Jun faced the doctor in the hospital with his calm but icy gaze, "One of them is dead?"
The doctor nodded. "It was unexpected but just an hour ago, his vitals weakened and his condition worsened. Before we could do anything to help him, he was already gone."
Yunru, who had also accompanied Jun as soon as he got the news, gulped hard with tension. He pulled Jun to the corner and said, his voice panicking, "Bro. This is bad. Everybody knows that Bro Nian beat the shit out of the judges, and now one of them is dead! Won't this implicate him badly?"
That was exactly what Jun thought too the moment he got the news of one of the judges' death.
"We will think about what to do about that. Let's go and meet the other judge first."
The other judge was awake but deathly afraid. He jumped in his bed as he saw Jun and Yunru approaching. His face was pale, and his body was trembling hard. "I-I-I…."
The doctor squeaked, "M-Mr. Liu Jun. I understand that you have questions to ask him, but I hope you don't stress out the patient. He is already quite rattled, and it may have a negative-"
"I know what to do," Jun cast a warning glance at him.
He promptly backed out.
Jun bent over and narrowed his eyes at him. "So you say that Gu Rong bribed you?"
He gasped and stiffened with sweat forming on his forehead. "Yes. He-he wanted us to choose Cai Guiying instead of Zhou Ai…I-It's the truth."
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The pressure Jun enforced upon his retreating body was too much to handle. "We d-don't know much, but he only s-said that he hates Zhou Ai. Something about seducing his son…"
The door banged upon and Gu Rong stormed in in rage. "What the hell are you spouting nonsense for!? I bribed you against Zhou Ai?"
The judge didn't know what happened when he suddenly barged in, but he jolted in terror.
Behind Gu Rong came Yating, whose serious but deadly expression brought a chill in the air.
Gu Rong pointed his finger at the judge. "Who the hell are you to accuse me of something ? I don't have anything to do with the bribery!"
Jun narrowed his eyes. "Nice to meet you, Mr. Gu."
He then finally noticed Jun and Yunru's presence. "Liu Jun? Chen Yunru? What are you two doing here?"
His lips formed an icy smile. "What do you think? Two judges plotted against the author belonging to Sky Publishing who is my girlfriend. Naturally, I want answers."
Yating threw a dangerous glint at Jun.
Gu Rong looked at him blankly. "...Zhou Ai?"
"I don't need to spell it out again."
Gu Rong was left speechless.
When did this happen?
He chuckled. "I see. So she thought that she could trap another man because she didn't get Yating? Oh. Is that how she got into your company?"
The whole place fell silent when Jun's dark brown eyes turned frighteningly cold. "Mind your tongue, Mr. Gu. Don't expect respect from me just because you are an elder. I won't tolerate shit about Ai at any cost. And for your kind information, she doesn't need to trap your son when he already got rejected by her on Christmas night," he sneered.
The reminder of that night stabbed Yating's heart.
Gu Rong gritted his teeth. "Liu Jun. You think I don't know women like her? So what if she rejected Yating? Middle-class women like her only know how to play tricks on people," he balled his fist.
Jun tilted his head. "I see. You really hate Ai a lot. I feel maybe there is some truth to this man's words."
Jun actually wanted the judges to spill out Guiying's name but when Gu Rong's name got exposed, it greatly shocked him. He was sure that she was behind this plot, but it didn't turn out to be that way. That set frustration within him because he wanted to punish Guiying at all costs.
Gu Rong exclaimed. "The hell there is any truth! You…"
He almost lunged at the judge to grab him. "Tell the truth that I didn't do any such thing. I don't even know you!"
The doctor and the nurse quickly pulled him back. "Mr. Gu, please be calm. It will only deteriorate his condition if you act ."
Which everybody could see with the way the judge was shaking hard. "I…I-I am telling the truth! Gu Rong bribed us!" He cried.
Yating bored his enraged gaze on his father.
To think that Gu Rong would go so far out of his hatred for Ai that he wanted to make her lose purposely…
Gu Rong was beyond enraged. "I will sue you for defaming me !"
Jun eyed the judge and asked, "How did he contact you?"
The judge trembled and spoke, his voice stammering, "M-message. He sent a message to us."
Yating intervened. "But there are no messages on your phone," he recalled the hacker saying that all their calls and messages were clean.
Jun agreed because that's what Chyou had said too.
"There is no message be-because it got automatically deleted after a minute we read it…" he breathlessly said.
Gu Rong stomped his foot in anger. "All lies! You are trying to frame me!"
Yating blinked and gave it a thought of this auto delete mechanism. His gaze turned icy upon a certain realization. "Is it now, Dad? It's not like you don't know of this facility. Don't you work closely with the Zhu family's S3 company?"
Yunru stepped closer to Jun and whispered, "Is that true, Bro?"
Jun squinted his eyes. "I have heard that Gu Corps and S3 have been partners for a few projects."
Yating confronted him. "Since you work so closely with them, naturally you must know all these tricks through S3. After all, they are the top tech company in China providing security services."
Gu Rong stared at him. "You…you are accusing me too!? Gu Yating, don't cross your limits!"
"Then what should I do if not accuse you? If you could hide your involvement with Dream High for so long, then why can you not do it again with this bribery!?"