Mr. Gu's legs and feet have not fully recovered since they were burned. When the incident was exposed, he was still lying in bed recuperating.

In recent days, the entire Gu family has been in turmoil. In order to get some peace and quiet, the old man simply hid in a private nursing home.

After hearing the news of his second daughter-in-law's death, he felt relieved. After all, this scandal that had been concealed for decades had brought shame to the entire Gu family. Even if Mrs. Gu did not take action, the old man would probably find a way to put an end to her and would never let her existence tarnish the reputation of the entire Gu family.

The only thing that is giving him a headache now is the half-crazy, half-idiotic granddaughter. Madam Gu cannot possibly tolerate this child, but she, like Gu Tingyan, is the blood of the Gu family after all. Moreover, she has lost the ability to take care of herself. If he just leaves her alone, firstly, he really cannot bear it, and secondly, who knows what others will say about their Gu family being heartless.

Just as Mr. Gu was lying on the hospital bed, thinking about finding a way to bring Gu Xuehui back to the Gu family to be raised once her condition stabilized a little, the servant hurried over and told him everything that had happened on the Internet.

When the old man learned that Mo Li had clarified the rumors through a live broadcast online, which led to the association's reselling of paintings being exposed, he immediately had a heart attack and only recovered after taking quick-acting heart pills.

……

Mr. Gu, who had recovered, was still breathless. Looking at his gnashing teeth, if his teeth were still intact, his back molars would probably have been ground to pieces by him.

After all, the reason why he agreed to use all his assets to compensate Mo Li in the teahouse was just a temporary measure.

Although Mr. Gu now serves as the president of the Chinese Painting Association, dealing with all kinds of famous paintings and antiques all day long, pretending to be cultured and calling himself half an artist, he is still essentially a businessman.

There is no business without fraud, and a businessman will never do business at a loss.

Over the years, he had spent a lot of money on marketing to promote Mo Li's paintings in the Japanese pirate country and make her a mysterious oriental painter. But Mo Li asked him to pay her back according to the auction price of all the paintings. That meant that all his investment over the years would go down the drain! How could he agree to that?

However, in order to stabilize Mo Li and not delay the important matter, Mr. Gu still agreed first.

After all, he thought that as long as the plan for the day went smoothly, Mo Li would end up in disgrace. By then, she would be too busy to take care of herself, so how could she be so distracted as to ask him for this little money? Even if she took a step back, who would believe what a notorious little girl like her said at that time?

But he didn't expect that this girl had such amazing willpower. Even though she was clearly drugged by the incense, she managed to walk out of the tea room with her great willpower and even scalded him severely... Later, Chi Cunxu's arrival completely ruined their plan.

Afterwards, under pressure from Chi Cunxu, Mr. Gu had no choice but to fulfill his promise and reluctantly compensated Mo Li with almost all of his property.

Mr. Gu was naturally unwilling to suffer such a huge loss, so he deliberately asked the servants to reveal the news to other members of the Gu family, especially Ma Shu, who was in the process of divorcing his son.

Sure enough, his second daughter-in-law, who came from a humble family, became furious upon finding out about this, and hurriedly asked someone to find out what he was saying, wanting to know whether he had really left all his property to Mo Li, an outsider.

He deliberately did not tell the truth and made the reason vague, with the purpose of deliberately leading Ma Shu, who loved money like his life, to cause trouble for Mo Li.

Mr. Gu has worked hard in the business world to get to where he is today, and has experienced many business wars, big and small, to gain his current position. He never believes that anyone can really take advantage of him.

He had to let Mo Li know that even if he got his money, it would still be extremely hot.

……

Mr. Gu's original intention was just to ask them to cause some trouble to Mo Li and give her a hard time. But he didn't expect things to develop like this. The revelations on the Internet were completely beyond his expectations. Mo Li had been attacked by so many netizens that she couldn't even come up with a clarification.

This time, Mr. Gu shot himself in the foot.

His good reputation and good name in the Chinese painting circle plummeted to the bottom in an instant, and his image as a highly respected and indifferent person to fame and fortune was shattered with Mo Li's revelations.

Countless people in the industry rushed to ask him whether it was true and why he did this, ruining the reputation of the entire association.

Old Master Gu was furious and immediately called Mo Li to question him, asking how he could go back on his word and openly announce their secret to the world in the live broadcast room.

At the very least, he hoped that Mo Li could immediately explain to everyone that the octogenarian she was talking about was not him...

Unfortunately, Mo Li’s phone number has been unreachable for a long time.

The live broadcast was still going on. The "Today's Jingzhou" program team seemed to have encountered some special circumstances. After a moment, the female host responded:

"Ms. Mo, our program team just received a call from the president of the Chinese Painting Association. He said that due to some of your possibly 'inappropriate' remarks in the live broadcast room just now, many netizens have misunderstood and caused great trouble to their association. He also said that what you just said is not true. Unless you can now produce more concrete evidence to prove that every word you said is true... Otherwise, he will not rule out retaining evidence and filing a lawsuit against you for defamation."

Mo Li naturally understood that this must be what Mr. Gu meant. He couldn't contact her in person, so he could only take a roundabout way to save the country and contact the "Today's Jingzhou" program team to put pressure on her, with the purpose of making her keep her promise and preserve his reputation.

She appeared calm on the surface, but she was sneering in her heart.

If she gave up easily now, wouldn't all her planning over the past few days be in vain?

Facing the live camera, she looked shocked and hurt: "What do you mean? They actually want to sue me?! This is too much of a bully! I have been scolded by netizens for this matter and have not slept well for several days and nights. How dare they ask me to clarify for them? What else is there to explain? What I said is the truth!"

The female host had a dignified image and did not favor either of them. Instead, she said in a gentle voice, "Don't worry... Since the other party has already appeared openly and questioned your statement, can you provide other evidence to prove that everything you said is true?"

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like