Chapter 774 - 371: The Road Ahead

Gu Ningyi looked at this brother he had almost never met but had been concerned about for years, feeling many complex emotions in his heart.

He thought Gu Ningxuan was dead, but unexpectedly, there was a chance to meet again after so many years. Now, it should have been a touching scene of brothers reunited, but because of their great-grandfather’s {because of seniority, so willful} instructions, it might just become a bloody scene.

Gu Ningxuan is now a Mind Power User, and from what Huaixi said, his level is above his own. How terrifying his full strength might be, Gu Ningyi had some vague guesses and deeply felt that things wouldn’t end well today.

Secretly raising his hand to wipe the wound on his abdomen that hadn’t fully healed, a certain brother had some internal injuries. He had rushed out of the hospital for his brother, and now he might end up sending him straight to the morgue!

When Gu Ningyi looked at Gu Ningxuan, he was also sizing up this elder brother he had strictly speaking never met, his expression vaguely moved. He was about to break the silence, when he heard the man opposite looking at him with a cold face, saying, "Ningxuan, she won’t be coming back."

This intriguing statement puzzled Gu Ningxuan, leaving him in a haze of confusion. {She won’t be coming back}? Who is she? Does her return have a direct connection to him? Gu Ningxuan wondered, but a faint sense of foreboding was rising in a corner of his heart.

"Won’t be coming back? Who?" He instinctively ignored that feeling, a slight softness appearing on his usually serious face. Most Gu family men have a wooden face attribute, but this attribute always dissolves or weakens when facing family, "Brother, could you clarify a bit?"

Gu Ningyi secretly took a deep breath, trying hard to restrain the urge to change his words; prolonged pain is worse than short pain. How could Gu family men be so weak as to not handle even this bit of a situation? What does it matter even if the feelings are painful? Life must go on after sadness.

But before he truly spoke, he planned to talk about something else first; based on Gu Ningxuan’s intelligence, he should be able to perceive something, "After you left back then, the family found two children and listed them in the family genealogy. They have now been renamed to follow your surname, one is Gu Huaixi, and the other is Gu Huaifeng. However, due to your relationship with Su Jiameng, the children will inevitably bear the illegitimate child’s name..."

Gu Ningxuan was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, the feeling in his heart growing twofold, making it impossible to ignore.

According to Su Jiameng’s temper, under normal circumstances, she wouldn’t allow the children to be taken by the Gu family, let alone change their surname!

The children’s surnames were changed, but the mother remained unmarried, doesn’t this publicly declare to the entire universe that these two children have a practically unspeakable identity?

She is someone with pride to the bone, she could never choose this way! Her wealth is abundant, there is no possibility she couldn’t afford to raise the children, compromising for the sake of losing them to get them into the Gu family is impossible.

Su Jiameng’s boundaries are very clear; the children are hers, and she’s so wealthy she can spoil them, regardless of whether it’s the Gu family or any other family, they shouldn’t dream of taking her children from her hands. Change their surname? Let the children live with the Gu family? Ten to one she’d be ready to launch a Mecha attack on the Gu family mansion!

If the children’s illegitimate status is exposed and they are harmed as a result, she would be the first to explode with rage. So there are currently two suspicions, why did the children’s surname change? How did the Gu family persuade such a stubborn, proud woman to give up two children?

Gu Ningyi continued, "Of course, the Gu family won’t wrong the two children, allowing them to enter the Gu family as illegitimate children. Moreover, illegitimate children don’t qualify to be included in the Gu family genealogy. So, grandfather and great-grandfather found a way to alter the marital status between you and Su Jiameng. Legally speaking, you are a legitimate couple, resolving the children’s identity issues at the root."

Gu Ningxuan wasn’t happy about becoming a legitimate couple with Su Jiameng; instead, he had to forcibly suppress the ominous feeling rising and roiling in his heart. He vaguely understood that something must have happened to Su Jiameng, otherwise, these things wouldn’t have happened!

"Brother, if you have something to say, just say it plainly. I’m not a small child; you don’t need to be so cautious. Is it... has something happened to Xiao Meng? With her character, had she known that man was me back then, that I was the children’s father, if she didn’t even demand the Gu family to whip the corpse, it would be considered great cultivation. How could she agree to... marry for this?"

To rid the children of their illegitimate status, Su Jiameng doesn’t necessarily have to marry Gu Ningxuan. In this world, a three-legged toad is hard to find, but two-legged men are everywhere. Knowing the truth, in her eyes, perhaps any man would be more reliable than him!