novelhk Chapter 131 How does it taste to be praised to death and then destroyed?
Chapter 131 How does it taste to be praised to death and then destroyed?
Last night, Li Xi publicly revealed the truth from 12 years ago at the police station, when Gu Huaizhou was by her side.
So, Gu Huaizhou already knew that the little girl who saved him back then wasn't him, but Li Xi?
"Gu Huaizhou, are you deliberately waiting here to see me make a fool of myself?"
Xie Jiaoyue felt like a clown, dancing in front of Li Xi, her real savior.
Xie Jiaoyue questioned Gu Huaizhou: "Gu Huaizhou, did you already know that Li Xi was your real savior?"
Gu Huaizhou shook his head and said, "In fact, I knew you weren't the little girl who saved me the first time you came to the Gu family."
Xie Jiaoyue was incredulous, "...How did you find out?"
Gu Huaizhou had completely forgotten about it by then. If even Mr. Gu and the others didn't notice the problem, how did Gu Huaizhou discover it?
But Gu Huaizhou was not interested and had no interest in explaining the reason to her.
Seeing that Gu Huaizhou was unwilling to explain, Xie Jiaoyue asked a question that had been bothering her for a long time, "Since you knew that person wasn't me, why didn't you expose me?"
"Have they continued to provide assistance to the Xie family over the years?"
Xie Jiaoyue couldn't understand it.
Upon hearing this, Li Xi also found it strange.
Since Gu Huaizhou already knew that Xie Jiaoyue wasn't the one who truly rescued him, why did he still provide assistance to the Xie family? Was he letting Xie Jiaoyue use the Gu family's power to secure resources outside?
They noticed that Li Xi twitched her ears, as if she really wanted to know why.
Gu Huaizhou then said, "The person who saved me was not Xie Jiaoyue, but it must be someone related to the Xie family."
"The Xie family is lying to me. Their purpose in lying to me is simply to curry favor with the Gu family and gain wealth and status in return."
"If they want it, then give it to them."
At this point, Gu Huaizhou glanced down at Xie Jiaoyue with a meaningful look in his eyes, his expression a half-smile, "The Xie family has indeed not disappointed me; each and every one of them is a dragon among men, a hidden dragon and a phoenix among phoenixes."
“The things the Xie family does are all spectacular and outrageous.”
A father who sleeps around with young girls, a mother who cheats on her son with her godson, a brother who dumps his sweetheart for a marriage of convenience, and a sister who does all sorts of evil things because her family is rich...
The Xie family is truly rotten to the core.
Xie Jiaoyue wasn't stupid; what didn't she understand after hearing that?
Tears of resentment streamed down her face as she accused Gu Huaizhou in a trembling voice: "You deliberately flattered the Xie family to death, allowing me to use your name to gain resources and become a big star, just to enjoy the destruction of the Xie family and my disgrace?"
"Yes."
Gu Huaizhou answered frankly.
He then asked Xie Jiaoyue with great interest, "Miss Xie, after being the center of attention and then falling to the bottom, is it very unpleasant?"
How can you feel better?
For the greedy, there is no way to retaliate against them more cruelly than to flatter them to death!
For more than a decade, whenever Xie Jiaoyue's family thought about how they had completely fooled the Gu family heir and how he had brought them countless benefits, they felt smug and thought that Gu Huaizhou was very easy to deceive.
Little did they know, they were the real clowns.
So Gu Huaizhou was sober the whole time; he was just too bored, so he patiently played a game with them.
He deliberately nurtured the ambitions of the Xie family of four, waiting for the day he would get bored and destroy the Xie family to fuel his own amusement...
Gu Huaizhou is the head of the Gu family, whom the family has painstakingly cultivated with all its resources and effort!
He's more cunning than the Xie family has ever seen a single coin.
How could they think Gu Huaizhou was an easy man to fool?
Thinking of this, Xie Jiaoyue was filled with despair and fear.
No amount of explanation would be of any use at this moment.
Xie Jiaoyue gave up struggling for a moment.
Gu Huaizhou glanced at his watch and saw that it was already 8:30. The banquet couldn't be delayed any longer, so he said to Gu Han, "Uncle Gu, please escort Miss Xie out of the Gu family."
Upon hearing this, Xie Jiaoyue blurted out, "You're willing to let me go?"
Logically speaking, Gu Huaizhou shouldn't have let her off easily after learning the truth.
Even if Gu Huaizhou didn't personally kill her, he should at least have sent her to the police station for investigation...
Gu Huaizhou's expression was somewhat amused. "Miss Xie, you only lied to me. It's not a crime punishable by death."
After saying that, Gu Huaizhou took Li Xi's hand and left.
"Li Xi!"
Xie Jiaoyue grabbed the hem of Li Xi's down jacket.
Seeing that Xie Jiaoyue seemed to have something to say, Li Xi comforted Gu Huaizhou, "You go out and wait for me first. I need to talk to her alone."
"...Um."
This was his territory, and Xie Jiaoyue definitely couldn't hurt Li Xi, so Gu Huaizhou was at ease.
Gu Huaizhou left with Gu Han and Chu Xu.
Once only the two of them were left in the study, Xie Jiaoyue asked Li Xi, "When did you find out that Gu Zhen was Gu Huaizhou?"
"Was it Grandpa Gu's birthday banquet?"
That day, Xie Jiaoyue met Li Xi at the lakeside pavilion, where he witnessed her disheveled state after being cruelly rejected by Gu Huaizhou.
Therefore, Xie Jiaoyue naturally assumed it was on that day.
Li Xi shook her head in denial, "I only found out recently. In fact, after discovering that he had concealed his true identity, I even broke up with him."
