Chapter 48: If you die, who will I hate?
"Gu Huaikun, is that person your wife, or is my mother your wife? Forget it, asking this question is pointless. If you really cared about my mother, why would you keep bringing other women home?"
Gu Mingxia gave a mocking smile, but she had no intention of stopping. She looked at Gu Huaikun, who was sitting in the chair with his hand covering his chest, with a hateful gaze, and continued to shout.
"How much suffering did my mother endure to be with you? And what did you do? You'd rather protect another woman than find out the truth about my mother and Adong's deaths! Gu Huaikun, you are truly unworthy of being a husband and a father!"
Gu Huaikun clutched his chest tightly, feeling like he couldn't breathe. His eyes turned red with anger, and he pointed at Gu Mingxia with trembling hands, retorting incoherently.
"You...unfilial daughter...talking nonsense!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Huaikun collapsed from his chair. Gu Mingxia had blood on the corner of her mouth, tears welling in her eyes, her gaze fixed on her so-called father lying on the ground.
Gu Huaikun's eyes were tightly closed, his pale face showing a painful expression, and a trace of clear saliva still clung to the corner of his mouth. But looking at Gu Huaikun, who was in so much pain that he was unconscious, she felt not worry but rather an indescribable feeling.
"Xiaxia, your uncle has fainted! Call an ambulance immediately!"
Xiao Yan knelt on the ground, reached out and examined Gu Huaikun's eyelids, looking at Gu Mingxia with some concern.
"He's definitely just putting on a show because I hit the nail on the head! Let him lie here like that, don't worry about him!"
A sense of foreboding flashed through her mind, but her feelings for her mother and younger brother outweighed everything else, causing Gu Mingxia to automatically ignore the feeling whenever she saw Gu Huaikun.
"Let's call an ambulance, just in case something happens to Uncle..."
"Master, Master!"
Lin Fu rushed in from outside, glared at Gu Mingxia as he passed by, hurriedly pulled a small medicine bottle from his desk drawer, poured out a few white pills and stuffed them into Gu Huaikun's mouth!
"Get the old man to the hospital immediately!"
Xiao Yan picked up Gu Huaikun and rushed out, with Lin Fu following closely behind. Gu Mingxia was stunned for a moment, but still ran after him with a pale face.
Along the way, Xiao Yan ran three red lights before finally getting Gu Huaikun to the nearest Bo'ai Hospital. Once inside the hospital, a doctor immediately rushed Gu Huaikun into the emergency room.
"Young Miss, Master's health is really not good. How could you... how could you make him so angry again!"
Lin Fu looked at Gu Mingxia with a hint of reproach, but Gu Mingxia's eyes were fixed on the emergency room door, and even Xiao Yan had no idea what she was thinking. Xiao Yan tugged at Lin Fu, who was about to continue speaking, but shook his head at him.
Time passed slowly, but the emergency room door remained closed. Gu Mingxia stood there motionless, her hands clasped tightly together. Xiao Yan leaned against the wall, observing Gu Mingxia's every move.
Sigh, this father and daughter are always like Mars clashing with Earth. Every time they meet, it ends in an argument. I really don't know if they were enemies in their past lives!
"Xiao Yan, do you think... he might really be in trouble?"
Gu Mingxia gripped Xiao Yan's arm, her eyes cold. Even when she asked this question, her face remained expressionless. Xiao Yan patted her hand, but before he could speak, Lin Fu spoke first.
"The sir is a lucky man, he will surely be safe and sound!"
As soon as he spoke, he received a cold and sharp look from Gu Mingxia. She still held tightly to Xiao Yan's arm and said sarcastically.
"Of course he'll be fine. Good people don't live long, but bad people live a thousand years! What wrong things has he done? How could he die so young!"
Only Xiao Yan knew how trembling Gu Mingxia's hands were when she said those words. He reached out and pulled her into his arms, offering her comfort through this silent strength.
Lin Fu wanted to retort, but when he looked up, he saw Xiao Yan shaking his head at him. Thinking of Gu Huaikun, who was still in the emergency room, he could only move his mouth silently without saying anything. Xiao Yan, who was looking at him, frowned tightly.
Time continued to pass, and Xiao Yan could feel Gu Mingxia's body trembling slightly in his arms. He unconsciously tightened his grip on her arm.
"Excuse me, is that a patient's family member?"
Finally, the emergency room door opened, and a doctor wearing a mask came out.
"How is he?"
Gu Mingxia rushed to the doctor and grabbed his clothes tightly. Xiao Yan quickly stepped forward, took her hand away, and nodded apologetically to the doctor.
"The patient suffered a cerebral hemorrhage due to agitation. Fortunately, he was brought in in time, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable! In the future, you children must never subject the patient to too much stress again!"
The doctor was used to seeing patients' family members get emotional, so he wasn't surprised by Gu Mingxia's reaction.
Exhausted, Gu Mingxia sat on a bench, leaning back with her eyes closed. When she opened her eyes again, the initial coldness and sharpness had returned.
The nurse wheeled Gu Huaikun into the ICU. Through the glass door, Gu Mingxia looked at Gu Huaikun, who was connected to an oxygen tube, her face expressionless. After a long while, she finally spoke indifferently.
