Chapter 1810: Chapter 1810: Tomorrow’s Star (12)

Chuzheng didn’t pay any mind; when she reached the second floor, she remembered a question.

Which room is Gu Yu in?

Chuzheng took out her phone and called Gu Yu: "Which room are you in?"

Gu Yu wondered why Chuzheng called him: "I’m downstairs, what do you need from me?"

"Weren’t you going to change clothes?"

"Why would I change clothes?" Gu Yu asked incredulously, then warned her, "Don’t make trouble for no reason."

Chuzheng: "..."

The phone emitted a busy signal, and Chuzheng silently looked at the clothes in her hand. So why did the servant ask her to deliver them?

Chuzheng casually tossed the clothes aside and turned to go downstairs, searching the crowd for the servant she saw earlier.

She quickly found the servant, holding a glass of wine, and casually walked over.

"Put this over there later, don’t mix it up, stay alert..."

The servant instructed while turning around, only to find someone standing behind him, and was startled: "Miss Qin... Miss Qin?"

-

Ten minutes later.

Storeroom.

The servant squatted on the floor, his face pale, shivering like a sieve.

"You mean Qiao Wei told you to do this?"

"Y-yes." The servant nodded repeatedly.

"What does she want to do?"

"I...I don’t know..." The servant trembled and shook his head, almost crying without tears: "Miss Qin, I really don’t know."

Chuzheng looked down at the servant: "Help me with something and I’ll pretend this never happened. I won’t tell the Gu Family and won’t hold you accountable. How about it?"

"R-really?"

"Of course."

"You say." He thought he was doomed.

"Get Qiao Wei to come here."

"??"

The servant’s eyes widened.

"Can’t do it?"

"I-I can!!"

-

Qiao Wei’s goal was actually quite simple; she just wanted to trap her in the room so she’d miss Grandma Gu’s speech.

At this moment, as Gu Yu’s fiancée, she’d definitely need to be on stage. If she suddenly vanished with so many guests watching, it would undoubtedly displease Grandma Gu and Gu Yu.

Then the servant would just need to tell her the door was broken.

Qiao Wei thought the servant had already helped her, but then the servant unexpectedly came to her, appearing anxious.

Qiao Wei also feared being discovered, so she subconsciously followed the servant to a secluded place.

"How did the task go?"

"Miss Qiao Wei, talk inside here. Someone might pass by outside." The servant opened the storeroom door.

Qiao Wei glanced around without thinking too much and followed the servant inside.

Once the storeroom door closed, Qiao Wei impatiently asked, "How did it go? Why did you call me so urgently?"

With no response, just as Qiao Wei was about to turn around, she felt a sharp pain on her neck. Before a single thought could complete, she fainted.

Chuzheng slung the stick over her shoulder and directed the servant: "Tie her up."

The servant broke into a cold sweat: "This... isn’t right, is it?" 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"Or should I bind you both together?"

"..."

The servant quickly found a rope and tied up Qiao Wei, while Chuzheng produced tape from somewhere and sealed Qiao Wei’s mouth.

The servant felt frightened to his core. Miss Qin is too terrifying.

This is Miss Qiao Wei!

"What’s your account number?"

The servant, trembling like he had Parkinson’s, asked, "W-what account?"

"Bank account."

"..."

Ding—

In the quiet storeroom, the sound of a text alert was particularly conspicuous.

The servant shakily pulled out his phone, looked at the information on the message screen, ten hundred thousand million... The servant was shocked as he looked at Chuzheng.

Chuzheng leaned leisurely against the corner: "Why aren’t you running? Want trouble when she wakes up?"

Servant: "!!!"

"Thank you, Miss Qin!"

The servant bowed deeply and dashed out of the storeroom with his belongings.

[Congratulations, miss, for receiving a Thank-You Card 1]

Chuzheng: "..."

This works?

Chuzheng wrapped up, left the room, and used the key given by the servant to lock the door.

"Miss Qin, what are you doing here?"

Chuzheng had just locked the door when a voice startled her from behind.

Chuzheng: "..."

Scared me to death!

Chuzheng held the key, turned and hid it behind her back, calmly replied: "Mr. Gu, I got lost."

Gu Yu was alone over there, with a blanket on his legs. His suit jacket was off, leaving him in a white shirt.

"Lost?"

"Hmm." Chuzheng nodded earnestly.

Doesn’t matter if you believe it, I do anyway.

Gu Yu seemingly didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary: "Push me to the hall, it’s about to start."

"You..."

Chuzheng glanced down at his legs, took a deep breath, walked over to push Gu Yu’s wheelchair. As she passed a trash can, she casually tossed the key inside.

Gu Yu heard a soft noise and glanced to the side, but the latter pushed him forward without a glance, as if hearing nothing.

Chuzheng and Gu Yu reached the hall together.

Grandma Gu was already there, chatting with her old friends. Seeing them approach, she immediately called them over.

The Gu Family and Qin Family were afraid that Chuzheng might stir trouble suddenly, but Chuzheng cooperated from start to finish, and Grandma Gu was particularly pleased.

She immediately removed the jade bracelet from her wrist and gave it to Chuzheng.

It’s said this is passed down to daughters-in-law from the Gu Family, generation to generation, very valuable.

Old Madam Gu directly gave it to Chuzheng, meaning she’s fully accepted her, right?

Some thought about how Gu Yu is merely a cripple now and felt much better.

They don’t want to spend their lives with a cripple.

Never mind other things, even basic living needs couldn’t be met.

Marrying in means solitude, nothing worth envying.

And the story of Chuzheng gifting Grandma Gu an island gradually spread.

Father Qin and Madam Qin were startled; where did she get money to buy an island?

So when everyone dispersed, Madam Qin immediately came over: "Xiao Chu, what’s the story behind the island? Are you deceiving Grandma Gu?"

This was the only reason and fear Father Qin and Madam Qin could come up with.

When shame comes, who will face it?

It’ll be the Qin Family!

Today, this girl has been so quiet, didn’t cause any trouble, which felt odd. Hearing about the island made them immediately fear something was wrong.

Chuzheng asked expressionlessly: "Do you think Grandma Gu can be easily deceived?"

Madam Qin had mostly seen her daughter angry, or sarcastic and mocking, but never this calmly... as if everything no longer mattered to her.

Madam Qin suddenly felt a strange sense of distance and unfamiliarity, and a kind of... fear.

She was afraid of her daughter?

Madam Qin then thought she was overthinking. She must be scheming something else!

Madam Qin kept a stern face: "Then how did you get the island? Where did the money come from? Qin Chuzheng, I’m warning you, if you’re deceiving Grandma Gu, go and apologize now!"

"I didn’t deceive, believe it or not."

Chuzheng saw Gu Yu and walked straight over, taking over the wheelchair from the bodyguard.