klisemfg Chapter 137 If Gu Huaizhou gives it to me, I dare to take it!
Chapter 137 If Gu Huaizhou gives it to me, I dare to take it!
Zhang Xiang dared not look Li Xi in the eye. She nervously twisted her fingers and weakly tried to defend herself:
“Li Xi, I didn’t know Xie Mingzong wanted to kill your father.”
"The year your father passed away, my relationship with Xie Mingzong had already broken down. If I had known, how could I have been so heartless as to risk my own children's lives?"
Li Xi believes that Zhang Xiang was truly unaware of the situation back then.
Zhang Xiang is indeed a bit bad, but she is still very good to her two children.
"When did you find out the truth?"
Zhang Xiang: "About three months ago."
"How did you find out?"
Zhang Xiang looked embarrassed and stammered, "I've wanted to divorce Xie Mingzong for a long time. In order to get more property, I hired someone to follow Xie Mingzong and try to film him having secret rendezvous with those women."
"Who knew that instead of capturing the video of him cheating, they captured footage of him secretly meeting with Zhang Hequan in private."
This was a lucky accident.
“I don’t have a very good memory, but I remember Zhang Hequan’s face very well because he almost killed my children.”
“I know Xie Mingzong too well. He’s no saint. I suspected he was involved in some despicable scheme with Zhang Hequan, so I took the video and pressed him for the truth.”
“He was afraid I would report it to the police, so he told me the truth about what happened back then. Of course, in order to keep it a secret, he also agreed to divorce me and split our assets 50/50.”
"only..."
However, before their divorce proceedings were finalized, Shen He exposed her affair with Qin Xiu.
Xie Mingzong changed his mind after learning about it.
He could accept Zhang Xiang dating male models outside, but he couldn't accept that the male model was his godson.
Xie Mingzong also understood Zhang Xiang's weaknesses.
Xie Jiaoyue and Xie Xingyun are Zhang Xiang's weaknesses.
If it were revealed that Hsieh Ming-tsung was a murderer, and the children had a murderer as their father, it would not be something to be proud of.
Xie Mingzong firmly believed that Zhang Xiang would keep quiet for the sake of the children's future.
"Whether you believe it or not, every word I said is true." Now that things have come to this, Zhang Xiang has no need to deceive Li Xi anymore.
Li Xi stared at Zhang Xiang scrutinizingly for a long time before looking away, turning around to pick up her bag from the sofa and leave.
"Li Xi!"
"Please spare Xingyun's life, okay? That child really likes you."
Seeing that Li Xi hadn't stopped walking, Zhang Xiang hurriedly explained, "At the beginning of last year, Xie Mingzong discovered that Xingyun was with you. He asked Xingyun to break up with you several times and marry a girl of equal social standing."
"But Xingyun refused to listen; he insisted on having only you. Xie Mingzong was at his wit's end when Wells found him and specifically asked for you. To punish Xie Xingyun for his disobedience, Xie Mingzong signed a contract with Wells."
"After seeing that contract, Xingyun realized he didn't have the freedom to choose marriage and the ability to protect you, which is why he had no choice but to break up with you and pursue Jiang Qingkong..."
"Li Xi, Xingyun hasn't done anything to wrong you..."
After she finished speaking, seeing that Li Xi had finally stopped, Zhang Xiang was overjoyed, thinking that her explanation had successfully moved Li Xi.
But when Li Xi turned to look at her, his clear and calm gaze sent a chill down her spine.
"Ms. Zhang."
"My suffering was caused by your family. How dare you beg me to let Xie Xingyun go? He really did like me, so what? Didn't I give my heart in that relationship?"
"He deceived me, let me down, and almost assaulted me while drunk. Just because he really likes me, do I have to unconditionally forgive his deception?"
"What you just said only moved yourself; it didn't move me at all."
After saying that, Li Xi rushed out the door.
Zhang Xiang then burst into tears.
Li Xi went to Xie Xingyun's ward again.
He had regained consciousness, but he exuded a deathly aura, his chin was covered with a beard, and he looked as if he had aged ten years.
Hearing footsteps, Xie Xingyun assumed it was Jiang Qing, so he grabbed the water glass from the bedside table and threw it towards the door.
"roll!"
Li Xi quickly turned to the side, the water glass rolling past the passageway outside.
Upon seeing that it was Li Xi, Xie Xingyun was momentarily stunned, and then his expression became disheveled, humble, and desperate.
Xie Xingyun subconsciously pulled the blanket up, trying to hide his amputated leg.
Li Xi picked up the water glass, walked into the ward, placed the teacup on the bedside table, and then her gaze fell on the area under the bed.
There was an empty space there.
Xie Xingyun subconsciously gripped the bed sheet beneath him, lowered his head, and pleaded with Li Xi in a disheveled tone, "Please, don't look."
