Chapter 473: Feng Tianlan’s Heartache
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
A beam of white light shot forth, shattering the pill that was about to reach Gu Zhicheng.
Those with weaker cultivation turned pale in the face of this sudden shout.
Only Gu Qingluan and Feng Tianlan remained unfazed.
Gu Zhicheng, on the other hand, showed great joy on his face and turned to look outside the main gate.
A gust of wind swept by, and Gu Hongkang flew towards them like a roc spreading its wings, his voluminous robe rustling.
Boom!
His feet touched the ground, and the solid surface cracked into several fine fissures.
The Magistrate of Shuntian Preference had no color left on his face. “Old Master Gu…”
“Dad!” Gu Zhicheng shouted in delight, “You have to help your son, Gu Qingluan has gone too far!”
“Ha!” Gu Qingluan burst into laughter.
Gu Hongkang, with a pair of eyes strikingly similar to Gu Zhicheng’s, scanned Gu Qingluan with a stern gaze.
Gu Zhicheng also looked at her with cold eyes.
All the previous panic was gone, replaced by a full sense of arrogance.
He angrily questioned, “What are you laughing at?”
“At your age, you’re still running to your old father to complain. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you were a three-year-old child,” Gu Qingluan teased.
Gu Zhicheng’s old face turned bright red in an instant.
“Gu Qingluan! Don’t play with words! You show no respect for your elders, an unfilial daughter. Do you even have the right to mock me?”
Gu Qingluan completely ignored his anger and turned her gaze to Gu Hongkang. “Gu Zhicheng is responsible for the death of my mother, and there is irrefutable evidence. He must be severely punished!”
Her gaze remained unwavering.
Gu Hongkang narrowed his eyes and asked in a calm tone, “What do you want?”
“Repay with his life!”
Those four words were delivered with unwavering determination, leaving everyone in shock.
Gu Zhicheng immediately scolded, “Unfilial daughter! I am your father! You actually want to kill your father!”
Gu Qingluan didn’t even spare him a glance, her eyes fixed on Gu Hongkang.
Gu Hongkang tightened his lips and stared at Gu Qingluan for a while before asking slowly, “Is there no room for reconciliation? After all, he is your father.”
“A man who killed my mother and never fulfilled his fatherly duties, is he worthy of being called a father? It’s better to have no father than to have him!” Gu Qingluan sneered.
Gu Zhicheng immediately cursed, “Unfilial daughter! Haven’t 1 done my duty as a father? Who has been there to provide for your food and clothing? Would you even exist without me? Would you have been able to make it on your own?”
Gu Qingluan nodded and said, “Indeed, I do carry half of the Gu family’s blood in my veins. But what the Gu family took from the Jun family is worth more than a thousandfold, and it’s enough to compensate. As for your so-called support, ask yourself, how much money have you ever given me from childhood to now?”
The Gu family never intended to raise the original host; it was merely a twist of fate that she survived.
When she was a child, some loyal servants from the Jun family secretly provided her with food, but as she grew older, she found ways to earn money on her own.
Gu Zhicheng’s claim of supporting her was truly laughable.
Furthermore, she didn’t live off the Gu family for free.
While other young masters and ladies were treated as masters, she, the legitimate eldest daughter, had to do manual labor.
Besides providing her with leftover vegetables and hard steamed buns, the Gu family didn’t give her any “wages”. She was even more “inexpensive” than the servants.
Her words left Gu Zhicheng speechless, his face turning red and then pale.
As for the outsiders who heard Gu Qingluan’s casual statement, they were quite surprised.
They all knew that Gu Qingluan used to be a famous waste in the Gu family, overshadowed by Gu Lingxue. But as the legitimate eldest daughter of the Gu family, they never expected her to live a life worse than a servant in her own family.
Among them, Feng Tianlan’s emotions fluctuated the most.
He looked at Gu Qingluan with heartfelt distress.
He had no idea how much suffering she had endured since childhood.
Feng Tianlan silently made up his mind that he would never let Qingluan suffer again, and he wouldn’t let anyone bully her.
Anyone who bullied her would receive a hundredfold or a thousandfold payback!