"I'll stay here tonight, you all go home!"
Neither Xiao Yan nor Lin Fu, who were familiar with her personality, refuted her. Xiao Yan walked to her side and patted her on the shoulder.
"Xiaxia, if anything happens, remember to call me."
"Miss, I'll go buy you something and bring it over."
Despite her dissatisfaction with the fact that she had angered Gu Huaikun to the point of hospitalization, Lin Fu did not object to her request to stay overnight to take care of him. After all, he was her biological father, and she had no reason to do anything malicious!
In the middle of the night, Gu Mingxia received the doctor's permission to enter the ICU wearing a sterile gown. Looking at the lifeless Gu Huaikun, she suddenly realized that, without her noticing, the cold, ruthless, domineering Gu Huaikun had aged. There were even white hairs at his temples, and fine wrinkles appeared at the corners of his handsome eyes.
Standing by the bedside, gazing intently at the only person in the world with whom she shared blood ties, Gu Mingxia clenched her hands tightly. As she released them, her clear, cold voice echoed through the ward.
"Gu Huaikun, you can't die until I find out the real cause of Mom and Adong's deaths! If you die like this, who will I hate? They say bad people live a thousand years, and you've done so many bad things, you absolutely can't die!"
After saying those words, Gu Mingxia didn't stay any longer and resolutely turned and left the ICU. However, she didn't see that as she turned to leave, Gu Huaikun's fingers twitched slightly, and his lips trembled as he opened and closed his mouth. If you looked closely, you could see that he was calling out, "Xiaxia, Xiaxia!"
The next day, Xiao Yan rushed over early in the morning. When he saw Gu Mingxia looking haggard and leaning against a chair outside the ICU ward, he quickly squatted down and took her hand.
"Xiaxia, don't worry, your uncle will be alright!"
"Worry? Why should I worry? He condoned other women who caused the deaths of my mother and Adong, why should I worry about his life or death!"
Gu Mingxia pulled her hand away from Xiao Yan's, glanced coldly at the closed glass door, stood up, and walked out in her high heels. Xiao Yan originally wanted to ask the doctor about Gu Huaikun's condition, but seeing Gu Mingxia walking away, he turned around and followed her.
"I'll take you home."
"No need, take me to the Gu family's old house!"
She directly rejected Xiao Yan's suggestion. Sitting in the car, Xiao Yan looked at the exhausted Gu Mingxia and felt a pang of heartache.
"Take a nap in the car. I'll wake you up when we get to the Gu family's old house!"
Xiao Yan drove smoothly, and the car quickly left the city and headed towards the northern suburbs, just outside the manor.
The Gu family's old house is located in a farmhouse in the northern suburbs, where the elders of the Gu family and influential figures in the family live.
Xiao Yan didn't know why Gu Mingxia wanted to go back to the Gu family's old house. To him, whether he knew or not was not important. What mattered was that he just had to follow Xiaxia's instructions!
Upon arriving at the old house, Gu Mingxia got out of the car as soon as it came to a complete stop.
Before her stood a large courtyard-style mansion. Gu Mingxia glanced up at the large plaque above her head, which bore the two gilded characters "Gu Mansion," and a faint smile appeared on her lips.
"I want to see Uncle Seven!"
Stepping into the mansion and passing through the long courtyard, they arrived at the main house where the most authoritative elder in the family lived. Seeing someone sweeping the yard, Gu Mingxia stood in the yard and spoke loudly.
"Cough cough... cough cough... Who's making so much noise here so early in the morning?"
A series of urgent coughs came from the main room, followed by a hoarse but powerful voice.
"Seventh Uncle, I am Gu Mingxia. There are some questions I would like to ask you personally!"
Silence fell over the room, and after a while, a cough could be heard.
"Ahem... So you're Huaikun's maid. Come in!"
Gu Mingxia stepped into the main house and saw an elderly man, about eighty years old, with completely white hair and beard, lying on a recliner inside.
"Girl, what are you doing here at this old man's place so early in the morning?"
"Seventh Uncle, I recently received some information that the causes of my mother's and A-Dong's deaths are suspicious. They didn't die from complications; it's very likely they were murdered. So, I came here specifically to ask you for clarification!"
The Gu family is a very traditional large family. The family has always kept records of the birth, aging, illness and death of the heads of each branch and family. Even if they keep it a secret from outsiders, they do not hide the family history at all.
Uncle Qi turned his head and looked at Gu Mingxia's unusually determined eyes. After a long while, he lay back down on the recliner, constantly turning the Spring Never Ending in his hand, the crisp sound echoing in the room.
Just as Gu Mingxia was losing patience, Seventh Uncle finally spoke in a heavy tone.
"Girl, the past is the past, why bother bringing it up again?"
These words seemed to explain everything. Gu Mingxia looked at her seventh uncle with resentment, her anger evident on her face.
"As expected, my mother's and A-Dong's deaths were both related to her. Seventh Uncle, why are you all so desperately protecting her? Fine, since you're all going to protect her, then I'll reveal her name... she..."
"Girl, sometimes your eyes can deceive you! Let me give you a piece of advice: don't take things too seriously. Often, when you do, you're the one who gets hurt!"
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