...
Having not heard a response from Li Xi, Xie Xingyun hesitated for a moment before looking up in confusion.
He thought he would see ridicule and pleasure in Li Xi's eyes, but Li Xi's eyes remained calm and undisturbed.
That wasn't the look you give a heartless man, nor the look you give an ex-lover, nor the look you give a friend.
That's the look you give a stranger.
What Xie Xingyun found most unacceptable was becoming a stranger to Li Xi.
Xie Xingyun felt a pang of bitterness in his heart.
He leaned against the headboard and chuckled self-deprecatingly, "I never expected you would come to visit me."
Li Xi ruthlessly shattered Xie Xingyun's illusions: "You're overthinking it. I'm here to see you make a fool of yourself."
Xie Xingyun had guessed that was the case, but when he actually heard Li Xi say it, he still felt bad.
Lying in the hospital these past two days, Xie Xingyun has been thinking a lot.
He is not a fool; many questions that puzzled him before have now been answered.
"The only person who would know there's a safe in Jiao Yue's room is someone close to her. She and Jiang Qingkong aren't that close yet."
"Li Xi." Xie Xingyun looked at Li Xi with a complicated expression, and said knowingly, "You're the one who asked Jiang Qingkong to dismantle the safe, right?"
Li Xi: "Yes."
"You are Yun Ge. On the day Qin Xiu and my mother's scandal was exposed, we happened to be at Guanman Company discussing copyright matters."
"Was that affair between Qin Xiu and my mother also your doing?"
Li Xi nodded: "Mm."
"...Then my car accident..."
Li Xi quickly interrupted Xie Xingyun: "Your car accident has nothing to do with me."
She won't take the blame.
Upon hearing this, Xie Xingyun secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He had thought that the car accident was also a scheme orchestrated by Li Xi and Jiang Qingkong.
"...I believe you." Xie Xingyun said solemnly.
Whether you believe me or not is not important, and I don't care. I'm here today to tell you something else.
Li Xi came to see Xie Xingyun with serious business.
Xie Xingyun looked surprised. "What is it?"
"You should resign from your position as CEO of Zhaixing Entertainment. It's more dignified for you to submit your resignation yourself than for me to kick you out of Zhaixing Entertainment."
"What?" Xie Xingyun thought he had misheard. "Zhaixing Entertainment is our family's company. What right do you have to kick me out?"
"Just because I'm the largest shareholder of Zhaixing Entertainment. While you were in a coma, Zhaixing Entertainment's market value plummeted, and your shareholders sold their shares at rock-bottom prices..."
"Those shares are all in my hands."
Upon hearing this, Xie Xingyun subconsciously said, "The largest shareholder of Zhaixing Entertainment is our Xie family, which owns 40% of the shares. In addition, President Chu owns 30% of the shares, and Mr. Du owns 15% of the shares."
"The remaining minority shareholders combined only hold a total of 10%. Even if you manage to acquire that 10%, you'll only be a major shareholder."
“I am the company CEO, you do not have the right to dismiss me.”
Li Xi smiled mysteriously, "What if I told you that President Chu transferred all 30% of his shares to me?"
"This is impossible!"
Xie Xingyun subconsciously tried to sit up, but just as he was about to move, a sharp, piercing pain shot through the amputation site.
"hiss!"
Xie Xingyun's face contorted in pain, and large beads of sweat appeared on his forehead; his disheveled vulnerability was nowhere to be hidden.
It took Xie Xingyun quite a while to recover.
He gave a mocking smile and confidently exposed Li Xi: "You're just trying to scare me. President Chu is the biggest investor in Zhaixing Entertainment. He's low-key, mysterious, and doesn't like to associate with people."
"President Chu has never appeared in public. Even when I want to contact President Chu, I can only do so through written documents."
"You said that President Chu transferred his shares to you. That's full of errors and absolutely impossible. Li Xi, you should at least use logic when you lie."
"Is it?"
Li Xi deliberately slowed her speech, enunciating each word clearly: "Low-key, mysterious, doesn't like to socialize, you've never met him..."
After reading it aloud, Li Xi looked at Xie Xingyun teasingly, "Don't you think these words sound familiar?"
Xie Xingyun was stunned by the question.
Low-key, mysterious, and not fond of socializing, communicating only through documents—these words sounded familiar. Where had he heard them before?
No way!
Xie Xingyun's pupils dilated suddenly, and he exclaimed in shock, "Could it be that President Chu is Gu Huaizhou?"
Zhaixing Entertainment was originally just a small media company.
Ever since the Xie family climbed the social ladder by marrying into the Gu family 12 years ago, Gu Wentao had one of his agents, surnamed Du, invest in their company.
This Mr. Du is nominally the head of a venture capital firm, but in reality, he is an investment advisor under Gu Wentao, representing the Gu Group.
