Chapter 88 Offense
Although there were surveillance cameras in the banquet hall, no one said they wanted to check the surveillance cameras at this time. As soon as Lu Jingyao opened his mouth, he almost completely confirmed Gu Jianming's guilt. What's more, he was planning to put his arm around someone's shoulder.
Gu Jianming was so anxious that he almost jumped up. While thinking wildly, he actually found a reason to refute: "What's wrong with putting your arm around my shoulder? Is this against the law?"
His words actually touched the hearts of the men present.
Gu Jianming found a breakthrough point and attacked his own daughter directly: "Xu Youyou, do you take yourself too seriously? Do you really think that everyone has ulterior motives towards you?"
There were even a few old men around who echoed him.
Xu Youyou raised her eyebrows. Before she could speak, Lu Jingyao spoke first: "Any action that a girl doesn't like is an offense. A normal and polite man shouldn't touch a strange girl casually."
Gu Jianming defended himself: "She is not a stranger, she is my daughter."
Xu Youyou said: "I was born in an orphanage. Can anyone say that he is my father? Did the Gu family raise me or support me? I don't even know him!"
Lu Jingyao looked back at Xu Youyou. He thought of the auction when he first met Xu Youyou. Xu Youyou's particularly targeted attitude towards the Gu brothers and sisters, and vaguely guessed the relationship between Xu Youyou and the Gu family.
But he pretended not to know, and instead cooperated with Xu Youyou to raise doubts: "Mr. Gu said that Miss Xu is your daughter. Whether it is sponsorship or adoption, unless you can produce the adoption certificate or transfer records, it is just empty talk, which makes people suspect that you are making false accusations."
Someone jumped out to act as a reasonable person and said with a smile: "Mr. Lu is right. If the Gu family really had an adoptive relationship with this young lady in the past, it is not like a wealthy family like the Gu family would adopt a child without spending any money. There must be a transfer record. Old Gu, don't hide it. Show us the transfer record."
Gu Jianming didn't have any record of the transfer. He took a look at the person who was speaking. It was his business competitor Chen Senlin. He was immediately furious.
Lu Jingyao continued, "If you can just casually say that he is someone else's father, then what's the difference between him and a human trafficker?"
Xu Youyou immediately agreed, "Yes, Mr. Gu said he is my father, and I said I am his grandmother. If he is willing to call me grandma, I can indeed not pursue today's matter."
Gu Jianming was so angry that he almost fainted. He pointed at Xu Youyou and cursed, "You bastard! Unfilial daughter!"
Although he couldn't produce the adoption certificate and transfer records, seeing his genuine anger, everyone present couldn't help but murmur in their hearts, is Xu Youyou really Gu Jianming's adopted daughter? Lu Jingyao frowned and said, "Mr. Gu, Miss Xu has nothing to do with you. Since you have never raised her, you have no right to blame her. On the contrary, you owe her an apology."
Gu Jianming opened and closed his mouth, the hesitation on his face almost solidified, as if he was struggling over whether to say something or not.
When things got to this point, Gu Xueying was the most panicked person in the whole audience. She wanted to force Gu Jianming to admit his mistake so that people would stop discussing the word "daughter". She was afraid that Gu Jianming would lose his temper and reveal who was the real daughter.
Gu Jianming had his own considerations in his mind. A fake daughter would affect the value of the marriage market, and having an uneducated biological daughter would also affect the reputation of the Gu family.
But if he, the head of the family, turns into a beast who gets lustful regardless of the situation, it will not only affect his children's marriages, but also the Gu family's business.
Previously, we had wanted to keep this matter secret, but who would have thought that Gu Jianming would say it himself.
"Xu Youyou is my biological daughter."
The whole audience was in an uproar.
"Xu Youyou is the Gu family's illegitimate daughter?" This was the first reaction of the guests present, rather than whether she was a real or fake daughter.
Xu Youyou said coldly: "Mr. Gu, let me say it again, I am an orphan with no parents. I don't have any biological parents at all."
Gu Jianming felt relieved when he said this. Now that he had spoken, he also thought of how to protect Gu Xueying and minimize the loss in the shortest possible time: "My wife gave birth to twin daughters. The eldest daughter was stolen by the nanny and accidentally ended up in an orphanage."
Hearing this, everyone present felt a little sympathy for Gu Jia and Xu Youyou.
One lost his own daughter, the other lost more than 20 years of wealthy life.
Xu Youyou laughed in anger and said, "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. We haven't done a paternity test, so why do you say I'm your daughter?"
Lu Jingyao sensed Xu Youyou's huge emotional fluctuations, patted her hand soothingly, and turned to question Gu Jianming: "Mr. Gu, why haven't you seen the Gu family looking for someone in all these years? With the financial resources of the Gu family, are they reluctant to spend millions of dollars on a reward to find their daughter? Or do you care more about the impact of this scandal on your reputation than on your own daughter?"
Lu Jingyao's words hit the nail on the head. Everyone who had been led by Gu Jianming suddenly realized that something was wrong.
Gu Jianming's old rival Chen Senlin also fanned the flames: "Old Gu, we have known each other for so many years, and I never knew that the Gu family had two daughters. Are you getting old and confused? Are you having hysterics every day? Without a paternity test, you claim that someone else is your daughter without any evidence. This is what human traffickers do."
Gu Jianming was so angry that he clenched his fists. Who was he to be compared with human traffickers?
"How about you do a paternity test?" suggested someone who liked to watch the fun.
Xu Youyou smiled and said, "I don't look like Miss Gu at all. Is there any need for a paternity test?"
Everyone looked at Xu Youyou and then at Gu Xueying. There were indeed not many similarities in their faces. They even found something particularly strange. Neither Xu Youyou nor Gu Xueying looked like the couple from the Gu family.
"It's strange, Gu Xueying doesn't look like a child of the Gu family." Someone said.
There were also guests who looked at Gu Xueying carefully and said, "Gu Xueying looks familiar. She seems to be very similar to someone, but I just can't remember who she is at the moment."
Gu Xueying's heart was pounding. She didn't even dare to listen any further, for fear that someone would dig out her background.
Xu Youyou admired Gu Xueying's flustered look and said, "Miss Gu, why are you so flustered? Are you really not the biological daughter of the Gu family?"
Gu Xueying’s face was pale.
A certain noble lady at the side clapped her hands and said, "Could it be that they are not twins, but the real daughter and the fake daughter? Just like in the TV series, the two children were swapped?"
Gu Xueying’s nightmare suddenly came true, and she was almost frightened to the point of losing her balance.
The guests present looked at her reaction and vaguely felt that it might be true. When they thought of this possibility, everyone looked at the Gu family with strange eyes.
If it was really their biological daughter who was switched, then the nature of the matter would change completely. They would look at Gu Xueying as if they were looking at a thief.
Gu Xueying wanted to shrink her body and hide in a corner.
Xu Youyou had admired her panic-stricken look enough and said, "Whether she is a real daughter or a fake one, I am an orphan with no parents. No matter how rich the Gu family is, it has nothing to do with me."
Mrs. Gu was unhappy when she heard this. She couldn't help but accused him, "You are pretending to be noble in front of Mr. Lu. Didn't you say before that we should give you all the Gu family's property?"
Mrs. Gu wished that everyone present would know Xu Youyou's true identity.
Xu Youyou's words were the final word: "Does Madam Gu really want to give it to you?"
(End of this chapter)
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