bookrandom Chapter 125 Dogs Fighting, Jiang Qingkong Makes a Move Against the Xie Siblings
Chapter 125 Dogs Fighting, Jiang Qingkong Makes a Move Against the Xie Siblings
"Li Xi, what nonsense are you talking about?"
"I was the one who saved Gu Huaizhou!" Xie Jiaoyue was so frightened that she lost her composure and lost all her former calm demeanor.
Upon hearing this, Li Xi walked over to the Xie siblings in a few steps.
Staring intently into Xie Jiaoyue's angry eyes, Li Xi suddenly laughed. "Xie Jiaoyue, the same lie, repeated so many times, even the person involved becomes numb to it?"
"Don't you really know who saved the Gu family heir 12 years ago?"
Upon hearing this, Xie Jiaoyue's beautiful face turned pale inch by inch, and her expression showed a sense of despair, but she still stubbornly refused to admit it.
"It was I who saved Gu Huaizhou!"
Xie Jiaoyue retorted to Li Xi: "Li Xi, all I knew before was that you were lazy, greedy, and a gold digger. You failed to seduce my brother, and now you're trying to steal my credit!"
"What exactly do you want to do?"
"Do you think you can get the Gu family's attention by stealing my credit?"
"You're just delusional!"
Seeing Xie Jiaoyue acting like a madwoman, Li Xi was too lazy to argue with her.
Li Xi looked past Xie Jiaoyue and onto Xie Xingyun, saying, "Xie Xingyun, your sister is hopelessly trapped in the sense of superiority that lies bring, but you should know whether I have ever lied or not."
Xie Xingyun felt anxious and uneasy.
He didn't expect that Li Xi already knew the truth about what happened 12 years ago.
He quickly figured out where the problem lay—
"Did Jiang Qingkong talk nonsense to you?"
Before Li Xi could admit it, Xie Xingyun denied it outright: "Jiang Qingkong has delusions. I don't know what nonsense she said to you, but what you just said is completely unfounded."
"The person who saved Guai Huaizhou back then was my sister."
“Li Xi, you were only 10 years old back then. Besides, that was the Gu family. How could we possibly do anything under Old Master Gu’s nose?”
Xie Xingyun's denial was within Li Xi's expectations.
She calmly and wisely analyzed: "According to the requirements of that psychopathic killer, the players participating in the game must wear cat masks and be sent to the game teleportation point designated by the other party."
"So apart from that psychopathic killer, no one has actually seen what the little girl really looks like. Other people in the know can only identify her by her appearance."
“My father was your family’s driver. When I was a child, I would go to your family’s nanny’s room every day after school to wait for him to get off work. I was a child who grew up with you. Xie Jiaoyue and I are only two years apart in age, and we were about the same size when we were young.”
“Back then, even the neighbors said we looked like twin sisters. It wouldn’t be difficult for you to use me in place of Xie Jiaoyue to save people.”
"Xie Xingyun, your parents took advantage of this to use a trick to make me participate in that game in place of Xie Jiaoyue."
"Whether I live or die, the Gu family will remember the favor the Xie family has done for us."
"Xie Xingyun, your Xie family's current wealth and glory are all obtained by stepping on my suffering! How dare you siblings turn around and bite me?"
When it comes to shamelessness, who can rival the Xie family of bastards?
...
In fact, the truth is exactly as Li Xi guessed.
When Li Xi was little, she often went to Xie's house to play. She grew tall quickly from a young age, and by the time she was 10, she was as tall as Xie Jiaoyue, who was 12.
Both of them have slender figures, and when they put on the same clothes and tied their hair in the same style, they do look like sisters at first glance.
So when Xie Mingzong learned that the Gu family heir needed to find a child to play a horror game, he thought of Li Xi.
At that time, Li Xi's father had already passed away, and Li Xi was sent back to the orphanage in her hometown. She was an abandoned baby herself, and with her adoptive father's death, she became a helpless orphan.
