Actually, until now, she dared not confirm whether he was still alive. However, the thought that she needed to see a corpse to confirm death stubbornly engraved itself in her heart.
No matter what Gu’s father or mother said, she knew only one thing: without seeing her brother’s dead body, she would never believe that was the outco. She only rembered that Gu Sheng had told her in the last mont to wait for her to buy him so candy.
She didn’t know whether it was sheer coincidence or sothing else, but that day she stayed at the hospital from which Gu Sheng had left and had not departed, and as a result, she saw the doctor who had previously interacted with Gu’s mother.
That doctor, whom she recognized, was reportedly the local obstetrician who had delivered both her and Gu Sheng.
Hidden in a dark corner, small and unnoticed, she eavesdropped as the obstetrician and a woman spoke behind her back, ntioning ’the Gu family’s son.’
Instinctively, she knew that they must be talking about her own brother.
She followed that woman, tracking her until she was about to board a luxurious sedan outside the hospital, when she suddenly rushed and grabbed the woman’s thigh.
The woman scread, swinging around and kicking at her as if trying to shake off a terrible insect: "Where did this filthy little beggar pop out from?"
She clenched her teeth tightly and said to the woman, word by word, "I know my brother is with you. If you don’t tell the truth, I’ll call the police right away!"
The woman then looked at her curiously for a while, as if discerning sothing familiar in her features and realizing who she was. Then, she cald down and sneered, "Why do you, a child, ddle in your parents’ affairs?"
"I can ddle, I’m telling you! My parents can’t decide for . I have plenty of evidence to go to the police! I know who you are conspiring with!"
Perhaps it was her resolute expression showing a readiness to perish together with the other that finally frightened her opponent.
After thinking it over for a mont, the woman sighed resignedly, "Whether I let you see him is not up to . How about I take you to et our Madam?"
It was then that she realized the person she had caught was rely a minor pawn manipulated by others, while the real mastermind was always hidden behind layers of curtains.
After getting into the woman’s car, throughout the ride, neither the woman nor the driver gave away any hints of their identity. According to her later inquiries, nobody in the county had seen or recognized these people either before that day or afterward.
Who these mysterious people were, where they ca from, or where they were going, nobody knew.
There was one fact known—when the Gu’s parents and the other party had negotiated, they had agreed that in order for their son to live as though he were dead, he had to be considered dead all his life. What would happen if the Gu family broke this agreent, Gu Nuan didn’t know. Her parents had never truly told her the whole truth about Gu Sheng.
She only learned about half of this agreent in the car, when the woman told her.
Later, the car arrived at a secluded place, in a house that looked like a small Western mansion, where she was led inside and stood in front of a door.
Due to the heat, the door was left open, but it had a bamboo curtain hanging, obscuring clear view of the person sitting behind it. As a result, Gu Nuan could only peek at the woman’s fancy pink high-heels that seed dusted with a layer of gold powder from beneath the curtain.
The woman’s face, barely visible through the gaps in the bamboo curtain, appeared faint and indistinct, giving Gu Nuan only a sense of cold, noble elegance.
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