Chapter 63: The Gu Family’s Utter Defeat!

Gu Xiaoya was stunned. Even after being thrown out of the Lin family’s house, she still didn’t understand what had happened.

“Brother Lin, why did Mom…”

Lin’s mother looked at her coldly, as if she were an enemy.

“Don’t call me that. Miss Gu, please stop addressing us like family. Our Lin family cannot afford to associate with you.”

She turned to Lin Muyu.

“Muyu, come inside. Let Miss Gu take a taxi home.”

Lin Muyu said, “Sorry, I don’t think we’re suitable for each other.”

Gu Xiaoya’s eyes widened.

“What do you mean? We’re about to get married!”

Lin Muyu didn’t want to argue with her.

“Check the videos online, and you’ll understand. Your Gu family…”

His tone was full of disdain, as if the Gu family were some kind of plague.

While Gu Xiaoya hesitated, Lin Muyu slammed the door shut.

“Online…”

Gu Xiaoya was about to check when her mother, Lin Miaolu, called. Her usual gentle and elegant tone was nowhere to be found.

“Xiaoya, come home immediately! Something big has happened—something huge!”

Gu Xiaoya had never heard her mother sound so shrill before. Realizing that something was terribly wrong, she quickly hailed a taxi.

On the way, she opened her phone. Several videos were trending on Weibo.

The first video showed them being bitten by cats and dogs—but this time, with sound and the full truth.

The second video exposed Tian Meihua’s long-term abuse of Xu Mengyu, as well as her relentless bullying of the young Gu Man.

The third video recorded Tian Meihua’s threats against Xu Mengyu at Qingshan Hospital.

The fourth video revealed Gu Mingren’s affair with Lin Miaolu and the frequent phone calls in which Lin Miaolu insulted and provoked Xu Mengyu.

Gu Xiaoya felt the world spinning around her.

It was as if the sky was collapsing.

How could this happen?

How could it be like this?

Her hands trembled so much that she almost dropped her phone several times. Her face turned deathly pale.

She didn’t want to check the comments, but something compelled her to click them—only to be hit with a storm of criticism.

【Oh my god, the narrative has completely flipped! This is the best drama of the year! They were bitten by cats and dogs because they were trying to steal diamonds!】

【Unbelievable! That old woman is so vicious. I actually felt sorry for her at first—yuck!】

【Gu Mingren is such a scumbag. He utterly destroyed his wife and child. What was he doing while his wife was being bullied into illness?】

【What else? Having an affair! I had no idea Gu Xiaoya was the daughter of a mistress!】

【Gu Man and Gu Xiaoya are about the same age, meaning he cheated on Xu Mengyu shortly after they got married.】

【Unreal. Xu Mengyu cut ties with her family to help him build the Gu Corporation from scratch, and he repaid her like this?!】

【My god, listening to the things that old woman said made me suffocate!】

【And poor Gu Man—having a heartless grandmother is a nightmare.】

【Xu Mengyu was already so ill, and that old hag still went to threaten her?】

【I felt so satisfied when Gu Man beat up that old woman. She deserved it!】

【We were wrong. We wronged Gu Man.】

【But… to be fair, Gu Xiaoya didn’t do anything wrong, did she?】

【Are you serious? She tried to steal diamonds and even liked that earlier post. What do you think that means?】

【Justice is served! Gu Corporation’s stock has plummeted!】

…

Gu Xiaoya furiously smashed her phone.

It was over.

Everything was over.

In an instant, she had fallen from heaven to hell.

“Miss, are you okay?”

The driver noticed her pale face and kept glancing at her in the rearview mirror.

Then he recognized her.

“You’re…”

He immediately pulled over.

“Get out. I’m not driving you. Your family is disgusting!”

Gu Xiaoya, ghostly pale and unsteady, was thrown out of the car.

People noticed her.

“That’s her—big star Gu Xiaoya!”

“Tsk, I can’t believe her mom stole someone’s husband!”

“I saw the video. While her grandmother was beating up Gu Man, she was just standing there eating ice cream.”

“She was trying to steal diamonds and still acted innocent?”

“Her mom is a homewrecker, and she stole her sister’s fiancé, too.”

“Wow, like mother, like daughter—they both became mistresses!”

Gu Xiaoya felt a piercing gaze on her back, as if she were being stabbed repeatedly.

Humiliated, she fled. It took several tries before she finally found a driver willing to take her home.

She regretted not driving herself today.

Back home, her parents were there. So was that detestable grandmother.

But Gu Dajun and her father’s two brothers, who usually hung around, were absent.

“Mom, what’s going on? Those videos… did Gu Man release them?”

She didn’t notice that her voice was trembling—not just with anger, but with fear and panic.

If those videos were real, why hadn’t they been released sooner?

And why did they include footage from when they were children?

Had Gu Man been secretly gathering evidence all along?

“Who else could it be? She’s so ruthless!”

Lin Miaolu’s crimson-painted nails dug into her skin.

Gu Man had dropped four bombshells—each one devastating enough to destroy the Gu Corporation.

She had fought so hard to become the wife of the Gu family’s CEO. She had barely enjoyed her luxurious life for a few years, and now she was about to be thrown back to where she started.

No, worse than before.

Back then, she had youth and beauty. Now, what did she have left?

Thinking of this, she couldn’t suppress her rage. She turned on Tian Meihua in fury.

“You old hag! You just couldn’t leave her alone, could you?”

“Now look what’s happened! The Gu family is ruined, and you’re going down with it!”

She had endured this old woman long enough.

Now that she had provoked Gu Man into exposing those videos, dragging the Gu family down with her, she was finished too.

Tian Meihua, who was used to being flattered by Lin Miaolu, was momentarily stunned.

When she realized what had happened, she snapped and grabbed Lin Miaolu’s hair.

“How dare you, you shameless woman!”

“If you hadn’t seduced my son, would he have abandoned his wife for you?”

“At least Gu Man is my granddaughter. Blood is thicker than water. But you?”

Lin Miaolu, having lost everything, was even more unhinged. She shoved Tian Meihua to the ground and climbed on top of her, hitting her viciously.

“Seduced him? Are you insane? He chased after me! Do you think I wanted to be his secret mistress?”

“You bullied Xu Mengyu out of the house and tried to do the same to me—well, not this time!”

The two fought brutally—punching, scratching, pulling hair.

Gu Xiaoya hesitated at first, then, seeing her mother being beaten, joined in.

Mother and daughter against one old woman—Tian Meihua, no matter how vicious, was no match.

She wailed in pain.

“Mingren, divorce her!”

“Mingren, help me!”

Gu Mingren watched coldly.

He didn’t lift a finger.

“Mom, is this how you treated Mengyu and Manman when I wasn’t home?”

Tian Meihua froze, her face bruised and swollen.

“And who told you to go to Qingshan Hospital?”

Gu Mingren’s snake-like eyes gleamed with malice, making Tian Meihua shudder.

“Mingren… are you blaming me? But you never stopped me before…”

“You never said I couldn’t go to the hospital…”

Tian Meihua felt both wronged and heartbroken.

Gu Mingren’s gaze was murderous, but he finally spoke.

“Sell your properties, Mom. Give me the money.”

“Miaolu, sell yours too. Including this villa.”

He couldn’t let Gu Corporation fall.

If it fell, he would have nothing.

He had to gamble everything.

Tian Meihua refused—without her properties, where would she live?

Lin Miaolu refused even more.

She had worked too hard for her status.

Why should she hand it over just because he said so?

Both women remained silent, each plotting their next move.