Chapter 57: Cannot Sit and Await Death

"I have something to tell you," Gu Qingmeng said, her face unusually calm.

"Just say it," Lu Xiwan said, letting the two children go play first, then sitting opposite Gu Qingmeng.

Gu Qingmeng coughed twice, "I don't care what happened last night between you two."

From the start she made her stance clear, and Lu Xiwan couldn't help but admire Gu Qingmeng's patience—it was truly impressive.

Unlike her, back then when I learned about their mess I felt the world was about to collapse.

"But you must also understand, after something like this happens I won't keep you at the Fu Family any longer. How you leave is your choice; whatever amount of money you want I'll try to give you, on the condition that you first drink this medicine."

Gu Qingmeng took out a box of medicine and placed it before Lu Xiwan, her calm exterior hiding an inner turmoil she couldn't even name.

Lu Xiwan picked up the medicine, her smile laced with sarcasm: "Gu Qingmeng, you can kick me out, but my employment contract is signed with Fu Sijue. You can have him dismiss me; when that happens I'll leave without you saying a word. As for the medicine—"

Her tone turned cold, her fingertips loosening, and the medicine box fell straight into the trash can.

Gu Qingmeng stared at the medicine in the trash can, seeing Lu Xiwan's indifferent demeanor, and suddenly went berserk, lunging onto Lu Xiwan's front:

"Can't you accept that I'm begging you? I've never begged anyone before; this time I'm begging you—let me go, okay? You look too much like that person."

Gu Qingmeng was genuinely frightened.

She had barely managed to drive that woman away back then, and now a woman identical to her had appeared.

She had finally, after great effort, been on the brink of becoming the lady of the Fu Family.

She truly feared that all her efforts would be snatched away by this woman.

"Begging me? What you're saying is getting more incomprehensible to me. I'm Yao Yao's Psychologist; I live here solely to treat Yao Yao."

Lu Xiwan looked at Gu Qingmeng as if she were staring at someone gravely ill.

Heh, did Gu Qingmeng ever imagine that one day she'd be crawling at her feet, begging her?

……

Shen Shu carefully placed an investigation report in front of Fu Sijue.

"President Fu, based on what you said last time, we examined Miss Gu's bank transactions during this period. Following that lead, we identified the group suspected of kidnapping the young master."

Yet Shen Shu's expression showed no sign of relaxation.

"If you've found them, keep investigating," Fu Sijue said without even lifting his head.

"President Fu, I have an even more important matter to tell you."

Shen Shu inhaled deeply, "I discovered that the few people who kidnapped the young master this time had also appeared at the scene of the lady's disappearance before."

Fu Sijue snapped his head up, furrowing his brows as he stared at Shen Shu.

"Continue the search; you must locate them as quickly as possible."

As long as we can find them, we can prove whether what Xi Wan said is the truth...

The manor.

The Steward bustled in and out, while Gu Qingmeng, irritated, could only vent all her inner fire onto the Steward.

"What are you doing over and over again? Can't you see I'm already annoyed?!"

Gu Qingmeng, having been slighted and feeling displeased, found the Steward coincidentally at the gun's muzzle, naturally becoming someone she couldn't tolerate.

"Sorry, Miss Gu, the gentleman asked me to pull out all of the lady's previous belongings for inspection; it seems Assistant Shen has just now uncovered something about the lady... I'll keep my voice low now."

The Steward deliberately slowed his pace, but Gu Qingmeng felt no respite at all; instead, it pounded in her chest like a drum.

Could they have already uncovered the events of those years? Yet she had erased every trace from back then...

Gu Qingmeng's heart suddenly leapt upward.

No—she couldn't sit and wait for death; there were matters she had to resolve.