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The Villain Is A Scheming Boss 20

Gu Xiyu and Cheng Qianqian sat in the coffee shop all afternoon until Ji Zixuan called Cheng Qianqian back to work overtime with him and she left with an apology.

“Where did you go?”

Ji Chen asked as soon as he returned to the apartment.

The heating in the apartment was just right and Ji Chen who was rarely free from work was wearing a set of casual clothes and sitting on the sofa. On TV, news interviews with celebrities were being shown.

Gu Xiyu closed the door and replied: “I went to meet Cheng Qianqian to give her something.”

When he finished speaking and looked up, he found Ji Chen’s dark eyes staring straight at him.

“What did you give her?”

Gu Xiyu put on slippers: “The wrong clothes you bought me that day when we were in country F.”

Those clothes were actually bought by Ji Chen. After meeting a client one day, he happened to pass by a clothing store with a good reputation and felt that the clothes in it were quite suitable for Gu Xiyu, so he bought a lot of them. When they went back to the hotel to sort them out, they realized that a few of them were women’s clothing.

Ji Chen had teased him at that time: “You are too thin. I thought the smaller ones would fit you, so I bought them. I didn’t expect them to be female wear.”

Gu Xiyu walked to the sofa with his mobile phone. He opened the payment software and showed Ji Chen the screen: “She felt that those clothes are too expensive and was embarrassed to accept them directly. So she insisted on transferring the money to me. I’ll transfer it to you later.”

Ji Chen glanced at the screen but didn’t pay much attention: “No, my money is yours. You can just spend whatever I give you.”

Gu Xiyu: “…”

After putting away his mobile phone, he asked: “You said that the company would have te results of the investigation in about two weeks. Have they come out?”

Ji Chen didn’t look at him as he replied. “I asked the supervising department and they said that your matter is more complicated and will take a few more days. Don’t worry.”

Gu Xiyu didn’t say anything. Ji Chen probably thought he was upset, so he stood up and said to him: “The person you asked me to check has already been found. I asked Jin Ke to send some of his information to your mailbox. You can go and take a look.”

“You can print it out if you need it.” Ji Chen paused for a while before continuing, “Show it to your parents.”

Undoubtedly, Ji Chen must have investigated about him and knew everything there is to him. No, it would be more accurate to say, everything about the original owner. So he knew that the relationship between the original owner and his family was not good because of his dead brother and that fraudulent fortune teller who ruined the original owner’s life with his lies.

“That person was brought to court for fraud the year before last. He was found guilty, and is now living in jail. I can make arrangements for you if you want to take your parents to confront him.”

“Okay, thank you.” Gu Xiyu said seriously.

As soon as Gu Xiyu went back to the room and turned on the laptop, the email prompt popped out. He thought it was the information that Jin Ke had sent him, but he didn’t expect to click in to see another spam advertisement.

He glanced at it casually and deleted it after seeing nothing worthy of attention. He then found the file Jin Ke had sent about an hour ago. Inside was the personal information of that fraudster, including his family background and all his life experiences before he went to prison. It also included the people that he had defrauded and thier cases, all of which were thoroughly investigated.

Gu Xiyu couldn’t help feeling that Ji Chen and his staff were indeed very efficient. No wonder Ji Zixuan’s life challenges were extremely difficult.

A few days later, with Ji Chen’s help, he brought his parents, who had not seen or contacted him for a while, to the place where that fraud was being held.

Gu Xun’s leg injury had healed a lot, but he still needed to rely on crutches to walk.

The two people were taken all the way to the prison with bewildered and nervous expressions.

Gu Xun asked him, “Ah Yu, why did you bring us here?”

“To let you guys meet someone.”

While they were talking, an extremely skinny man was brought in by the prison guard. His black and white hair had grown to his shoulders, the beard on his face hadn’t been cleaned up, and th whole person looked very sloppy.

“Who is this?” Xu Caiting and Gu Xun did not recognize this fraud. They even frowned in disgust when they saw his appearance.

