"I just saw that she broke up and was afraid she’d be discouraged and in a bad mood, so I thought of introducing her to someone new. But she wouldn’t even listen, just assumed that no good deed goes unpunished," said Aunt Qiu, no fool, sensing the firm attitude from Gu Nuan was definitely targeted at her.
"What are you thinking about so wildly? You’re her aunt, and there’s no one closer than family. Besides, didn’t she help you with a big business deal before?" Gu Dad didn’t know that his wife and Aunt Qiu had just had an argument about this.
Indeed, Aunt Qiu wouldn’t admit it and was still resentful about the ten thousand becoming a hundred thousand: "Your daughter, a smart cookie, I won’t say more. Only she could be so calculating, playing her own family for fools."
Gu Dad shook his head with a smile. He knew his own daughter, who was far from being manipulative, or else she wouldn’t have been dumped by her boyfriend of ten years like an idiot.
Aunt Qiu gave a knowing laugh and said to Gu Dad, "You certainly won’t believe me if I say too much now. But, I think, with the way she treats even me, if she doesn’t take action against the man who dared to leave her, you can write my name backwards."
Is writing one’s name backwards that difficult? Gu Dad chuckled again.
Aunt Qiu placed the check for 100,000 yuan on the table and got up: "This money, what should be repaid, will be repaid. I understand the principles of doing business. In the future, if I want to find your daughter, it won’t be too difficult."
Gu Dad hurriedly stood up, wanting to say something more. ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ꜰʀᴏᴍ 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✶𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮✶𝓷𝓮𝓽
"No need." Aunt Qiu cut him off before he could speak, "I still want to maintain a relationship with your daughter, so, whatever happens, she decides. To tell you the truth, your daughter will be someone remarkable. The two of you are truly blessed."
Gu Dad stood there dumbfounded, unable to comprehend Aunt Qiu’s words for a long time.
Aunt Qiu, having just acquired five million, was even wealthier now.
What about Gu Nuan? Wasn’t she still a poor student unable to find a job?
As Aunt Qiu left the Gu Family home, she couldn’t help but find Gu Dad’s cluelessness incomprehensible. That being said, the Gu Family producing a daughter like Gu Nuan wouldn’t be possible without parents like Gu Dad and Gu Mom. It was like with Aunt Qiu herself; no matter how she raised her own kids, they probably couldn’t achieve what Gu Nuan had.
Far away in the United States, when Gu Nuan saw that Gu Dad had hung up the phone, she couldn’t help but wonder what Aunt Qiu’s true intentions were.
Why did Gu Mom hide on the balcony?
That lightning-fast thought that had flashed through her mind now exploded again like light in her brain.
Just as the rain outside continued to fall, perhaps her ears couldn’t catch everything clearly, but it was enough to stir up the ghosts of the past.
Back then, it was the same out-of-the-blue, torrential downpour, beating relentlessly on the Gu Family’s heart, an incessant rain.
If Aunt Qiu really knew their family’s big secret, it could be possible. After all, the richest relative in the family, then and now, was only Aunt Qiu. It was possible that her dad might have asked Aunt Qiu for help.
But even with all her wealth, could Aunt Qiu have had a million to spare back in the day?
A million from ten or so years ago isn’t the same as a million now—it would be like tens of millions today.
Moreover, sending someone to the United States for treatment, considering the Gu Family’s means, was even more impossible.
The only people who knew this secret were her dad, her mom, her grandparents, and no one else, including herself.
Everyone thought—Gu Nuan’s brother had died.
Selling a child was better off claimed dead, wasn’t it?
That day, the words of that woman were still crystal clear in her memory.
"Want to take the person back? Your parents don’t have the means, and what can you, a mere girl, do? What can you give him? Can you provide for him like I can, give him what he needs?"
Looking back now, the tone of Wu Mom was exactly the same as that woman’s.
In this world, there is only one truth—without money, absolutely nothing can be done.