Chapter 400: Please give me the power to change Grandpa's fate!

Kasamoto Gouzou had long since made himself the bait, all so that his precious granddaughter could thoroughly take control of the Kasamoto family.

He just hadn't expected his granddaughter to have her own thoughts, and to directly cancel the engagement with Kazeshiro Wu Yan.

This truly exceeded his expectations a little.

But there was nothing to be done about it, after all some matters had been informed in advance.

Yet Kasamoto Gouzou found this point very strange as well.

His precious granddaughter's feelings for Kazeshiro Wu Yan were still quite good; he himself had seen this point, and only after confirming that Kazeshiro Wu Yan could become his granddaughter's support did he permit this marriage.

But how could his granddaughter, upon hearing Kazeshiro Wu Yan's true situation, resolutely cancel the engagement?

Wasn't the content of the conversation only related to Kazeshiro Wu Yan?

Kasamoto Gouzou realized this point.

It seemed the topic of discussion had stimulated Xia Jiang.

What on earth was the topic?

Kasamoto Gouzou was a little concerned.

"Knock knock knock!"

The sudden knocking interrupted Kasamoto Gouzou's thoughts; Kasamoto Gouzou's brow furrowed tightly, this feeling of being suddenly interrupted was very unpleasant.

"Xia Jiang, go sit over to the side."

If it was those useless fellows, the old man absolutely did not want those useless things to continue tormenting his precious granddaughter.

Kasamoto Xia Jiang nodded slightly, and went to a spot against the wall, a position not easily seen from outside the door.

Going to open the door, upon seeing the person outside, Kasamoto Gouzou's face immediately darkened.

Kasamoto Ichirou.

A man who didn't know life from death, brazen and shameless.

"What are you here for?"

In dealing with this grandson, Kasamoto Gouzou did not have the gentleness he showed Xia Jiang.

"Grandpa……"

Hearing this voice, Kasamoto Xia Jiang, who was sitting by the wall in the room, knew who the person outside was.

"Grandpa, I want to ask you for one thing."

"Don't even think about it."

Regarding Kasamoto Ichirou's request, Kasamoto Gouzou chose to refuse without even listening; his face was dark and icy, almost as if the word 'disgust' were written on it.

"I don't want to know your thoughts in the slightest; if you want to be a rice-bug that's your own business, don't smear your incompetent, useless problems onto Xia Jiang"

Eh? It has something to do with me?

Kasamoto Xia Jiang, who was listening nearby, was also a bit bewildered; she didn't know what Ichirou had said to grandpa that made grandpa so angry, and it seemed to have a certain connection to her as well.

"Wh-why?"

Kasamoto Ichirou's anxious, irritated voice sounded a little frantic.

"You clearly allowed that Kazeshiro Wu Yan to marry Xia Jiang, so why can't I!?"

Marry……me?

Hearing these words, Kasamoto Xia Jiang was also full of surprise; she tried hard to cover her own mouth, to avoid making any sound.

She had no romantic feelings whatsoever for Ichirou; one might even say she showed not the slightest inclination toward Ichirou in that way.

But now she finally understood why grandpa had been so angry upon seeing Ichirou — it turned out Ichirou had brought up something similar in front of grandpa.

"Hmph!"

"Your parents really did pass on that nauseating, vomit-inducing gene to you."

Kasamoto Gouzou made no attempt to conceal his disgust toward Kasamoto Ichirou, looking at him as though he were garbage, a worm crawling on the ground.

"A cousin actually falling for his own cousin — it's just as sickening as when your mother, back in the day, fell for her cousin, that is, your father."

Regarding his daughter falling for her cousin, Kasamoto Gouzou had tried to stop it in the past as well.

But the result was his daughter's shrewish, hysterical tantrum.

It was at that very moment that Kasamoto Gouzou made one thing clear: his daughter was exactly that sort of character.

It was at that very moment that Kasamoto Gouzou had already given up on his daughter completely in his heart.

Regarding his daughter Mariko's marriage, he couldn't be bothered to deal with it, and simply let her have her way.

But as for Mariko's whole family, Kasamoto Gouzou looked down on them especially; having them before his eyes was practically a constant reminder that these two scums had appeared in his family.

As for the product of inbreeding, Kasamoto Ichirou, naturally Kasamoto Gouzou also looked down on him a hundred times over.

For such a product of inbreeding to actually want to lay a finger on his precious granddaughter — that thick-skinned nerve must have been inherited from his mother.

"Impossible is impossible!"

"I will not agree to let a good-for-nothing like you, who is neither high nor low, who has not a single ability, and whose very thoughts make me want to vomit, marry Xia Jiang."

Words like these Kasamoto Gouzou had already said once before; this time was the second time he said them.

"That kid Kazeshiro Wu Yan, even if his motives are impure, he still has that ability."

"But you, hmph, don't have a damn bit of ability. A half-baked painter of mediocre caliber — with your level, you can support Xia Jiang? You're nothing but a drag."

Being spoken of as worthless, Kasamoto Ichirou stood in place trembling constantly, his fists clenched tight.

"So……no matter what, grandpa won't agree to let me marry Xia Jiang."

"That's right, I will never agree to this impossible dream of yours."

Only at this moment Kasamoto Gouzou did not see the killing intent welling up in the eyes of the lowered-headed Kasamoto Ichirou.

His trembling shoulders stopped; suddenly, Kasamoto Ichirou pulled out a kitchen knife from behind him, and stabbed it toward the old man before him who was his grandfather.

In that instant, the chilling cold gleam on the kitchen knife caused Kasamoto Xia Jiang's mind to go completely blank.

Her thoughts instantly crashed, and even her consciousness and time seemed to freeze momentarily at that very instant.

The image reflected on her retina quickly brought her stunned brain back to its senses, yet everything before her eyes continued to move forward slowly.

Tsukamoto Xia Jiang did not know what kind of situation she was in, but she clearly saw Ichiro holding a kitchen knife, about to stab her grandfather in the stomach.

At this moment, she finally understood why that boy had said those words before leaving.

Now, time seemed frozen, yet her body appeared frozen just like time itself.

Tsukamoto Xia Jiang's anxious thoughts raced at high speed.

If the kitchen knife stabbed into her grandfather's body, given her grandfather's age and condition, a major disaster would surely occur.

They were out on the open sea; without the ability to perform rapid first aid, her grandfather would surely die!

Her rapidly racing brain gave her an answer, yet this answer made her even more anxious.

What should she do? What exactly should she do?

She did not know when this state would end, but if she could not make any change, the moment this state lifted, her grandfather would be stabbed through the stomach by Ichiro with the kitchen knife.

Suddenly, a sentence she had heard not long ago entered her mind.