The Gu family's bodyguards were so frightened that they did not dare to move.
Old Master Gu became even more anxious.
Bang!
Old Master Gu let go of his walking stick. If Gu Cheng hadn't reacted quickly enough and caught the old man, Old Master Gu might have perished on the spot.
"Nonsense! This is simply nonsense!" Old Master Gu's eyes were burning with pain. He knew that everyone here was staring at them. Looking at the Gu family was like watching a farce.
Just scheming against others might not be so embarrassing, but what was this now? His granddaughter, whom he had carefully groomed and praised in front of others constantly, was actually acting like a shrew in public.
Of course, those things she said in the video were no better. The old man really wanted to leave right now.
Gu Cheng noticed the old man's expression and quickly grabbed hold of Gu Rou's wrist.
Gu Rou was still struggling as she shouted, "Gu Cheng! Let go of me! I must teach this traitor a lesson!" As she said that, her feet continued to kick wildly as if she wanted to kill the other party.
Gu Cheng was extremely angry and pulled her over. The youth's voice was suddenly very stern. "Enough! Get a grip! Do you know where you are?!"
After hearing Gu Cheng's words, Gu Rou finally realized that she was still at Bai Zhun's birthday party. She looked around her in panic. Everyone present looked at her as if they were looking at trash. The disgust in their eyes was very obvious. Only then did she realize what she had done in front of everyone!
"I, I didn't do it on purpose..." Gu Rou's voice became weak again. Her black and beautiful long hair had also become messy. Her exquisite makeup was smeared because of the scuffle just now. The lipstick she had applied had all been ruined. 70% of a girl's aura depended on the way she dressed, and now, all the elegance Gu Rou once had was gone. She didn't look anything like a daughter of a respectable family anymore. No matter how pitiful her expression was, everyone would just think she was putting on an act. But Gu Rou didn't realize this at all. She pointed a finger at the other girl she was fighting with earlier and said, "It's her! She's the one who's slandering me!"
"Me? Slandering you?" The girl sneered. One of her false eyelashes had fallen off, and she did not look any better. But her words were as cutting as ever. "All those things you said are all recorded within our chat group! I've got all the records! Are you going to admit it only after I show everybody the chat logs? Young Mistress Gu?!"
Gu Rou's face was livid, as if she was angered by her words again. Her fingers began to tremble, as if she intended to pounce on her again.
Gu Cheng stretched a long arm out and stopped her.
Gu Rou started to cry. It seemed like that was all she could do now.
Helian Weiwei's eyes looked at this scene indifferently, and the corners of her mouth slowly curved upwards. "Old Master Gu, there's no point denying it. Your granddaughter has already done herself a disservice."
Old Master Gu's left eye had turned a little blue from being punched by Gu Rou earlier. His white hair was a mess and he was bent over, like he had aged by a decade all of a sudden. He had lost his overbearing aura altogether.
He first glanced at Helian Weiwei, opened his mouth, but couldn't bring himself to apologize.
But this matter had to be closed somehow.
If this went on, the Gu family would be even more embarrassed. Thus, he turned his head and looked at his good friend of many years, Old Master Bai.
"Bai, you can see that my Rou'er already knows that she was in the wrong. She's not a bad-hearted child, really. It's my fault for not paying attention. She did say before that it was very hard to get close to Bai Zhun, and I've never seen her like a boy so much before. As her grandfather, I got worried for her. She's done so many things for the boy that she would never have done in the past, and now she's done all these things for the sake of getting close to Bai Zhun."
Old Master Gu's voice slowly began to drop in volume. "On account of our many years of friendship, do you think you could put in a good word for Rou'er? Your family raised Ajiu, so I'm sure the folks from Juewei Group will listen to you. I'm fine with whatever way Ajiu wants us to apologize, I just ask that she doesn't completely embarrass Rou'er. She's just a child and did the wrong thing in a moment of folly. Ajiu's not hurt anyway, so why don't..."
BAM!
Old Master Gu hadn't finished his sentence.
Suddenly, a gust of fierce wind swept past his ear. It had come at him in full force!