With Mr. Du's help, Xie Mingzong's career soared, and Zhaixing Entertainment grew stronger and stronger.
Ten years ago, when Zhaixing Entertainment was preparing for its IPO, Mr. Chu became their partner.
Xie Mingzong had met President Chu once before; at that time, the other party was just a young man in his early twenties.
Xie Mingzong believed that President Chu was probably the young master of some reclusive prestigious family, spending money everywhere to make pocket money, and Zhaixing Entertainment was just one of his many investments.
Therefore, Xie Xingyun never doubted President Chu's identity.
“You’re only half right.” Li Xi decided to let Xie Xingyun know the truth. “President Chu is not Gu Huaizhou, but the person behind President Chu is Gu Huaizhou.”
The so-called "President Chu" is actually Chu Xu, Gu Huaizhou's personal bodyguard.
Upon learning that Gu Huaizhou was the person behind President Chu, Xie Xingyun's face turned ashen.
Mr. Du is a member of the Gu Group, and President Chu is also a member of Gu Huaizhou's group. Therefore, over the years, the Gu family has held 45% of the shares in Zhaixing Entertainment!
The Xie family father and son only hold a combined 40% stake. If Gu Huaizhou wanted, he could crush Zhaixing Entertainment with a mere flick of his finger!
Thinking of this, Xie Xingyun broke out in a cold sweat.
"President Chu joined Zhaixing Entertainment 10 years ago. So, my sister aroused Gu Huaizhou's suspicion as early as her first visit to the Gu family?"
“That’s right,” Li Xi admitted.
"Over the years, your Xie family has thought you have successfully deceived Gu Huaizhou and has been complacent about it. Little did you know, Gu Huaizhou saw through your tricks the first time he saw Xie Jiaoyue."
"Gu Huaizhou is the family heir whom Old Master Gu has painstakingly cultivated with all his might. How could you be so naive as to think he is so easy to fool?"
Faced with Li Xi's mockery, Xie Xingyun was speechless.
Over the years, the Gu family has helped them both openly and secretly, and the Xie family has long been dependent on the Gu family.
They treat Gujia as their support, their escape route, and their lifeline, constantly drawing from him.
They were indeed quite pleased with themselves for it.
Over time, Xie Xingyun even began to look down on Gu Huaizhou, thinking that the Gu family heir was nothing special.
Only now did Xie Xingyun realize how ridiculous his family was.
"Gu Huaizhou knew we had lied to him all along, so why didn't he expose us back then?" After asking this question, Xie Xingyun quickly found the answer in his heart.
It's a case of praising someone to death.
"He did it on purpose."
"He's trying to lure our entire Xie family into this pot like boiling frogs in lukewarm water, killing us without us even realizing it!"
After figuring all this out, Xie Xingyun felt a chill run down his spine.
Having been in the business world for a long time, Xie Xingyun had seen too many ruthless smiling Buddhas, and even he himself was no saint.
But Gu Huaizhou's tactic of slowly boiling a frog still frightened him.
At this moment, he finally understood why his business partners hesitated and remained tight-lipped when the topic of the Gu family's young heir came up.
"Xie Xingyun, will you submit your resignation and leave gracefully, or will you wait for me to kick you out?"
"You make the decision yourself."
After saying that, Li Xi turned and left.
"Li Xi!" Xie Xingyun questioned Li Xi's retreating figure, "Who is Gu Huaizhou to you? He wants to give you Zhaixing Entertainment, and you're really just going to take it?"
"Why wouldn't I want it?" Li Xi looked at Xie Xingyun with a puzzled expression.
Xie Xingyun said without hesitation, "That's not yours. You just take it because Gu Huaizhou gave it to you. Wouldn't that make you a parasitic plant that profits by clinging to men?"
“...Heh.” Li Xi found this quite amusing. “Xie Xingyun, do you think you’re so noble?”
"Your whole family fawns over Gu Huaizhou just to get resources from him, isn't it?"
"Besides, Zhaixing Entertainment was originally a gift prepared by the Gu family to thank their savior. If I accept Zhaixing Entertainment, it's simply returning it to its rightful owner!"
"I deserve it!"
"If Gu Huaizhou is willing to give it, then I, Li Xi, can accept it!"
She shouldn't accept rewards without merit, but she has done so, so why shouldn't she receive these benefits?
Xie Xingyun was speechless after being confronted by Li Xi.
He devoted himself to the development of Zhaixing Entertainment, only to end up benefiting Li Xi and Gu Huaizhou.
The thought that he was disabled and would be bound to Jiang Qingkong for the rest of his life, while Li Xi would be inseparable from Gu Huaizhou, drove him mad with jealousy.
puff!
Xie Xingyun spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the bed sheet red.