Gu Yanran listened to Gu Nianzhi repeat what she had said last year, completely unmoved.
After a while, she shrugged and said indifferently, “From the moment you knew that the vegetable wasn’t Gu Xiangwen, you should have known that it was just a story. – Why are you taking it so seriously?”
“I’m taking it too seriously?! You used my parents’ lives to make up a story; why do you think I’m taking it so seriously?!” Gu Nianzhi was so furious she couldn’t help but lean over, really wanting to slap Gu Yanran again.
Just then, the door behind her creaked open and Huo Shaoheng walked in.
“Nianzhi!” He walked over quickly and pulled her back in time. He frowned and said, “Ask nicely. What’s with you hitting people so often?”
She was already going to become the chief legal advisor of the upper house of the senate, yet here she was, still like a small firecracker ready to explode at the slightest touch.
Huo Shaoheng had no choice but to show up.
Gu Yanran saw that Huo Shaoheng had stopped Gu Nianzhi from hitting her, and her heart couldn’t help but skip a beat.
Huo Shaoheng pulled Gu Nianzhi to sit down on the chair. He stood behind her with his hands behind his back and looked at Gu Yanran quietly and said, “Last time you said you received a message from Gu Xiangwen who asked you to look for him there so you went. But from what we know now, it’s impossible for Gu Xiangwen to have sent you a message, so where did you get the information about where the plane was forced to land?”
Gu Yanran ran her hands through her hair and pouted at Gu Nianzhi, “Didn’t she just say that Gu Xiangwen has a small communicator that can send out signals continuously and had a very long battery life? I was able to determine Gu Xiangwen’s location based on the signal sent by that communicator.”
“So my dad didn’t send you a message of his own accord?” Gu Nianzhi followed up with another question. “What did that small communicator look like? What instrument did you use to receive the signal?”
Gu Yanran’s mind spun rapidly for a moment, and she stammered, “Actually, it was… just a cell phone…”
“We’ve checked your cell phone. In the past two years, there hasn’t been any signal from the Cape of Good Hope.”
Huo Shaoheng took two steps forward, looking down at her with an imposing manner. “Who else informed you? Why did they inform you? What exactly did you do when you went to the islands in the Cape of Good Hope?”
He was indeed the boss of the special operations forces. He was like a professional interrogator.
Huo Shaoheng’s three simple sentences had almost crushed Gu Yanran’s psychological defenses.
Gu Yanran couldn’t help but shudder.
“It doesn’t really matter whether you tell me or not,” Gu Nianzhi followed up with a bluff, “We’ve already found the staff on the Cereus I submarine. They’ve agreed to testify against you and say that you directly caused the death of my parents. You can just wait for your death sentence!”
These words completely infuriated Gu Yanran.
She looked up abruptly, clenched her fists, and said sternly, “Shut up! Where did the staff come from?! Did you see ghosts?!”
“See ghosts?” Gu Nianzhi’s thoughts raced. She stood up and said coldly, “Are they already dead? — Gu Yanran, you’re so callous!”
Gu Yanran rolled her eyes. “Since when did I ever say that they were already dead? There were originally no people, but you have to insist that they are dead. Your imagination is unbelievable!”
“Really? How could there be no other crew on such a large submarine?” Gu Nianzhi was very suspicious.
Gu Yanran looked at her with amusement and said deliberately, “Have you given yourself away? Aren’t You Gu Xiangwen’s biological daughter? How come you don’t know about the submarine he specially built?”
“Huh huh, I left my father when I was 12, and I don’t remember anything before I was 12. Do you think I would know? How does this have anything to do with whether I’m his biological daughter or not? You’re so illogical, you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
Gu Nianzhi narrowed her eyes and spread her hands. “Why don’t you say if you know so much? You aren’t saying a single word, and all you know is how to scare people. Do you really think I’m scared?”
When Gu Yanran heard Gu Nianzhi say “I left my father when I was 12”, she obviously shrank back and looked away, not daring to look her in the eye.
Huo Shaoheng chimed in with Gu Nianzhi and said lightly, “There’s no need to waste your breath on her. Anyway, the submarine is already with us. Go check the records of the computer operating system on the submarine and you’ll know what happened seven years ago.”
“As for you, Gu Yanran, you missed the chance to confess and attain leniency. Don’t regret it in the future.” Huo Shaoheng’s voice turned cold. His handsome face was layered with coldness. Like a sharp knife unsheathed, it pierced into Gu Yanran’s heart that was still trying for luck.