Gu Xiyu looked at the man with the same inexplicable expression and walked over to the other side of the table to sit down. He then replied: “He is the guy who told you that I was born to kill my father, my mother, my siblings, and also my future partner. He is also the same fortuneteller who told you guys that my whole existence was a huge mistake.”

When Gu Xun and Xu Caiting heard this, their expressions were shocked. Their gaze shifted from Gu Xiyu to the dirty imprisoner, then they looked at Gu Xiyu again, with shock and surprise written in their eyes.

“He is a professional cheater. He has been wandering around the country for nearly 30 years, swindling and deceiving. The total amount of money he has defrauded has exceeded one million. Later, everything was exposed after he was brought to court and he was found guilty.” Gu Xiyu said as he handed the documents that he had brought in to Gu Xun and Xu Caiting.

Xu Caiting grabbed the documents and looked through it with Gu Xun. The sound of the turning pages became faster and faster. The faster they turned the pages, the more they believed that the things they had done in the past two decades had completely destroyed their lives. The paths and choices they had made over the years were all based on this person’s guidance. But now… all of this person’s “guidance” turned out to be fake.

Gu Xun’s crutches slipped from between his arms. He could only stumble against the wall and barely support his body. Xu Caiting didn’t even bother to help him pick up the fallen crutches. She rushed to the table and slapped it hard, shocking the man on the opposite side.

She tried to grasp at straws: “You! Do you remember me? We met in front of a Taoist temple in City C twenty years ago. I was carrying two children and you said that the one I was holding with my right hand was a child with an extremely powerful and bright fate. If he could grow up safely, he will definitely be a talented person with a bright future! You also said that the child I was holding with my left was evil. If something bad happened to any of us in the future, he will be the cause of that…”

The skinny fraudster on the other side of the table was stunned for a long time, and said mockingly: “Auntie, are you asking me about things that happened more than 20 years ago? Haha, how can I remember that at all?”

“Furthermore, even if I did say that, all my words are complete nonsense.” It might be because the person was already locked up in jail that his response was frank and arrogant.

“An evil child? You should have known that those words were false, right? How could anyone take these words seriously?”

“I took them seriously!” Xu Caiting’s screech frightened the skinny fraudster.

She was so angry that her eyes were red and her face was extremely dark: “Because of you, we have believed this for more than 20 years! My son…my eldest son passed away just a few years after meeting you. We have always felt that it was our youngest son’s fault that he passed away from a serious illness. It was his birth that took away the smart child with the bright future…”

As Xu Caiting said this, she suddenly collapsed to the ground with her face covered, with a clear cry at the end of the sentence.

Regardless of the presence of other people around, she cried out in despair.

The “truth” that they had believed for the past two decades turned out to be fake at this moment. The net that had enveloped her and Gu Xun was ruthlessly torn apart, and now they had to face the cruel truth.

After all, she and Gu Xun had just wanted to find someone who could carry the blame for something they didn’t want to admit. It was because she and Gu Xun who hadn’t paid attention and taken good care of their child and discovered his serious condition so late, making his death inevitable. They didn’t want to admit that it was their own negligence that had caused their child’s death, then they happened to remember the things that the fortuneteller had told them. So they found a good excuse to cover the death of their child and all the dissatisfaction and failures in their lives.

Thinking about this, Xu Caiting looked up at the boy who was only a few steps away from her.

The light hanging from the ceiling of the small room shook slightly. Its bright light was too dazzling, blurring the face of the tall and thin figure and making it impossible for her to see his appearance.

For some reason, the tears that should have been relieved a little suddenly burst out of her eyes uncontrollably, bringing a soreness in her heart that made it hard to breathe.

It was obvious that her child was still alive and standing beside her, so it wasn’t too late to make up for their mistakes and treat him nicely from now on. But the moment the truth was confirmed from the mouth of that fraud, she felt a deep sense of frustration and extreme regret.

