Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Ye Xingbei stiffened a little and stared at him in shock before withdrawing her gaze. Sitting upright, she spoke nonchalantly, “Perhaps… I’m not likable to them or perhaps, Jiang Siyou was brought up by them so they already have feelings towards her. But since I was switched at birth and grew up in another household, they don’t have feelings for me.”
“No matter how unfeeling towards their own birth daughter, they shouldn’t drive you out of the house because of a groundless accusation, right?” Gu Junzhu laughed once, “Xiao Shumiao isn’t your biological son at all. I uncovered this as soon as I checked it out, so I don’t believe that the previous topmost aristocratic family in Jiang City—the wealthy and influential Jiang family, the overpowering Jiang family in Jiang City—wouldn’t even be able to investigate this bit of matter!”
Gu Junzhu looked at Ye Xingbei in contemplation, “They definitely know that Xiao Shumiao is not your birth son. But they still slandered you with an overbearing attitude and chased you out of the house. Do you think that genuine parents would treat their own daughter like this?”
“What in the world do you mean?” Ye Xingbei couldn’t help by twist her head to look at him. Her throat grew somewhat rough, “Are you trying to say that I’m not the Jiang family’s daughter? Jiang Zhengxing and Xu Yanlai aren’t my parents?”
Looking in her eyes, Gu Junzhu chuckled and told her in certainty, “That’s right, you are not!”
“No… This can’t be…” Ye Xingbei’s complexion turned pale and she shook her head vigorously. “When Grandpa found and took me home, he did a paternity test with me, so I am indeed his granddaughter! They also found that nurse who accidentally switched Jiang Siyou with me that year. She confessed on her own that because she made a mistake at work and carried the wrong child to them. Afraid that the children’s parents would hold her accountable for it, she concealed the matter and didn’t report it to anyone. All of this has evidence. My Grandpa is also a shrewd person. If I were not his granddaughter, he would not have brought me back home for no rhyme nor reason!”
“Of course, there is a reason behind all of these. But if you want to know exactly what the reason is, then…” Gu Junzhu looked at her and said leisurely, “As long as you promise to pretend to become a couple with me—become my nominal wife—then I will tell you everything from the beginning to the end… It’s a very entertaining melodramatic drama of an aristocratic family, and also…”
Gu Junzhu extended a finger and lightly swayed it back and forth in front of Ye Xingbei’s eyes. “Don’t try to investigate this matter by yourself. I daresay with great confidence that without my position and status, you won’t be able to dig into the clandestine affairs of a topmost aristocratic family at all! This is why if you won’t cooperate with me, then you can just stay as an ignorant fool and be kept in the dark for the rest of your life!”
Ye Xingbei was enraged, “Are you blackmailing me?”
“No, no, no. How could I be trying to blackmail you?” Gu Junzhu smiled sincerely, “I’m saving your whole life ahead and not allowing you alone to be played like a fool by others for the rest of your life, without even knowing who your true parents are.”
Ye Xingbei was choked for words.
Gu Junzhu’s words were an irrefutable fact.
Power could often hide the truth from the masses most of the time.
As the previous top aristocratic family of Jiang City, the Jiang family had control over everything in the past and they could bury the secrets that they wanted to bury. No one would ever know.
But as the super powerful first-rate aristocratic family of Beijing, the Gu family could easily get to the bottom of the Jiang family’s secrets.
And what the Gu family could do was something that she still couldn’t, even though she was worth billions today. She didn’t possess the Gu family’s transcendent type of identity, influence and power.
Staring at Gu Junzhu, her mind was in a mess.
Were Jiang Zhengxing and Xu Yanlai really not her actual biological parents?
Then, who were her biological parents?
Were they still alive?
Did she still have other brothers and sisters?
She wanted to know!
She was going crazy from the need to know!
Gnashing her teeth, she stopped hesitating and looked at Gu Junzhu while saying, “Deal! I’ll agree to become a pretend couple with you, but I have conditions!”
Hearing her agreement, Gu Junzhu’s eyes sparkled in delight, “Go ahead and speak!”