Chapter 220 Hatred: Everything the Gu family owns will be mine sooner or later.
"Master, don't forget why the Second Miss came back."
Lin Fu felt an inexplicable unease. He felt that A Xin was acting very strangely tonight. There must be something fishy going on. This thought immediately came to his mind.
He genuinely didn't want to see his boss, whom he had served his entire life, get hurt. Over the years, he and Gu Huaikun had long since become close friends.
"What could a young girl like her possibly want? Don't overthink it." Gu Huaikun remained seated in his wheelchair, looking at the flowers and plants in the garden. Suddenly, he glanced towards the orchid garden in the corner of the yard. "Push me to the orchid garden. I want to go there alone and keep Alan company."
Although Lin Fu did not speak, he did as Gu Huaikun said and quickly pushed the wheelchair to Lan Garden.
"You go back and rest. I'll go in alone. I want to stay here tonight."
"Master, no one has lived in Lan Garden for a long time, you..."
"Haven't we always had servants living here? Don't worry, I'll be fine!"
As Gu Huaikun spoke, he patted his knees with both hands, a faint smile on his refined face.
"Alright then, but sir, please remember to call me if you need anything."
Lin Fu was very worried, and even when he left, he kept looking back. But when he looked back, he saw Gu Huaikun alone, wheeling himself into the Orchid Garden. His back looked so lonely and desolate.
With a sigh, Lin Fu returned to his residence despite his unease. Fortunately, his room was not far from Lan Garden, which eased his worries.
Lan Garden, the former bedroom of Gu Huaikun and Nan Lan. After entering the room, Gu Huaikun closed the door and drew the curtains. He looked around and his gaze fell on a group photo on the corner table.
Suddenly, he put his hands on the armrests of his wheelchair, stood up, and walked briskly toward the table where the group photo was placed. He walked the short distance steadily, just like a perfectly normal person.
"Alan, you've been gone for almost sixteen years. All these years, have you... been lonely over there?"
Gu Huaikun held the photo and sat on the bed, gently stroking the two young men in it with his fingers.
In the photo, Nan Lan smiles radiantly, her curved eyebrows filled with gentleness and purity. At first glance, she does bear a striking resemblance to A Xin without makeup. No wonder Gu Huaikun felt a sense of familiarity when he first saw A Xin without makeup.
"Alan, Xiaxia is pregnant now, and you're going to be a grandmother. Aren't you happy? I am very happy. The Gu family will be handed over to her sooner or later. It seems that the baby in her belly will be the third-generation heir of the Gu family. I... am really happy. Xiaxia and Xiao Yan's child will definitely be a smart business genius."
Gu Huaikun's lips curled into an undisguised smile of joy. He was really looking forward to the child in Gu Mingxia's womb. He was going to be a grandfather, and every time he thought about it, his eyes would light up with immense happiness.
"You know, Baihua's daughter is back. She looks a lot like you when she's not wearing makeup, but that's not surprising. You and Baihua looked alike back then. If you two hadn't looked so alike, I wouldn't have mistaken her for you and made such a serious mistake. Alan, you must hate me to death, right? All these years, I've never told you that it was me and Baihua... Only that one time when I was drunk. For so many years after that, I've never touched her, not even the third brother back then or the fourth brother now."
All of this sounds like an incredible tale, but Gu Huaikun remained serious, as if he were lost in deep memories as he spoke.
Both he and Nan Lan were too proud and stubborn. Come to think of it, one was the heir of a wealthy family, and the other was a rich young lady from a noble family. Although they loved each other, they didn't know how to get along.
They both had their own pride, and when conflicts arose, they didn't know how to apologize to each other. The more she forbade him to do something, the more Gu Huaikun felt he had to do it. He would always do things that she disliked or was unhappy about in order to get her attention.
Little did she know that this approach would only push the two of them further apart. In the end, Nan Lan's gaze toward him grew colder and colder, and she refused to see him even as she breathed her last.
Gu Huaikun sighed softly, wiped Nan Lan's face in the photo with his sleeve, and then placed the photo against his heart.
“We’re all getting old. The past is the past, and no amount of saying anything can undo it. What I want to do most now is to thoroughly clean up the Gu Group for Xiaxia. It’s time to get rid of those parasites. I’m old, and my time is running out. There’s not much more I can do for Xiaxia!”
As he said this, Gu Huaikun's eyes were filled with deep fatherly love. However, he soon pictured Ah Xin's bare face tonight.
