Chapter 51: Gu Tingyan goes mad and nearly strangles Chu Sheng to death!

Chu Sheng met those cold, gloomy eyes, looking at Gu Tingyan with shock-widened pupils: "Tingyan, I don't know what you are talking about."

"Did Qin Shu say something to you?"

Chu Sheng looked up at Gu Tingyan, her eyelashes damp with tears, her beautiful, pale face looking exceptionally pitiful and endearing.

"I don't understand, I have already given you to her, why does she still have to slander me like this?"

Seeing that she still refused to admit it, Gu Tingyan was filled with rising malice, his eyes carrying a fierce intensity.

His pitch-black eyes stared at her: "Are you Spade?"

Chu Sheng met those eyes that were like cold pools; a piercing chill surged up, causing her whole body to shiver violently, her fingers hanging by her sides clenching tightly into fists, her knuckles turning white.

Her heart was in a panic, but she forced herself to remain calm on the surface, insisting: "Yes!"

Gu Tingyan turned his head to look at her; that face that haunted her dreams was now filled with a bloodthirsty and cruel smile.

Gu Tingyan stared at her and asked: "Then since you joined the Hidden Brilliance Society, why don't you tell me, who are some of the people in it?"

Chu Sheng's face was blank; what Hidden Brilliance Society?

Chu Sheng's heart grew inexplicably more panicked: "Tingyan, you, what are you talking about..."

Her pale face forced out a smile: "I don't understand what you are talking about."

Hearing her say this, Gu Tingyan felt as if his heart had been violently torn open like a sail in the wind.

Gu Tingyan let out a low roar: "Chu Sheng! You are still pretending!"

"Why did you say you were Spade!"

He said coldly: "Spade is Qin Shu, isn't she?"

Chu Sheng's eyelashes trembled violently, an unprecedented fear washing over her; she reached out to grab Gu Tingyan's arm, her expression panicked, her voice trembling: "Tingyan, listen to me, it's not like that."

A chill raced through Chu Sheng's entire body, and she argued desperately: "I am the real Spade, Qin Shu is impersonating me!"

"Then tell me, why would Qin Shu impersonate you."

"Because she is jealous of me!"

"She is jealous that the person you like is me!"

Gu Tingyan scoffed: "Chu Sheng, I don't like you."

Gu Tingyan said: "The one I like is Spade, the one I love is Qin Shu."

The person he liked and the person he loved were one and the same.

Yet he had hurt Qin Shu so deeply.

Gu Tingyan stared at Chu Sheng with bloodshot eyes, laughing at himself, his voice trembling: "I actually let Qin Shu be disappointed in me again and again for a woman like you."

Chu Sheng knew the matter could no longer be hidden, so she simply gave up and threw caution to the wind: "I did steal Qin Shu's identity to get close to you, but that was only because I loved you too much."

Chu Sheng looked up at the man in front of her, near-manic and paranoid, crying in despair: "Tingyan, I love you."

"For so many years, the person I have loved has always been you, can't you feel it?"

Gu Tingyan said coldly: "But I have never loved you."

Hearing this, Chu Sheng felt as if she had received a massive shock, leaving her mind blank; she roared angrily: "You are lying!"

She looked at the heartless, cold-blooded man in front of her with tears streaming down her face, refusing to believe that Gu Tingyan had never loved her, and she broke down: "If you don't love me, why have you protected me everywhere!"

This man, Gu Tingyan, when he loves you, he holds you in the palm of his hand, wishing he could give you the whole world.

That love is scorching and intense, making one unable to resist sinking into his tenderness; no woman can withstand his temptation.

When he doesn't love you, his heart is exceptionally hard, his methods are ruthless, he is cold and heartless, cold-blooded and unfeeling.

Even if you died in front of him, he would not feel a shred of heartache.

Hearing Chu Sheng's questioning, Gu Tingyan lowered his head and let out a muffled laugh.

Chu Sheng froze for a moment.

She said with a trembling voice: "What are you laughing at?"

Gu Tingyan's eyes were filled with bloodshot veins: "I am laughing at myself for being stupid, being played in the palm of a woman's hand."

Gu Tingyan grabbed her by the throat, his voice as cold as ice: "Because of you, Qin Shu wants to divorce me."

Gu Tingyan sneered for a moment, looking at her, his fingers tightening gradually, his eyes filled with murderous intent: "Chu Sheng, tell me, don't you deserve to die?"

Chu Sheng sneered: "She is really good at pretending, her methods of playing hard to get are truly masterful."

"Qin Shu is just a whore trying to set up a memorial arch for her chastity!"

Gu Tingyan's fingers tightened; Chu Sheng's pupils shook, veins bulged on her face, her expression twisted, and she could barely breathe.

Gu Tingyan actually wanted to kill her for Qin Shu's sake!

This was the kind of heartless, cold-blooded man she had fallen in love with.

Yet, it was precisely this kind of Gu Tingyan who held a fatal attraction for women.

Chu Sheng's eyes turned red, her neck pressed against the wall by his grip, her eyes bloodshot, her face pale, and she was struggling to breathe: "Ti-, Tingyan, stop, stop"

Chu Sheng kept slapping his shoulders and arms, but Gu Tingyan's arms were like walls of copper and iron, and she could not shake them in the slightest.

Her face turned blue, a sense of deathly fear surged up, and she gradually lost all strength, her eyes filled with extreme terror.

"Gu Tingyan, stop it!"

Chu Xuanming, hearing the argument between Gu Tingyan and Chu Sheng and fearing something might happen, had gone upstairs; seeing Gu Tingyan about to strangle Chu Sheng to death, he looked on in disbelief and roared:

"How can you treat Sheng like this?!"

Chu Xuanming ran over to pry Gu Tingyan's hands off, shouting anxiously: "Gu Tingyan, have you gone mad? She is Sheng!"

"She saved your life, after all!"

"How can you treat her like this!"

Gu Tingyan loosened his grip with a cold face and closed his eyes: "Go and kneel down to apologize to Qin Shu."

"I will give you one day."

His voice was thin and cold, heartless and ruthless: "Otherwise, you know my methods."

Chu Sheng fell to the ground; she lay there limply, gasping for air, and upon hearing this, she shuddered violently.

Chu Xuanming ran over to support Chu Sheng, saying with heartache: "Sheng!"

Upon hearing these words from Gu Tingyan, Chu Xuanming's expression changed: "Gu Tingyan, what did Sheng do wrong that you would make her kneel and apologize to Qin Shu!"

This was like killing the heart after killing the body! This was forcing Chu Sheng to her death!

Gu Tingyan sneered: "Why don't you ask your good daughter what she has done?"

Chu Sheng gripped her fingers tightly; she stared at Gu Tingyan's cold and heartless back with bloodshot eyes, her voice sounding like a broken gong: "Don't even think about it!"

Tears streamed from the corners of her eyes as she let out a low roar: "Gu Tingyan, you might as well kill me!"

Chu Sheng watched his cold face with tears in her eyes, a glimmer of hope in her heart: "Why don't you just kill me!"

He ultimately could not bear to hurt her too deeply; did that mean he still had a place for her in his heart?

Gu Tingyan paused slightly upon hearing this: "Kill you? I'd find it dirty."

Chu Sheng collapsed dejectedly to the ground, her face instantly turning deathly pale, ashen.

Gu Tingyan walked out of the Chu Family residence; Chu Laotaitai had just finished touring the back garden with a few old friends, and they were all startled to see Gu Tingyan, whispering:

"It seems that your Chu Family has happy events approaching soon."