Chapter 2314: Chapter 2318: She Has Something to Hide
Gu Junzhu exchanged a few pleasantries with Senior Master Wan before getting to the point: "Uncle Wan, yesterday I heard something from one of my people, and I’m not sure if you are aware."
"Oh?" Senior Master Wan asked, "What is it?"
Gu Junzhu turned to Wan Chong’s stepmother: "Sister-in-law, I’d like to ask you a question first."
"What question?" Wan Chong’s stepmother sat upright, her back stiff, her whole body in a state of extreme tension.
Wan Chong was tight-lipped; whether it was work-related or personal matters, he never spoke about them.
Not until he proposed to become Gu Junzhu’s assistant did anyone in the Wan Family know that Wan Chong and Gu Junzhu were friends.
They knew that Wan Chong and Gu Junzhu had once been classmates, though.
But Gu Junzhu had left Beijing when he was just a teenager, and since then, they hadn’t heard Wan Chong mention Gu Junzhu again.
They all believed that after drifting apart, there was no longer any connection between Wan Chong and Gu Junzhu.
Yet, after Wan Chong stepped down, he suddenly proposed joining the Gu Group, and only then did they realize that Wan Chong and Gu Junzhu had always stayed in touch and had a very good relationship.
This filled Wan Chong’s stepmother with a sense of crisis.
The Gu Family’s status was well-known throughout the upper echelons of Beijing society.
The Wan Family was also considered prestigious in Beijing, but compared to the Gu Family’s supreme elite status, it was insignificant.
Wan Chong being best friends with the sole heir of the Gu Family made her extremely uneasy.
Since Wan Chong and Gu Junzhu were friends, it meant that Gu Junzhu could be Wan Chong’s backing.
With such a strong backing from the Gu Family, her efforts to help her daughter fight for the Wan Family inheritance would be even more challenging.
Yesterday, Wan Chong told Senior Master Wan that Gu Junzhu would be visiting the Wan Family today.
Senior Master Wan was so excited that he had a few drinks with her husband that night, his face glowing as he praised Wan Chong’s accomplishments, saying that with the position of the Gu Family and Gu Junzhu, as long as Wan Chong maintained a good relationship with Gu Junzhu, his son’s future would be limitless.
The more Senior Master Wan valued Wan Chong, the less her daughter would receive from the Wan Family’s assets in the future.
The news that Gu Junzhu and Wan Chong were friends was already making her very anxious.
And in the end, Gu Junzhu even humbled himself to come visit their family’s Senior Master.
With Gu Junzhu’s status, he shouldn’t have had to visit their family’s Senior Master at all.
But he came.
The meaning behind this is self-evident... he’s here to support Wan Chong.
The Wan Family is ruled by Senior Master Wan.
In Senior Master Wan’s heart, there’s only Wan Chong, his grandson, and no consideration for her daughter.
The three of them, mother and daughters, had never held any position in Senior Master Wan’s heart. Now that Gu Junzhu has come to the Wan Family to stand behind Wan Chong, their lives in the future would be even more difficult.
Since knowing that Gu Junzhu was coming to visit Senior Master Wan, she hadn’t had a moment of peace in her heart.
Now, as Gu Junzhu suddenly posed a question to her, her heart was even more restless.
Her conscience was troubled.
Wan Chong might not be able to do anything to her.
But as for Gu Junzhu, she feared him greatly.
She didn’t know what would happen next and felt uneasy and terrified.
Gu Junzhu looked at her with a smile, "Sister-in-law, don’t be nervous, it’s nothing major. I just wanted to ask if you know that the child you lost was actually a boy?"
Wan Chong’s stepmother was momentarily bewildered.
What did this statement from Fifth Lord of Gu mean?
What did he mean by saying the child she lost was actually a boy?
