Chapter 131: Farce Ends

Chapter 131

Gu Jia's heart stalled as she saw Mrs. Liu walking towards her. Her hands and feet turned ice-cold. "I...I didn't say anything...Mother...you heard wrong...I didn't say anything."

"Slap!"

A crisp, vicious slap landed on Gu Jia's face.

Gu Jia's body tilted to one side, and the slapped cheek swelled up high.

She licked the trace of blood oozing from the corner of her mouth, slowly raised her head, and stared at Mrs. Liu. This slap had stripped away their mother-daughter relationship. Would her mother still dote on her like before?

She couldn't hold back. Tears rolled down her eyes. "Mother, you hit me?"

Tears brimmed in Mrs. Liu's eyes. She was full of disappointment for the daughter in front of her. "Wicked child! It was you who harmed your sister back then?!"

Gu Jia yelled hysterically, "It wasn't me who harmed her! It was you! It was all you!"

Mrs. Liu shook her head, eyes bloodshot. "She fell into the pond in the winter. Only you were with her. I thought you didn't manage to grab her in time and felt guilty for her, so I kept comforting you! But now you tell me that you pushed her into the pond?!"

"So what if I pushed her! If you hadn't always cared only about her and neglected me, would I have wanted to kill her?!"

Gu Jia's words slapped Mrs. Liu hard.

Mrs. Liu cried loudly and slapped Gu Jia twice more.

Gnashing her teeth, she said, "Do you know...do you know your sister was already weak, and she was only ten! She was still a child! You were also still a child, yet your heart was so vicious!"

Gu Jia was tongue-tied. How could she explain to this woman who loved her daughter more than life?

How could she say that she didn't initially intend to kill Gu Min? But Gu Min insisted on sharing the new hairpin Mother gave her. She felt annoyed, jealous and resentful, so she gave her a hard push in that moment.

When she pushed Gu Min down, she regretted it and thought of pulling her back up.

But remembering how Mother always favored Gu Min, the hand reaching for Gu Min retracted...

"Mother..." Gu Jia felt awful and full of regret. She crawled over and hugged Mrs. Liu's legs, crying bitterly, "I didn't mean it...I really didn't mean it! Mother, please forgive me! I'm your only daughter! Mother!"

Mrs. Liu's eyes darkened completely.

After being tortured by them for a lifetime, a full ten bitter years, she had lived in their shadows.

But after tonight, she would never be restricted by them again. She would completely control the entire Gu residence and repay all the enmity and hatred from her previous life!

An elegant figure had appeared behind her at some point. His deep voice said, "Don't be afraid, it's over now."

Gu Ying's eyelashes fluttered, and a teardrop rolled down.

She turned back in surprise and saw the handsome man with a tall, sturdy build. He stood amidst the pure white fluttering snow, brows and eyes as exquisite as a painting, nonchalant and aloof.

Those eyes were an extremely dark black. Occasionally some faint candlelight shone into them, as if harboring countless stars, making people irresistibly sink into them.

It took her some time to regain her senses. Her lips moved numbly.

"Your Highness, you—"

Zhao Changdu chuckled lightly. Lowering his thick long lashes, he grasped her cold little hand in his large one. "Hearing that Hui'an told me about your plans today, I worried there might be mistakes, so I came to take a look."

Gu Ying's heart choked. What's the point of him having such long lashes, more beautiful than a woman's, if he wouldn't even let her live?

Her attention was completely drawn by his unparalleled looks, and she didn't even notice her hand being enveloped in warmth.

"So Jiang Yin—"

"I knocked him out and threw him behind the artificial hill."

Gu Ying froze, then smiled wryly. She had been anxious for so long, yet he had already arranged her escape route.

"What, unhappy about it?"

"No..."

"Then why do you look so worried?"

Gu Ying fell silent. She just felt unable to bear it. No one had ever been so good to her. His kindness to her, she didn't know how to repay.

The man raised his eyes. His heated gaze looked at her as he stroked the snowflakes on her lashes.

Gu Ying blinked, feeling the warmth from his palm. Perhaps it was too cold out. No one's heart could be trusted. But the person before her was willing to help even after seeing her vicious and ruthless means. Never cherished so much by anyone before, her eyes grew hot. Amidst the winter, her eyes lit up with smiles like a hundred flowers blooming.