lackeys."
For the first time, the Chu family's gate became deserted, so quiet that one could hear the rustling of the wind through the leaves.
When a wall falls, everyone pushes it down; when a tree falls, the monkeys scatter.
The truest aspects of human nature were on full display at this moment.
Despite her extreme fear and anger, Old Mrs. Chu unexpectedly displayed a surprising calmness.
She slowly sat back in the armchair, her cloudy eyes flashing with a venomous ruthlessness and decisiveness.
She knew that if she didn't make a choice soon, the entire Chu family would be dragged down and perish together.
Amputation to survive!
This is her only way to survive!
She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and when she opened them again, there was no longer any struggle or hesitation in her eyes.
She picked up the phone and dialed the police station's number herself.
When the call was connected, her voice was calm and composed, even carrying a hint of heartache and indignation as an elder who had "sacrificed family for the greater good."
"Hello, is this the police station? I need to report a crime."
"My daughter, Chu Yanran, is mentally unstable and her behavior is uncontrollable."
"I suspect... I suspect she's been used by enemy agents overseas!"
"Yes, she has an overseas account that frequently receives remittances from unknown sources. I also have some letters from her dealings with other people, which are rather cryptic and I can't understand them. You can send someone to collect them; these should be evidence!"
She personally pushed her only daughter into an abyss of no return.
...
Family-oriented.
When Gu Beichen told Su Yue about Old Madam Chu's bizarre act of "sacrificing family for the greater good," Su Yue was sipping the chicken soup that Zhang Huilan had prepared.
She didn't even lift her eyelids, only a cold smile curled at the corner of her mouth.
"That old fox is indeed ruthless."
"She thinks that sacrificing a daughter who has gone insane can fix the leaky ship that is the Chu family? She's dreaming too much."
Gu Beichen looked at her, his eyes full of doting: "So what do we do next?"
Su Yue put down the soup bowl, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and her beautiful eyes gleamed with calculation.
“She wanted to amputate her arm to survive, so I told her what it means to ‘not be able to save you even with amputation, I suggest you be cremated directly.’”
She went to the study and asked Gu Beichen to bring out the long-forgotten list of traitors.
She did not intend to hand over the entire list.
Such a commotion would be too great, easily alerting the big fish on the list who are already in high positions, giving them time to prepare.
What she's going to do is play a more sophisticated psychological game.
Su Yue's finger slowly traced across the yellowed list, finally landing precisely on a few names.
"This, this, and this."
Her voice was soft and cold.
“These three people were all promoted by Old Madam Chu back then. They were her last foundation and connections in the military.”
"We anonymously sent the information of these three people to the military region's security department."
"I want her to watch helplessly as her wings are plucked one by one, turning her from a respected old lady into a lonely old woman that everyone wants to trample on!"
Several unsigned letters were quietly dropped into the complaint mailbox of the military region's security department.
The security department received the report and immediately took it very seriously.
A secret arrest operation unfolded silently under the cover of night.
Over the next few days, the situation in the Beijing Military Region appeared calm on the surface, but undercurrents were surging beneath.
A deputy director of the logistics department was having tea in his office when he was politely "invited" away by two plainclothes officers.
The head of an equipment department was taken away from his home in the middle of the night. The neighbors only heard a few suppressed gasps, and then there was no more sound.
Another retired cadre was playing chess in the park when he was taken away in a black car without license plates.
Within three days, three seemingly unrelated cadres disappeared silently from everyone's sight.
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