Chapter 317: Only Regretting After Knowing He Was Going to Die

"Why?"

Ren Amamiya slowly approached Gao Shan Toshihiko.

"Isn't it because her father caused the car accident involving your mother?"

"!? "

Gao Shan Toshihiko's shocked expression was truly laughable.

"Why do you think you hid so well?"

"Isn't everything of yours laid out in the open?"

"Even drinking from the beverage can you placed poison in was voluntary on your bride's part, wasn't it?"

"Voluntary!?"

Gao Shan Toshihiko looked at Matsumoto Sayuri, who was still vomiting blood on the ground, with a stunned expression, yet there was not a trace of regret on his face, only anger.

"This is my revenge! How could she possibly know!"

"This woman is merely a means for my revenge; she is just like all other women, all here for the Gao Shan family's wealth!"

Indeed, Matsumoto Sayuri was no different from all the women he had encountered in the past.

They all started dating him for the money.

He was not wrong.

Using money as bait, he lured Matsumoto Sayuri to bite.

In fact, that was indeed the case; he succeeded, he got close to Matsumoto Sayuri, and he obtained the opportunity for revenge.

"... 19..."

Standing over there, Matsumoto Sayuri sighed and couldn't help but lower her head.

After all, the filter of childhood was too strong.

She finally understood what kind of such thoughts the person she had fallen for actually held.

Now that the filter was removed, Matsumoto Sayuri finally realized that time is truly a very thick filter.

It can indeed block out many impurities, allowing her to see only the good in that boy from the past, while ignoring how he had deteriorated over so many years.

"The wealth of the Gao Shan Zaibatsu."

Ren Amamiya, as if hearing something amusing, couldn't help but laugh.

"You don't actually think such a thing exists, do you?"

"What do you mean?"

Gao Shan Toshihiko couldn't stop having a bad premonition.

"Your adoptive parents treated you very well, and the main work of the Gao Shan Zaibatsu was handed over to you to handle."

"However, you yourself lacked the ability to manage a zaibatsu, so under your leadership, the Gao Shan Zaibatsu had long been driven into massive debt."

"Add to that your own love of playing around, and your adoptive mother's excessive doting on you, and this cultivated a personality in you where playing around surpassed everything else."

"Fundamentally, loving to play is not a bad thing; some people even gain many small pieces of intelligence and channels from it, but you are left with only the love of playing."

"Those around you are all fair-weather friends."

"Do you remember? How they scammed you."

Gao Shan Toshihiko's mind involuntarily recalled the many mistakes he made while working for the Gao Shan Zaibatsu, listening to the advice of friends around him.

His heart couldn't help but tremble.

"You always discussed your work troubles with them, but while you were discussing with them, they recorded everything you said."

"Otherwise, how do you think the Kuroda Zaibatsu, which had a situation similar to the Gao Shan Zaibatsu, could so easily seize the initiative?"

"If not for the errors in several key decisions, the Gao Shan Zaibatsu might truly have been brought back from the brink of death, but you did not listen to the professionals managing the zaibatsu's business, but rather listened to your fair-weather friends."

"Wasn't that asking for your death?"

The smile on Ren Amamiya's face grew even wider.

"Then how much liquid capital do you think the Gao Shan Zaibatsu has on hand right now?"

"T-Twenty million?"

At this moment, Gao Shan Toshihiko only felt a chill surging in his heart.

"It is two million, and not US dollars, but Japanese yen."

"Your adoptive father was almost so angry upon hearing this that he fainted to death."

Gao Shan Toshihiko felt a bit guilty at this moment, because he didn't even know about his father fainting.

"The only thing that made him hold on was your wedding with Matsumoto Sayuri."

"Once your marriage to Matsumoto Sayuri is finalized, then the Gao Shan Zaibatsu will finally be able to break free from the situation of being surrounded by wolves."

"Even if the Gao Shan Zaibatsu eventually falls apart, with your father-in-law's background, no zaibatsu would deal a death blow to the broken Gao Shan Zaibatsu."

"So, this wedding is not Matsumoto Sayuri wanting the two million of your Gao Shan Zaibatsu, but rather her trying to pull you up in her own way."

The more these words were spoken, the more goosebumps they gave Gao Shan Toshihiko.

"Regarding an accident that happened twenty years ago, Matsumoto Sayuri had long ago sent your ex-girlfriend to investigate."

"She also knew long ago about the accident her father had while pursuing a criminal, and this accident caused your mother's death."

"It was precisely because she knew that Matsumoto Sayuri wanted to end this grudge with her life."

"How could it be... how could it be like this..."

"But... the intelligence she obtained actually had some errors."

"Actually, twenty years ago, it was not her father driving and hitting your mother, but the criminal being chased driving and hitting your mother."

Gao Shan Toshihiko, who was still doubting life itself, suddenly shivered all over.

His entire face was filled with fear.

"That's right. The one who hit your mother was a criminal, not Matsumoto Sayuri's father."

"Perhaps he did not render aid to your mother in time, but that is a secondary responsibility."

"The true murderer of your mother is that criminal."

The matter Gao Shan Toshihiko very much wished to forget was mentioned once again.