"Are you serious?" She thought she might be hallucinating.
Gong Chengjue nodded.
"Do you think that if you distance yourself from me now, people will think we're not related?" She wasn't stupid; of course she knew that his sudden breakup proposal was related to these two incidents.
Gong Chengjue looked away and remained silent.
He didn't give up on her when his grandfather made him choose, but now he says he wants to break up?
Su Ziqing thought he was joking.
"I know you're afraid I'll get into danger, but Gong Chengjue, who in the entire capital doesn't know I'm your girlfriend?" What's the point of him suddenly breaking up with me at this point?
Just a few days ago, the two were still deeply in love and enjoying their honeymoon.
Gong Chengjue looked at her and said, "I'm getting engaged."
"Sure." She assumed he meant engagement.
However……
“Not with you,” Gong Chengjue said softly.
Su Ziqing thought she must have misheard.
She hasn't seen him for the past few days, but they've been on the phone all the time, and everything seems fine. Is he going to get engaged to someone else?
"Our agreement... ends here. I've helped you acquire the Su Group, so we're even." Gong Chengjue stood up straight, his face cold, his mood shifting as easily as turning the pages of a book.
“Gong Chengjue, that’s enough. This joke isn’t funny at all. I know you’re afraid I’ll worry, and I know you don’t want me to get involved in danger, but…”
"I really am getting engaged. I was planning to tell you tonight," Gong Chengjue interrupted her coldly.
Before she could say anything, he continued, "You see, by not following my grandfather's arrangements, not only has my status been affected, but I am also surrounded by crises."
Su Ziqing stared at him blankly, "You're joking, right..."
He clearly rejected the old man's choice for him in the hospital; he chose her, didn't he?
She knew that with the selection of the Gong family's heir finalized, his status within the Gong family was significantly different, but she had already decided to ask her senior brother for help.
She was also thinking of getting her senior brother's permission so that when she met him, she could tell him not to worry, that even without the Gong family, he would still have other help.
“I may not care about money, but… who doesn’t care about their life?” Gong Chengjue’s gaze had turned cold as he looked at her. “Besides, there are some things we might not believe until we do.”
"What did you say?" He was serious; he really was breaking up with her.
“We are incompatible.” He cruelly uttered the most hurtful words to her.
Su Ziqing's face changed when she heard this. None of the previous comments about her being a jinx to her family had ever been as hurtful as his.
“Gong Chengjue, you were the one who said you didn’t believe these things. You even said we… were a match made in heaven.” Because he also had a broken palm.
He said that feudal superstitions should not be believed.
“But now I believe it,” Gong Chengjue said calmly.
"You're lying." Su Ziqing tried her best to hold back her sadness, but tears were already welling up in her eyes.
A few days ago, she and he made a promise together at her grandfather's grave.
“Since we met, do you think I’ve had a smooth life?” Gong Chengjue smirked. “Some things, we won’t believe until we do.”
After saying this, Gong Chengjue turned and left.
"Gong Chengjue!" Su Ziqing called out to him, but he didn't even pause.
"You big bastard!" Su Ziqing's tears fell in a cascade.
Several people stood in the courtyard, but none of them made a sound.
Su Ziqing wiped away her tears forcefully, not wanting to embarrass herself by crying out loud.
Feng Xixuan handed her a handkerchief, "Don't cry."
She didn't want to cry, but tears kept falling. She was even asking her senior brother for help, but what about Gong Chengjue?
Surprisingly, he was thinking about breaking up.
Outside the courtyard house, Gong Chengjue got into the car, his hands covered in blood.
"Mr. Gong." Luo Jinhan was so nervous that his face turned pale.
"Go to the hospital. Don't let anyone know I'm injured, especially Grandpa." Gong Chengjue took a breath.
Two waves of assassins in a week – this wasn't a warning; someone really wanted him dead.
"As for Miss Su..." Luo Jinhan felt that Gong Chengjue's words about breaking up were just empty talk, and he just didn't want Miss Su to get involved in this matter.
"You think I was just saying we should break up?" Gong Chengjue closed his eyes.
Luo Jinhan was taken aback. Was Mr. Gong serious?
Gong Chengjue opened his eyes. "Investigate the identities of these people tonight." They could even find Sakai's side, which means they've been watching him all along.
"Judging from his skills, he's no ordinary person; he seems like an international assassin." As Gong Chengjue's special assistant, Luo Jinhan could help him manage the company's affairs and also protect him in close combat.
Especially for a large family like the Gong family, in addition to the wealthy and famous, they have to be connected to other fields, both the legitimate and the underworld.
"But Feng Xixuan's men..." Luo Jinhan thought of how Feng Xixuan's men had helped in time when things were at a critical moment, which made those men back down. Their skills were really much better than those of ordinary bodyguards.
Gong Chengjue's bodyguards were already among the best, but Feng Xixuan's men were the most formidable of all.
“Feng Xixuan…” Gong Chengjue uttered these three words softly, “His identity must be extraordinary.”
"If that's the case, then Mr. Gong, why did you break up with Miss Su?" Seeing that Su Ziqing and Feng Xixuan's relationship is like that of siblings, wouldn't it be better if Feng Xixuan could help at this time?
Gong Chengjue gave Luo Jinhan a cold look.
Luo Jinhan shrugged, but still said, "Wouldn't it be better if Feng Xixuan could step in and help at this time?"
“They’ve even sent out assassins; this is no ordinary incident,” Gong Chengjue said calmly.
Luo Jinhan remained silent, but in his heart he was thinking, "Mr. Gong, have you forgotten that when you first met Miss Su, it was Miss Su who saved you?"
Miss Su is no ordinary heiress...
But he dared not say it.
Hospital
Gong Chengjue's old wounds hadn't healed before new ones appeared. He had just had his stitches stitched up and was being treated with medicine, but he had no intention of being hospitalized.
Sakai, with his crew cut, had taken off his chef's hat and was dressed in all black, his face as cold as a December day.
“Mr. Gong, I’ve heard some news from the underworld. A week ago, a huge bounty was placed on your head in Europe.” Sakai looked at Gong Chengjue, “They’re offering a hundred million for your…” He didn’t finish the sentence.
Gong Chengjue didn't even lift his eyelids. "One hundred million?"
This price is indeed astronomical on the black market.
“Someone has already answered,” Sakai said, “but we can’t find out who it is yet.”
Sakai, who runs a business in a courtyard house, is not just a chef; he also has another identity: a boss who can't be brought to the light of day.
“Continue the investigation. We don’t need to investigate Feng Xixuan’s identity anymore,” Gong Chengjue suddenly said.
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