A series of indiscriminate attacks directly tore away the Gu family's fig leaf, exposing their shameful side.
Gu Yong, panting heavily, pointed at Gu Zhiyuan: "When did it become your place to speak about the affairs of our Gu family? Third brother, what do you mean? If you have any objections, just say them to my face. Do you need to send some outsider to slap your father in the face? Family scandals should not be aired in public. Are you afraid that our Gu family has not lost enough face?"
"What's wrong that we, father and son, can't sit down and talk about? Why did you have to make such a scene? Tell me."
Gu Zhiyuan stepped forward and stood beside Xu Ningyan. "Ningyan is my girlfriend, my future wife, and my lifelong revolutionary partner! We'll be family sooner or later. I know everything about her family. Naturally, she should know about our family too, right?"
"Besides, if you haven't done anything wrong, you naturally have nothing to fear from what others say! Father's fear stems from knowing that he has done something wrong and feeling guilty, right?"
"At this point, Father still wants to bring up the topic of being family and say we should sit down and talk! Haven't we talked? Father, have you forgotten? What was the result of those talks? Father, have you forgotten that too? Every time we talk about the debts and injustices you've done to my mother, what did you say?"
"You said you felt guilty towards Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui because you didn't take care of them when they were young! So you have to make up for it! You said we all owe them because the fourth brother and I grew up in Beijing and lived a good life. That's our original sin! We should feel guilty for the rest of our lives and feel sorry for Gu Dajun and Gu Daikui! Not only us brothers, but my mother is also a sinner! She married you and has to bear this sin! Father, how many times have you said these words over the years? Have you forgotten them?"
Gu Zhiyuan's voice was flat and monotone, yet it delivered a powerfully sarcastic effect.
Gu Yong was stunned for a long time before he finally said, "So, so you harbored such deep resentment?"
Gu Zhiyuan laughed: "Does that mean that we brothers and mother have been treated so unfairly for more than ten years, with people crawling on our bodies, eating our flesh and drinking our blood for so many years, and we can't even have any resentment?"
Gu Daikui couldn't help but defend himself: "If anyone should be resentful, shouldn't it be us brothers who are resentful? You two brothers have lived like gods since birth, with your biological father being a military commander and your biological mother being a hospital director! How could you know what kind of hardship we brothers endured in the countryside? Not only were we starving and cold, but we were also called fatherless bastards! When our mother remarried and moved to the Wu family, we were just unpaid farmhands in the Wu family, working ourselves to the bone every day, and not even getting a full meal once a year!"
“We all have the same father! Why do you get to live such a good life? If my father hadn’t married your mother, would we have had to suffer in the countryside for so many years? My father would have found us a few years earlier, and we would be living a good life in the capital! Our suffering for over a decade was all because of you and your mother!”
“Otherwise, it would be perfectly legitimate for my father to find us and bring us back to the Gu family! We wouldn’t have to worry about your mother’s feelings or need his consent! My mother wouldn’t have to be like an old maid, subservient to the family! We both married my father, we are both his women, so why is your mother so high and mighty, a military commander’s wife whom everyone flatters and fawns over, while my mother is a maid who can’t stand the light of day and can only stay at home doing housework?”
"Isn't the hardship we, the three of us, caused by you? Don't you owe us?"
By the end, Gu Daikui's eyes were bloodshot, and he almost roared out the words.
Upon hearing this, Fang Dani burst into tears.
Gu Dajun clenched his fists, glaring angrily at the Gu brothers and Jiang Yuan.
Xu Ningyan scoffed, "Bullshit! You two cowards, spineless cowards! You know perfectly well who the culprit is! You just don't dare to hate! When Commander Gu sent people back and couldn't find you, even if he didn't marry Aunt Jiang, do you think he would have kept your mother chaste? Don't make me laugh! Even if he didn't marry Jiang Yuan, he would have married Li Yuan, Zhang Yuan, or Wang Yuan! He would have had children!"
"But you dare not hate Commander Gu! Because you know that he is the only one you can rely on! He is your sky! You depend on him to support you and give you a good life! If you dare to show any resentment towards him, what will you do if he abandons you?"
"So not only can you not resent him, but you also have to fawn over him, beg him, and flatter him! Praise him to a high position, and then use your own experiences over the years to play the victim and gain Commander Gu's pity and guilt, so that you can get benefits, right?"
"Over the years, you've gone against your conscience, abandoned all shame and integrity, and shamelessly fawned over Commander Gu! But you still harbor resentment in your hearts! Since you can't resent Commander Gu, you have to find someone to bear your resentment, right? To make yourselves feel better, to make yourselves feel justified, you've pushed the responsibility onto Aunt Jiang and her two children!"
"You think that if it weren't for her, you would still be a loving family, right? So you pretend to be pitiful, play the victim, whisper in each other's ears, and do whatever it takes to vent your resentment! You're taking out your hatred for Commander Gu on Aunt Jiang and her two children!"
"Then you take the small reward that Commander Gu gives you and feel smug! You think your method is brilliant! The worse off Jiang Yuan and her two children are, the happier you feel! You think that the suffering you endured back then is now being experienced by others!"
"Later on, your ambitions grew bigger and bigger, and you became more and more greedy! Jiang Yuan and her two children are still doing well, and they will eventually share the Gu family's property and Commander Gu's network of resources. But you have long regarded the Gu family as your own, how can you let Jiang Yuan and her children take a share?"
"Not only can't we share them, but we'd love to snatch everything from Aunt Jiang and her two children! Isn't that right?"
Gu Dajun and his two children, their intentions exposed, were furious and tried to defend themselves, but when they opened their mouths, they found themselves speechless, because that was exactly what they had done.
Gu Yong, however, seemed to only now see the true colors of Gu Dajun and his two children, and angrily pointed at them: "You, how could you—"
Xu Ningyan interrupted Gu Yong: "Commander Gu, at a time like this, why are you still pretending to be confused? Aren't you well aware of these things? Haven't you been condoning Gu Dajun and his group's suppression of Aunt Jiang and her two children? Why are you only realizing this now? Commander Gu, if you're really this confused, how did you climb to this position all these years? Do you think everyone is a fool?"
"What? You've been acting this charade for over a decade, and now you're actually taking it seriously? You really think you've been deceived by a treacherous person? Bah! You're no good at all! You were the one who pursued Aunt Jiang, you were the one who made the promise! And when things went wrong, you, the culprit, shrank back and pushed Aunt Jiang out to take the blame!"
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