"What's wrong? Are you in a hurry?" Gu Yao turned to look at her.
Their eyes met, and Zhou Chunhua opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything.
Gu Yao wiped the water off his hands and sat down opposite her.
He just stared at her quietly, his face expressionless, his eyes unfathomable.
Yesterday, when she was enjoying her drink, he had the same expression, listening quietly.
She breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm very pressed for time."
"What do you mean? Divorce, cash out, and go home?"
“No! Not going home.” Zhou Chunhua lowered her head. “I need to find my daughter. And… Nana urgently needs money.”
Gu Yao raised an eyebrow.
She thought Gu Yao would ask about Nini, but to her surprise, Gu Yao asked her instead, "Julina urgently needs money? Although her company is not big, as far as I know, it has never had a major funding gap."
Zhou Chunhua had no choice but to tell Zhu Lina about how many times her daughter had been deceived.
By the end, Zhou Chunhua's eyes had reddened.
"Actually, Nana knew most of the time that the other party was a scammer. But she said that for us it might only be a one percent, one thousandth, one ten thousandth, or one hundred thousandth of a chance, but for Nini it might be the only opportunity. So she secretly spent all the money she had earned over the years on this, which has now led to problems with the company's cash flow."
She's straightforward and easygoing, and although she laughed and said it was okay, the worst that could happen was the company going bankrupt, the company was like her child. "I can't let it just disappear like that."
She looked at Gu Yao, who simply nodded without saying a word, as if waiting for her to continue.
"Besides, I'm short on time. I thought that once I solved this problem, I would take the remaining money and go find my daughter. Over the years, although I've asked people to look for her, the more people involved, the greater the chance of finding her."
Gu Yao's expression was solemn.
"I heard about Nini from Julia's friend. And you've been asking others to look for your child all these years, so why do you suddenly decide to go yourself now?"
Whenever Zhou Chunhua thinks about what happened back then, her fingers tremble uncontrollably.
She habitually clenched her hands into fists to conceal the changes in her body.
Then, with her head down and very calm, she recounted how Liao Nanxing had sent her to a mental hospital.
After catching her breath, she said, "Now that I have a divorce certificate, no one can send me to a mental hospital anymore."
I looked up, and the chair in front of me was empty.
"Hello, Professor Liao..."
Following Gu Yao's voice, I saw him walking towards the balcony while making a phone call.
Professor Liao? It sounds like Liao Nanxing.
But... did Gu Yao really only come to our house once?
The way he walks around here makes it seem like he's at home.
Gu Yao returned very soon.
He pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses.
"Let's eat. Things will become much simpler after that."
Then, just as Gu Yao said, she received the new property ownership certificate that afternoon, even though it would normally take fifteen working days to obtain it.
Even her bank account was working normally by the evening.
Just when Zhou Chunhua thought she was going home, Gu Yao took her to Yunxi Stream instead.
"How did you get here?" she asked.
As before, Gu Yao opened the car door on her side and blocked the door frame with his hand.
She got out of the car in a daze and realized that the small building she had visited with Gu Yao when they pretended to be husband and wife was brightly lit.
"There's something I think you should take a look at." With that, Gu Yao pulled her into the courtyard.
The courtyard has been renovated.
The path that used to be paved with gravel has now been transformed into a mosaic of cobblestones.
The weeds under the courtyard wall are gone, replaced by vibrant green plants.
What was originally a depression in the corner has now become a pond.
The stream on the artificial hill made a tinkling sound.
She couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Didn't you say this place would be sold off?"
Gu Yao nodded: "It will be easier to sell if we tidy it up like this."
Then, Gu Yao entered the password and pushed the door open.
Zhou Chunhua's eyes lit up.
She agreed with what Gu Yao had just said; this warm, pastoral style really gave this originally cold concrete building a sense of warmth.
Before I could even take a closer look, a wonderful aroma wafted towards me.
She looked toward the kitchen, but Gu Yao said, "To save time, I took some time this afternoon to order a home-cooked meal online. We can watch it and eat at the same time."
Gu Yao's time management skills were something she, a housewife of over twenty years, could not understand.
Therefore, she could only passively accept it.
Then Gu Yao pulled her to the dining room.
The dining table was set up warmly, and there were handmade carved candles on it that she had only ever seen on her phone!
It looks very high-end.
"Sit down. I'll go get it." Gu Yao pressed her down into a chair and walked away.
Then, she just stared at the young man in the chef's uniform as he brought the dishes over.
The pungent aroma of spiciness made her take a second look.
The meal consisted of three dishes and a soup, all of which were from her hometown.
"No need to pack, you can go back now." Gu Yao dismissed him directly.
The young man was very polite; before leaving, he smiled and said goodbye to her.
"Come on, let's eat and read at the same time." Gu Yao, who was holding a laptop, dragged a chair over to sit down next to her.
Power on the device and enter the monitoring program.
Then, a completely black screen appeared on the computer.
It is the courtyard of the small building that Liao Nanxing bought for Su Mu next door.
She was watching intently when Gu Yao handed her a bowl filled with rice.
She thanked him, and Gu Yao gestured for her to eat while watching.
Then a car entered the surveillance view from below.
Zhou Chunhua glanced at the time on the screen; it was 11:07 PM.
In the footage, Liao Nanxing got out of the car, looked around carefully, and then went around to the back of the car, opened the trunk, and took out a small suitcase.
That's very strange!
What is Liao Nanxing doing here alone at this time?
What's even stranger is that throughout the whole process, Liao Nanxing looked like a thief.
It didn't feel like going home; it felt more like stealing from someone else's house.
Gu Yao exited the video and started watching another one after Liao Nanxing entered the building in the video.
This is a video of Liao Nanxing leaving the small building empty-handed, getting into a car, and leaving.
"So... what's in that little box?" she asked curiously.
Gu Yao then chose another video.
"Don't worry, there are quite a few videos like this. And this one was recorded after we installed surveillance cameras here. I called you here so you could think about whether there's anything unusual about him during his stay here these past few days?"
Zhou Chunhua glanced at the dates on several videos.
That's really interesting!
The date Liao Nanxing secretly ran here was exactly a few days before he agreed to sign!
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