Hearing this, Xie Jiaoyue was incredulous. "You actually broke up with him?"
That's Gu Huaizhou!
She actually dared to do that?
Li Xi sneered, "Maybe in your eyes Gu Huaizhou is a local tyrant who protects your family's wealth and glory, but to me, he's just a dog who lied to me."
"Of course you should break up with a dishonest man."
Xie Jiaoyue: "..."
Li Xi has been acting like a madwoman lately, which is indeed something she's capable of doing.
Xie Jiaoyue believed that Li Xi had not lied to her, and in fact, she had no need to deceive herself on such a detail.
Xie Jiaoyue muttered, "...You really are lucky, you actually managed to hook up with Gu Huaizhou."
When luck comes your way, there's no stopping it.
Xie Jiaoyue wiped away her tears and stood up, leaning against the screen.
Even at this point, she maintained a high posture, holding her head high like a swan.
She smiled defiantly and said arrogantly, "So what if you hook up with Gu Huaizhou? Gu Huaizhou has emotional issues; he doesn't know how to love someone at all."
Do you think he loves you as a person?
Xie Jiaoyue deliberately provoked Li Xi: "He doesn't love you at all; he only loves the person who saved him from dire straits back then!"
"If it were Zhang Xi, Zhou Xi, Song Xi..."
"Anyone can."
"If you hadn't saved him, he wouldn't have allowed you to get close to her at all!"
Who wouldn't be hurt by these words?
But Li Xi has always been the kind of person who is completely unyielding.
She doesn't mentally drain herself at all.
Li Xi replied nonchalantly, "So what? Even if he only loves his benefactor, I am still his benefactor. That's an indisputable fact."
"Let's talk again."
Li Xi tilted her head and said leisurely, "Out of so many children in Dongzhou City, I was the only one who participated in that game and successfully rescued him. Gu Huaizhou and I are a match made in heaven."
"Understand?"
Xie Jiaoyue was dumbfounded, never expecting Li Xi to have such a powerful core. "You really don't mind?"
Xie Jiaoyue didn't believe that Li Xi didn't care at all.
"Even if Gu Huaizhou doesn't love me for who I am, what does it matter?"
Li Xi spread her hands, like a playboy, "Gu Huaizhou is a young and handsome man, rich and good-looking. I won't lose out if I date him."
"Even if we break up because we don't like each other in the future, it's okay. He's generous and rich, so he'll definitely give me a large breakup fee."
"Even after the breakup, I can live off the breakup fee he gave me. When I'm lonely, I find a male model; when I'm happy, I travel around the country with my best friends..."
"No matter how you look at it, I'm not at a disadvantage dating him."
Completely unprepared for Li Xi's despicable words, Xie Jiaoyue retorted vehemently, "Li Xi, you are utterly shameless!"
"To say such things, it's clear you're no better! You don't love Gu Huaizhou as a person, but rather his status and position. You..."
Li Xi interrupted Xie Jiaoyue: "Could it be that you love Gu Huaizhou as a person? When he was Gu Zhen, did your eyes ever linger on him for even a second?"
"Anyone can say that I'm clinging to his coattails by being with him, but you, Xie Jiaoyue, are the least qualified to say that."
Xie Jiaoyue was in the wrong and naturally had nothing to say.
She had met Gu Zhen several times.
But just as Li Xi said, she had never seen Gu Zhen take her seriously.
In fact, Xie Jiaoyue knew in her heart that the person she loved was indeed the heir of the Gu family. This person could have Gu Zhen's face, or he could have any other man's face.
Seeing that Xie Jiaoyue had nothing to say, Li Xi felt happy.
She continued to stab Xie Jiaoyue in the heart, "Even if we break up in the future, I'll still be Gu Huaizhou's only official girlfriend. But you're different..."
Li Xi said with dramatic intonation, "From now on, whenever anyone mentions you, Xie Jiaoyue, they'll all say something sarcastic: 'Oh, Xie Jiaoyue, is that the simp whose whole family fawned over Gu Huaizhou but ended up getting nothing in return?'"
Xie Jiaoyue swayed, almost unable to stand.
She gripped the wooden frame of the screen tightly, her knuckles turning white from the effort, before she could finally stand up straight.
Staring at Li Xi's smiling face, Xie Jiaoyue found Li Xi utterly repulsive.
"Li Xi, you really have a vicious tongue!"
"You've been playing the good girl in our family all these years, it's really been a waste of your time."
The thought that Li Xi had been pretending to be well-behaved and invisible all these years made Xie Jiaoyue feel like she had swallowed a fly, unable to swallow it down or spit it out.
Li Xi slightly curled her red lips and questioned Xie Jiaoyue in succession:
Are you feeling unwell?
"Hate me?"
"Do you feel your self-esteem has been trampled on?"
Changing the subject, Li Xi said, "It's right that you feel uncomfortable and in pain."
"Over the years, when you abused your power and schemed against others, those you bullied also suffered just as much."
"Xie Jiaoyue, you should rot in prison!"
After saying that, Li Xi suddenly walked up to Xie Jiaoyue, raised his right leg and kicked Xie Jiaoyue in the stomach.
"what!"
Xie Jiaoyue was kicked so hard that she stumbled and fell to the ground with a thud.
Xie Jiaoyue was in excruciating pain, her face turning pale.
Her eyes widened in anger as she questioned Li Xi, "How dare you hit me?"
"Why wouldn't you dare?" Li Xi unzipped his down jacket, grabbed the inkstone from Gu Huaizhou's desk, and smashed it against Xie Jiaoyue's thigh.
"what!!"