What brushed past his ear wasn't some random object but a wine glass.
The glass flew past and smashed into the wall behind Old Master Gu, and the glass shards littered the floor, while the liquid in it spilled onto Old Master Gu's face. He was so shocked and frightened by this sudden noise that he remained in a daze for a long time.
When he finally turned back to look with a pale face, he saw Bai Zhun standing in front of him, a wine glass obviously missing from his hands. His pure white suit gave off an acute sense of his fury, and his handsome face was frosty beyond belief.
Chapter 1263 - The Person I Like
"Bai... Zhun?" Gu Rou's red and haggard eyes slowly widened. She didn't expect Bai Zhun to actually attack her grandfather.
Old Master Gu's face was also filled with shock and confusion.
Bai Zhun only stared at him, like a poisonous giant snake that was spitting its tongue out at him.
The surrounding wind continuously poured in from the half-opened window and blew across Bai Zhun's face.
No one knew how much pain he felt when he heard those words and saw those videos.
It was as if his c.h.e.s.t had been pierced by a blade. The pain was so intense that even his internal organs felt cold.
It was as if a ball of fire was burning in his throat. Bai Zhun knew that his pain this time had nothing to do with a cold.
His heart ached.
When everything that Gu Rou had done was revealed in front of him, his heart felt as if it was placed over an angry fire. It was tormenting him inch by inch, with no respite in sight.
Bai Zhun had never expected that the child that he had carefully protected for so many years would be bullied like this one day.
He had been in the cafeteria when those girls were talking, but he didn't notice anything. What was he doing at that time? He was actually afraid that Ajiu would fall in love with someone else and want to leave him after knowing his thoughts, so he desperately restrained his feelings and told himself to stay away from her, even showing her an unprecedented indifference. So much so that Ajiu had actually been ostracized when she was less than two meters away from him and he didn't realize it at all?
The feeling in his heart was no longer as simple as mere suffering.
Ajiu still got hurt in the end. So why did he bother putting up with those merchants for so long in the first place?
Everything he had done was to make Ajiu happy. He didn't want her to worry about anything and live happily.
Now that he thought about it, Ajiu must have noticed that he had deliberately alienated her. That was why she did not say anything and just silently moved to another table...
Bai Zhun did not know how to describe his feelings now. It felt as if he had been drenched in snow. He could not help but clench his fists. He clenched them so hard that his nails sank into his flesh.
However, Bai Zhun didn't seem to feel any pain. He only looked at Gu Rou coldly and enunciated each word, "If killing someone weren't illegal, I would have shot you!"
Gu Rou was shocked when she heard that!
Her lips turned pale. She had thought about the consequences of what she had done if Bai Zhun found out, but she never thought that Bai Zhun would rather fall out completely with the Gu family like this. Didn't he want that contract anymore?
Gu Rou's line of thought was always like this. She thought that she was the one who understood Bai Zhun the best, when actually none of these contracts meant anyth
ing to Bai Zhun.
If there was no Ajiu, or if it hadn't been for the sake of Ajiu, Bai Zhun wouldn't have tolerated the Gu family like this at all.
"Bai Zhun, what are you doing?" Old Master Gu stood in front of his granddaughter. "Even a judge has to give people a chance to change. Bai Zhun, you should know who Rou'er became like this for!"
Bai Zhun raised his eyes. "I never said that I had any feelings towards her, and I even rejected her very clearly when she came knocking on my door. But your family actually thinks that it's okay to bully Ajiu like this? You still want to use the Bai family to pressurize someone else? What do you mean that Ajiu didn't suffer any harm anyway? I wouldn't even let her suffer a scratch! But what did your family do? She sowed discord between us! She ostracized Ajiu! She even wanted to make sure Ajiu couldn't enter the door of her own house! You want me to let off your granddaughter? Who is going to let Ajiu off then?!"
