Chapter 258: Love Begins
Gu Mian slowly raised his head and his eyes met his dark and deep eyes.
"Gu Mian, in the past three years, there has not been a single day that I have not blamed myself for what I did to my mother. You will never understand how much I hate myself."
"Although you returned to Haicheng, I never gave up on you. I sent people to secretly protect you. I bought grandma's old house and asked my uncle to renovate it to look like it did when you lived there. I would stay there for a few days from time to time, because only by living there could I feel closer to you."
"You brought Nian Nian back and said she was Pei Jianchuan's daughter. I thought you had the child with Pei Jianchuan during the days when you lived in seclusion. I hated myself even more and regretted letting you go."
"But in fact, even if Nian Nian is really your daughter, I will snatch you back at any cost."
"But last night, God gave me another surprise. Can you understand how I felt when I found out that Nian Nian was my daughter?"
"That was the happiest moment I've felt in the past three years."
Gu Mian's eyes were sore and tearful.
Li Ting stared at her deeply. "After all the twists and turns between us, we are still inseparable, right?"
"So, Gu Mian, I can't let you go back to Pei Jianchuan unless I die."
"If you really don't want to forgive me, just kill me yourself. I don't want to live without you."
Gu Mian shook his head, "Li Tingshen, don't push me like this."
"I'm not forcing you!" Li Ting said seriously, "I'm just stating my attitude. If you really choose to give up on me... I'll give you the gun."
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On the way to Pei's house, the driver drove the car.
The atmosphere in the carriage was particularly depressing.
The driver in the front seat felt like he was suffocating from the low air pressure.
However, it is normal that both the husband and wife are in a bad mood since Miss Nian Nian was injured.
The driver didn't even dare to breathe and drove quietly.
A sleeping person's mind is in a mess, and his heart is in a mess.
Three years later, Li Tingshen became more extreme.
He had refused to apply medicine to his hand before, and had to ask her to compromise and treat the wound herself.
I said these words again today.
She could feel that if she really insisted on being with Pei Jinchuan, he would definitely hand the gun to her, hold her hand and pull the trigger.
Gu Mian didn't dare to think about it.
This marriage, this love, left them both scarred, and neither of them emerged as a winner.
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Gu Mian packed some things in the Pei family villa and returned to the hospital.
The Rolls-Royce stopped at the hospital entrance and the driver got out and opened the door.
Gu Mian and Li Tingshen had just gotten out of the car when a group of people suddenly rushed in front of them, pointing cameras and cell phones directly at their faces.
Li Ting subconsciously held Gu Mian in his arms to prevent the camera from capturing her.
"What are you doing?" The driver stepped forward to stop them. "Stop taking pictures! Who told you to take pictures randomly?"
"Boss Li, I heard that not only did you not want your own son, but you also beat the child's mother severely. Is that true?"
"Boss Li, I heard that your wife is a doctor at a Chinese medicine clinic. As a doctor, she should be saving lives and healing the wounded, but she has killed someone. Is that true?"
"Not only did he kill someone, he also spent time in jail before. Do you have anything to say about this?"
Li Tingshen's face had already turned as gloomy as water.
He was about to speak when Gu Mian pulled the front of his shirt.
Li Ting lowered his head and saw Gu Mian gently shaking his head at him.
Li Tingshen didn't say anything.
Bodyguards quickly arrived to stop the reporters and escorted the two people to the hospital.
After entering the elevator, Gu Mian finally spoke, "These people must be broadcasting live, that's why they ask such sharp questions. I don't know what kind of criticism you will receive if you open your mouth to clarify for me."
“I’m not afraid of being sprayed.”
"You don't understand how powerful public opinion is. You can't be careless about this matter." Gu Mian asked, "What did you do to Liu Yunxi?"
"She was a bad parent, so she should be punished. I have done my best by not taking her life."
"I suspect she hired these people to make this matter bigger and get what she wants."
Li Ting sneered, "She is really getting stupider and stupider..."
"If this matter is not handled properly, it will definitely have an impact on the MS Group and even on the Chinese Medicine Hall, so we must be cautious in dealing with it."
"I'll let someone else handle the online discussions."
"I think it's too late." Gu Mian said, "The Internet is so advanced nowadays, if something needs to ferment, it will spread very quickly."
"If you suppress the rumors now, people will only think that we are guilty and are using money to silence others."
"Don't be impatient. First see how Liu Yunxi's comments ferment, and then take corresponding countermeasures."
"Okay." Li Ting nodded deeply, "It's just that I'll have to bear all this public opinion."
"I'm fine. As long as it doesn't affect Nian Nian, I can bear anything. And I'm not stupid enough to just bear it and not know how to fight back."
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When I returned to the ward, Nian Nian had already woken up.
Her physical condition was relatively stable, and Pei Jianchuan watched cartoons with her to divert her attention.
Gu Mian stayed with his daughter for a while and then went to the lounge.
Li Tingshen and Chengxu were talking about work.
Gu Mian took out his cell phone to check.
The group of reporters downstairs were indeed broadcasting live, and people on the Internet could see the scene of her and Li Tingshen being surrounded.
The cause of this incident was a video several minutes long posted by a netizen named "何为家" on the Internet.
The video begins with a textual narration, telling how she knew from a young age that she was adopted, living under someone else's roof and cautiously.
She has been working hard since she was young, trying to change her fate through her own efforts, hoping to repay her adoptive family when she grows up.
She had excellent grades and was proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. When she grew up, she became a rich, beautiful woman that everyone envied.
Her love also began to sprout, and she fell in love with her non-blood-related cousin.
However, due to the close relationship between the two, no one broke through the hazy window paper.
She is a person with a moral bottom line, so it is impossible for her to have anything with her cousin. She can only suppress her feelings and go abroad to manage her cousin's overseas business.
While he was abroad, his cousin was arranged by his family to marry a woman he didn't love.
Although she was heartbroken, she sincerely wished him and his cousin's wife happiness.
At this time, her adoptive parents asked her to return home and seduce her successful and wealthy cousin, and also asked her to marry him so as to help her adoptive parents' business.
Of course she didn't want to ruin her cousin's marriage and refused decisively.
However, her adoptive parents used moral kidnapping and PUA on her, asking her to repay their kindness in raising her.
Only then did she realize that her adoptive parents did not adopt her because they really liked her, but wanted to train her to be a tool for them to cling to power and wealth.
She was just a chess piece from beginning to end.
She was unwilling, so her family used other means to force her to get pregnant with her cousin's child.
After she became pregnant, her personal freedom was controlled until she gave birth to the child at full term.
But when her cousin's wife found out about this, she was afraid that her status as a wealthy wife would be affected, so she could not tolerate her and her child and wanted to kill them.
The video begins to show her lying in the hospital receiving treatment.