Chapter 938 - The Last to Turn the Tide (6) (2/2)
Huo Shaoheng looked down at Gu Nianzhi, and it was no surprise that he saw her stubborn look that he was very familiar with—just like when she first came under his care when she was only 12 years old, yet was so stubborn she gave people headaches.
Even though he told her countless times to go back to her room to sleep at night, he would always find her hugging her tiny blanket and sleeping at the door of his suite at midnight. He carried her back and often slept there as he watched her all night.
Later on she grew up a bit, so he couldn’t exactly sleep at her bedside with her. Finally, he had no choice but to move her to the room directly across from his. Both their doors were left open when they slept at night. Gu Nianzhi could not sleep peacefully until she could instantly see the light glowing in the room across from hers.
“Nianzhi, I know you’re very smart and very brave, too. But I hope that you can understand that people can’t do things on a burst of bravado.” Huo Shaoheng pointed at his head. “You must carefully think about the cause and effect.”
“I’ve thought about it carefully,” Gu Nianzhi answered instinctively.
Huo Shaoheng’s expression instantly turned frigid. “So you are scheming about something?”
Gu Nianzhi frowned. How many times had it been? This person was truly too cunning. He could get her to slip up so easily! Gu Nianzhi turned her head away and refused to look at Huo Shaoheng.
Huo Shaoheng had a headache as he pulled her to the bed inside the room and lifted the blankets up. “You’re not wearing enough. Get in now.”
Gu Nianzhi set the baseball bat next to the bed and took off her shoes. She crawled into bed and used the blanket to cover herself. Huo Shaoheng helped her adjust her blankets and sat on her bedside to look at her. Late at night, his deep voice echoed in the bedroom, and Gu Nianzhi’s ears were growing red from listening to it.
“Nianzhi, your situation is very dangerous.”
Gu Nianzhi blinked and whispered quietly, “I know. I can handle it.” No one knew about her situation better than she did.
“You can really handle it?” Huo Shaoheng’s voice grew quiet. “According to news from j.a.pan, they found out the inside story behind Is.h.i.+hara Baisan’s suicide all those years ago.”
Gu Nianzhi’s eyes instantly lit up as she anxiously asked, “What was the reason?!”
Huo Shaoheng enunciated each word. “Is.h.i.+hara Baisan committed seppuku as the result of direct provocation by your father, Gu Xiangwen.”
Gu Nianzhi was dumbstruck. She quickly recovered and said, “Little j.a.pan’s mental capacity was too poor, and he was also envious of merit and ability. How can they blame my father?” Gu Nianzhi snorted derisively. “I don’t believe that.”
“Your father said this to Is.h.i.+hara Baisan, in front of many people in the Is.h.i.+hara family: ‘Useless! You think you’re worthy of competing against my progress?!’ It was this one sentence that humiliated Is.h.i.+hara Baisan so extremely, he directly committed seppuku. Nianzhi, do you know what this means?”
Gu Nianzhi began to laugh and clapped her hands. “This means that Little j.a.pan’s magnetic field research directly regressed by 50 years! Great, that’s indeed my father! He insulted Little j.a.pan to death with one sentence! I am proud of him!”
Huo Shaoheng stiffened slightly. He didn’t expect this reason, but as soon as Gu Nianzhi said it, he was also instantly enlightened and couldn’t help but feel great respect for Gu Xiangwen.
After a period of silence, he replied even more calmly, “Nianzhi, there is no reconciliation for hatred towards the one who slays another’s father. The Is.h.i.+hara family will never let you go.”
Gu Nianzhi didn’t expect Huo Shaoheng to be able to predict that the Is.h.i.+hara family was the mastermind, despite not knowing the connection between Is.h.i.+hara Taro and the gold coin. Her entire body s.h.i.+vered as she used all her strength to calm her wildly thumping heartbeat. She sneered. “Then let them come at me. Who’s scared of who?!”