After saying this, Bai Zhun's eyes darkened slowly. "Grandpa Gu, I'm calling You Grandpa Gu now because of my grandfather. Don't you dare think about using my grandfather to escape the punishment that you deserve. From the moment the matter was exposed until now, Gu Rou pretended to be pitiful, and has repeatedly denied what she had done. She said that it was Juewei Corporation who was bullying her because they are a major corporation. Later, when the video was shown, she claimed that she never thought of trying to harm Ajiu. Do we really need to see her chat history with the other girls for her to admit her mistakes?! She isn't even apologetic! Don't blame the Bai family for getting nasty - I know very well how the Gu family conducts its business. It might not be illegal or frowned upon in another country, but this is China! Grandpa Gu, mark my words. I will make sure the Gu family pays for this!"
"Bai...Bai Zhun, you can't do this!" Gu Rou cried even harder. "You can't do this to me, you can't do this to the Gu family!"
Bai Zhun laughed coldly. His youthful handsome face was no longer as indifferent as jade. Instead, for the first time, it was filled with a terrifying anger. "Why can't I do this to the Gu family? I've warned you long ago to stop before it's too late. I didn't expect you to have even less conscience than I thought."
"But...but I like you, I like you!" Gu Rou's beautiful eyes glistened as she looked at Bai Zhun. She cried so pitifully that it was as if she wanted to make Bai Zhun feel a little compassion for her. "How can you be so ruthless to a person who likes you?"
Bai Zhun looked down at her and said in a deep voice, "Because you were the first to be ruthless to the person I like!"
Gu Rou suddenly paused. Her voice was completely stuck in her throat!
His words were like the second bomb of tonight's birthday banquet. They were thrown into the spacious hall, causing countless chain reactions.
Everyone was stunned, as if they couldn't believe what they had heard. They all exchanged glances.
The person that the Bai family kid said he liked was...his younger sister, Ajiu?
Even Helian Weiwei raised her eyebrows in surprise.
Baili Shangxie, on the other hand, narrowed his pair of sharp and beautiful eyes, and his voice was very cold. "What he said just now had better not be what I think it is!"
If it was...he'd directly break his legs and throw him into the demon world to feed the demons!
Ajiu was his sister! Who was Bai Zhun to like her? He ought to be destroyed!!
Helian Qingchen didn't need to think to know what his brother was thinking. He could only raise his head and look at the ceiling. He thought to himself, "What he said is exactly what you think it is..."
Baili Shangxie immediately turned his head and exchanged a glance with his father.
Baili Jiajue gave him a faint look.
Baili Shangxie's thin lips curled up, then...then he moved his wrists left and right, as if he was ready to use actual combat to beat someone up.
Chapter 1264 - If He Still Doesn't Confess, Ajiu Is Leaving
Helian Weiwei looked at the father and son next to her and helplessly used her fingers to support her forehead.
These two shared a tacit understanding only in such times.
Usually, they obviously didn't see eye to eye with each other. But when it came to the time when they shouldn't agree with one another, they would suddenly be in the same team.
It's just that...Bai Zhun said he liked her?
Helian Weiwei's eyes landed on Bai Zhun. She suddenly remembered the email that her daughter sent her previously.
Although the words on it were vague, but there had indeed been a hint of the beginnings of love.
She even wanted Buddha to explain to her.
Her own Ajiu was still too naive. Didn't she know that Buddha never cared about this kind of thing?
Now it seemed that her Ajiu wasn't actually experiencing unrequited love after all.
But Ajiu wasn't even 12, so it was a little too early to settle such a matter now.
Even though she had also been betrothed to a certain highness at around the same age, Ajiu's case...wasn't the same.
Her daughter used to be void of any worldly d.e.s.i.r.es. She even said that she wanted to be a temple abbot and had been very serious about it.
Helian Weiwei had always thought that her daughter was very focused on this career.
But someone had actually confessed his feelings for her in public.
She wasn't too bothered, actually. It meant that her daughter was outstanding!
After all, she had always been assured of the character of anyone from the Bai family.
But this father and son next to her wouldn't be too friendly now that they knew someone liked their precious Ajiu...
Helian Weiwei thought for a moment, and still felt that at the appropriate time, she should help Bai Zhun out.
She couldn't let His Highness and the others beat him up.
