After the failed negotiations with Qin Yiheng, Gu Jiayin decided to wait and see for a while.
Although it currently seems that Qin Yiheng might win, Qin Zhennan is an old fox who likely has more tricks up his sleeve, and Qin Yishu hasn’t necessarily lost yet.
As Qin Yiheng ntioned, Qin Yishu won’t make a deal with her, so she has placed her hopes on Qin Yiheng.
The first step of the negotiation failed, but she has a second plan. When Qin Zhennan unleashes his major move to crush Qin Yiheng with no chance to fight back, he will definitely co to her.
So, she quietly waits; this first negotiation was just a heads-up for him.
...
Just as Gu Jiayin anticipated, Qin Zhennan made his move at the critical mont.
He found an unmatched backer for Qin Yishu.
Gu Shaohua.
In recent years, although Sheng Qianchi has been in charge of the Sheng Family, Gu Shaohua has also been very influential, holding substantial shares in the Sheng Family.
With her support, Qin Yishu would certainly sway the direction of the board of directors.
Actually, Gu Shaohua was unwilling to get involved in this ss. However, Qin Zhennan had leverage against her, so when he wanted to see her, she had to comply.
The verdict on Qin Zhennan’s case had not yet been announced, thus he was being held in detention.
Gu Shaohua visited Qin Zhennan at the detention center, making her feel like she had lowered her status significantly. Thus, when she t Qin Zhennan, she maintained an aloof deanor.
In the small room, there was only him and her.
She absentmindedly played with the priceless Jade Bracelet on her wrist, her tone slow and leisurely, "Oh dear, Mr. Qin, how careless you must have been to let soone steal such important financial records, now you’re stuck here..."
"Tsk, tsk..." She sighed, shaking her head, her expression blatantly schadenfreude, "It truly is a pity."
Despite being reduced from the high position of the Twilight Group’s leader and the Licheng City Wine rchants Association’s president to a prisoner, Qin Zhennan is still a shrewd and composed man.
He pinned his hopes for a coback on Gu Shaohua.
He still hoped that one day he could get out and reclaim control of Twilight.
His effort to push Qin Yishu to the president’s position was not because he had much faith in her, but because she was easier to manipulate than Qin Yiheng. If Qin Yiheng beca president, it would be much more challenging for him to reclaim Twilight after his release.
However, his tax evasion was too severe, and he anticipated a sentence of around ten years. He didn’t want to waste so much ti in prison, and the only person capable of reducing or absolving his sentence was Gu Shaohua.
Faced with Gu Shaohua’s sneering sarcasm, he didn’t show any anger and even smiled enigmatically, "Mrs. Sheng, how can you forget, we’re in this together and should share our fate. If I fall, you won’t fare well either."
Though the words were subtle, Gu Shaohua understood it as a blatant threat.
Her expression suddenly turned grim, and her lips curled with a hint of malevolence, "Do you believe I can have you dead in here overnight?"
"Believe, why not?" Qin Zhennan, cunning and composed, remained calm, unlike the emotions one would expect from soone imprisoned, "With Mrs. Sheng’s power and wealth, you certainly have the capability."
Gu Shaohua pressed her lips together, saying nothing, her sharp eyes fixed intently on Qin Zhennan.
Qin Zhennan continued in a leisurely manner, "I’ve long known that Mrs. Sheng might burn bridges, breaking our alliance at any mont, so I’ve organized all our matters into complete materials and placed them in the safest location. If I die, those materials will be exposed."
He slowly lifted his head, smiling aningfully, "If those secrets are exposed, do you think Sheng Lanzhang would dismber you?"
Gu Shaohua was already so terrified that the blood in her veins turned icy, but Qin Zhennan continued to apply pressure, threatening to break her last nerve, "Mrs. Sheng, tell , if Sheng Qianchi finds out that you stole him away at birth, sent him overseas to grow up in solitude until he was sixteen, and then you killed his mother and brother, how would he torture you to death?"
"Stop it!" Gu Shaohua’s face was as pale as paper, and her hands instinctively covered her ears, "I beg you, stop talking."
But Qin Zhennan didn’t relent, "And if the Suri Royal Family were to find out that the Blood Tears Jade is in your possession, then..."
Gu Shaohua could no longer bear such intimidation. She stood up abruptly, breathing heavily, "Qin Zhennan, stop talking!"
Qin Zhennan’s sinister laugh echoed, "So, Mrs. Sheng, you should know how to save ."
Gu Shaohua said nothing more, instead stumbling out of the detention center as if in a daze.
Even as she sat in the car, she couldn’t regain her senses.
Back then, she fell in love with Sheng Lanzhang at first sight, but Sheng Lanzhang set his eyes on Gu Qiyun and even sought his bedridden wife’s understanding to pursue a relationship with Gu Qiyun.
This made her incredibly jealous.
Qin Zhennan appeared just then, aspiring to rise through the ranks by marrying into the Gu Family.
So, they clapped hands and collaborated.
At that masquerade ball, she and Qin Zhennan secretly worked together, drugging Sheng Lanzhang and Gu Qiyun in separate rooms. She got the Sheng Lanzhang she wanted, and he got the Gu Qiyun he desired.
But unexpectedly, they mistakenly entered wrong rooms.
Sheng Lanzhang and Gu Qiyun ended up in the sa room, while she and Qin Zhennan were together in another room.
One night of passion, and in the morning, both she and Qin Zhennan were in a panic, gritting their teeth over that night.
Just as their plans seed to have fallen apart, they ca up with a redy.
They quietly sneaked into Sheng Lanzhang’s room, moved the still-sleeping Gu Qiyun to Qin Zhennan’s room, and she lay beside the still-unconscious Sheng Lanzhang.
Thus, a colossal misunderstanding was successfully fabricated.
She married Sheng Lanzhang as she wished, and Qin Zhennan beca the Gu family’s son-in-law as he desired.
But the child she was carrying was Qin Zhennan’s.
Gu Shaohua was a cautious person who wouldn’t keep Qin Zhennan’s child by her side. If the secret were ever exposed, it would lead to utter ruin.
She set her sights on the child in Gu Qiyun’s womb, as that was unequivocally Sheng Lanzhang’s flesh and blood, impossible to be wrong.
Of course, Qin Zhennan didn’t want the secret to be unveiled, so he fully cooperated.
He personally accompanied Gu Qiyun to every prenatal checkup, knowing early on that she was carrying twins, two boys, but he bribed the doctor to tell Gu Qiyun it was a boy and a girl.
Gu Shaohua, claiming not to disrupt Sheng Lanzhang’s work, always went for her checkups alone, knowing early on that she was carrying a girl.
But she concealed it from Sheng Lanzhang, saying it was a boy.
The two conspired to swap a boy into the Sheng Family.
Thus, Gu Shaohua had her personal doctor help her use dication to control the timing of her delivery, aiming to enter the hospital for delivery alongside Gu Qiyun.
On the day of delivery, she persuaded Gu Qiyun to share the sa delivery room, citing their deep sisterly bond.
Although Gu Qiyun painfully lost her beloved, she never blad Gu Shaohua and treated her as before, so she agreed.
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