Chapter 301: Chapter 281: Did You Cause the Gu Family’s Bankruptcy?
Gu Qili did not immediately open the voice message but quickly checked the sender’s profile. However, except for the name, nothing was displayed; this number had left no information behind and had never posted any Moments.
Gu Qili sent three words: Who are you?
Soon, the reply came: Who I am is not important. What is important is, I don’t want to see you being played like a fool.
Gu Qili frowned and tapped to play the first audio clip.
After the rustling sound, a calm and steady male voice spoke: I will take Muguang Entertainment into my hands.
This voice... was Mu Shuoqian’s.
Indeed, Mu Shuoqian’s goal had always been Muguang Entertainment, his father’s company.
Gu Qili hurriedly played the second audio clip; this time, it was a woman’s voice. She recognized it as Qiu Lan’s after just one sentence.
"Son... I will tell her immediately that Gu Family’s bankruptcy is all thanks to you. You meticulously planned for three years to bring down the Gu Family. If it weren’t for you, his father wouldn’t have suffered a sudden illness due to the shock of bankruptcy, nor would he have passed away three years later. To her, you are a bona fide—murderer of her father."
What did Qiu Lan say, what three-year planning, what bankruptcy, what illness, what murderer of her father?
Gu Qili instantaneously turned pale, her hand holding the phone trembling uncontrollably. Due to agitation, her quivering fingers almost dropped the phone to the floor.
She played the audio clip again, parsing each word. Qiu Lan said "son;" besides Shuoqian, who else could be Qiu Lan’s son?
Was she hallucinating? Could someone tell her why Qiu Lan kept mentioning bankruptcy and a murderer of her father? Was she saying that the bankruptcy of the Gu Family was orchestrated by Mu Shuoqian? And that her father’s sudden cerebral hemorrhage, due to being unable to withstand the shock, was also forced by Mu Shuoqian?
Gu Qili’s complexion grew paler and paler, and she felt waves of coldness, as if she had fallen into an ice hole in the dead of winter, naked, her teeth chattering, trembling uncontrollably.
"Miss, are you all right? You look terrible!" The driver couldn’t help but turn his head to look at her, "Do you need to go to the hospital?"
Gu Qili couldn’t hear what the driver was saying at all, she was holding the phone, biting her lower lip tightly.
The screen lit up again; another new message had been sent. Gu Qili closed her eyes and almost with trembling fingers, tapped to open the photos.
She browsed through them one by one, with increasing horror and chills running down her spine.
The pictures were of documents that clearly recorded how the Gu Family went from flourishing to complete ruin step by step, from the initial trust crisis to subsequent quality issues. Each step was meticulously planned by someone, sealed so tight that not even a drop could escape. Gu Dezhong would never know, even in death, that the empire he had painstakingly built had been destroyed by someone else’s hand.
In the last document, Gu Qili saw a familiar signature, flamboyant as the person it represented—arrogant and cold.
Mu—Shuoqian!!
The phone in her hand dropped with a thud to the ground, and Gu Qili slumped into her seat like a puppet whose strings had been cut, her eyes vacant as she stared at the monotonous car ceiling.
On the phone, the other party quickly sent another line of text: If these are still not enough to convince you, I have the original documents and can mail them to you.
No, there’s no need, she already believed it.
If Qiu Lan’s words weren’t enough to convince her, then these black and white documents shattered all her hopes completely.
Because she knew too well how the Gu Family had suffered during that time. Every calamity the family encountered would leave Gu Dezhong deeply worried for a long time, and her memories of those times matched exactly with what the documents depicted. They truly had fallen into traps laid out in advance, making the wrong moves from the very first step until they fell in, bones and all.
So, it was all his doing.
Why did he do this? Could he have had some dispute with Gu Dezhong in the past? What kind of grudge was worth driving the Gu Family to death, to sending Gu Dezhong to his grave?
And yet, after single-handedly destroying the Gu Family, he hypocritically flew the flag of love, returning the estate to her. After pushing Gu Dezhong into the arms of death, he married his daughter. Then, his initial approach towards her was also just an act of revenge, wasn’t it? Ruining the Gu Family and driving them to bankruptcy was not enough; he wouldn’t let even her, the fallen heiress, be spared. To lift her to heaven and then to cast her down to hell—that must be the ultimate form of retribution.