After all, that punch from His Highness wasn't something that anyone could withstand.
The most important part was that Helian Weiwei realized that it was hard to find someone with as much guts as Bai Zhun.
She couldn't possibly let those two beat up every single guy who wanted to woo Ajiu, right? What if nobody wanted her daughter anymore?
This would really be a problem.
Therefore, after Helian Weiwei struggled with her thoughts for a while, she turned her body to block Baili Jiajue's way.
After Baili Jiajue saw her actions, a faint smile flashed across his deep eyes. Then, he stretched out his hand and pulled her over. His voice was low and pleasant to the ear. "Don't worry, I won't make a move."
"Are you serious?" Helian Weiwei confirmed it again as she raised her eyebrows to avoid an unsalvageable situation.
Baili Jiajue nodded. "I'm serious."
Just when Helian Weiwei felt that she could breathe a sigh of relief, she heard a certain Highness say, "In any case, the one who wants to make a move is Shangxie, not me."
Helian Weiwei was speechless.
As for the one who had been confessed to, Ajiu's already round eyes were even bigger and brighter than before. She stood in a daze where she was, as if she couldn't believe what she just heard, and even her hair stood up hilariously. Her little face was so exquisite and beautiful as her eyes blinked once, then blinked again.
So...the person that her brother liked was not Gu Rou, but her?
Li Hailou also widened his eyes because of this sudden news. His brain seemed to have short circuited. This fellow really didn't register a single thing. "Wait, Master Bai...Master Bai said that he likes...he likes Ajiu?"
"I really admire your EQ. You actually realized it," Xiao Lin said indifferently.
Li Hailou was very proud. "That's because I'm very smart, okay?"
Xiao Lin snorted. "Smart? Sure.."
However, Bai Zhun finally couldn't hold it in anymore.
Ajiu's family was already here to take her home. If he still didn't confess, Ajiu would leave, right?
Old Master Gu was also shocked. He looked in the direction of Ajiu. His
eyes swept over her fair wrist. His back suddenly shook as he suddenly raised his head and his pupils swayed as he looked at Bai Zhun. "You...you agreed to my conditions because of her?"
"Yes." Bai Zhun did not look at Old Master Gu anymore.
He was looking at her expression.
Perhaps it was too early for a girl who was not even twelve years old to say that she liked him.
But he really could not suppress it anymore.
But when this moment actually arrived, Bai Zhun still felt that one of his feet had already stepped into a bottomless abyss.
It was not just a bottomless abyss.
If Ajiu loathed him and treated him as a pervert, then...
What was he going to do?
Bai Zhun bent his pale fingers, and the blood-red crescent in his palm had already begun to overflow with blood.
There was no change in his expression, but his gaze was deep. He stared at Ajiu, and everyone could feel the tenderness in his eyes.
But now, he realized that he could only watch on.
After what the Gu family had done to Little Bean...
So what if he noticed something strange in his heart?
Although the two of them were very far apart, Little Bean always thought of her brother in everything.
As for Bai Zhun...he finally understood why his cousin was so hostile toward Ajiu.
Bai Zhun never hid his feelings in the way he looked at Ajiu.
That kind of gentle expression that would make the corners of his mouth smile.
Everyone knew what it was.
He used to think that it was because this older brother indulged his younger sister too much.
Gu Cheng lowered his eyes and relaxed his fingers.
Old Master Gu was also beginning to be afraid. He looked at Old Master Bai again and was about to speak again.
But Old Master Bai interrupted him with a deep voice that accompanied the rank indicated on his shoulder. "Gu, we are indeed old friends, but I really can't believe you actually said those things. Since the younger ones have made a mistake, they ought to admit to their mistakes. But you chose to protect your granddaughter instead. Gu, you're not the only one with a granddaughter. Ajiu may not be my biological granddaughter, but she was adopted by the Bai family and that makes her my granddaughter. On account of our friendship, I tried to be considerate towards your granddaughter. My Ajiu doesn't eat meat, but the food in this house suddenly started containing meat because of your family. The child never made a single complaint."
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