After the substitution marriage, I became the CEO's white moonlight

The night was as cool as water, and a few rays of moonlight shone through the window, casting mottled shadows on the floor. Su Li gently pushed open the door of the study and found Gu Jinyan standing in front of the window with his back to her. His figure looked particularly tall and straight under the moonlight, but also revealed a trace of indescribable loneliness.

"Are you still asleep?" Su Li walked to his side and asked softly.

Gu Jinyan turned around and held Su Li in his arms, as if to absorb a bit of warmth. He gently stroked her long hair, and his deep voice was filled with fatigue: "Things are more complicated than we thought."

Su Li understood what he meant. During this period of time, they visited many family members and collected a lot of information. The truth they pieced together shocked them. Behind the Fourth Master Gu, there really was a mysterious family elder who was secretly manipulating the situation, with the purpose of splitting the Gu family and profiting from it.

"What should we do now?" Su Li raised her head and looked at him worriedly.

"I have asked people to collect more concrete evidence." Gu Jinyan's eyes were firm. "The family meeting will be in three days. I will expose his true face in front of everyone."

In the next few days, Gu Jinyan and Su Li barely slept. They repeatedly scrutinized all the clues and evidence they had collected, striving to be foolproof. Su Li finally understood how much pressure Gu Jinyan had been under during this period. Not only did he have to face the struggle within the family, but he also had to protect her from harm.

Three days passed in a flash, and on the day of the family meeting, the atmosphere was extremely solemn. Everyone's eyes were focused on Gu Jinyan, waiting for him to speak.

Gu Jinyan took a deep breath, slowly stood up, and swept his eyes over everyone present, finally stopping at the seemingly calm family elder who was sitting in the first seat.

"What I want to say today is related to the future of the Gu family and the interests of everyone present." Gu Jinyan's tone was calm, but it was full of unquestionable power. He took out a file from the file bag and showed it to everyone one by one. "These are all evidence about the Fourth Master Gu and the people behind him..."

As the documents were released one after another, the atmosphere in the conference room became increasingly tense. Family members were talking to each other, discussing things, and looking at the family elder with suspicion and shock.

The family elder's expression gradually became ugly, but he still remained calm, looking at Gu Jinyan coldly, with a hint of viciousness flashing in his eyes.

"Do you have anything else to say?" Gu Jinyan threw the last document on the table and stared at him sharply.

"If you want to accuse someone, you can always find a pretext!" The family elder stood up suddenly, pointed at Gu Jinyan and shouted angrily, "You are slandering me!"

"Whether it is slander or not, everyone knows it in their hearts!" Su Li stood up and looked directly into the eyes of the family elder. "You are willing to sacrifice the interests of the family for your own selfish desires. Do you still have a conscience?"

"You..." The family elder was speechless after hearing Su Li's words. He turned to the other family members present and said loudly, "Don't be fooled by them. They want to..."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by a cell phone ring. Gu Jinyan took out his cell phone, took a look, and answered the call.

"What did you say?" Gu Jinyan's face turned pale in an instant. He raised his head abruptly and stared at the family elder. "You actually..."

The voice on the other end of the phone was filled with anxiety and a hint of fear. Although it was deliberately lowered, Gu Jinyan could still tell that it was the voice of Uncle Gu's confidant. He said a few words briefly, his face became increasingly gloomy, and the fingers holding the phone turned white because of the force.

"What's wrong?" Su Li noticed Gu Jinyan's mood change and asked worriedly.

Gu Jinyan took a deep breath, hung up the phone, and looked around. Everyone's eyes were focused on him, with doubts, anxiety, and gloating. He threw the phone on the table and said in a cold tone: "Everyone, it seems that our 'highly respected' elder, in order to cover up his crimes, actually..."

He paused deliberately, his eyes sweeping across the sullen face of the family elder like a hawk, before he spoke word by word: "...hiring someone to kill someone!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the conference room exploded. Everyone was talking about it, and their eyes were filled with shock and anger when they looked at the family elder.

"What did you say? You...you are slandering me!" The family elder slammed the table and pointed at Gu Jinyan and yelled, but his trembling voice and panicked eyes exposed his guilty conscience.

"Slander?" Su Li sneered, "I have a recording here. I believe everyone will understand who is slandering after listening to it!"

Su Li turned on her phone, and a recording echoed in the hall. In the recording, the voice of the family elder was clearly identifiable. He was instructing others to silence Fourth Uncle Gu, and his tone was sinister and inhumane.

After the recording was played, there was a dead silence in the conference room. Everyone's eyes were focused on the family elder, with shock, anger, and contempt.

"You...you..." The family elder pointed at Su Li, his lips trembling, but he couldn't speak. He had carefully planned everything, thinking it was flawless, but he didn't expect that it would eventually be exposed.

"Do you have anything else to say?" Gu Jinyan walked up to him and looked down at him, his eyes devoid of warmth. "For your own selfish desires, you are willing to sacrifice the interests of the family and even do such unscrupulous things as killing people to silence them. How can you still have the face to sit in this position?"

"I..." The family elder's face turned pale and he sat back in his chair dejectedly. He knew that he was finished.

"I propose that he be removed from all his positions and expelled from the family!" A family member stood up and said indignantly.

"Seconded!"

……

The voices of seconding were like heavy hammers hitting the heart of the family elder. He looked at the angry faces around him and knew that his situation was hopeless.

"I……"

"I give up..." The voice of the family elder was hoarse and weak, like a deflated ball, and his originally straight back was hunched. He looked around, and the eyes that once respected him were now full of disgust and contempt, which made him more uncomfortable than any punishment.

"Jin Yan, Li Li, I am old and confused, blinded by power, so I did such a foolish thing. I am sorry to the Gu family, sorry to you..." He stood up tremblingly and bowed deeply to Gu Jin Yan and Su Li, "I voluntarily resign from all my positions and will no longer be involved in family affairs. I only hope that you will forgive me this time because I have worked hard for the Gu family for many years..."

Gu Jinyan looked at him expressionlessly, without a trace of emotion in his eyes, as if he was looking at a stranger. After a long while, he spoke calmly: "The Gu family will not mistreat any meritorious official, nor will they let any sinner go. Everything you have done will be dealt with according to the family rules."

After saying that, he no longer paid attention to the family elder who was lying on the ground, turned around, took Su Li's hand, and walked straight out of the meeting room. Behind the two of them, there were complicated looks and whispers from the family members.

As the sun sets, the afterglow falls on the courtyard of the Gu family's old house, dyeing everything with a golden halo. Su Li and Gu Jinyan stand side by side, looking at the sky in the distance, their hearts filled with emotion.

"It's finally over." Su Li said softly, with a hint of fatigue in her tone, but more of relief.

"Yes, it's over." Gu Jinyan turned his head and looked at Su Li's profile, his eyes full of tenderness, "Thank you, Lili. Without you, I don't know what this matter would have turned out like."

Su Li smiled slightly and shook her head: "You deserve all this. I just did what I should do."

A breeze blew by, and the leaves in the courtyard rustled, as if telling the vicissitudes of time. Gu Jinyan held Su Li's hand tightly, his eyes firm and deep: "Li Li, from now on, I will protect you well and never let you get hurt again..."

Su Li's heartbeat quickened slightly. Just as she was about to speak, she suddenly felt Gu Jinyan tighten his grip on her hand. He looked into the distance, with a meaningful smile on his face. "It seems that we still have a lot of things to deal with."