Campus Ace Girl-Chapter 334 - 335: Awesome! Grandma Chen teaches you how to be a person!!!
Tang Yuan was stunned.
That domineering Gu Ning was now groveling before this old woman...
Who was this old woman?
As the mistress of this villa, Tang Yuan didn’t have time to think. How could she tolerate such a plainly dressed woman calling the shots?
So, with a composed expression, she asked, "Gu Ning, you’re bringing just anyone home now?"
A slight sneer touched Gu Ning’s lips. "Sister-in-law, I must remind you, your current behavior is very disrespectful to our elders!"
She quickly changed the topic. "Brother, how should we deal with a woman who disrespects her elders?"
Gu Yuanshan was also dumbfounded for a moment before lowering his head respectfully. "It’s due to my lack of discipline. Please don’t mind, Aunt Gu Rong."
The newcomer was none other than Granny Chen, Gu Rong.
Gu Ning had gone to pick her up as soon as she arrived in Beicheng the previous night.
Now, the Gu family’s most senior elder had returned to the Gu residence, leaving everyone in shock. Shen Congwen was the first to recover, inviting the old lady to sit and then serving her a cup of tea.
Gu Yuanshan and the others, however, dared not sit.
Tang Yuan was furious but dared not speak!
She gnashed her teeth in bitterness. It must have been Gu Ning! She must have invited this menace!
Granny Chen was dressed plainly and showed no signs of intimidation in this opulent home. She leisurely blew on her tea, and when she raised her eyes again, her gaze was sharp and discerning.
Her gaze swept over the younger generation like an electric current. Then, lowering her head to sip her tea, she said, "Looking around, only the young man who just poured tea seems somewhat presentable. Have you all evolved too much over the years? You hardly look human anymore."
Gu Ning pouted slightly. "Auntie, what about me?"
"You? You’re good at making hand-ground coffee. Go grind a cup for me!" Granny Chen remarked lightly. "An old woman like me can’t handle half a day’s journey. I need something to perk me up!"
Gu Yuanshan shuddered.
What does she intend to do, wanting coffee to stay awake at night instead of sleeping?
He was greatly alarmed but couldn’t let it show.
Gu Ning quickly ground a delicious cup of coffee and served it with utmost deference. "Auntie, please be careful, it’s hot."
This was the first time Tang Yuan had seen Gu Ning act so deferential. It was more unsettling to watch than her usual cold demeanor.
Granny Chen took a sip. "Ah, that’s the taste... Gu Ning..."
Gu Ning immediately responded with a cheerful eagerness, "Auntie, I’m here!"
Granny Chen praised her, "You’re a good child, unlike this pair of heartless ingrates."
Gu Ning glanced at Tang Yuan and sneered.
At this, Tang Yuan couldn’t hold back any longer. "You’re just a discarded daughter of the Gu family! How dare you come back here and try to run things?"
"Is that so?" Granny Chen set her coffee cup aside and looked at Gu Yuanshan, a smile playing on her lips that didn’t quite reach her eyes. "Yuanshan, tell me, do I have the right to discipline this second wife of yours?"
Gu Yuanshan lowered his head. "If Aunt Gu Rong wishes to discipline a junior, Yuanshan wouldn’t dare object."
Granny Chen rose, and Gu Ning immediately supported her.
Granny Chen was very satisfied.
She walked step by step until she stood before Tang Yuan. Tang Yuan’s expression stiffened, and just as she cried out, "Yuanshan—"
—she received a resounding slap across the face from Granny Chen!
SMACK! The sound was incredibly loud and crisp.
After striking her, Granny Chen sneered, "This slap is for you, you witless thing! I may be a discarded daughter of the Gu family, but what are you, Tang Yuan? Just a former secretary of our Gu Corporation, nothing more than a pet Yuanshan brought home! Outside, you can flaunt your status as Mrs. Gu all you want, but within the Gu family, you have no right to utter a single word! If you ask me, it’s precisely because he married a degenerate woman like you that the Gu family has declined day by day."
