Chapter 62: Gu Yalan

Gu Jiali, with her son in tow, ran home in a disheveled state, crying as she complained about the injustice. Gu’s father and mother were furious when they saw the slap mark on their daughter’s face, barely able to contain their anger.

“Gu Qingci is going too far!”

Gu’s father tried to comfort his daughter. “Don’t worry, I’ll make sure to get justice for you. Even if I can’t handle them, your aunt will take care of it!”

Gu Jiali and her son stayed at her parents’ house. Gu’s father and mother, full of rage, stormed over to the Gu family home, bringing along a dozen thugs armed with sticks. Once they entered the Gu house, they immediately began smashing and destroying things.

Gu’s mother, terrified, backed away. “What are you doing? Stop it! Stop!”

Gu’s father shouted angrily, “Smash everything! Smash it all!”

“Don’t! Stop!” Gu’s mother screamed, rushing back inside to call her son. “Son, come back quickly! The Gu family brought so many people to destroy our home. Please hurry back, I’m scared…”

Gu Qingci was in his factory office, burning with anger. He hung up the phone and rushed home. By the time he arrived, the yard was a complete mess, with items destroyed everywhere. Gu’s father and mother were arrogantly sitting on the only intact chair, while Gu’s mother hid behind the hallway, frightened.

“Mom!” Gu Qingci ran to the hallway and pulled his mother into his arms.

“Son…” Gu’s mother collapsed into his embrace, crying. Gu Qingci’s eyes turned bloodshot as he glared fiercely at Gu’s father and mother.

Gu’s father and mother, realizing that they could no longer be in-laws with the our family after making such a scene, decided to go all the way and vent all the grievances their daughter had endured over the years at the Gu house.

“Gu Qingci, you and your son have bullied my daughter for years, hitting her and mistreating her. I’m going to settle the score with you both!”

Sure, here’s the translation:

“Fine, so I won’t have to come find you. During my marriage with me, Gu Jiali secretly had a son with another man. I’ve truly seen the upbringing of the Gu family!”

“You’re talking nonsense, slandering my daughter!” Gu’s mother shouted angrily.

“I really misjudged you, thinking you were a good man. I never expected you would dare to slander my daughter. Are you even a man?”

When Gu’s mother heard Gu’s mother insult her son, she couldn’t take it anymore and angrily retorted.

“What kind of disgusting thing did you raise as a daughter? Don’t you know what she is? Damn you, how dare you insult my son, you won’t die a good death!”

Gu’s mother wasn’t someone who would be intimidated either. Hands on her hips, she retorted angrily.

“What? How dare you insult my daughter, you old woman? Don’t think I don’t know. All these years, while my daughter was married, you bullied her and didn’t let her live in peace. Now I’m going to get justice for my daughter!”

Gu’s mother stepped forward, grabbing Gu’s mother’s hair and pulling it, continuously kicking her as well. Gu’s mother lowered her head, gritting her teeth in pain.

Gu Qingci, enraged, pulled Gu’s mother away. She was shoved to the ground by him, and Gu’s father hurried to help her up. He turned to the thugs behind him and ordered,

“Teach him a good lesson!”

“Yes!”

The thugs approached with sticks, attacking Gu Qingci, who kept retreating and could only block with his arms. Seeing her son being beaten, Gu’s mother cried out and rushed forward to protect him, but she was also hit by the thugs. Gu Qingci held his mother protectively in his arms.

“Son, my son, stop them, please…”

The thugs were in the middle of their attack when several police officers rushed in, shouting loudly,
“Stop it!”

When the thugs saw the police in uniform enter, they were terrified and dropped the sticks they were holding. It turned out that a neighbor, scared by the scene of the fight, had reported it to the police.

The police took Gu’s father, Gu’s mother, and the group of thugs to the station for detention. Gu Qingci and his mother were severely injured and were sent to the hospital. The police also helped contact Gu’s daughter.

When Gu Jiali received the news that her parents were detained, she was stunned. She quickly called her aunt. After the call was connected, her aunt’s voice came through,

“Jiali, what’s going on?”

“Aunt, please save my parents. They’ve been taken to the police station!”

“What! Don’t worry, I’ll make a call and find out what’s going on!”

“Okay.” With her aunt’s help, Gu Jiali felt relieved.

Gu Yalan was the daughter of the old matriarch of the Gu family, and now she was the eldest daughter of the Ji family, a wealthy family in Jin City. The old matriarch of the Gu family and the old matriarch of the Ji family had been childhood friends. After growing up, one married into the Gu family, and the other into the Ji family. The Gu family was only an ordinary wealthy family, but the Ji family was a top-tier family involved in both military and political circles. After they got married, both women had daughters, and their daughters became close friends. People in Jin City often compared them.

Gu Yalan could never measure up to Ji Wanting, the eldest daughter of the Ji family, and her jealousy gnawed at her heart like a worm. She longed and hoped to surpass Ji Wanting.

The older Gu Yalan got, the more jealous she became, especially as the Gu family began to decline while the Ji family rose like the rising sun.

Gu Yalan had complained many times, wishing she were the daughter of the Ji family. Once this evil thought took root, it grew and took hold in her heart like a seed.

She began to plot how to remove Ji Wanting from the Ji family. When her mother learned of her thoughts, instead of reprimanding her, she helped her to deal with Ji Wanting.

At eighteen, Gu Yalan and her mother tricked Ji Wanting into going up the mountain and pushed her down. The Ji family’s old matriarch lost her daughter, heartbroken and almost suicidal. The old matriarch of the Gu family comforted her and offered her own daughter to replace Ji Wanting, to fulfill the filial duty. At first, the Ji family’s old matriarch did not accept it, but over time, Gu Yalan visited the Ji family and slowly, the old matriarch began to forget her pain and accepted Gu Yalan as her daughter. She also promised that after her death, all her inheritance would go to Gu Yalan.

Gu Yalan entered the Ji family and became the eldest daughter. She had once wanted to change her surname to Ji and be called Ji Yalan, but for some reason, the old matriarch refused. Gu Yalan had to keep her surname as Gu, and this made her resent the Ji family’s old matriarch even more.

A few years later, when the old matriarch passed away, Gu Yalan was finally able to relax and assume the position of the Ji family’s eldest daughter. No one knew the truth about the past anymore, and Ji Wanting had been long dead.

After Gu Yalan hung up on her niece, she sent someone to the Chuan’an County police station to free Gu’s father and mother.

Gu’s father was Gu Yalan’s third older brother. Since entering the Ji family, Gu Yalan had looked down on the Gu family and had not kept in touch much. But after all, they were her close relatives. With them being detained in the police station, it was an embarrassment for her.

Gu Yalan sat impatiently on the sofa. A servant came over.

“Miss, it’s time to visit the old lady in the hospital!”

“Alright, I know.”

Gu Yalan waved her hand impatiently. The old lady’s health had been deteriorating, and her mind was getting more and more muddled. She had been in the hospital for several months. Every time Gu Yalan visited, the old lady would hold her hand and call her Wan Ting.

“It’s really unlucky to be mistaken for the dead old lady!”