Chapter 943 — Tailor-Made: Though Gu Mengyao Knew That the Matter Was Not Her Fault or Xiaoshu's, It Was Merely a Pretext for the Xiao Family to Pick a Fight — Without This Pretext, the Xiao Family Might Well Have Found Some Other Pretext…

"The second wave of callers were Zhao Qibing's people…" Gu Pengzhan said with a bitter smile. "My feud with Zhao Qibing goes back a long way. More than once he sent men to kidnap you; at the amusement park he even tried to have you and Xiaoshu killed. Then Xiaoyi suppressed him for a time. Now that Xiaoyi has met with trouble, he will naturally push back! His appetite, though, is not so very great — he only asked for the real estate company under the Gu Group…"

Gu Mengyao nodded. How could she not know Zhao Qibing? The man bore a deep grudge against her family and against Wei Zhao alike. If he had not come knocking at a time like this, Gu Mengyao would not have believed it herself!

"The third wave of callers were the Yu family of Yanjing…" Gu Pengzhan went on.

"The Yu family? Who are they?" Gu Mengyao found the name faintly familiar, yet she had no idea where she had heard of this family before.

"The Yus once broke into your villa by night and even wounded General Mighty — have you forgotten?" Gu Pengzhan prompted. "At the time, in your fury, you told Xiaoyi to kill that murderer, but Xiaoyi showed mercy and left him a way to live…"

"Ah! And rather than being grateful to Wei Zhao, he comes looking for trouble?" At her father's reminder, Gu Mengyao remembered that Yu Kun — the contemptuous, haughty look on his face was still vivid before her eyes. The memory made her uncomfortable.

"With people like them, what reasoning is there to be had?" Gu Pengzhan sighed and shook his head. "This time the Yu family's terms are even more outrageous. Not only must you marry into the Yu family and become a concubine to that Yu Kun whom Xiaoyi beat half to death — every share of the Gu Group must go with you as your dowry!"

"What? On what grounds!" Gu Mengyao was so angry she rose to her feet. "I am not marrying into their family!"

"Exactly. So if we cannot afford to provoke them, can we not at least afford to hide?" Gu Pengzhan laughed. "So Daddy is ready to flee back to the old home with you and Xiaoyi!"

Hearing her father's decision, a joy rose in Gu Mengyao's heart for no reason at all! She could not help cursing herself inwardly — the family was being hounded to this pass, and what was she so happy about? They were about to go on the run!

And yet, deep in Gu Mengyao's heart, there was still a secret delight…

"How can they be so brazen? Daddy, can't we call the police?" In her reason, Gu Mengyao told herself they must not leave — the Gu Group was her father's heart's blood, so how could they simply give it up?

"These old clans, the way they do things — much of it walks beyond the rules. Even if we call the police it would be of no use. They have only plotted a crime; they have not yet carried it out and done anything to us…" Gu Pengzhan smiled bitterly. "Besides, once they are provoked, they may well kill us to vent their spite, and by then they will likely seize our property through some unlawful means too!"

"Ah!" Gu Mengyao was startled. She did not know how much power these old clans truly held, but from the gist of her father's words she could more or less gather it: even if these clans truly did something to her, they themselves would probably come to no harm — at worst a scapegoat would step forward to take the blame…

"So we have no choice but to flee… The property, in the end, will have to go to them. But you — are you going to marry into the Yu family?" Gu Pengzhan asked.

"I won't!" Gu Mengyao shook her head. How could she marry into the Yu family?

"Then that settles it. So we wait until Wei Zhao is out, and then leave Songshan City together. Everything here, we leave behind — all of it!" Gu Pengzhan was, after all, a man built for great undertakings; his course was utterly decisive, and he did not touch a single cent of the company's money! His aim was precisely to avoid alarming their opponents and being unable to escape!

In this way, no one would ever imagine that Gu Pengzhan, without taking a single coin, would spirit Gu Mengyao silently out of Songshan City!

"Good!" Gu Mengyao nodded and, delighted, agreed.

"Oh, take me along, take me! I want to go too!" Shen Yushu would have none of it. Sister Yao was leaving with Brother Shield — what would be the point of her staying behind alone?

"Fine, you're coming too." Gu Mengyao did not want to be parted from Xiaoshu either, so she nodded and agreed.

Gu Pengzhan glanced at Shen Yushu, opened his mouth as if to say something, and in the end said nothing at all. Never mind — this was her own choice, and how could he interfere? Recalling what his father had said, Gu Pengzhan let it go: it was the Gu family who had reached up to Wei Zhao, not Wei Zhao who had latched on to the Gu family!

An Jianwen waited a whole day and got no call from Gu Pengzhan. He could not help growing anxious, and cursed inwardly: what were those enemies of Gu Pengzhan doing? Hurry up and keep squeezing him — if you do not squeeze him, he will not panic, and how is he supposed to come seeking my help?

An Jianwen could bear it no longer, and quietly leaked word to Yu Shuixing of the Yu family: Gu Pengzhan was planning to flee, secretly shifting his assets — he had best go and take a look at once!

The reason he had not tipped off the Xiao family or Zhao Qibing was that they had only demanded money and businesses from Gu Pengzhan, and had not yet touched his bottom line. Only when someone tried to lay hands on Gu Mengyao would Gu Pengzhan truly think of resisting!

This was a pretext An Jianwen had simply made up on the spur of the moment, for the sole purpose of making the Yu family bring pressure to bear on Gu Pengzhan! What An Jianwen never expected was that his offhand words had actually hit the mark! Gu Pengzhan had not transferred any assets, but he truly was preparing to flee!

In such an extraordinary time, the Yu family too would rather believe it than not — they were afraid Gu Pengzhan would run off with the assets, and then tracking him down would be a nuisance! In a country this vast, he might even flee abroad, and then he would be all the harder to find!

So the Yu family decided to come knocking first thing the next morning! If Gu Pengzhan refused, they would simply take what they wanted by force! With no capable hands left in the Gu household, would he not be theirs to carve up as they pleased?

They would make him sign a share-transfer agreement, and then carry Gu Mengyao back to the Yu family in Yanjing — and the trip would not have been made in vain! Their only regret was that the force behind Wei Zhao had never once shown itself these past two days!

Could it be that behind Wei Zhao there was in fact no force at all, and that everything had been nothing more than the Yu family's own groundless guesswork? But that only made things better: the Yu family could deal with the Gu family with even greater impunity, and once the Gu family was finished, what remained was the day of Wei Zhao's death!

Wei Zhao was only an ordinary man — killing him would be like reaching out and snatching something up, wouldn't it? At the thought, Yu Bide could scarcely wait to cut Wei Zhao down with his own hands and avenge his son!

Yu Haitian and Yu Bide sat in the hotel spinning their fond spring-and-autumn dreams, never knowing that the four words "rushing to their own destruction" had been tailor-made for them!

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