The room was brightly lit.
Gu Annan sat on the sitting room sofa of the suite, his expression icy.
After listening to Shuman’s words, the corners of his mouth slowly curved into a mocking smile, "So, it was grandmother who asked you to come?"
"Yes," Shuman’s voice was soft, "The old madam saw the news and wasn’t happy. She felt... felt that it wasn’t just bad for social influence, but also very unfair to me. Don’t worry, Brother Gu, I don’t have that thought myself. But since the old madam asked me to come and ’demand an explanation,’ I didn’t dare to disobey. And, she also hoped for some positive news."
"Positive?" His chilly eyes lifted, "What do you mean, positive? Being with you is ’positive’?"
"I didn’t mean that, Brother Gu, the old madam firmly believes that we are a match of equal social standing and hopes for a good social impact..."
"The reporters here have already been cleared out by my people," he smirked coldly and deliberately, "So there won’t be any more rumors spreading today, whether ’positive’ or ’negative.’ Shuman, you dislike it so much when I have negative news, why would you send a message anonymously to the reporters, letting them catch your conversation with Lu Wanwan?"
Shuman shuddered, her heart racing under those frigid eyes.
"Or are you saying you didn’t?"
Shuman closed her eyes, tears glistening, "I’m sorry, it was indeed me. I just..."
"Just too eager to marry into the Gu Family, so you wouldn’t hesitate to fabricate all sorts of baseless rumors, making people who don’t know any better think that we would get married any moment?" Gu Annan sneered, "Aspiring to be the Young Madam of the Gu Family, such tricks are useless. No matter how many smoke bombs there are, a single explanation from me to the media, and this marriage that will never exist will become a joke."
A marriage that would never exist.
Shuman looked at him somberly, "Brother Gu, I don’t desire to be the Young Madam of the Gu Family..."
Under his mocking gaze, she pressed her lips tightly and after a long pause said, "I want to marry you but not to be the Young Madam of the Gu Family, I just want to marry you, that’s all. It has nothing to do with the Gu Family, it’s all because of you."
Gu Annan’s phone lit up, he saw it was from his son and opened it to look.
"Brother Gu, I know you might still have her in your heart," Shuman wiped the remaining tears from the corner of her eyes.
Then she took several photos out of her bag and handed them to him.
"I intercepted these from a magazine reporter today."
In the photos were Lu Wanwan and Jiu Li from the yacht arriving at the shore earlier that day.
In a few of them, they were talking and laughing; later, two children came down.
Jiu Li even squatted down to talk to the little girl.
Shuman watched the changes in his expression, her gaze turning colder.
She had suspected earlier that Gu Annan might already know about the existence of these two children, but surely, he would never allow Lu Wanwan to be with her children and another man.
"Don’t worry, I bought these photos, and they won’t be published," Shuman explained, "Please ask Miss Lu to be more cautious in her behavior, not to give people more chances to gossip about the Gu Family at this critical moment."
Gu Annan glanced coldly at the photos on the coffee table and suddenly took out his phone, snapped a photo of them.
Shuman was surprised but still watched his reaction calmly.
Gu Annan, such a proud man, upon seeing this would definitely not endure it, he would find her to settle accounts.
"Explain this to me, kid, what’s going on." Gu Annan ignored Shuman’s words, instead he took a picture and sent it to Little Momo, demanding answers.