Chapter 50: The Grand Gift
Over the next few days, Jiang Ning was busy with her online relationship and didn’t go looking for trouble with Xie Jingyan.
She had pick-up and drop-off every day for school.
But now with the evening study session, the time Jiang Ning had to chat with Top Grade became shorter.
As soon as she had free time at night, she had to chat on the telephone with the guy on the other end.
Plus, the recording Jiang Ning gave to Father Jiang was exposed.
The Jiang Family and Sui Family were in a safe position, while the Gu Family and Zhou Family suffered backlash.
The stock the Gu Family held was neither something they could keep nor sell.
The Sui Family would no longer touch any of it.
So Jiang Ning hadn’t seen Gu Lanli at school for several days, and Zhou Yuchu hadn’t come back to school since the autumn outing.
In the end, she heard that Zhou Yuchu was going to be sent abroad.
They could only protect one between Gu Lanli and Zhou Yuchu, and the Gu Family chose to sacrifice the Zhou Family.
Sui Tang hadn’t fully reacted to this matter.
The person she liked had schemed to bring down the Sui Family.
And during this time, Zhou Yuchu’s unusually close approach to her made her originally joyful heart suddenly cool down.
At this time, in the Gu Family.
Gu Mingci slapped Gu Lanli across the face.
He said angrily in a rush: “Didn’t I tell you not to have conflicts with that girl from the Jiang Family, to give in to her more? Wealthy families rely on marriage alliances to stabilize their status. But you, she chases after you and you don’t want her, yet you like that orphan girl our family sponsors. Send her away immediately right now. I really regret leaving you alone with that girl. I originally thought she could motivate you to study, but unexpectedly it made you even less focused on proper business!”
As soon as Gu Lanli heard his dad was going to send Su Wanyuan away, he instantly panicked: “Dad, this has nothing to do with Wanyuan. It’s that I don’t like Jiang Ning. How can you force feelings like that?”
Gu Mingci snorted coldly: “I don’t care what method you use, you have to make that girl from the Jiang Family change her mind. Otherwise, I can only send that orphan girl away.”
Gu Lanli clenched his fists tightly.
“This time we listened to your suggestion, causing the Jiang Family to break ties with us and withdraw investment in business. To protect you, we could only send that kid from the Zhou Family abroad as a scapegoat. How could you let someone record when you were discussing such things! Stupid!” Gu Mingci said, hating iron for not becoming steel.
“It was Xin Yang. We completely avoided the surveillance camera at the time, and there were only three of us. Xin Yang had a voice recorder on him.”
“Isn’t Xin Yang your brother? Why would he side with that little girl from the Jiang Family?” Gu Mingci was also puzzled.
Gu Lanli’s thoughts immediately went back to the day he broke off with Jiang Ning.
She argued with him, then asked Xin Yang to choose her or him.
Xin Yang had chased after her at the time.
Gu Lanli believed Xin Yang wouldn’t harm him.
That meant Jiang Ning had known from beginning to end that the evidence was on Xin Yang, so she approached him and got the key evidence.
He had really underestimated Jiang Ning.
Gu Lanli took a deep breath, his voice a bit muffled: “Dad, I’ll go beg Jiang Ning for forgiveness. This year is the most critical one. If you drive Su Wanyuan away, it will affect her and also your image as a philanthropist.”
Gu Mingci sneered: “Son, doing business means using any means necessary. Do you think I can let a little orphan girl affect me? You should be glad your mom is abroad right now. Otherwise, that little girl might not be able to leave Jin Cheng alive.”
“The family’s future is far more important than your happiness. I don’t care how much you fool around usually, but you must be with Jiang Ning.”
Gu Mingci issued the final ultimatum and went to the company.
Gu Lanli clenched his fists somewhat unwillingly.
From childhood to now, what his parents mentioned most in his ear was to be on good terms with Jiang Ning, as she would be his fiancée in the future.
But why.
His life was decided so casually.
The next second, his mobile phone rang.
He opened it to see it was a call from Zhou Yuchu.
His expression was apologetic. If they hadn’t set up this trap, Zhou Yuchu wouldn’t be sent abroad.
He pressed accept: “Yuchu, sorry, I didn’t expect Jiang Ning to become so smart, knowing to go to Xin Yang for the evidence.”
Zhou Yuchu on the other end sighed softly. He was in a room without light, looking at the gradually darkening sky outside, his voice eerie: “It’s okay, Lan Li. We were inferior in skill. My dad has steeled his heart to send me abroad to avoid the limelight. I won’t be back for three to five years. He Shang is ambitious and ruthless. Originally the Zhou Family only had me as a son, but now with this illegitimate son, my dad’s attention can’t help but care for him more. I want to give He Shang a big gift before I go abroad.”
He laughed lowly, and Gu Lanli surprisingly heard a hint of madness in it.
His heart tightened: “Yuchu, don’t do anything stupid. Wait until we have strength later to deal with them. The most important thing now is to protect yourself wisely.”
“How could I do something stupid? It’s just that even if my little fish doesn’t like me, she can’t fall in love with someone else.”
Zhou Yuchu hung up after saying that.
Gu Lanli called back and found Zhou Yuchu’s mobile phone was off.
A hint of anxiety appeared in his brows and eyes.
Zhou Yuchu was leaving the country next week.
No matter how much threat He Shang posed to him, Zhou Yuchu was the legitimate son of the Zhou Family, and a large half of the family assets would definitely be his.
He sighed, hoping no more accidents would happen.
……
The weekend passed.
It was time to go back to school.
It was now mid-September, the weather neither cold nor hot, school uniform was sufficient.
Jiang Ning spent a pleasant weekend.
Nothing more than holding her mobile phone and chatting all day.
From the time she confirmed the relationship with Top Grade until now, a week had already passed.
The two’s relationship grew steadily, at least the barrier was less, and the interaction was more natural.
Jiang Ning’s game rank had even been carried by him from Bronze to the Invincible segment.
She had played games for so long, and this was the first time breaking through this level, making Sui Tang beg daily for an invite, which Jiang Ning pretended not to see.
Little Honey’s voice was weak: [Host, you’ve rested for a week already. It’s time to work. Let’s make an effort and rush to seventy in one go, how about it?]
Jiang Ning was also troubled: “It’s not that I don’t do missions, but Xie Jingyan has been acting a bit off lately. Every day he’s staring at a mobile phone giggling foolishly. Is his wife inside it?”
“Su Wanyuan has been in the training class for half a month. No matter how I bully or target her, Xie Jingyan ignores it, and the female lead has been abused to numbness, progress isn’t increasing. What can I do?”
Speaking of it was frustrating.
Maybe Su Wanyuan was already used to her being with Xie Jingyan.
During this time, she didn’t crowd around Xie Jingyan anymore, just studied seriously every day.
Determined to get good grades in this competitive mathematics.
Tomorrow she would participate in the city’s first round of the mathematics competition. Only by advancing from here could she qualify to go to the capital city for the competitive mathematics finals.
Little Honey was furious: [Are you sure you’ve been working seriously? You flirt with your little boyfriend every day—progress increasing would be strange!]
Jiang Ning touched her nose somewhat guiltily: “I know. I’ll get serious, okay?”