Gu Yanran’s heart sank.
Wasn’t the submarine damaged? How could the computer system be fine?
Was Huo Shaoheng trying to trick her?
She looked at Huo Shaoheng carefully, but she couldn’t tell anything from his ice-cold handsome face.
She could only tell that he was very dissatisfied and was getting impatient…
Gu Nianzhi understood and walked over to Huo Shaoheng’s side. She held his arm and pouted. She deliberately said loudly, “Forget it then. I wanted to give her another chance, but she didn’t know what’s good for her. It seems that she really was an accomplice in the murder of my parents. Let’s go. I won’t come to this lousy place ever again. The air smells so bad.”
The two of them turned around and walked towards the door.
Gu Yanran’s eyes sparkled as she watched them walk forward. Just as they were about to reach the door, Gu Yanran finally couldn’t resist the temptation of the “chance”. She raised her voice and said, “Will you let me out if I tell you?”
Gu Nianzhi stopped in her tracks, but she didn’t look back. She said calmly, “You want to say now? It’s too late. You can keep your secret for New Year’s.”
“There’re still eight more months before the New Year. You’re going to stuff her to death.” Huo Shaoheng teased her calmly and lovingly held Gu Nianzhi in his arms.
Gu Yanran’s eyes were red from watching.
Her breathing became unstable.
Gu Nianzhi smiled and tilted her head. “It’s best if she is stuffed to death. Then we won’t have to dirty our hands.”
Gu Yanran listened to their words and said fearfully, “You were the ones who said that I’ll be offered leniency if I confessed! Doesn’t that count?”
She had always been relying on the asymmetry of information.
This was because she knew some things that Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng definitely did not know.
But now that the two of them were acting like they didn’t care about what she knew, Gu Yanran couldn’t be arrogant anymore.
If they didn’t want anything, they would be really strong.
If they didn’t want anything from her, she really couldn’t do anything about her situation.
Gu Nianzhi finally turned around to look at her. She frowned and said, “I told you to say it just now, but you didn’t want to say a single word and kept trying to raise the bar.”
“Now that we don’t want to listen to your old stories anymore, you’re begging to tell us. No one will believe us if we say that you aren’t stupid.”
Gu Yanran’s face turned red from Gu Nianzhi’s words. She endured it and said, “You don’t allow me to scold people, but you can scold people yourself?!”
“What did I say to scold you?” Gu Nianzhi walked back and stood in front of her. “You mean that you are stupid? But you are stupid!”
Gu Yanran’s lips twitched and she rationally decided not to bicker with Gu Nianzhi anymore. She wouldn’t be able to defeat her even if she reincarnated ten more times.
She looked at Huo Shaoheng and quickly said, “I really went there because I received the signal. At that time…”
She pointed at Gu Nianzhi and blinked quickly and said, “At that time, the twelve-year-old her also saw the signal. She knew that something had happened to Gu Xiangwen and his wife, so she insisted on sailing to the Cape of Good Hope to save them. I was one step too slow. By the time I chased after them, her ship had already disappeared into the vast sea.”
“I was in a hurry to meet up with Gu Xiangwen and the others, so I only sent a few sailors to the sea to look for them. I brought a team of doctors to the Cape of Good Hope. But unfortunately, I didn’t find them and found that they had been sunk. When I came back, I found that she… had also disappeared.”
Gu Yanran’s eyes sparkled even more fiercely, “Gu Xiangwen and his wife died in the Atlantic Ocean, and Gu Nianzhi… she was also missing. Tell me, how could I be calm when I was faced with such a large fortune? Besides, without them, I would be the first in line to inherit all of that. If it were you, wouldn’t you have done the same?”
“After all the talking, you were the one who received Gu Xiangwen’s signal,” Huo Shaoheng mercilessly exposed her lie. “But you can’t prove that you received the signal. How are we supposed to believe your story?”
Gu Nianzhi laughed. “Gu Yanran, you should just admit that it was the Japanese who informed you. It’s more convenient for everyone. Seeing you racking your brain to come up with some nonsensical story, even I’m exhausted for you.”
“There really is a communicator! It’s a quantum communicator,” Gu Yanran saw that Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng did not believe her, so she had no choice but to throw out her trump card.
“A quantum communicator?!” Gu Nianzhi suddenly thought of the quantum communicator that she had confiscated from the safe at the “Angel in the World” headquarters, and she could not help but ask, “… is it the quantum communicator that you ‘gave’ to the ‘Angel in the World’ Foundation?”
