Perhaps due to excessive force, Shen Zhi Qiu felt a slight pain in her wound and couldn't help but frown.
Lu Jia was startled by Shen Zhi Qiu's sudden action. Seeing her frowning, she guessed that she had aggravated her wound, so she quickly stepped forward, took her hand, and asked with concern, "Does it hurt?"
Gu Ningning was completely bewildered. In her mind, it seemed that she was the one who got hit, but Shen Zhi Qiu was concerned about whether the hand that hit her hurt.
"Lu Jia, are you out of your mind? Wasn't I the one who got beaten up? Why do you care if Shen Zhi Qiu is in pain?" Gu Ningning shouted at the top of her lungs.
"So what?" Lu Jia glanced at her coldly. "You got beaten because you deserved it!"
Upon hearing this, Gu Ningning's thin lips pressed into a straight line, and her face turned sinister. "Heh, what do you think you are? You think you've succeeded just because you're with Shen Zhi Qiu?"
"Let me tell you, the child Shen Zhi Qiu gave birth to is my Gu family's child, and it will bear the Gu surname, not yours, understand?! My two children and I are the real family! You'll never be one!"
"Oh," Lu Jia said calmly, "So what? You also have the surname Gu, but is the Gu family protecting you now? Is Gu Qingyan protecting you? Is this something that can be done simply based on blood ties?"
Gu Ningning was annoyed by the retort, and a ferocious smile appeared on her delicate face. She tried to break free of the ropes binding her and shouted, "It's all because of that bitch Shen Zhi Qiu! Otherwise, my brother would be so good to me! I hate that I didn't strike more often before. If she could stop me once, how could she have escaped every time!"
"That must have been a real hardship for you," Shen Zhi Qiu said with a sneer, "You got angry with me because of Xiao Wan Qing, and even treated me like an enemy, wishing me dead. But isn't Xiao Wan Qing hiding now and afraid to come out? Did she stand up to save you? You've been used as a pawn without even realizing it."
Why would you give up being a perfectly good young lady to become an accomplice to a murderer?
"So what can you do to me?" Gu Ningning laughed wildly. "That time at the art exhibition, I pushed you down the stairs but you didn't die. What could you do about it? Even if I made such a big mistake, all I got was a short stay in a training camp by my brother; when I drugged you, I only got a beating. It's nothing serious!"
What can you do to me? Haha, let me tell you, even if I had your gatekeeper beaten to a pulp today, you still couldn't do anything to me! You think you've won just by having me tied up?
As she spoke, Gu Ningning became even more smug, completely disregarding her current situation and only wanting to give a sharp retort.
“Gu Ningning,” Shen Zhi Qiu glanced at her and said sarcastically, “Do you know why Gu Qing Yan doesn’t protect you? Because you’re stupid! I’ve never seen anyone stupider than you, someone who can clearly confess all the bad things they’ve done!”
As she spoke, Shen Zhi Qiu picked up the sofa next to the sofa, pointed the screen at Gu Ningning, and sneered, "Gu Ningning, that's good. I recorded every word you said."
"You bitch!" Gu Ningning's eyes erupted with hatred, and she exuded a murderous urge. "Let me go! I'm going to kill you today!"
"Slap."
Standing beside her, Wei Qiao could no longer bear it and raised his hand to slap her hard. Gu Ningning was knocked to the ground, looking shocked.
"You dare hit me?!" Gu Ningning was stunned for several seconds. Receiving the taste of blood from the corner of her mouth, she couldn't help but cry out, "What are you? How dare you hit me?!"
"Slap." Another hard slap, making Gu Ningning see stars.
"Hmm, if you dare to utter another word, I'll keep hitting you!" Wei Qiao looked coldly at Gu Ningning on the ground, not intending to help her up. "Your mouth is too rude. You're lucky you haven't been beaten to death."
After saying that, Wei Qiao reached out and grabbed a wet wipe to clean her fingers, then threw the wet wipe at Gu Ningning with a look of disgust, "My hands are dirty, I need to wipe them."
"Waaah..." Gu Ningning began to sob sadly.
Rong Mo, sitting to the side, had a gloomy face and watched coldly the whole time.
He rolled up his white shirt above his wrist, revealing his muscular arms. Listening to what Gu Ningning had just said, Rong Mo clenched his fingers tightly, suppressing the urge to take action.
"You're all bullying me! I'm going to call my dad and tell him you hit me, waaaaah..."
Gu Ningning lay on the ground and burst into tears.
"Wei Qiao, give her the phone and let her call her father," Rong Mo said coldly.
Gu Ningning immediately stopped crying and turned to look at Rong Mo in surprise, wondering why he would suddenly be so kind.
Wei Qiao was also stunned, somewhat puzzled.
"After you finish the call, call the police and have her arrested and put in jail," Rong Mo added coldly.
"Prison?" Gu Ningning murmured, suddenly panicking. This wasn't Nancheng, not a place where the Gu family had the final say. "I'm not going to prison! I'm not going!" she cried, twisting her body frantically and shouting, "Don't call the police! Don't call the police! Let's talk this out! If you call the police, my life is over!"
Rong Mo narrowed his eyes and frowned. Before he could speak, he heard Shen Zhi Qiu say calmly, "Wei Qiao, since she's not going to call and complain, then take her up the mountain and let her walk back on her own."
Rong Mo paused for a second. He had been worried that Shen Zhi Qiu would be soft-hearted and let Gu Ning Ning go, and he was thinking of handling the situation himself. But after hearing this, he felt relieved and didn't say anything more.
“Remember, it has to be somewhere more than 30 kilometers away from the city.” Shen Zhi Qiu glanced at Gu Ning Ning, who was biting her lip, and had no intention of giving up.
"How is it?" Shen Zhi Qiu bent down slightly, looking at Gu Ning Ning with a cold face.
Gu Ningning pouted, biting her lip desperately, and looked at her with red eyes.
"Don't look at me like that." Shen Zhi Qiu sat up straight calmly. "Crying won't help. We're all adults and should be responsible for our actions."
Wei Qiao glanced at Rong Mo questioningly, and Rong Mo nodded. Wei Qiao obeyed, bent down, grabbed Gu Ningning by the collar, and pulled her up.
“I think the mountains west of the capital are quite nice, covered in ice and snow, and it would take a lot of time to walk back.”
Gu Ningning had just steadied herself when she heard Wei Qiao say to Shen Zhi Qiu.
“I checked, and under normal circumstances, it would take about eight and a half hours to walk 30 kilometers.” Lu Jia, who had been quiet all along, suddenly spoke up. “But, it’s hard to say if it’s snowing and you’re walking on mountain roads. It might take one or two days, or it might take three or five days, depending on the situation.”
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