Chapter 182: The Truth of Those Years!

Gu Jue, who was always stern-faced, frowned: "What? What do you want to tell us?"

"This is something very important, a secret that has been hidden for many years, something none of you know."

Gu Mianmian hurriedly defended herself: "Whatever sister says, don't believe it, it's not like that… it's not what sister says…"

"Gu Mianmian, I haven't even said anything yet, how do you already know I'm lying? Or is it that you actually also know exactly what I'm about to say, you understand very well that I'm going to expose a secret hidden for many years, am I right?"

"Sister, I don't know! It has nothing to do with me, I just don't want you to slander me…"

"Whether it's slander or not, we'll know once it's said…" Gu Wenyan smiled faintly, "Don't you think? Wang Ma has been… really, really good to Gu Mianmian."

Gu Wenyan curled her lips: "Don't you find it strange? Why would Wang Ma shoulder this all alone in this matter? Even if it has nothing to do with Gu Mianmian, if she knows nothing and only helped Wang Ma, then why would Wang Ma go to such lengths for Gu Mianmian?"

"And after being discovered, she took everything on herself entirely? Wang Ma couldn't have failed to know that what she'd face next was imprisonment, a consequence she couldn't bear, yet Wang Ma still chose to do so…"

"Wang Ma is so sincere, anyone who didn't know would think that Wang Ma and Gu Mianmian aren't a servant and her mistress's family at all, but rather…"

Watching their expressions all change drastically at once, Gu Wenyan finally slowly uttered the remaining few words: "Biological mother and daughter."

One sentence shocked everyone present.

Gu Jue's brows were tightly knotted: "Wen Yan, what are you saying?"

Ye Yiwen also clutched her chest, her expression shifting, her tone hiding countless worry and disbelief: "Wen Yan, say it more clearly, don't let mommy keep guessing, alright! What exactly is it?"

As for the older brothers, their expressions differed, but from their eyes it was already clear they had basically guessed what Gu Wenyan was about to say.

Some truths, even though saying them out loud would make people unable to believe, and even make one doubt everything in the past because of such a laughable truth, at the very least the truth has to have its day of being spoken…

Gu Wenyan sighed softly. Seeing that Gu Mianmian and Wang Ma had no more arguments to make, she knew they were aware the game was up.

"To tell these things, we have to start from even earlier."

Gu Wenyan didn't mind telling all these truths completely; it was about time.

"After I was born, a eminent monk calculated that I was born under a baleful star, that I would keep the Gu Family from peace, that my brothers and my family would all be affected by me… so in the end you chose to send me away. Not long after I was sent away, you took in another girl."

"Throughout the whole process… you all seem to have overlooked one person's existence."

"Wang Ma had already been with the Gu Family since the brothers were little… but after you, Mom, gave birth, for a whole year Wang Ma wasn't at the Gu Family, she had gone back to the countryside, right?"

Ye Yiwen nodded: "She said a relative in the countryside had passed away, so she went back…"

These things had happened many years ago; Ye Yiwen only recalled it after thinking for a while.

"At that time Wang Ma took more than half a year off, and only then came back… because she discovered she was pregnant. As for whose child Wang Ma was carrying, I'm not too sure, but it has no blood relation to the Gu Family, because I've already tested Gu Mianmian's DNA against the Gu Family's."

The parents both showed shocked expressions at the same time: "So you're saying about this child…"

"It just so happens to be the Gu Mianmian you later adopted."

"Wang Ma had long since bribed that so-called eminent monk to tell my fortune, then made you send me away, and did everything she could to make you adopt another daughter."

"Wang Ma served you every day in the Gu Family and understood the Gu Family very well, so she knew exactly what to do to keep her own child in the Gu Family…"

"Wang Ma wanted to send her child into the Gu Family, to completely change Gu Mianmian's fate. How laughable… for a calculated scheme like this, you even sent your biological daughter, me, away to the countryside!"

Gu Wenyan scoffed lightly: "If it weren't for my good fortune, that my neighbors happened to be those reclusive big shots who'd grown weary of the secular world, willing to look after me and teach me… I might have lived an utterly mediocre life like any ordinary person."

"Even after being taken back, I really was just that vulgar, ill-mannered child with no air of a young lady in your eyes…"

"I already have Gu Mianmian and Wang Ma's DNA test report; the results are right before your eyes. Whether you believe it or not, the fact remains."

Gu Wenyan spoke with every word like a pearl: "Gu Mianmian is Wang Ma's child; everything was Wang Ma's plan, done deliberately, causing everything that came after."

"This story pauses here for now; as for what to do next, it's up to you."

When Gu Wenyan said these things, her heart was no longer in great turmoil, because in those years of disappointment, she had long stopped caring.

Now, she only wanted to see them pay the price they deserved.

Gu Mianmian and Wang Ma absolutely must not get away with it, and absolutely must not be too happy; all the wealth and glory they wanted must be taken from them, they must not succeed.

Ye Yiwen, leaning on Gu Jue's hand, nearly couldn't stand, her eyes about to split with rage, glaring fiercely at Wang Ma: "You tell me yourself, you've been lying to me all these years, and you made me be separated from my biological daughter for so many years?!"

Knowing there was no way out, Wang Ma let out two laughs, going all in with nothing to lose: "It's all because you were too stupid yourselves; a few words and you were fooled… you thought your biological daughter would affect the Gu Family's fortune! Wasn't it just because you were too stupid yourselves that you gave me such a fine opportunity…"

Ye Yiwen strode over and delivered a fierce slap across Wang Ma's face: "You deserve to die! I won't let you off!"

Gu Jue's expression was equally terrible: "Since when have you known?"

This question was directed at Gu Mianmian.

Knowing it could no longer be hidden, Gu Mianmian, her eyes hollow, slowly said: "I knew since I was little. I happened to discover Wang Ma looking at my photo and crying nonstop. I found her disgusting and wanted you to fire her, so she told us the truth…"

"So all these years you…"

"Yes, all these years I've been lying to you too…"

Gu Jue, furious, "slap"—another slap, this time from him as a father, landing personally on Gu Mianmian's face.

Gu Mianmian's face was instantly knocked askew to one side.