Song Jianbai went to the company, but he did indeed feel somewhat worried in his heart.
He wasn’t worried about problems on Chu Xingyan’s end, but rather about the situation concerning Chu Xingyan’s biological father.
Because the old master had found out that his former daughter-in-law’s death was not an accident, and that she had even given birth to a biological grandson for him.
Naturally, this put pressure on Chu Xingyan’s father to find this biological son.
Calculating the time, it should be soon.
It was already May.
And Chu Xingyan’s father would find him around the time he was about to advance to his sophomore year.
Of course, it was also after entering his sophomore year that Chu Xingyan would run into the person he loved.
Reckoning this way, he had to fake his death before Chu Xingyan entered his sophomore year.
That left a window of four months.
In four months, Song Jianbai wasn’t certain what he could manage to teach him.
This was his first mission, so it was already considered a simple one.
Just as Song Jianbai’s thought trailed off, his phone rang with a call from an unfamiliar number.
Due to work reasons, Song Jianbai, just like before, maintained one personal number and one work number.
However, this call was placed to his personal number.
Song Jianbai still answered the call.
Judging by the voice on the other end, it belonged to a woman.
“Do you have time this afternoon? I want to talk to you. I will send the address to your phone.”
After saying this, the woman hung up directly without even waiting for Song Jianbai’s reply.
Song Jianbai looked at the hung-up screen on his phone with a sense of helplessness.
Ten minutes earlier, he had been pondering what Chu Xingyan’s biological father and stepmother might do.
As soon as that thought crossed his mind, he had been contacted by the other party.
This person was probably Chu Xingyan’s stepmother.
No wonder the original uncle in the book treated Chu Xingyan that way; it must have been because of Chu Xingyan’s stepmother.
After all, if Chu Xingyan went back, he would end up competing with her son for the family fortune.
After waiting for about two minutes, his phone received a text message sent from that very same number.
As for taking a two-hour leave of absence that afternoon, nobody in the studio raised any issues.
Because in the three months Song Jianbai had been at their studio, he had already generated quite substantial profits for their work.
Therefore, when Song Jianbai asked for leave to leave early, the entire studio had zero objections.
When Song Jianbai arrived at the address listed in the text message that afternoon, a middle-aged woman walked in shortly after.
The woman possessed delicate features, and at a glance, she clearly looked like someone accustomed to a life of luxury and ease.
Seeing her approach, Song Jianbai still very politely stood up to greet her.
Upon seeing Song Jianbai, the other party looked somewhat surprised.
Initially, she had assumed that someone from this sort of background would definitely be lacking in sophistication and worldly exposure.
Yet seeing Song Jianbai now, Gu Xi had entirely discarded that notion.
She even found herself doubting whether her money could actually buy this man off.
“Mr. Song, I am here this time to talk to you about your nephew.” Gu Xi was quite straightforward, perhaps figuring that talking too much with Song Jianbai would be useless.
Although the original body’s name wasn’t Song Jianbai, he had now taken over the original identity, so the memories of everyone in this world had undergone slight modifications.
For instance, his appearance and name had been this way from the very beginning, and nobody found anything strange about it.
Just like when Song Jianbai first heard the name Xixi, after Xixi explained it to him later, he learned that Xixi’s real name was just Xixi, and that name could be used across various worlds and various roles.
As for someone like Song Jianbai, whose full name including surname was fixed, there was only a single Song Jianbai across the entire Tower.
Consequently, all of the roles he played turned out to be male characters.
“What does Madam Gu wish to say?” Song Jianbai asked knowingly.
Seeing that Song Jianbai knew who she was, Gu Xi didn’t mind too much.
After all, she was the president’s wife of Beicheng’s Jinyao Group.
It would actually be strange if he didn’t recognize her.
“I have already investigated you. You used to owe quite a bit of money, but over these past three months, you have indeed paid most of it off. However, as long as you agree to one condition, I can transfer five million yuan to you.” Gu Xi stared intently at Song Jianbai.
For someone as desperate for money as him, it was practically impossible not to feel tempted when faced with five million yuan.
