Gu Yanran was wearing a grey prison uniform and looked very haggard.
She was originally elegant and graceful. At first glance, she did not look very attractive, but on the second glance, she was a beauty who could keep all eyes on her. Now, her face was turning an unhealthy shade of yellow, her hair was dry, and she had lost a lot of weight. There were deep wrinkles on her face.
Seeing that she was not doing well, Gu Nianzhi was relieved.
Gu Yanran was also sizing up Gu Nianzhi.
She had really grown up a lot. In the past, she still had a little bit of baby fat on her face, but now she had a standard oval face.
Her black eyes were big and bright, so dark that they were blue. It was the color of the sea in the dark night. Her eyes flashed slightly, and under the light, it was like the stars in the sky had been crushed and scattered on the surface of the sea. It made people want to dive into it.
She had the same high nose bridge as Gu Xiangwen. Her lips were full and moist, but when she looked at people, she had a very arrogant poise. She was not as gentle and elegant as Gu Xiangwen. Instead, there was a hint of contempt and disdain.
Gu Yanran leaned forward and said maliciously, “You’re so capable that can still hold on until now. The reason I’m still alive is to see your ending.”
Gu Nianzhi had no reaction to her curse. She said expressionlessly, “Have you seen the news? My father and mother’s bodies have been found.”
“Found? Haha, no way. Stop lying to me. I’ve already cremated them and thrown their ashes into the sea. Where did you find these imposters?!”
Gu Yanran giggled, as if she didn’t believe Gu Nianzhi at all.
Gu Nianzhi’s lips twitched as she threw the photo of the submarine in front of Gu Yanran, along with the remains of her parents lying in the coffin. “Take a look for yourself.”
Gu Yanran’s eyes widened when she saw the photo of Cereus I’s submarine. She whipped it up and looked at it for a long time.
She mumbled, “Impossible… impossible… how is this possible?!”
She looked at the lifelike photos of Gu Xiangwen and his wife, and her pupils constricted. She looked up and said in disbelief, “They’ve been dead for seven years. How can their bodies still be preserved so well?! This must be fake!”
“Fake? We’ve tested their DNA, and we are indeed father and daughter. What else do you have to say?” Gu Nianzhi’s voice became lower.
“Tested the DNA?! Are you sure… ?!” Gu Yanran tried her best to remain calm, but her heart was already in turmoil.
Could it be true?
But, how could it be?
Her hands on her legs unknowingly clenched into fists, and her entire body trembled slightly. There was a deep fear in her eyes. “You… you really tested the DNA? Are you really father and daughter?!”
Gu Nianzhi stared at the change in her expression. “Of course, I’m sure. You don’t have to worry about that. Do you think I’m like you, getting your biological father to impersonate someone else?”
“Yeah, is that beneath you?” Gu Yanran looked at her suspiciously. “Since I’ve already done it, won’t you mimic my actions?”
“Why would I want to be followed by what you have done?” Gu Nianzhi couldn’t explain it clearly to Gu Yanran. “Since you’re greedy for other people’s property, do you think I’ll be like you?”
This was a classic case of a person measuring others by the low standards they set for themselves.
“Because I can’t do it, so you definitely can’t do it” and, “Because I did it, so you must have done it too”.
She completely ignored the huge differences between people.
Gu Yanran’s clenched fists loosened and tightened, her nails digging into her flesh. She relied on the physical pain of cutting into her flesh to maintain her composure.
“Haha, you’re different from me, but…” her eyes flickered. “It is not difficult for Huo Shaoheng to create fake DNA evidence for you.”
Gu Nianzhi looked at her expressionlessly and said coldly, “Wake up. What kind of organization do you think the special operations forces is? – no one can do whatever they like in this kind of organization.”
“Besides, why would he falsify evidence for me? My parents have already passed away, and you’ve squandered more than half of their assets. I’ve donated most of the rest to the state, so why would he falsify evidence for me? What will he want?!”
“If your brain wasn’t a pig’s head, you’d know he didn’t have to do this.”
Gu Yanran shuddered again, her slender eyes widening. “What? You donated most of your assets to the state?! You’re the pig head! If you don’t want them, why are you doing this to me?!”
She couldn’t understand how there were people in this world who could be unmoved by such a huge amount of wealth.
Gu Nianzhi closed her eyes and said patiently, “I won’t be able to use all the patents my parents left for me even in ten lifetimes. I can’t explain it to a greedy person like you. Enough, stop talking about the Gu family’s assets. No matter what I do with them, it has nothing to do with you!”
Gu Yanran leaned back in her chair and looked at Gu Nianzhi in a daze. There was no focus in her eyes.
She muttered to herself, “… that’s the look in your eyes… you’ve been looking at me like that since I was a child. Sympathize me? Pity me? Do you think I’m a beggar?! Look at yourself!”
“… You’re fat, ugly, and bad-tempered. If you didn’t have a good father, who would want to look at you?! To have to grow up with you, I must have had eight lifetimes of bad luck!”
Gu Nianzhi raised an eyebrow. “Huh? Now you admit that I am father’s daughter? Didn’t you say we were faking it?”
Gu Yanran came back to her senses and rested her head on one hand as she leaned against the conference table. She said with a fake smile, “Whatever you say. Anyway, you’re lucky to have hooked up with major general Huo. Is major general Huo treating you well? If you want to go east, does he dare not go West? If you want the sun in the sky, does he dare not pluck the moon for you? — you have everything, so why are you making things difficult for a poor person like me who has nothing?”
