In the villa, Gu Zheng lowered his eyes. “Mrs. Gu, don’t you have anything to ask?”
Qiao Xi was stunned for a moment. “… What do I have to ask?”
Gu Zheng smirked and said sarcastically, “The head of the Gu family is an illegitimate child. Aren’t you interested in this matter?”
Qiao Xi: “??”
Why would she be interested?
Every family had its own difficulties. Her own family was full of conflict, so how could she have time to be interested in the grudges and grievances of another family? Moreover… what was the significance of it? Who would want to be an illegitimate child from the moment they were born? If the infant had the right to choose, they would probably rather be born in a poor family than be an illegitimate child—especially an illegitimate child from a rich family.
Qiao Xi had heard some things about Gu Zheng when he was young from the butler. She knew that Madam Gu often abused Gu Zheng when he was young. She never gave him food or drinks and even placed him in solitary confinement every now and then. Qiao Xi felt that there was sorrow behind every influential figure. There were too few people born with smooth-sailing lives.
She and Gu Zheng were two examples of this. However, her circumstances were slightly better than Gu Zheng. At the very least, she had a second uncle from the Qiao family who treated her with sincerity, so her childhood was not too miserable. However, Gu Zheng was completely alone. It was said that Gu Zheng had a younger brother. Although they were clearly born from the same mother, the treatment they received was vastly different.
Madam Gu doted on her youngest son very much. She would agree to anything he wanted. She even wanted to snatch the power of the Gu family from Gu Zheng’s hands so that her youngest son could inherit everything.
When she first heard about this, Qiao Xi wondered if Gu Zheng was Madam Gu’s biological son. Was there a melodramatic plot of someone swapping out the heir? Otherwise, why did his mother treat him so differently even though they were both her sons?
Gu Zheng leaned against the sofa that had just been cleaned and glanced at her indifferently.
At that moment, the butler returned after sending the two off. “Young Master, Madam said that she came over today to tell you that the Meng family is holding a banquet at Mingfeng Hotel. Old Master Meng wants to invite you to attend…”
Old Master Meng.
Qiao Xi caught the keyword, and Gu Zheng’s peach blossom eyes slowly narrowed. If it were an invitation from someone else from the Meng family, Gu Zheng could ignore it, but not Old Master Meng. Old Master Meng had done the Gu family a favor back then. Now that he had lowered his status to invite Gu Zheng, Gu Zheng could not refuse.
Moreover, Old Master Meng was the only sensible person in the Meng family.
Seeing that Gu Zheng did not say anything or look annoyed, the butler continued speaking. “The Meng family is holding a banquet because they obtained a dress designed by Gu Shan. There’s only one dress in the world and it has been bought by the Meng family. The Meng family has invited many people from the upper class society, as well as the elites of the fashion world… They’re probably trying to go enter the market for luxury fashion.”
Qiao Xi froze when she heard the words ‘Gu Shan’. The dress she designed had been bought by the Meng family? Was she so fated with the Meng family? She did not design many limited edition dresses, and she did not sell many either. But among all her work, her favorite was ‘Time Flows’.
Before Qiao Xi could finish thinking, the butler continued, “The dress designed by Gu Shan is called Time Flows. In recent years, there have been few designs released by Gu Shan and there are even fewer finished products. When ‘Time Flows’ was first released, countless people competed for it but the scene went silent all of a sudden. At that time, someone guessed that it must have been bought at a high price. Unexpectedly, the final buyer was actually the Meng family.”
From the looks of it, although the Meng family had declined in recent years, a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. Their family’s heritage still ran deep.
Qiao Xi: “…”
She had just thought of Time Flows when the butler mentioned it.
However, Qiao Xi suspected that she misheard it. Time Flows was her most proudest piece of work. Back then, she originally wanted to auction it off but the more she looked at it, the more she liked it. In the end, she gritted her teeth and decided not to put it up for auction anymore. She wanted to keep it for herself! Hence, Time Flows was being stored in her house, so where did the Meng family get it?
A knockoff? They were even holding a banquet to display a knockoff product?
Qiao Xi could not help but think, ‘Will it be fun if I expose that the Meng family’s Time Flows is a fake on the day of the banquet?’
Noticing the wicked glint in her eyes, Gu Zheng suddenly asked with a smile, “You want to go?”
Qiao Xi was shocked by his sudden question and suddenly remembered that he already knew her identity as Gu Shan.
“…”
She no longer looked mysterious.
“I want to go. I want to see that legendary Time Flows.” She nodded without hesitation.
Gu Zheng chuckled. “What a naughty child.”
When he heard Qiao Xi’s tone, he knew that she was holding herself back. He guessed that there was a big problem with the Meng family’s Time Flows. However, he did not care about all this. The Meng family had been jumping around in front of him recently, so he did not think it was wrong to teach them a little lesson.
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