“So, what is the condition?” Song Jianbai asked Gu Xi in return.
He remained quite curious about what Gu Xi wanted the original body to do.
At the very least, it hadn’t succeeded in the book, so the author hadn’t written down what the uncle actually did to Chu Xingyan.
Therefore, he needed to hear it from Gu Xi herself to find out what she wanted him to do.
“Rest assured, I won’t have you commit murder or break the law. I simply want Chu Xingyan to be reduced to a disabled person. Such a task shouldn’t be too difficult, right? After all, we aren’t taking his life. You are his uncle, so pulling this off should be quite easy for you.”
The reason why Gu Xi was so desperate to deal with Chu Xingyan stemmed naturally from the fact that her own son was good for nothing.
Because he was three years older than Chu Xingyan, he had long since become a corporate drone.
He had coasted through both high school and university entirely on paid tuition, let alone his current job.
He simply relied on his identity to slack off and idle away his days at the company.
Yet Chu Xingyan was entirely different.
The university he currently attended was none other than Beicheng University, the most prestigious institution in the entire country.
In other words, as long as Chu Xingyan studied diligently, his future prospects would undoubtedly be far more favored by the family than Gu Xi’s son.
After all, Gu Xi’s son had never been liked by the old master since he was a child.
Especially over the past two years, his relationship with his grandfather had grown extremely tense, and the old master wasn’t all that keen on handing the company’s succession rights over to his own son either.
Therefore, upon discovering that the other woman’s son was still alive, he was naturally overjoyed and demanded that they bring the child back.
Gu Xi had managed to suppress the news of finding this child.
Naturally, she intended to wait until the child was completely ruined before bringing him back.
That way, in the end, the successor of Jinyao Group would still be her son.
Listening to Gu Xi’s words, Song Jianbai actually felt somewhat puzzled.
Why was it so necessary to drive Chu Xingyan to such a miserable end?
Back then, her appearance had caused the death of Chu Xingyan’s mother, yet she had already succeeded in becoming the president’s wife of the Lu family.
Even if Chu Xingyan went back and inherited Jinyao Group, it wouldn’t impact her and her son’s lifestyle.
Besides, Gu Xi’s son lacked any capability to manage a company.
If the company were handed over to her son, securing a comfortable guarantee for the rest of her life would likely become rather difficult.
After all, when a person starts squandering family wealth, the speed of it transcends imagination.
Take the real world he lived in, for instance, even a fortune of tens of billions could be completely burned through in just a few days.
“Madam Gu, since you know I am his uncle, yet you still come to me to propose such a thing, why must you be so utterly ruthless?” Song Jianbai asked a question that even he found somewhat absurd.
Yet it managed to leave Madam Gu completely stumped.
Why was she doing this?
Naturally, she was worried that once Chu Xingyan returned, he would snatch away her son’s position. Wasn’t that obvious?
“Mr. Song, are you joking? If your family possessed immense wealth, and all of that money originally belonged entirely to you, but now you had to split half of it with someone else, and even the right of succession fell into his hands, wouldn’t you be anxious?” Gu Xi maintained her composure and explained the reason to Song Jianbai.
Yet upon hearing Gu Xi’s words, Song Jianbai couldn’t help bursting into laughter.
That sudden laugh left Gu Xi looking bewildered, and soon after, she grew somewhat angry.
“Mr. Song, what are you laughing at? What is so funny?” Right then, it was only Gu Xi’s breeding and etiquette that kept her sitting right there talking to Song Jianbai.
“I was simply thinking that Madam Gu understands this logic quite well after all,” Song Jianbai remarked.
No matter what, Gu Xi had indeed intruded into the relationship between Chu Xingyan’s parents back then.
She had climbed to the position of Jinyao Group’s president’s wife by playing the homewrecker.
Once Song Jianbai uttered those words, Gu Xi froze for a moment before the realization finally hit her.
Song Jianbai was implicitly mocking her for meddling in someone else’s marriage.
(Banhaia Novel, much joy)