Chapter 22 - Gu Zi’an is a murder

Gu Yanxi turns round and asks, “Who is Huo Yichen, a male star you worship?”

Sun Leilei is astonished suddenly, with her eyes wide open, “OMG, Gu, are you from Mars? You don’t even know who Huo Yichen is! He is a giant in Financial Circle, and the boss of Cultural and Entertainment Circle! He invests to himself, and engages in films and Television, with great ability. His appearance can be compared with the A-list actor’s. How could you fail to know him?”

Gu Yanxi shakes her head, pretending to be lost in a fog, “Should I know him?”

Song Jia smiles, “Sun, Oh no, I should call you Monkey Sun. You focus on gossip column, but this doesn’t mean that everybody is interested in gossip. Gu is specialized in Dance, and she will be a dancer in the future, a dancer who has chances to dance in the Gold Hall. She is surely not to pay attention to the mess.”

Luo Meijuan says in a low voice, “Many people engage in different fields. The singers go into acting, and the actors go to dance, and the dancers go to film. Gu, your appearance and temperament is better than the babe of Perform Department. In my opinion, you will be a hot if you go to film. And then you may get acquainted with your idol Huo.”

Gu Yanxi shakes her head, “I never think about that, or have interest. I will just focus on dancing.”

Sun Leilei shakes her hands in haste, “Gu, you’d better not go into acting. You are so beautiful, with amorous glances. We, the students of Perform Department are bound to live on air, if you go into acting. The entertainment circle is overcrowded now. You, as a non-professional, take the bread out of our mouth. Ah, life is so hard, and why do women baffle women?”

Hearing Sun Leilei’s words, Gu Yanxi cannot help laughing. She stretches out her hand to poke Sun Leilei’s forehead, “Stop your ghost howl. I will not switch to act. I will not. Don’t worry.”

Sun Leilei laughs at once and shows off, “Yum, I’m so relived. I will act as a fairy in the future.”

Song Jia gives her last hit, “Sun, you know, I should be sorry that even if Gu doesn’t rob your job, you can merely act as a servant girl, and you surely cannot act as a fairy.”

Sun Leilei jumps out of her bed, “Song, wait and see how I will successfully counterattack from a servant girl!”

Song Jia curls her lip, “Your counterattack is just a servant girl sleeping with the master.”

Sun Leilei wilts just like a piece of limp lettuce at once, “Song, you bully me and laugh it off.”

As the saying goes, three women play a drama, and there is drama every day when four women meet.

Gu Yanxui has classes in the morning, and she leaves school if there is some unimportant exercise in the afternoon. She follows the routes according to the address sent by the detective agency.

Shanty town in the suburb, Gu Yanxi, after inquiring several neighbors, finds where Sun Xiuying lives. Sun Xiuying is sitting in the sun at the doorway, with her sickly pale face.

Gu Yanxi puts the nourishment in front of Sun Xiuying, and says softly, “Aunt Sun, do you recognize me?”

Sun Xiuying lifts up to see Gu Yanxi. She rubs her dull eyes and holds the door to stand up suddenly, “Miss, you are Miss Gu?”

Gu Yanxi stretches out her hands to hold Sun Xiuying and nods, “Aunt Sun, thanks for recognizing me. After all, we met many times in my father’s company. I heard that you are sick. So I come to visit you.”

Sun Xiuying, sitting on a little stool, stares at Gu Yanxi who is squatting in front of her, with her eye sockets turning red, “Miss, I know why you are here. Someone found me the other day here. Miss, I feel so sorry for you, but I…”

Gu Yanxi, holding Sun Xiuying’s calloused hands, says “Aunt Sun, you had worked as a cleaner in Gu Family for ten years. You should know clearly that my dad was kind to staff. But now the properties of Gu Family has been inherited by Gu Zi’an, and my dad turned to be a half-dead man in the hospital. As a daughter, even though I cannot change everything, I really want to know the truth. I just want to know what happened between my dad and Gu Zi’an, even if it is a little. Aunt Sun, if you know something, could you tell me?”

Staring at Gu Yanxi’s tear-stained face, Sun Xiuying sighs at last.

“Previously, when someone came to me and inquired about that thing, I hesitated to speak it out, but I dared not say anything. Today you are here, I…Hey, one cannot feel good if there is any secret in the heart. I was too scared to fall ill, and I hope that I could breathe easily and feel better after telling you.”

Gu Yanxi’s hands are clenched, while she was walking on the street of shanty town. Sun Xiuying’s words lingered in her ears.

“Since I had something to do the next day morning, and I cannot go to the company to do cleaning before the staffs arrived, after the dinner before that day, I went to do cleaning in advance. I heard that there was a squabble in General Manager’s office. I was curious. so I went over to listen why General Manager hadn’t left. The office door was not totally closed. Maybe, it was too late and they thought that no one remained in the company. I heard that Manager Gu was squabbling with General Manager.”

General Manager scolded Manager Gu as Backbite Wolf with ingratitude. And General Manager said that Manager Gu would not inherit the properties of Gu Family or marry his daughter. After that, there was a noise of breaking chairs and smashing things, and then there was no sound any more. I dared not to go inside to see, so I knew nothing about what had happened. What’s more, I dared not to leave, in case of making some noise. Two or three hours later, an ambulance took General Manager away. I stayed at toilet until daylight, and what I saw at dawn was a tidy office, as if no squabble and smash had happened. Later, I heard that General Manager became a half-dead man in the hospital and Manager Gu inherited the properties of Gu Family. Then I understood what had happened. I was scared to fall ill, and I left the company.

The doctor told Gu Yanxi that her father had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. If her father can be sent to hospital half an hour earlier, everything would be different. Gu Zi’an delayed two or three hours deliberately after her father was struck with disease, and then he called the 120. Gu Zi’an did this on purpose, and he wanted her father to die.

Gu Zi’an, you are a murderer. You murdered my father. Blood is bound to have blood!

Gu Yanxi knows the truth and wishes to bring Gu Zi’an to justice at once. But she knows clearly that she believes what Sun Xiuying has said, but the police will not. She needs evidence, true evidence.

It’s hard to find evidence. Now Gu Zi’an possesses powerful resources, and he is bound to destroy all the evidence against him after managing with great care in the company.

Gu Yanxi is not a girl who gives up easily. She believes that she will be bound to find evidence as long as she insists on, no matter how long it will take, one year, two years or ten years.

Gu Yanxi gets back to the college, as if nothing had happened, and she continues her peaceful life.

The date is settled for the upcoming autumn show, October 20th. She has more than one month to prepare. The students of each department are preparing for their programs, and the teacher of Dance Department talks to Gu Yanxi and asks her to serve as the leading actressfor the dance.

The dance Flying Apsaras- the program of Dance Department was selected by Gu Yanxi’s teacher, who has asked her to practise for a long time. Gu Yanxi has guessed what the teacher means, so she is not surprised when she hears the news.

The third day, Gu Yanxi meets Luo Meiwei on the way to the canteen. Luo Meiwei says to her in a low voice, “Gu, prepare yourself emotionally.”

Gu Yanxi frowns, “Luo, what do you mean?”