“Alan, if I give some of the Gu family business to Axin, will you be sad? Of course you will, after all, you hated Baihua so much back then. Because of my momentary lapse of judgment, you two cousins who were so close have turned against each other. I’m so sorry! But you have to understand me. No matter what, Axin is still my flesh and blood. She will eventually call you Aunt. And over the years, I’ve owed her. I want to make it up to her and ensure that she can live a worry-free life for the rest of her life!”
Gu Huaikun spoke calmly, but there was still unease deep in his eyes as he said this. In fact, he also agreed with Lin Fu's words. A Xin was really too abnormal tonight!
Ah Xin sat in the bedroom, facing the computer on the table, her face extremely pale. Through her eyes, she could see the image on the computer screen: Gu Huaikun, holding a photo of Nan Lan, his eyes filled with the tenderness of an eighteen-year-old boy.
If Ah Xin hadn't heard what he said, she would have given him thirty-two thumbs up for his loyalty to Nan Lan. However, she heard about her mother from her own father.
It turns out he didn't love his mother at all; his birth was just a drunken blunder! Ah Xin curled her lips, revealing a cold smile.
Fortunately, she was somewhat moved at dinner and thought that she would rather give up her plans than face her father's love. But now it seems that she was too naive!
Filled with resentment, Ah Xin opened the drawer of the table and took out a transparent bag containing many individually packaged items.
She originally wanted to give up, but now she can't be blamed; the only one to blame is Gu Huaikun for being too ruthless!
"Cai Feng, how much of what are you going to give me at once?"
"So, darling, have you made up your mind yet?"
Cai Feng's voice was teasing, but Ah Xin didn't have time to pay attention to it. She just stared silently at the bag on the table. After a long while, she put the bag back into the drawer. The expression on her face silently told her decision.
"Stop with the nonsense, just tell me how much to use at once and how long it will take to see results!"
Ah Xin asked anxiously, afraid that she might soften her heart and change her mind. Cai Feng laughed a few times on the other end of the phone.
"Don't be in such a hurry, baby! I'd be so happy if you were this impatient with me every time you came over!"
"Are you going to talk or not? If it's not much, then forget it!"
Cai Feng's attitude disgusted Ah Xin, as if in his eyes she was nothing more than an object of venting, and the two of them had nothing else to talk about besides this.
In comparison, she began to miss Gu Huaikun's concern for her at dinner. It's not her fault. When she heard that Gu Huaikun had only been with Bai Hua once after drinking and hadn't touched her for so many years afterward, A Xin angrily shut down the computer and didn't hear Gu Huaikun's words of compensation. She just wondered if she had heard those words, would she still have made the same decision?
"Okay, okay, stop being so harsh! Half a packet at a time, four packets will be effective! But honey, are you really sure? Don't give up halfway through, or I won't let go easily!"
"You talk too much nonsense!"
Ah Xin was very irritated. Cai Feng's words made her even more anxious. In her anger, she didn't bother to be nice to him anymore. She hung up the phone and took out the package from the drawer. Her expression was unpredictable, but in the end, a cold smile appeared on her lips.
"Gu Huaikun, you can't blame me for this! You caused all of this. You'll never know how much pain my mother felt, or how much she loved you! She loved you so much that before she committed suicide, she left me a video, asking me to come back to the Gu family to be filial to you, and not to hate you, or my so-called aunt and sister. But what about you! Haha..."
Ah Xin's laughter was tinged with desolation. She also longed for a father who would love and care for her, but what about Gu Huaikun?
He pretended to be sick and sat in a wheelchair. All of this was to clean up the Gu Group for Gu Mingxia, and even more so to make a wedding dress for the child in Gu Mingxia's belly.
Why is it that Gu Mingxia gets all of this, while she can only exist as an illegitimate child?
No! She was not reconciled, she was absolutely not reconciled!
When Ah Xin thought this, her expression became unusually ferocious, and she gripped the transparent bag tightly with both hands, as if Gu Huaikun and Gu Mingxia were inside.
"Everything in the Gu family will be mine! It will all be mine! Gu Huaikun, Gu Mingxia, you will all die, you will all die!"
The hatred in Ah Xin's eyes was so intense it was frightening, but even so, she still maintained a sliver of rationality. She still had to stay in the Gu family, so no matter what, what she had to do now was to endure!
"Mom, I won't let you die in vain. Don't worry, everything the Gu family has will be ours sooner or later! That day isn't far away!"
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