Chapter 340: Chapter 340: The Devastated Wang Yuting
By the time Gu Jiaojiao got into the car, she still hadn’t seen the Mu Family throw Wang Yuting out. She shook her head in amusement.
She was already exceptionally beautiful, with a natural purity and gentle grace that no other woman could hope to imitate.
When she smiled in the sunlight, she was so breathtakingly beautiful that both Han Jingyi and Xiao Rui were left staring in a daze.
"Get in the car and let’s go. What are you still staring at? Wang Yuting is their granddaughter, after all. They’re just putting on a show for me."
"Ma’am... Mu isn’t that kind of person. That shrew Wang Yuting must have scratched the bodyguard and broken free."
Xiao Rui had wanted to say that she was beautiful, but he was afraid of being too forward. More importantly, he didn’t want to disappoint her.
"Ma’am, please get in the car." Han Jingyi opened the car door, holding a hand over the top of the frame as he invited Gu Jiaojiao to get in.
It was a gentlemanly gesture he had learned from Hong Kong movies, and this was the first time he’d ever used it.
Gu Jiaojiao looked at the two handsome young men before her, who were about her age. With their pearly white teeth and red lips, they were more striking than many of the pretty-boy idols of later generations.
After she got in the car, she heard a scream like a pig being slaughtered coming from the Mu residence. Her mood improved instantly.
Mu Qingtong was faster than Mr. Mu. Hearing her adopted daughter’s cries, she rushed out of the kitchen.
"Oh, Xiao Li, are you trying to kidnap my precious daughter? SOB SOB SOB..."
"Mu Qingtong, what are you blabbering about without knowing right from wrong? Xiao Li, tell me what happened."
"She angered the Young Master until he went into a frenzy again. It was Ma’am who gave him his medicine and got him to sleep. And she also angered Ma’am until she left."
Xiao Li was no simple brute. Although he looked big and burly, he was a cunning man.
He knew what the old master cared about most, so he chose his words carefully, sticking only to the facts.
Mr. Mu was so furious he nearly fell over backward. "Wang Yuting! What do you think you are? How dare you cause trouble in my house?"
"Mu Qingtong, take a good look at what you’ve raised! A creature with wolfish ambitions that even dares to covet my Ziquan? Is she worthy?"
"Dad, my Yuting is beautiful, gentle, and virtuous. How is she not good enough for Ziquan?"
"You can get out too. Don’t ever come to my house again. The Mu Family does not welcome you." Mr. Mu was truly enraged.
’This adopted granddaughter of hers is so ambitious,’ he fumed, furious at his daughter for her weakness. ’How could she not see it!’
Their words struck Wang Yuting right where it hurt.
They pierced her so deeply that her face turned ashen and her fingers trembled. Her heart ached so much it felt like it was bleeding.
’I hate this! Why? Why am I not the Mu Family’s biological granddaughter? Why haven’t I become the mistress of the Mu household yet?’
"Xiao Li, you’re responsible for seeing them home," Mr. Mu said wearily, clutching his chest.
Mu Qingtong looked at her father, who seemed to have aged several years in an instant, and she, too, began to blame her adopted daughter for being so thoughtless.
’How could Yuting provoke Ziquan until he had an episode? And she even drove Jiaojiao away. Who’s going to treat Ziquan now?’
She thought this, but she didn’t dare say anything, because her adopted daughter would give her menacing looks when no one was watching.
She knew her adopted daughter was smart and strong-willed, and she could tolerate most things from her.
That was because ever since she adopted her, the void in her heart from losing her own daughter had been filled.
But hurting her family was unforgivable. So, without another word, she pulled her adopted daughter toward the door.
Wang Yuting was unwilling to be dragged away by her stupid adoptive mother just like that, but there was nothing she could do.
"Mom, it’s all that vixen from the countryside’s fault. She’s bewitched Cousin and Grandpa. You have to do something about her."
