Chapter 225 - Chapter 225: Chapter Two-Hundred and Twenty-Five: Infighting (1/2)

Chapter 225: Chapter Two-Hundred and Twenty-Five: Infighting

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Chang Hui had an ugly expression on her face. Bai Jie tried to smooth things over, saying, ‘You know, I think Yun Liu looks quite similar to you, Gu Wei. I guess it’s true when people say that children resemble whoever raises them. This way, our two families have even closer ties.”

Gu Wei nodded. “Yeah, Yun Liu does look like me. Maybe Zheng Xiu and I were sisters in our previous life, and in this life, we’re raising a daughter together.”

“Wow, it seems like Zheng Xiu and you were meant to be. Speaking of which,

Yun Liu is quite lucky. My sister-in-law and I were talking about our Uncle Gu Bei’s daughter just now. She also went missing when she was a child. I heard they found her recently, but she’d already passed on. *Sigh* The poor thing,” Bai Jie stated. The woman’s diplomatic ability was probably beyond the other women combined; she placated everyone with just a few words and successfully changed the topic.

Zheng Xiu evidently hadn’t known about this and said surprisedly, “Really? Oh, my! How can this be?”

Gu Wei and Yun Liu were confused, not knowing the Gu family well enough to know what they were talking about. Zheng Xiu hurriedly explained, “Uncle Gu Bei is the Gu main family’s second son and only has one daughter. She’s the youngest child of our generation. She went missing when she was five years old. Uncle Gu Bei and his wife searched for her all their lives and didn’t have another child. *Sigh* It’s a real pity.”

So saying, Zheng Xiu adopted a well-timed mournful expression. Gu Wei was shocked and commented, “Heavens! They didn’t have any other children just for the sake of their missing daughter?”

Zheng Xiu nodded. “Yeah. Uncle Gu Bei and Aunt Chen Yao are a loving couple. Aunt Chen Yao missed her child so much she went a little mental for a few years, so Uncle Gu Bei quit all his jobs and brought her everywhere to search for their child. *Sigh!*”

Zheng Xiu sighed heavily and continued, “Therefore, after our Yun Liu went missing, our elders didn’t allow us to do as Uncle Gu Bei did, and that’s why Yun Liu also has a younger brother. However, my health broke down after birthing him. Fortunately, Chang Hui took pity on me and helped me raise Gu He, treating him as her own.”

Yun Nan and Xiang Yang looked at each other as they listened in on their conversation and thought, ‘No wonder Yun Liu is such a schemer; it turns out she’d inherited it from her biological mother. To think that you can inherit such a thing; how terrifying!’

This Little Madam Gu managed to wash herself of any blame with just a few words. She’d conveyed that though someone else in their family had also lost their child and had chosen not to have any other children, she wasn’t allowed such a luxury, so that’s why Yun Liu had a younger brother. Zheng Xiu’s son was the only male heir in their branch of the family, so he was raised by the branch family’s matriarch, Madam Gu. Despite being the family matriarch, Madam Gu didn’t have a son, so everything in the Gu branch family would belong to her son!