Chapter 95: Reckoning to settle accounts
As night fell, Gu Miao was coaxed to sleep. Gu Xu tucked her into bed and came out of the ward softly.
The coat on his body has been taken off, and the girl has caught a few wrinkles in the suit jacket underneath. Gu Xu smoothed it casually, and glanced at the secretary beside him from the corner of his dark eyes under the lenses.
After receiving the signal from his eyes, the secretary nodded slightly and took a step forward, "Gu..."
"Keep your voice down."
The man's voice was very soft, "I finally fell asleep. It's not easy to wake me up."
Hearing this, the secretary immediately lowered his voice and said, "Mr. Gu, the school's surveillance has been deleted. But we restored the data in time."
The secretary called up the video, raised the phone in front of him, and said while playing it: "According to the video, it seems that the madam found out that the second lady was still alive, and specially found the school. In desperation... she took action."< br>
The video was still playing, even if the speed was doubled, the woman's harsh words under the surveillance were still clear, rushing into Gu Xu's ears.
After the slap fell, there was silence in the corridor.
Although the secretary has watched this video twice, he still can't help but sigh when he sees this part again. At the same time, he cautiously raised his eyes to observe the reaction of the man in front of him...
Gu Xu's eyes were calm, and his dark eyes were fixed on the screen, showing no emotion.
The secretary expected him to be angry or frown or give some reaction. As a result, there was nothing.
After working with Gu Xu for so many years, he also knew that Gu Xu was indifferent to emotions and was never swayed by his emotions. But... the girl who was beaten in the surveillance video was Gu Miao.
It was Gu Miao who allowed Gu Xu to drive back to the capital alone from the port city without telling everyone, leaving high-level meetings and taking a special passage to come back.
He even believed that there were only two kinds of people in Gu Xu's eyes.
One is an unimportant person, and the other is Gu Miao.
So, why is there no response?
Still don't see clearly?
The secretary thoughtfully extended his hand, "Let me rewind it for you..."
"Don't move." Gu Xu spoke, unable to hide the chill in his tone.
The secretary was startled and took another peek.
The ancient well has no waves.
But——
Only then did the secretary notice the man's tense jaw. If he looked closely, he could see that his facial muscles were faintly twitching under the dazzling light of the corridor.
He is definitely not as calm as he appears.
The secretary took a breath and lowered her head silently, not daring to look at his face again, for fear of getting into trouble.
During the period of being coaxed to sleep, Gu Miao never mentioned this matter again, and Gu Xu didn't ask anything. But he vaguely guessed that the initiator was his mother.
Just guessing it and seeing it with your own eyes are two completely different things.
The old gentleman has a son and a daughter. Ms. He is the daughter of the He family. She has been held in his hands and pampered since she was born. The old gentleman was still young at that time and had no intention of passing on the family fortune to his children, so he did not treat them so harshly. This also led to Ms. He's arrogant temperament. When she was young, she was even more lawless and unreasonable. She was even called the eldest princess of Hong Kong.
Gu Xu didn't have much contact with Ms. He.
Today is the first time that I feel the true face of my mother so intuitively.
In the video, the girl froze in place immediately after being beaten. Her long hair covered half of her face, and her expression could not be seen clearly.
There was chaos all around, and everyone's voices collided together. She was the only one standing there quietly, as if her soul had been drained out of her.
It's not like Gu Xu has never seen Gu Miao's fragile side.
He is not one of those little boys who is ignorant of the world. It's not that he can't see through some of her little tricks, he just doesn't want to expose them, he just wants to condone them.
But he knew that she was afraid of pain, and that fear was not an act.
The child who used to cry and beg for candy for a long time when it hurt was now standing in the wind without crying or showing any signs of life.
She's so good.
It was what he had always wanted to see.
For some reason, this scene made Gu Xu very uncomfortable.
She was probably used to the way she would throw herself into his arms and sob every time, but now she looked so calm, accepting the abuse from women and the looks of passers-by. It was as if she was standing naked in the crowd and being watched. The scabs were uncovered one by one, and the bloody wounds were exposed to the sun. She numbly and brutally dissected herself with the others, losing all the strength to resist. The heart seemed like a sponge filled with water, being squeezed hard and gradually becoming breathless.
Until she saw the girl's shoulders shaking slightly, she raised her hand and covered her mouth hard, her fingertips trembling, but the blood drops still slipped out of her fingers uncontrollably and fell...
In the end, she also fell into a pool of blood.
The screen went black.
The secretary was surprised, and then saw the man's retracted hand.
"Mr. Gu, where are you going?"
"Bathroom."
The mirror in front of the sink was shattered.
This is the second time I feel this way.
The first time was when she jumped into the sea, and the second time was today.
There was a stinging pain in his heart, and the tall figure slowly leaned down, placing his hands on the sink, barely holding on to his shaking body.
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Gu Xu forced himself to forget these images for the time being. What he had to do now was to solve the problem.
He clearly sent people to be by Gu Miao's side, why didn't his people show up when she was in danger?
The news was obviously blocked, but with Ms. He's indifferent attitude, how did she know about Gu Miao's existence?
He didn't find that Ms. He was looking for Gu Miao at all.
Gu Siyu? Not possible either. It would be no good for Gu Miao to go back.
Gu Xu took off his glasses, rubbed his eyebrows vigorously, and thought carefully about what went wrong.
Suddenly, his movements stopped.
Grandpa.
——
The cleaning lady heard the sound and came over, screaming from her throat.
The leather shoes ran over the debris on the ground. The man elegantly wiped the water marks on his glasses with a handkerchief. He raised his head to meet the cleaning eyes and smiled softly, "Sorry, my hands are slippery."
"You can contact me at any time for subsequent compensation issues."
He held a black gold business card between his bloody fingertips and handed it to the cleaner.
When the secretary heard the commotion and came over, Gu Xu had already tidied himself up. When he came out, he had the familiar dignified look again, and even the curvature of his hair was so delicate that it looked like he had taken care of it carefully.
It's like a noble duke walking out of the castle in the Middle Ages.
Turning to look at him, there was a hint of sharpness in the smile in his eyes, "Prepare the car."
The secretary mentioned it in one breath.
"What about the second lady?"
"Let all the bodyguards stay and find a few more guards to guard..."
Not enough, this is not enough...
Gu Xu frowned.
"Hey, Brother Xu?"
Not far away, Qi Yu appeared out of nowhere, wearing only a bathrobe and a toothbrush in his mouth. He appeared in the corridor with a strange appearance.
The secretary looked around in surprise and couldn't help but doubt himself.
This is a hospital, not... a hotel, right?
Gu Xu looked at him with complicated eyes. After a long time, he said: "Qi Yu, help me keep an eye on the hospital."
Qi Yu raised his eyebrows.
"It's so late, where are you going?"
Gu Xuxiao: "Me? Since I have returned to Beijing, I naturally want to go home and see my mother."
I’m taking a day off today and will update first
(End of chapter)