It seemed as if even though he was still alive, it was too late for them to change everything. They not only lost their beloved eldest son but also their youngest son, who was caring and sensible when he was a child.

The family of three walked to the parking place outside, but the expressions on Gu Xun and Xu Caiting’s faces were still sluggish.

Gu Xiyu didn’t say a word as he personally drove them back to their recently rented house, which gave them some time to calm down.

Gu Xun and Xu Caiting were sitting in the back seat, occasionally looking up at the boy in the driver’s seat. They tried to speak to him, but found that they were so unfamiliar with him that they had nothing to say.

“You guys can take this card.”

When they arrived at that rented house, Gu Xiyu returned the car keys to them and handed over the bank card that Ji Chen had given him that day too.

Facing Gu Xun’s stunned gaze, he whispered softly: “Ji Chen said this is the dowry he gave to me. There are tens of millions in it. It may not be so much, but it should be enough to help ease the company’s situation. ”

“You haven’t paid much attention to me all these years and I relied on all the money that I earned for food, clothing, housing, and transportation, so I haven’t been able to save much. This is the last thing I can give you. No matter how much it is, there will be no more.”

It was unknown which part of this sentence touched Xu Caiting as she covered her mouth again and began to cry.

After the prison visit, Gu Xun recalled his life, which was full of failures. He stared at Gu Xiyu’s hand for a long time, and finally only took the car key. He pushed the card back and shook his head, saying, “The company… can’t continue in the first place. I have done a lot of things that can’t be said in the open in order to make money. Even if I directly ask Ji Chen for help, I am afraid it can’t recover. I am planning to give up.

“Ji Chen is an understanding person. Although he is perfect right now, such a person is often fickel. He may say that he loves you now, but he might love someone new in the next few years.”

“I have seen a lot of things like this in both upper- and lower-class people. You should keep this money for yourself so you can have something to rely on in case something happens in the future.”

Gu Xiyu held the card and looked down.

A hand suddenly stretched out from behind him, took the card away and forced it into Gu Xun’s hand.

Gu Xiyu was then held by a somewhat sturdy arm, and Ji Chen’s casual voice sounded beside him: “No need. I will support him for the rest of my life.”

After seeing the fraudster, Ji Chen sent a message asking where he was. At that time, he had said that he was sending his parents back first and then take a taxi back.

Ji Chen didn’t reply, so he didn’t expect that he would come to pick him up in person.

Ji Chen took Gu Xiyu under the eyes of Gu Xun and Xu Caiting, and they went back to the apartment after having dinner outside.

After a short break, Ji Chen walked into the study to continue his work after answering a phone call, and continued to work until it was almost time to go to sleep. Gu Xiyu the realized that he probably put down his work halfway and came to pick him up.

The next few days were fairly calm. Ji Chen was so busy that he sometimes stayed at the company and didn’t go home. They were currently preparing for the launch of a new series of products. Ji Chen controls everything under Fengming very strictly and personally supervises and reviews them.

That afternoon, Gu Xiyu was sitting in the living room looking up some information when a courier box suddenly came to the apartment.

The box was full of debris. Although most of the things were still intact, they still had a little burnt smell. When he opened it, there was a piece of paper on it. On the paper were some words that were written by Xu Caiting, saying that these were the items that belonged to him that she had picked up after the fire in the villa was extinguished.

Gu Xiyu stood by the box and sorted it out. He found the diary, which only had the cover and the corners slightly burnt, while the rest of it was intact.

He flipped through it again, and it was full of content related to Fu Nian.

Until he accidentally saw a page with small cake stickers.

—-Summer of 2013, May 14

Today is Fu Nian’s birthday, and I finally managed to convince my classmates to prepare a surprise for the special student…

Gu Xiyu held the diary, his eyes staying on the date on it for a long time.

He gently rubbed the page with his fingers a few times, then turned his head to look at the USB flash drive that was still plugged into the laptop port.

He hasn’t tried Fu Nian’s birthday as a password yet.

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