Gu Nianzhi chuckled and did not deny it. Instead, she said shamelessly, “It’s good that you know. Major general Huo is always so good to me. If you can’t accept it, hang yourself.”
The smile on Gu Yanran’s face froze.
She had not expected Gu Nianzhi to be so thick-skinned. She was obviously being sarcastic, okay?!
Major general Huo was a man of steel and iron. How could he be so good to a woman?!
She had witnessed with her own eyes how Gu Nianzhi had risked her life to save Huo Shaoheng and his comrades in the Caribbean Sea’s Blue Hole. In the end, Huo Shaoheng had gone to take care of his comrades without even looking at her…
Gu Yanran stopped smiling and said coldly, “You’re really not denying what I’m saying huh? Don’t you even have any f*cking idea how major general Huo regards you?”
Slap!
Gu Nianzhi couldn’t help but slap Gu Yanran. “Watch your mouth! If I hear your filthy words again, I’ll beat you until your teeth are all over the floor!”
Gu Nianzhi’s slap was indeed powerful. Gu Yanran’s head was tilted to one side, and blood was flowing from the side of her mouth.
Her brain buzzed. After a while, she rubbed her face that had a red handprint from the slap and said darkly, “Lawyer Gu, you hit me for no reason. Do you think I’m going to sue you, or sue you?”
“Wrong. I didn’t hit you for no reason. I hit you on purpose.” Gu Nianzhi clapped her hands and said casually, “You deserved to be beaten.”
Gu Yanran was about to shout, “The lawyer is hitting me!” when the lights in the small room they were in suddenly went out.
The room was pitch black for a moment.
Gu Nianzhi reacted and immediately pounced on Gu Yanran and pulled her down from the chair. She twisted her hands behind her back with one hand and pressed one leg against her back, pinning her to the ground. She whispered into her ear, “Did you see that? Accept your current status and identity and speak properly. Otherwise, the light in front of you may never come back on.”
Gu Yanran finally regained her senses and let out a deep breath.
She knew that she could not go against Gu Nianzhi. This woman had too strong a backing. “Let go of me. I won’t say stuff like that again.”
Gu Nianzhi patted the back of her head. “Remember this. I’ll give you one last chance. If you have anything to say, you’d better say it today. If you don’t say it today, I won’t listen to you in the future even if you decide to tell me then.”
She let go of Gu Yanran and returned to her seat. She coughed and said, “Is it a power failure? Why is there no light in the room?”
As soon as she finished speaking, the lights in the house flashed a few times and then returned to normal.
Gu Yanran slowly got up from the ground and sat back in her chair. She was no longer as arrogant as before.
“That’s more like it.” Gu Nianzhi clapped her hands and asked further, “My father’s submarine was sunk by the Japanese. Did you tell the Japanese where my father was?!”
“It wasn’t me! What does it have to do with me?!” Gu Yanran expressionlessly rubbed her wrist, which had been pinned behind her back by Gu Nianzhi. “Gu Xiangwen had been targeted for a long time. Who was I to know his location? Neither side will tell me such an important thing!”
“Really?” Gu Nianzhi stood up and rested her hands on the conference table in front of her. She leaned forward slightly, full of pressure. “You knew which side was looking for him, so why didn’t you tell my father?!”
Gu Yanran was stunned for a moment, but quickly came back to her senses and said, “I didn’t know which side was looking for him. You just said it yourself. The Japanese… Haha, did you forget? I’m also Japanese.”
“You’re still trying to deny it.” Gu Nianzhi narrowed her eyes. “Say it again. How did you get the news to go to that island?”
Gu Yanran looked away nonchalantly. “Didn’t I tell you? Don’t you remember?”
“Of course I remember. But you always say it differently,” Gu Nianzhi said word by word. “Do you want me to repeat it?”
Gu Yanran smiled. “Really? I don’t remember. After all, it’s been so long. It’s normal for me to remember things differently.”
Gu Nianzhi knocked on the table coldly. “Listen carefully.”
“The first time, you said that father had a small communicator that could constantly send out signals. The battery life was very long. Even though the communicator was badly damaged, it could still send out signals. You used the signal from the communicator to determine father’s location. Unfortunately, you were too late.”
Gu Yanran’s eyes sparkled.
“You were still sobbing when you said that if you had found them earlier, mother might have been saved.”
Gu Nianzhi paused, her eyes reddening. She quickly looked up and continued, “You went on to say that mother was seriously injured. There was nothing on the deserted island, and she died just like that. Once mother passed away, father also collapsed. When you found them, father was hugging mother’s corpse tightly. You thought… that both of them had died. But you didn’t give up. You asked the Doctor to check. In the end, he found that father was still alive, but he was in a vegetative state. However, mother passed away an hour before you found them.”
Gu Yanran replied, “…”
She didn’t expect that this girl would remember so clearly what she had casually said a year ago.
Gu Nianzhi stared at Gu Yanran, “You also said that when you finally saw them and found out that father was still alive, you were so happy that you fainted. When you woke up, father had already been moved to the helicopter, and mother was buried on the spot. – right? Liar?! Are you going to continue your b*tchy act?!”