An orphan girl is the easiest to bully.
In order to force Li Xi to submit, Xie Mingzong did something immoral.
He dug Li Chang'an's ashes out of the tombstone and took them to the orphanage to threaten Li Xi.
If Li Xi is willing to play the game with the psychopathic killer in Xie Jiaoyue's place, he will return the ashes to Li Xi.
If Li Xi is unwilling, he will scatter Li Chang'an's ashes!
Li Xi also considered calling the police, but how could a little girl like her possibly fight against Xie Mingzong?
As an abandoned child, Li Xi was deeply grateful to Li Chang'an for raising him. Faced with Xie Mingzong's threats, Li Xi could only tearfully agree.
So Li Xi was secretly taken back to the Xie family, dressed in Xie Jiaoyue's clothes, had her hair styled with the same slightly wavy long hair as Xie Jiaoyue, and was sent to the Gu family wearing a cat mask.
As mentioned above, Li Xi and Xie Jiaoyue have similar body shapes and both have oval, round faces.
Grandpa Gu had actually taken off his mask to see what Li Xi looked like. He saw that the little girl was indeed eleven or twelve years old and looked somewhat like Zhang Xiang, so he had no doubts.
Then, following the psychopath's instructions, they sent Li Xi to the designated game teleportation point.
Li Xi disappeared for seven days and seven nights.
Everyone thought Li Xi would die in this game.
After all, that psychopathic killer had murdered Gu Wentao's son, daughter-in-law, and eldest grandson, and his methods were extremely cruel.
That's a ruthless killer, how could he let Li Xi go?
But Xie Mingzong didn't care about Li Xi's life or death at all.
Just as Li Xi analyzed, whether she lives or dies, the Gu family still owes the Xie family a favor.
If Li Xi died, he would secretly send Xie Jiaoyue abroad to be pampered. With the Xie family becoming wealthy, Xie Jiaoyue's life abroad would naturally be comfortable.
But Xie Mingzong didn't expect that Li Xi would successfully find the Gu family's heir in the last hour through the game.
Xie Mingzong did lose his composure at that moment.
But he quickly regained his composure. They took Li Xi, who had fainted from exhaustion, back to the Xie family home, and then, when no one was looking, sent her to another province for repeated hypnosis...
Two months later, Li Xi had completely forgotten the terrifying game and was taken back to the Xie family by Xie Mingzong under the guise of adoption.
Worried that Li Xi would remember those things, Xie Mingzong would regularly send Li Xi to receive hypnosis during the first two years after returning to the Xie family.
This is the real reason why Li Xi can't remember those two years.
Poor Li Xi truly believed that she had gone mad from the shock of her father's car accident death.
Because Xie Mingzong had threatened her with Li Chang'an's ashes, Li Xi felt heartbroken after hearing about Jiang Xinghe's mother, which is why she did everything she could to help him.
When Li Xi realized that her memories were wrong and that she, not Xie Jiaoyue, was the one who saved the Gu family heir, those hypnotized memories gradually showed signs of revival.
Xie Xingyun was unaware that Li Xi had not yet truly recalled the terrifying game from 12 years ago.
Therefore, when he heard that Li Xi had deduced the truth based on only the slightest clues, he was genuinely terrified.
When people fall into a state of panic, they are more likely to reveal their weaknesses.
"...You remember everything?"
Xie Xingyun's question was an admission of guilt.
Seeing that Li Xi suddenly stopped speaking and stared at him with eyes that seemed to hold two balls of fire that could burn him to ashes, Xie Xingyun realized that he had made a mistake in what he said earlier.
"...I..."
"Xie Xingyun, so you knew all along." Li Xi said those things on purpose just now, actually to trick Xie Xingyun.
She wanted to know how much Xie Xingyun actually knew about what happened 12 years ago.
Now it seems that he and Xie Jiaoyue should know all the details.
Li Xi suddenly felt like a joke.
