Chapter 630: Chapter 630: Extortion
Gu Ningyue couldn’t quite figure out why today’s Gu Zheng seemed different from before.
It was as if he was suppressing something, waiting for the moment of eruption.
Having eaten some food, Gu Ningyue listened to the boring conversation between Gu Zheng and Ling Tianyou and decided to excuse herself to go upstairs to the original owner’s mother’s room to offer incense.
She opened the door to the room, looked at the newly renovated room, and a smile appeared on her lips.
Fortunately, Li Yulan hadn’t come to challenge her again.
If the room were to get messy again, she would make Li Yulan pay an unexpected price!
Casually locking the door, Gu Ningyue picked up a handkerchief and wiped clean the black-and-white portrait that stood there.
The woman in the portrait remained youthful and vibrant in her smile, but her eyes were devoid of any sparkle.
As a memorial portrait, this photo was very appropriate.
"Why did you like Gu Zheng? With your looks alone, you could have had a better future. Why choose to be with Gu Zheng?"
Gu Ningyue asked softly as she continued to wipe the photo.
Obviously, the empty room would no longer have anyone to respond to her.
"Alas, if I hadn’t come, your daughter’s body might have already been pushed to the crematorium for cremation!"
"But I probably can’t get your inheritance. After all, who can say when it comes to childbirth? This money seems it can only be passed on to my future child!"
"Hope you’ll meet a good person in your next life!"
Having cleaned the photo, she put it back in place and opened the window to let the night breeze gently blow in.
The cool night breeze blew through Gu Ningyue’s long hair, and her gaze suddenly fell on a spot under the bed, where something seemed to be in the innermost corner.
Almost everything in the room had undergone a major renovation, except for this bed.
Could it be that the previous occupants forgot to clean here?
Gu Ningyue approached the bed, bending over and peering inside, noticing there seemed to be an unopened suitcase.
Gu Ningyue’s heart skipped a beat, and she found something to pull the suitcase out.
This suitcase had a lock, a six-digit code.
"This is Gu Ningyue’s mother’s room, the code should be Gu Ningyue’s birthday, right?" Gu Ningyue murmured to herself as she input her birthday: "Strange, incorrect?"
Gu Ningyue pressed the switch again, confirmed it couldn’t be opened, then tried inputting her mother’s birthday, but it was still useless.
"Could it be Gu Zheng’s?" Gu Ningyue frowned: "Even being harmed like this, would still be affectionate?"
Gu Ningyue, muttering to herself, input Gu Zheng’s birthday, "Still incorrect?"
Gu Ningyue didn’t know whether to feel glad or disappointed after three failed attempts; what could the code be?
Gu Ningyue pondered for a moment while holding the suitcase, stood up, and looked around. Although the room’s appearance had changed, the layout still consisted of items left by the original owner’s mother.
Some small ornaments and a long-old photo showed Gu Ningyue’s mother holding baby Gu Ningyue standing beside Gu Zheng.
During that time, the family of three seemed relatively harmonious.
Gu Ningyue had a flash of inspiration and input a string of numbers again, "Click," the password box opened.
"Sure enough, it was the birthdays of the three of them!"
It seems that in Gu Ningyue’s mother’s heart, the three of them were still a family.
Alas, women truly are sentimental.
With pale fingers, she opened the suitcase, inspecting some clothes inside, taking them out piece by piece: "Some clothes need a lock?"
It’s known that Gu Ningyue’s mother didn’t even lock her leftover jewelry and let anyone take it freely.
Gu Ningyue checked every pocket of the clothes, expecting to find something, but found nothing at all.
"There seems to be something wrong somewhere..." Gu Ningyue touched her chin, checking all the clothes, then reached toward the bottom of the suitcase and revealed a knowing smile: "Sure enough, there’s a false bottom!"
Following the stitched line, Gu Ningyue used a knife she had on hand to cut it open, revealing a stack of stapled documents.
Curiously, Gu Ningyue unfolded the documents, her eyes lighting up: "Hit the jackpot! Struck it big!"
"...If daughter Gu Ningyue loses her ability to reproduce or only has one daughter, the inheritance shall still be entirely given to Gu Ningyue, no one else may divide it."
At the end, there was Gu Ningyue’s mother’s handprint and signature, along with an official seal.
Gu Ningyue’s lips curled in understanding, finally grasping the lawyer’s hesitation back then.
It turned out there was another copy here.
Gu Ningyue restored this will into the false bottom of the suitcase, then continued searching inside: "What’s this?"
A thin piece of stationery with bold handwriting, clearly written by a man: "We know that matter well, the eldest daughter of the Sun Family is seriously injured. If you don’t want it exposed, immediately deposit one hundred thousand into our account!"
Gu Ningyue read the note, slightly furrowing her brows: "One hundred thousand?"
The yellowed paper suggested it was from when Gu Ningyue’s mother was still alive, about twenty-plus years ago!
"Someone actually blackmailed Gu Zheng? Who is this Sun Family’s eldest daughter? Why does she sound familiar?"
It seems that long ago, when she was still Gu Weiwei, she heard her mother mention someone from the Sun Family.
Gu Ningyue looked at the note again, rummaging inside until her hand touched a photograph.
Curiously turning it over, she was momentarily fixated on the woman in the photo.
The woman in the photo was actually her mother?
She wore a beautiful floral dress, a lovely hat, smiling brightly under a tree.
Yet in her memory, her mother never smiled like this; she was always gentle, even at her happiest moments she merely chose a soft smile, embodying the grace of a noble lady.
Gu Ningyue assured herself she had never seen such a smile on her mother’s face.
Moreover, the most important thing now was why her birth mother’s photo was with Gu Zheng?
On the back of the photo were the words: "Sun Wuyou," with a large cross drawn over it!
Did Gu Zheng do something to her mother? What was the story behind that blackmail note for Gu Zheng?
Could it be her mother didn’t die of illness? Gu Ningyue clutched the photo, her eyes glistening with a hint of murder...