Granny Chen sneered again. "You call Anxi a demon spawn? Why don’t you look at yourself and see Daji?"
Gu Ning chimed in from the side, "Auntie is absolutely right! Auntie’s judgment is superb! We juniors need someone like you, Auntie, to guide us constantly so we can improve!"
Tang Yuan, clutching her stinging cheek, was both aggrieved and shocked. Hearing Gu Ning’s words, she nearly fainted.
Constant guidance!
How am I supposed to live?
Humiliated and furious, she looked at her husband with tear-filled eyes, hoping he would stand up for her.
But Gu Yuanshan himself was terrified of Aunt Gu Rong; how could he possibly have the capacity to protect her?
Seeing Tang Yuan’s pathetic state, Granny Chen found her even more unsightly and turned to walk back to her seat.
Gu Ning immediately presented the hand-ground coffee. "Auntie, this temperature is perfect for drinking. By the way, does your hand hurt? Let me massage it for you."
Granny Chen gave her an approving look. "Quite thoughtful. Here’s a red envelope for you."
She took out a red envelope, and Gu Ning accepted it, opening it to look inside.
It was a twenty-yuan note.
When Gu Ning looked up at her aunt again, Granny Chen’s expression didn’t falter in the slightest. "For that child’s sake, I’ve spent all these years working as a servant outside. I don’t have much to give. Consider yourself lucky to get anything."
Gu Ning beamed. "Thank you, Auntie! I don’t mind at all, not at all! How could I possibly find fault with anything Auntie gives?"
Tang Yuan, still covering her face, wore an expression of utter disdain.
Granny Chen’s gaze, sharp as ever, flicked back to her. "What? You look down on twenty yuan? I still remember how destitute you looked back then! Stop putting on airs as a wealthy madam in front of me. It’s only within the Gu family that you have any semblance of dignity and a meal to eat. Tang Yuan, don’t you forget, you’re the only one here who doesn’t bear the Gu surname."
She stood up, emphasizing each word, "The Gu family is, and always will be, run by the Gus. Understand?"
Tang Yuan, having tasted defeat, reluctantly said, "I understand."
Granny Chen then turned to Gu Yuanshan. "Yuanshan, what do you say?"
Gu Yuanshan, unable to discern Granny Chen’s true intentions, forced a smile. "Auntie is right, of course. It’s just... regarding our current predicament, your nephew is truly at a loss as to what to do!"
Granny Chen sneered, "To think the Family Head has ended up like this. Quite the accomplishment."
"Please, Aunt Gu Rong, show us a way forward." Gu Yuanshan truly had no other options. He couldn’t afford to lose face, nor could he bear to see the Gu family’s legacy destroyed under his watch.
Tang Yuan found this utterly ridiculous.
An uncultured country bumpkin—what does she know besides throwing her weight around?
Granny Chen shot Tang Yuan a look, sneering inwardly. That creature! Knows nothing but how to manipulate her husband with sweet words!
She spoke with worldly wisdom in her voice, "It’s not that there are no solutions. It just depends on whether you two are willing."
Gu Yuanshan immediately adopted an extremely deferential posture.
Shen Congwen placed a cushion behind Granny Chen, allowing her to lean back comfortably. Only then, feeling more at ease, did Granny Chen deign to speak. "It seems the Bo Family is determined not to give any face to you two, you wretched couple."
She kept calling them "dogs" and "wretched couple." Tang Yuan was incensed and wanted to retort, but the memory of that slap made her hold her tongue.
Years ago, Changqing’s mother had also slapped her like this—
After all these years, she thought she had forgotten the sting of that pain. But it turned out it had been buried deep in her heart all along.
Gu Yuanshan, oblivious to his wife’s inner turmoil, was entirely focused on currying favor with Granny Chen, desperate to obtain a solution.
