Gu Hanchuan sat in his wheelchair, gazing at the large tree outside the window, quietly awaiting the "bloodshed" that would erupt after the arrival of the Gu family mother and daughter.
Qian Lai stood beside his wheelchair, his expression serious like a little squirrel defending the lion king, small but full of "killing intent".
Xiao Li was the last person who wanted to see the Gu family harass their leader, because it was too difficult to maintain a proper balance during that time.
If an enemy attacks the commander, he will fight with all his might to defend or kill them. However, these are the commander's family members.
Every impact was etched into his memory. He felt a chill in his heart, so he stood a little further away.
With Comrade Qian's help this time, there probably won't be any more conflicts!
However, as soon as Cheng Fangping pulled Gu Yue into the room, Xiao Li was stunned by the other party's destructive power.
"Gu Hanchuan, I'm asking you, with such a major incident happening in your family, are you going to take care of it or not?"
As soon as Cheng Fangping entered the room, she went straight to Gu Hanchuan, but was stopped by Xiao Li in front of the bed, which made her even angrier. With a "smack," she slammed the newspaper onto the bed.
"They're bullying the Gu family. Aren't you going to do anything about it?"
Qian Lai stepped forward, took the newspaper, and looked at it—the front page of the Metropolitan Daily had a headline that read, "Official's daughter, arrogant and domineering, destroys public property worth thousands of yuan; powerful backer, acts shamelessly, injures people, and refuses to pay compensation."
The subtitle is: Who exactly gave them this courage?
Below the title is a large image composed of three photos.
Qian Lai looked closely and saw that one photo showed the state of the two doors in the private room at the State Guest Hotel that day. The middle photo was a close-up of Gu Yue's face. And the last photo was a close-up of a man's face with a huge scratch.
She handed the newspaper to Gu Hanchuan, who glanced at it but calmly returned it to Qian Lai, asking in an icy tone, "Is what's written here true?"
Cheng Fangping and Gu Yue immediately showed guilty expressions.
Gu Yue hesitated for a long time before slowly speaking.
“They came to our house demanding money the day after the incident. My mother was so angry with them that she impulsively kicked them out. Who knew they were prepared and had brought reporters with them.”
"So, you did refuse to pay compensation and even injured someone?"
Gu Hanchuan's voice revealed yet another disappointment with the Gu family mother and daughter.
"Yes, I did resort to violence, but looking back, every single thing they said was deliberately meant to provoke me."
Cheng Fangping spoke with righteous indignation. Over the years, her personality had become increasingly domineering, and she had completely lost the upbringing of the Cheng family, making her far inferior to her older sister, Cheng Fang'an.
"I just think they're deliberately trying to extort money. Xiaoyue told me about it. It's all this woman's fault. If it weren't for her, how could Xiaoyue have lost her temper?"
Besides, 1200 for two doors—what else could this be but extortion?!
Still speaking Shanghainese, still arrogant and overbearing.
But it was clear that Cheng Fangping was furious this time and had almost lost her composure.
"Now, this newspaper is constantly taking photos of our house. Xiaoyue's workplace and Hanze's school are all staffed by their people."
They even know everything about your father and your second uncle.
Gu Hanze, you have to find a way to solve this.
Your dad gets gossiped about at work every day. This time, your second uncle won't be involved to avoid suspicion. So, now it's all up to you.
A deathly silence.
Gu Hanchuan remained facing the window, saying nothing.
This made Cheng Fangping and Gu Yue even more uneasy.
After a long silence, Gu Hanchuan coldly uttered a few words: "How do you intend to resolve this?"
"Make them retract the report and apologize."
"What about compensation?"
"I won't pay a single penny in compensation. It's not my responsibility to pay. This whole thing started because of this woman, so if anyone should pay, it's you."
This answer was exactly what Gu Hanchuan expected, but it still shattered Qian Lai's worldview.
“I know very well what happened that day. It was clearly Gu Yue who was being unreasonable. Qian Lai was just having dinner with friends, and she took it all up. So Qian Lai bears no responsibility whatsoever.” Gu Hanchuan then turned his wheelchair around to face the Gu mother and daughter, his eyes as cold as knives.
"Brother, I didn't... I was just trying to protect you!" Gu Yue started acting all tearful again, as if she had suffered a great injustice.
Gu Hanchuan ignored her and continued, "There was indeed a reporter at the time, but I heard him say he was a reporter from the Evening News. Now, however, it's the Metropolitan Daily reporting on it. If the shop owner only wanted to claim compensation, they wouldn't have made such a big fuss about it."
But what if someone is trying to sabotage the Gu family...?
Gu Hanchuan paused, raised his eyes to scan the mother and daughter opposite him, and after a moment, said, "You yourself said that the person deliberately wanted to provoke you."
Afterwards, his second uncle was also dragged into it, which prevented him from speaking up for the Gu family and also made him unable to escape responsibility.
Clearly, the motives of those behind this are not so simple.
"Ah?" Gu Yue was genuinely terrified and burst into tears.
Cheng Fangping, despite her extensive experience, was still terrified, her legs going weak. After all, the other party was in the shadows, while they were in the open. They didn't know who the other party was, nor what their next move would be.
"Hanchuan, then you need to think of a solution even more." Cheng Fangping took a few steps forward, but was nailed to the spot by her son's cold and sharp aura.
"There are solutions, but I'm afraid you won't listen."
"I'll do anything except pay you money and apologize," Cheng Fangping said stubbornly.
She just couldn't understand it. Her son was a key figure in the military, a deputy division commander. If he spoke up, wouldn't any newspaper have to immediately retract its article and apologize?
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