Chapter 246 Father and Son, Gui Zhong's Confession (Thanks to the leader of "Seven Star Night White Dove")
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the endless strong wind was accompanied by the wail of muffled thunder. Cumulonimbus clouds swept in darkly, and blazing white lightning snakes danced between the overwhelming clouds.
At this moment, the dark and silent living room was shrouded in the sound of heavy rain.
Gu Qinye and Gu Zhuoan stood facing each other across a long entrance hall.
A flash of lightning lengthened Gu Zhuo'an's shadow, casting it on the wooden floor, and the wind chimes tied to the ceiling swayed rapidly.
"Qi Ye, I have something to tell you."
Gu Zhuoan lowered his head and stood motionless at the door, letting the wind and rain outside hit his body.
"Is there anything you can't just say directly?" Gu Qinye looked at the man standing at the door in confusion.
He didn't understand why this man just stood there motionless in the rain. Could it be that he had done something wrong again?
After a long silence, Gu Zhuoan suddenly said, "Qiye... don't join Hongyi."
His voice was hoarse, and his tone sounded like a plea, but it also contained anger that was difficult to conceal.
Gu Qiye was slightly startled, then raised his head and looked at him: "Who did you hear this from?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly froze in place.
Thunder rumbled, and at that moment, bright white lightning broke through the cumulonimbus clouds and lit up the sky.
In the flash of light, Gu Qiye suddenly saw the mask held in Gu Zhuo'an's right hand. He stared blankly at the silver-black breathing mask, his pupils contracted to the extreme, his lips moved, but he could not speak.
Gu Qiye's body was trembling in the increasingly loud wind and rain. Gu Zhuo'an turned his back to the wind and rain, lowered his head and turned his face away, not daring to look him in the eye.
"It's you...it's you...why?"
Gu Qinye slowly lowered his head, stepped back step by step, and murmured hoarsely.
A moment later, he bumped into the wall of the entrance hall, and his falling hair covered his eyes.
Gu Qiye suddenly understood why he saw that dark figure at the auction and why he heard a deafening bell at that time.
He recalled the crimes that Gui Zhong had committed in the past few years:
He provokes Hong Yi on TV time and time again, but never attacks ordinary people. Every time he appears on camera, he attacks those supernatural police officers who cross the line, or destroys expensive cultural relics.
That's because the Gu Zhuo case is attracting official attention in every way possible without violating its own principles.
He hoped that one day the group of powerful monsters named "Rainbow Wings" would come and punish him, and on that day, he would finally be able to find out the truth about his wife's death.
After a moment, the silence shrouding the entrance was finally broken.
Gu Zhuoan opened his mouth and said word by word:
"Qi Ye, don't join Hong Yi. That's their trap. If you join Hong Yi, there's no turning back."
Gu Qiye lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, then asked in a hoarse voice:
"Why... didn't you tell me earlier?"
"I will investigate thoroughly... Dad will investigate the truth behind Mom's death. You don't need to interfere."
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Everything will be fine. I'll make everything right. You can stop and live a normal life like any other kid."
"I'm asking you a question. Why didn't you tell me earlier? You disappeared for several years without saying a word... Are you Gui Zhong? You've become a criminal! Maybe we won't even know when you die outside! Are you going to keep it a secret from us forever? If you were killed by Hong Yi's people, how would we know where you went? Are you going to disappear suddenly like that? Have you ever thought about... what to do with us?"
"I'm just... worried that you will be affected. I hope you can live a normal life and go to school well, so I left here."
"It's too late!"
Gu Qiye growled, raised his head, and stared at Gu Zhuo'an coldly: "Xiaomi is gone too. She became an exorcist. Are you satisfied with this?"
"I know, but there is still room for recovery..."
"You have no idea! She went to Tokyo and worked as a bodyguard for the auction! She almost died, just a little bit! If you were at home, if you could care about us a little more, would this happen?"
Gu Zhuoan lowered his head and whispered:
"I know I've never been a good father, but just this once, I hope you can trust your dad and stay away from Hong Yi. Don't rush into a flame... They are using you, and Black Pupa is using you too."
Gu Qinye leaned against the wall and slowly sat down.
He lowered his voice: "You shouldn't have come back... You shouldn't even tell me that you are the damn ghost clock. What do you want to say now? You want to say that you are also working hard for your mother, so let us forgive you?"
"Don't join Hongyi..." Gu Zhuoan said, "Let it end like this, let Blue Arc disappear, and then... I will end everything. I will handle Su Ying's affairs and Hongyi's affairs by myself. I am not such a coward that I need my own child to do such a dangerous thing."
"And then? You thought you could come back alive as a criminal."
"I may... never come back."
Gu Qiye was stunned. The moment he heard these words, he could no longer suppress the anger in his heart. It was as if there was a fire burning, about to burn his entire chest.
