Chapter 61
Chapter 61: She Really Is, I’m Going To Cry
When Du He Xuan walked up to Gong Jin Yuan, he had still kept a bit of reason. He had even picked a spot where his back would be facing Du An Rao on purpose.
He had thought that this way everything would be foolproof. Who knew he would still almost get recognized.
For a moment, Du He Xuan did not know whether he should feel happy or worried. In a hurry, he shoved the last glass of champagne on his tray into Gong Jin Yuan’s hands, then forced himself to act calm as he walked away without looking back.
Gong Jin Yuan looked at the champagne and the handkerchief in her hands. After thinking for a moment, she folded the handkerchief and put it away carefully.
In other people’s eyes, this scene looked more or less a bit romantic. But Du An Rao had already read the script of her life and had watched the way everything had been arranged for this woman. She understood very well what this act really meant for Gong Jin Yuan.
[Sigh, she has hardly received any kindness since she was a child. So even a small handkerchief from a stranger is something she will treasure and put away. She really is… I am going to cry to death! She is just starved for love. What is wrong with giving her some? She is such a great and outstanding young lady, but her crazy mom has pua-ed her so badly she has no confidence left.]
In the Gong family, Gong Jin Yuan had always been a transparent person. Her father did not care, her mother did not love her. Clearly she was a young miss, yet she lived worse than a servant. At least servants did not have to suffer ten years of nonstop verbal and physical attacks from their own mother, cold neglect from their so-called father, and the mocking and gloating of those so-called brothers and sisters.
In such an extreme situation, she had grown into something like a mix of Jiang Yi Ming and Gong Chang Jun. She had Jiang Yi Ming’s ability and toughness, but she also kept a soft spot in her heart. She longed for family, especially for recognition from her birth mother.
It was hard to say that Madam Gong had not done this on purpose. She could not get revenge on Old Master Gong, the man who had brought her such shame, so she poured all that hatred onto Gong Jin Yuan.
She easily controlled Gong Jin Yuan’s joy and anger, made her into a slave for their family of three, and used the name of “family love” to squeeze out her blood and flesh, making her willingly give up everything for them.
And in fact, she really did make it happen.
[The people in the Gong family who did not know the truth all thought Madam Gong was cold to the Young Lady because she was a girl and could not help Gong Chang Jun fight for the inheritance. The Young Lady herself thought so too. To get her mother’s approval, the Young Lady worked hard to learn all kinds of skills, just to prove that she was no worse than her brother and no worse than any other man in the Gong family.]
That was exactly why Du An Rao kept saying how good and capable Gong Jin Yuan was. This was, after all, a Gong family that raised children like poison bugs fighting in a jar.
Old Master Gong publicly admitted to having forty-nine children. Those forty-nine children then gave him over a hundred grandsons and granddaughters.
With more than a hundred people, even a professional teacher would need a while just to do roll call, not to mention cramming all of them into the company to train and fight.
The good thing about having that many kids was that if one was ruined, then one was ruined. There were always spares.
In this brutal situation that was almost like a real-life battle royale, Gong Jin Yuan started with the worst hand of cards, yet played them into the most amazing win.
The Du family members were shocked when they heard this. They had thought she was just a pitiful little victim. Who knew she would turn out to be a fierce man-eating flower!
But somehow, that just made her even more charming and attractive. No wonder their An An was so focused on her.
However, before they could finish feeling impressed, the plot suddenly took a sharp turn.
[The Young Lady used her own strength to reach the final round. She was just about to stand on the top when she got backstabbed by her own brother, the one who had only made it into the finals by hiding under her protection. Under Madam Gong’s orders, Gong Hao Ming exposed the Young Lady’s birth secret at a meeting of the board of directors. Because of outside public opinion, the Young Lady was forced to leave the board and quit the company. In the end, the winner was Gong Hao Ming.]
The Du family members: “…”
Damn, they suddenly had ten thousand curse words stuck in their throats with nowhere to let them out!
The feeling was like watching a super exciting TV drama. You see everything wrapped up, all the good people getting happy endings, all the bad people being punished as they should.
Then suddenly a meteor falls from the sky, crushes all the good people to death, and also smashes open the cages that were holding the bad people, letting every single one of them out.
With an ending as crappy as that, the screenwriter would definitely get mailed knife blades and forced at knifepoint to write an “if” line extra story.
Xi Jing Yue, who knew some inside stories about the Gong family and had even done business with them before, knew that this scene was completely possible.
Although Old Master Gong’s private life was wild and he was rotten as a person, a scandal about a father-in-law and daughter-in-law crossing the line was clearly challenging the public’s moral bottom line. No matter the genders involved, the company’s board of directors would never let someone with such a huge stain on their background become their chairman, no matter how capable that person was.
Thinking of everything Gong Jin Yuan had done and all the effort she had put in before this, he could not help feeling regret and that it really was not worth it for her.
The Du family members, after suddenly learning about this trash ending, felt their heads buzzing. After they calmed down a little and thought it over, they finally understood why Du An Rao had called Gong Hao Ming a “leeching little piece of trash” at the start.
How was he not trash? He was like a plate of pickled fish, sour, weak, and extra. In the end he still managed to lie down and win by stabbing his own sister in the back and became the final victor.
How could you not say he was spoiled by fate? Hao Ming, Hao Ming, “good life, good life”. He really did have a good life. It was so unfair it made people want to howl.
This matter clearly had little to do with them, yet the more they thought about it, the angrier they got.
Du An Rao felt the same. The Young Lady was so pretty, so strong, and so tragic. She was basically the textbook example of a “beautiful, strong, tragic” character.
Was she not worth a convenient heaven-sent savior who would pull her out of this, give her her own book, and let her firmly take on a revenge heroine role and take out all these scum one by one?
She was a flower blooming in a thorny bush, a bird flying out of a swamp. But she had her branches cut off and her wings broken and was left to rot and fall.
Yet if, before she bled out the last drop and lost the last leaf, someone could catch her and water her a little, she could be reborn from the ashes and start anew.
Madam Gong was like a young hero who went to slay dragons but finally became a dragon herself. She had been a victim at first, but in the end she picked up the butcher’s knife and turned into a perpetrator.
But the most hateful one was still Gong Hao Ming. He was not very smart to begin with, yet he was selfish and arrogant. He gladly accepted everything his parents had planned by stepping on his sister’s and even his mother’s flesh and blood to climb to the highest point of power.
[It feels like the Young Lady was a limited-time cheat code the author gave to Gong Hao Ming. Otherwise, with his tiny sesame-seed brain and dog-level social skills, how could he possibly become male lead number three?]
The Du family members deeply agreed. They had already gotten a bad impression of Gong Hao Ming because of what had just happened. Now they only felt disgust and rejection.
Gong Jin Yuan stood in place for a while, then finally picked up her glass and walked off to the side. She was most likely going to call Madam Gong.
The little gossip interlude quieted down for now. The Du family members hurried to straighten themselves up and went back to their own business, trying their best not to let Du An Rao notice anything strange.
Taking a deep breath, Du Yu Xi picked up the plate of snacks and juice she had already chosen and was about to go over to meet up with Du An Rao, when a hand suddenly reached out from beside her and grabbed her tightly.
“Ying Rong, is that you?”
The Du family members who noticed something was happening on Du Yu Xi’s side: !!!
Du An Rao blinked and let out a small: “Oh-ho!”