Chapter 50: Questioning

If Su Xiangwan knew that she was Qin Shu, that she was Gu Tingyan's wife.

She would definitely hide far away.

She never wanted to have any connection to Lu Ziqian's circle ever again.

Qin Shu sensed the unease and panic in her eyes and explained, "I'm not close with Lu Ziqian, don't be afraid."

Upon hearing this name, Su Xiangwan trembled to her very core, as if she had been targeted by a venomous snake, which made one's blood run cold.

She tried her best to restrain her slightly trembling voice: "Thank you."

Su Xiangwan said, "That day, I had just gotten out of prison and fainted at the entrance due to low blood sugar; it was Grandma who picked me up and brought me into the nursing home."

She said in a low voice, "Grandma is very good to me, and I want to be good to her too."

Qin Shu looked at her and smiled, "My grandmother is much happier having you for company."

She looked at Su Xiangwan with expectant eyes: "Shall we have lunch together?"

Su Xiangwan was very thin; her clothes hung loosely on her frame, her collarbones were deeply sunken, and one look was enough to tell she was malnourished.

Su Xiangwan looked at her in great surprise: "You're willing to eat with someone like me?"

"Someone like you? What kind of person? I only know that we are both women."

Su Xiangwan did not know if she truly did not know, or was only pretending not to.

Su Xiangwan: "I have been to prison; I am a murderer."

After she left prison, she also tried to find a job, but others would keep their distance as soon as they saw her criminal record, looking at her with wary and terrified eyes.

Every job search ended in failure; who could have imagined that the once proud Eldest Miss of the Su Family, the golden and precious daughter of the mayor, would one day be reduced to the point of not even being able to find work.

Qin Shu looked back at her grandmother: "Someone who can be accepted by my grandmother cannot be a heinous villain; I don't believe you would dare to kill anyone."

Upon hearing these words, Su Xiangwan felt a strange pain in her heart, her nose felt sore, tears welled up uncontrollably, and her voice choked: "Thank you."

"Thank you for being willing to believe me."

She raised her hand to wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, a smile on her face: "It's been so many years, only you believe me."

Even the judge had convicted her; she could not defend herself, and even Su Xiangwan herself had almost believed that she really had killed someone.

Gu Family villa.

Gu Tingyan had worked himself into a frenzy; after getting off work at the company, he would drive for over an hour to the building where Qin Shu lived.

Gu Tingyan sat in the car smoking; he saw Qin Shu return not far away, pushed the car door open and got out, leaning against the car window with his dark eyes fixed on her.

When Qin Shu saw him, her footsteps paused slightly, then she brushed past him without changing her expression, as if the two of them had never known each other.

Gu Tingyan held a cigarette in his mouth, his gaze fixed straight on her.

Seeing that she truly treated him as if he did not exist, Gu Tingyan grabbed her hand and pulled her into his arms; he hugged her waist tightly, smelling the fragrance in her hair: "Huahua, I miss you very much."

Qin Shu reached out to push his chest away and said coldly: "Your longing is worthless; you should give it to Chu Sheng instead."

Gu Tingyan grabbed her hand, refusing to let her leave: "Give me some time, I will get to the bottom of this."

Qin Shu turned back and curled her lips into a smile: "Alright, come back when you have figured it out."

Qin Shu pulled her hand away from his and turned to go upstairs.

Gu Tingyan wanted to say something more, but his phone rang; it was Lu Ziqian.

Gu Tingyan answered: "Did you find it?"

Lu Ziqian sent the findings to Gu Tingyan's email and said: "That truck driver died two years ago; no transfers were found under his name."

"So much time has passed, it's impossible to start the investigation from scratch, not to mention that the police closed the case back then; it's very difficult to reopen it."

Gu Tingyan's brows were dark and heavy; he had expected this.

Lu Ziqian: "But for that 'Spade' you asked me to investigate, I hired a top international hacker to help look into it."

"This account was deactivated long ago; tracing it further is a slim hope."

Gu Tingyan was silent, absentmindedly fiddling with his lighter.

"But Spade joined the GigaSociety."

The GigaSociety is a top global high-IQ organization; such organizations use IQ tests as the core threshold for membership.

The GigaSociety (arguably the highest-threshold high-IQ organization, requiring an IQ in the top 0.0000001% globally (over 190), with only about 10 people in the world meeting the criteria).

"Their internal member information is strictly confidential, so I used some methods and bribed a high-level administrator."

"I couldn't help you ask who Spade is, but..."

"I showed him Chu Sheng's information."

Lu Ziqian curled his lips into a smile: "Do you know what that executive said?"

Gu Tingyan: "What?"

"He said Chu Sheng's IQ is as stupid as a pig; she couldn't possibly join their society."

"She can't even step over the threshold of Mensa, let alone join the GigaSociety."

These words were a direct and merciless denial of Chu Sheng's intelligence.

Gu Tingyan's chest heaved violently, as if something was about to surge out from within.

Before this, he had already had an answer in his heart; now, it could be considered completely confirmed.

"Thanks."

After Gu Tingyan hung up the phone, his expression instantly turned gloomy and terrifying; he drove away from Qin Shu's building and drove all the way to the Chu Family.

Chu Xuanming was sitting on the sofa reading a financial newspaper; seeing Gu Tingyan enter from the doorway, he was overjoyed and pleasantly surprised.

Could it be that Gu Tingyan had come to find Sheng?

Chu Xuanming stood up with a smile: "Tingyan."

Gu Tingyan glanced at him indifferently: "Where is Chu Sheng?"

Chu Xuanming looked upstairs and smiled: "The girl is resting upstairs; I'll have someone go call her."

Gu Tingyan said coldly, "No need."

A terrifying smile appeared on his face: "I will go up and find her."

Chu Xuanming did not know why, but he always felt this smile was somewhat hair-raising and quite frightening.

But on second thought, the fact that Gu Tingyan could lower himself to go find Sheng meant that he had Sheng in his heart.

He reckoned that once he officially divorced Qin Shu, the engagement ceremony between the Chu Family and the Gu Family could proceed.

Gu Tingyan strode upstairs, found Chu Sheng's room, and kicked her door open.

Chu Sheng was just preparing to lie down in her clothes; hearing the sound of the door being kicked, she was startled, and upon turning back to see it was Gu Tingyan, her face was filled with surprise and joy.

"Tingyan," Chu Sheng called his name softly, not noticing the man's expression at all.

Gu Tingyan walked over, and Chu Sheng happily went to greet him, but before she could get close to Gu Tingyan, her neck was grabbed by one of his hands.

Chu Sheng widened her eyes, looking at him in disbelief, and called his name with difficulty: "Ti-, Tingyan."

Only then did she discover that Gu Tingyan's expression was terrifyingly gloomy, his whole body wreathed in a pitch-black mist, and the look in his eyes held not a shred of the tenderness from before, being icy, bloodthirsty, and frightening.

Gu Tingyan tightened his hand around her neck, his voice as cold as a cicada in winter: "Why did you steal Qin Shu's things?"