"Then get out of here!" he growled. "You're just an asshole, an asshole who only has himself in his eyes. But now you suddenly come out hypocritically. Do you know what I've been through in the past few years?"
"Qiye, that's enough... You've done enough over the years, so leave it all to me..." Gu Zhuoan said hoarsely, "Dad, I beg you, don't get close to Hongyi, those people are very dangerous, you don't know what will happen if you join Hongyi..."
"Do I need you to take care of me?" Gu Qiye suddenly smiled, his drooping hair covering his eyes. "Do you know why I chose to become a stranger in the first place?"
"Why?"
"Because I see a drunk man every day when I go home. I want to cheer this man up and make him realize that even though his mother is gone, there are still several children at home waiting for him to cheer up. But I can't do it... I didn't do it. No matter how hard I tried, you never looked at me straight in the eye even once, so I became a walker. I have always thought that if I can investigate the truth about my mother, the reliable father from before will come back."
Having said this, Gu Qiye paused for a moment and looked down at the floor:
"But you left...you left without saying a word."
Gu Zhuoan was stunned. He slowly raised his head and looked at the young man sitting on the ground in astonishment. The wind and rain outside the window were getting stronger and stronger, almost whistling, and his back was completely wet.
After a long silence, Gu Qiye suddenly asked hoarsely:
"Tell me... why did you save me that time at the auction?"
"Because I am...your..."
It was clear that the words in his heart were like a tide, rushing to his throat and almost drowning him, but Gu Zhuoan couldn't say them. He didn't know if he was still qualified to call himself a father, and he didn't know if he was still a father in the eyes of this child.
He had done too many wrong things, too many to undo. The last cold words rang out in the entrance, interrupting his thoughts:
"I will join Rainbow Wing."
"No! You absolutely cannot..."
Gu Qiye raised his head abruptly and interrupted him: "I said, I will join Hongyi! Why do you care about me? I will investigate the truth about my mother, but not for you, not for you this time! It's for myself. I have worked hard for so many years, so many years... Why, why can't I get a good result? Why should I accept the fact that I am a waste? Why do you want me to give up?"
He paused and shouted hoarsely:
"Everything I did was wrong anyway, right? No matter how hard I tried, I would still be the same as before! Even after school, when I tried my best to make the house look like a human being and clean up all the messes for you, you never looked at me, not even once."
He suddenly laughed, "Even in these few years...you wanted to kill me many times, didn't you?"
Gu Zhuo'an lowered his head and tried to defend himself feebly: "That's because I didn't know at that time. I didn't know you were Lan Hu at all..."
Gu Qinye smiled with relief.
His voice suddenly calmed down, and he said weakly and hoarsely:
"Yeah, of course you don't know. It's because you never knew, but now you pretend that you understand me very well, so it's disgusting..."
Gu Zhuo remained silent.
Gu Qiye did not even raise his head, his lips moved slightly, and he spoke slowly:
"Go...don't let me see you again."
Gu Zhuoan lowered his eyes and stared at the ground: "Don't worry, Qiye... Dad will take care of everything." After saying that, he clenched the mask of Gui Zhong, turned around and walked into the wind and rain, his stern back being swallowed up by the overwhelming rain.
A moment later, a sudden thunder rumbled down.
Gu Qinye was suddenly startled, slowly raised his head, and turned to look at the figure standing in the living room.
Gu Wenyu walked over slowly without saying a word, sat down beside him, lowered his head and said nothing.
After a moment, Gu Wenyu suddenly spoke and said in a low voice:
"Brother, didn't you say... that you wanted to reconcile with Dad?"
Gu Qiye opened his mouth slightly, but could not speak. He lowered his head, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and his Adam's apple moved up and down.
Gu Wenyu raised his head and looked at the heavy rain outside. Even the shoe cabinet and the floor of the entrance were wet, so he moved into the darkness of the entrance and closed the door.
At this moment, the sound of wind and rain was isolated, and the whole world seemed to be quiet, with only the rustling sound of the TV malfunctioning. After standing there for a while, Gu Wenyu slowly walked back.
He lowered his eyes to look at Gu Qiye who was sitting on the ground and asked softly:
"Brother... is it Dad's birthday tomorrow? Are we still going to order our cake?"
Gu Qinye still didn't speak.
After waiting for a long time, Gu Wenyu whispered, "Is that so... forget it then."
He squatted down and put the phone next to Gu Qiye. "I'll give it back to you. Tell the boss that I don't want the cake I ordered from him anymore."
After saying that, Gu Wenyu turned around and went upstairs without looking back.
Gu Qiye was the only one left at the entrance.
After a long silence, he slowly raised his head, leaned the back of his head against the wall, and breathed deeply, over and over again.
"Mom, what should I do?"
(End of this chapter)
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