"Yuting, you know your mother isn’t capable. You yourself said that your grandpa and cousin are a cut above the rest. How could I dare to manage them? Weren’t we just kicked out?"
Wang Yuting: ...
’I really can’t do anything with this stupid adoptive mother. She’s so dumb, and yet I still have to suck up to her!’
’My life is so miserable!’
’I’m really having a breakdown!’
Gu Jiaojiao arrived back at the Gu Family’s gate just as Su Shuochi’s car was pulling up. The couple got out at the entrance.
"You guys come in for lunch today. We’re moving this afternoon," Su Shuochi said to Geng Haoyi after getting out of the car.
Han Jingyi drove the car directly into the Gu Family’s courtyard. They were definitely going to be following Ma’am around all day.
This time, Auntie Gu didn’t dare to confront the cripple head-on, so she changed her strategy and approached them with a wide smile.
"Well, if it isn’t my nephew-in-law and my niece Jiaojiao. Where are you two moving this afternoon?"
"Have you eaten, Auntie Gu? We’re moving to our own home," Gu Jiaojiao replied, also smiling.
"And where is your home?" Auntie Gu really wanted to know their address.
"School is about to start for me, so Shu Ci bought a small villa near the university town."
Gu Jiaojiao knew her aunt was trying to dig for information, and she didn’t mind showing off a little.
Even though they had gotten rich from the resources in her "space," it was still their own skill that had earned it.
"What? You actually have the money to buy a villa there?" Auntie Gu’s voice became sharp as she lost her composure.
’That cripple really is rich!’
Old Sir Gu heard the car and came out immediately. His voice arrived before he did, "Jiaojiao, you’re back! Hurry up and come in for lunch."
"Okay, Grandpa, we’re coming right now!" Gu Jiaojiao responded loudly.
Then she turned and said softly to Auntie Gu, "My grandpa is calling me home for lunch. Goodbye, Auntie Gu."
"Oh, yes. Goodbye, goodbye."
Seeing Auntie Gu’s somewhat dazed expression, Gu Jiaojiao’s eyes crinkled with a smile. She cheerfully pushed the wheelchair into the Gu Family’s courtyard.
Watching Gu Jiaojiao’s receding figure, Auntie Gu couldn’t help but mutter in a daze, "That cripple is so rich!"
Her father-in-law and eldest brother-in-law were both pedantic scholars, unbearably arrogant. They prided themselves on being learned men and viewed money as dirt.
Her sister-in-law was from a small place like Qing City, while she was from the Lin Family of the Imperial City.
Although the Lin Family wasn’t a prestigious clan in the Imperial City, they were still much better off than the Gu Family.
Because the Gu Family’s second son was very handsome, she fell for him at first sight; besides, the Gu Family had a scholarly reputation.
She was also a smart and capable woman, so as soon as they were married, the couple seized control of the Gu Family’s finances.
But the good times didn’t last. A few years later, the Gu Family fell on hard times. Her husband was a ruthless character; he personally reported his own father and older brother.
From then on, that father and son duo were suppressed so thoroughly they couldn’t hold their heads up. They could only struggle to survive in the cracks. For all these years, they had lived in frustration.
Meanwhile, under her and her husband’s joint scheming, their branch of the family thrived like a fish in water, becoming ever more successful and prominent.
Who would have thought that after more than a decade, the old man would return with his eldest son’s family to collect a debt?
At first, she and her husband assumed the father and son had no money, so they set a ridiculously high price on the old Gu Family residence, thinking it would make her brother-in-law back down.
But who knew her brother-in-law would be so lucky as to have an incredibly wealthy son-in-law?
They didn’t dare blow the matter up, so they had to swallow their anger, extort a bit more money, and ultimately hand over the old Gu Family residence obediently.
Their lifelong scheming had come to nothing. She and her husband were dying to know just what kind of powerful figure this son-in-law of her brother-in-law’s was.
At the same time, they wished they could kick that rich son-in-law into a river to drown.
