Sun Chunmei's eyes flickered; "I don't know what you're talking about?"
“You weren’t the only one who saw it; your grandson was too. If you don’t want to talk about it, we can go find him.”
Who exactly are you people?
Gu Huanian looked at the woman and said, "We are soldiers."
"We've come here to find out what happened back then. Auntie, we hope you can tell us what you knew at the time."
"My grandson and I know nothing. Don't disturb his work. It's getting late, you should leave now."
As she spoke, she began shoving Gu Huanian and Liang You, saying, "Get out, get out of my house."
She did see it back then, but so what? That scum deserved to be killed.
If it weren't for him, his daughter wouldn't have been beaten to death back then.
She had wanted that person dead for a long time, so why should she speak out now that someone had done it?
Liang You and Gu Huanian realized it was quite late and decided they should take things slowly.
So he left.
After the two left, Liang You said, "Huan Nian, I can tell that this person knows but is unwilling to say it."
Gu Huanian nodded; "It's okay, as long as she did it, I'm not worried about not being able to find evidence."
He had to do something about how badly his mother had been harmed.
For several days in a row, the two went to see Sun Chunmei, but she refused to speak, insisting that she knew nothing.
Liang You overheard her grandson bragging to someone on the street, and that's how she learned that Chen Shuling's husband hadn't died in an accident.
He had only mentioned it casually to Gu Huanian, but he hadn't expected Gu Huanian to care so much about Chen Shuling.
Seeing that there was no progress, Gu Huanian asked Liang You to keep an eye on things.
He also wanted to go back and investigate how his imposter mother had gotten entangled with Murong Lan's father.
When Gu Huanian got home, it was already noon. Wang Ma had prepared lunch. Chen Shuling wasn't home at noon today.
Gu Aiguo happened to be home as well.
"What have you been busy with lately?" Gu Aiguo asked casually.
Gu Huanian looked at the man in front of her and replied, "I think you probably don't want to know, but do you know? A couple of days ago, I ran into someone on the street who looks exactly like my mother."
Gu Aiguo's eyes were filled with shock; "What did you say? Could you have seen wrong?"
"I'm sure I didn't see wrong. You don't think my mom has a twin sister, do you?" Gu Huanian asked tentatively.
When he said this, he was disappointed in his father. He wanted to ask him if he knew how his mother had been all these years.
"No, no! I've never heard your mother mention it."
Gu Huanian stared intently at him; "Just because it wasn't mentioned doesn't mean it wasn't there, right?"
Gu Aiguo dared not look his son in the eye; "What exactly are you trying to say? Isn't your mother perfectly fine in our family? In this vast world, perhaps the person you see just looks like your mother."
Gu Huanian's eyes were filled with disappointment; "How could my mother have chosen a man like you? You have no sense of responsibility whatsoever. I don't believe you haven't noticed that your bedmate has changed?"
"Smack!"
Enraged, Gu Aiguo stood up and slapped Gu Huanian across the face. "Who taught you to talk nonsense here? She is your mother."
Gu Huanian walked up to him, grabbed Gu Aiguo's collar, and said, "Is she really my mother? Ask yourself honestly! My mother is such a gentle and kind person! What is she? Just a petty thief."
Gu Aiguo's eyes were filled with disbelief; "Huanian, you..."
Gu Huanian sneered, "What? You didn't expect me to find out! Didn't you already know? You almost killed my mother for your own selfish desires? How could I have a father like you? You're disgusting."
After Gu Huanian finished speaking, he couldn't help but kick the table, spilling the soup and water all over the floor.
Gu Aiguo took a deep breath before asking, "Huanian, how is your mother?"
Gu Huanian sneered, "You are not worthy to mention her."
Gu Aiguo slumped onto the stool, dejected. He had actually noticed something was wrong back then; the two had completely different personalities.
One was gentle and tender, the other lively and cheerful—the contrast was so striking. How could he, as a soldier, not know them?
However, after meeting Chen Shuling once, he was deeply attracted to her.
The original Chen Shuqing was too boring and had a dull personality.
At that time, a secret voice in his heart kept telling him that this was his wife, only she had two faces.
He uses this method to deceive himself and indulge in his own desires.
Year after year, he deliberately ignored the fact that the two of them might not be the same person.
Even though Chen Shuqing didn't have heart disease before, he told himself that it was probably something she developed later.
He continued to live in this self-deception, living in a false happiness, until Gu Huanian peeled away the veil of falsehood in his heart, and everything became repulsive.
"Hua Nian, it's all my fault. Don't cause her any trouble."
"You're such a good man, still pleading for that thief even now."
Gu Aiguo's eyes were filled with bitterness. Over the years, Chen Shuling's place in his heart had grown stronger, and he didn't want to lose her.
"She raised you all these years, so even if you don't acknowledge her anymore, don't hurt her in the future. She has a heart condition."
Gu Huanian roared at his biological father, "How dare you say such a thing? Do you know how she treated my mother all these years? That woman locked her up and only allowed her to eat one meal a day. She almost starved to death, do you know that? You only care about your own selfish desires and have forgotten about your wife. You are not worthy of being a soldier, not worthy of being a husband, and not worthy of being my father."
"Hua Nian, are you mistaken? She's not that bad. She couldn't possibly hurt anyone." Even now, Gu Aiguo still can't believe that the person he's loved for so many years has such a character.
But he didn't consider that if she were truly a good person, how could she have done something like substituting one thing for another?
Gu Huanian could no longer contain himself; "Do you think it's difficult for me to find out the truth about something? Or do you just not believe that the woman you've loved for so many years is a selfish and wicked woman?"
Gu Huanian looked at Gu Aiguo with disgust and said, "There's something even more exciting, do you want to know?"
Gu Aiguo looked up at Gu Huanian.
"Do you know why she kept urging me to be with Murong Lan? Because she's having an affair with Murong Cheng. I saw them embracing and kissing with my own eyes. So, is this the woman you love?"
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