No wonder Xie Xingyun has been so gentle with her all these years; it turns out he feels indebted to her.
And she, foolishly, took Xie Xingyun's gentleness and care as a ray of light, held it tightly in her arms, and foolishly fell in love with him.
Looking back now, that wasn't a warm light at all; it was a scorching fire.
"It seems I've been mistaking crocodile tears for pearls all these years. Xie Xingyun, do you enjoy watching me fawn over you like a fool, being bullied by your family?"
Hearing these words, Xie Xingyun was heartbroken. "Xixi, is this what you really think of me?"
"I never intended to play you. I genuinely like you, and my kindness towards you is real."
Xie Xingyun's eyes were filled with pain.
He instinctively stepped forward and reached out to put his arm around Li Xi's shoulder.
Before his fingers even touched Li Xi's hair, Gu Huaizhou stretched out his long arm, hooked Li Xi's waist, and pulled her into the crook of his arm.
Gu Huaizhou tightened his arms, and Li Xi pressed herself against him tightly.
This was a possessive hug.
Gu Huaizhou then covered Li Xi's eyes with his other hand and said earnestly, "You mustn't look at a man like this who is vicious and loves to lie. You'll be so disgusted that you won't be able to eat."
"..."
“Okay, I won’t look.” Li Xi’s obedience was almost unbelievable.
"You surnamed Gu! Do you dare say you haven't lied to Li Xi?" Xie Xingyun thought he had Gu Huaizhou's weakness in his grasp, and said, "Do you dare tell Li Xi your true identity?"
Upon hearing this, both Gu Huaizhou and Li Xi were taken aback.
Just when they thought Xie Xingyun knew Gu Huaizhou's true identity, they heard Xie Xingyun rattle off, "Actually, you're from the Gu family in Kyoto, right?"
"Your family is powerful and wealthy. You deliberately concealed your true identity from Li Xi because you were afraid that if Li Xi knew your true identity, he would covet your family's power and influence!"
"I'm a habitual liar, but how honest are you?"
"..."
Li Xi was utterly speechless.
Gu Huaizhou laughed as well, "So that's how Mr. Xie sees me."
"I did hide my identity from Xixi, but it wasn't because I was afraid she was materialistic and greedy for wealth and power. However, we had already told each other the secret long ago."
"As for what you said, that I'm afraid Li Xi is after my family's money..."
"To be honest, I can't wait for her to marry me and share all my assets with me."
His cold gaze swept quickly over Xie Xingyun and Xie Jiaoyue, and Gu Huaizhou smiled inscrutablely. He suddenly asked Lin Qiu, "Tomorrow is Christmas, isn't it?"
Lin Qiu nodded hurriedly, "Mr. Gu, it's still the 24th. Christmas is just three hours away."
"What a wonderful day."
Gu Huaizhou gave the Xie siblings an inscrutable smile and said, "I have prepared a Christmas gift for you two, which will be delivered before 8 p.m. tomorrow night."
"You two can look forward to it."
After saying that, Gu Huaizhou pressed Li Xi's face into his arms, and only released her after Xie Xingyun and his sister were asked to leave.
"What gifts did you prepare for them?" Li Xi asked curiously.
"Keep it a secret."
After bailing Zhou Zui and the others out, Gu Huaizhou personally drove Li Xi back to Lanting Apartment.
He accompanied Li Xi all the way to the entrance of 2201. This time, he was very well-behaved and did not follow Li Xi into the house.
As Li Xi closed the door, she saw Gu Huaizhou still standing outside, looking at her with a hesitant expression.
She raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms, asking Gu Huaizhou, "Is there anything else?"
Gu Huaizhou took out an invitation from his coat pocket and handed it to Li Xi.
"What is it?"
Gu Huaizhou said, "Tomorrow is the day I officially take over the Gu Group. There will be a banquet at home, and it happens to be Christmas."
"I would like to ask you to accompany me to the banquet as my date."