My CEO Husband Has Some Issues

Chapter 2247: Chapter 2249: Gu Linxi vs. Cui Jiangjing

To say someone has a sharp tongue, Mr. Cui certainly does. Back in the day when Cui Jiangjing was young and reckless, people in the high society avoided him like the plague. As he grew older and his personality became more refined, no one mentioned his biting remarks anymore.

“What kind of people my girlfriend’s parents are is not for you to say. Remember, they are my parents too!”

Gu Ran abruptly raised her head, her stunned and saddened gaze fixed directly on him.

Then she glanced at Gu Linxi, utterly baffled by whatever love potion Gu Linxi had given him to enchant him like this, even willing to accept her disgraceful uncle and aunt.

As one of those involved, Gu Linxi was equally surprised and whispered in a voice only they could hear, “You don’t have to do this. We are just ordinary boyfriend and girlfriend. If others hear your words, it won’t be good.”

Cui Jiangjing held her hand, lowered his eyes, and replied lightly, “Do you also believe your parents are the kind of people they say they are?”

“…” Of course not!

The man, seemingly seeing through her thoughts, lowered his eyes and laughed quietly and lazily, “For Uncle and Aunt to have raised a daughter like you, I believe they aren’t the people others say! They must have made the worst choice initially to protect you, not wanting to burden you with their debts. They didn’t realize that compared to enduring hardships with them, you more feared losing them.”

Gu Linxi stared blankly at him, her pupils reflecting the man’s image in front of her, as if someone had pried open a crack in the tightly closed door of her heart…

A flower bloomed outside the city wall; clearly it was a bright red rose. But when the morning sun and rain dew fell on this type of flower she once disliked the most, it remarkably thrived on barren land.

Thump thump thump.

Her heart beat one after another.

Gu Linxi held her chest dazedly to stop the pounding, but the voice coming from her heart could not be deceived.

It struck her heart chamber times and again.

She forced herself to keep a stern face, avoiding his gaze, and said coldly, “What do you know? You haven’t even seen them.”

“I’ve seen you.”

“…”

Cui Jiangjing’s large hand grasped her cool one, softly reassuring, “I know what kind of person you are and can roughly guess Uncle and Aunt’s character. They aren’t people without responsibility; choosing a desperate path at the end must have been helpless.”

Gu Linxi bit her lip tightly, blinked forcefully, and felt extremely conflicted.

Everyone thought her parents couldn’t repay their debt and chose suicide, becoming people legally in debt, fully dependent on Gu Qinian to turn the tide, injecting a huge fund into Gu Real Estate to nullify the crisis. In truth, that’s not how it happened. The money was left by her father for her grandmother to repay the investors. Their final desperate move wasn’t because of owing money but because they discovered the company crisis was linked to family betrayal. Even though they came up with money to resolve the crisis, they were deeply hurt by the family’s actions. Her father became depressed, initially took medication actively, but the Gu Family members, like hypocritical blood-sucking parasites, constantly appeared in their lives, not doing anything directly yet becoming a torment for someone needing depression treatment.

Ultimately, unable to control his emotions with medication, her father took a desperate path.