Chapter 1324: Fatal Faux Pas
Gu Nianzhi thought to herself, Luo Jialan was indeed colluding with old Master Huo. There were even stipulations between the two of them…
She immediately added fuel to the flames. “Miss Luo, that’s wrong of you. Could it be that you’ve even made stipulations towards old master Huo before? Not to mention that old master Huo is your elder, and you even call him ‘grandfather’. The Huo family had raised you for so many years, and everything you have was given by the Huo family. What right do you have to make stipulations with old master Huo? Besides, what do you mean by saying that? Don’t tell me you still want grandfather Huo to defend you, do you?”
Luo Jialan’s heart trembled when she heard that. She couldn’t help but think of her father Huo Guanyuan’s will that Huo Xuenong had mentioned before. She began to resent Huo Guanyuan inside.
If he was so heartless, why did he want to marry her mother back then?!
She had called him ‘father’ for so many years, yet he only left such little money for her and her mother!
He indeed hadn’t treated her as a member of the Huo family. If that was the case, why should she cover up for the Huo family?
Luo Jialan raised her chin and narrowed her eyes. “Grandfather? Are you really that heartless? Aren’t you going to help me?”
Huo Xuenong heard Luo Jialan’s insinuations. She was going to reveal the secret deal between them in front of so many people.
Huo Xuenong wouldn’t have cared if Xie Shenxing wasn’t there, but Huo Xuenong felt a little embarra.s.sed with Xie Shenxing there.
He thought about it for a moment and slowly raised his head, then said to Gu Nianzhi with a amicable expression, “Nianzhi, you have to forgive and forget. Stop being so aggressive. Jialan knows she was wrong, so go easy on her and give her a way out. She won’t try to marry Shaoheng anymore, so you can rest a.s.sured.”
He was insinuating that Gu Nianzhi was only targeting Luo Jialan for Huo Shaoheng’s sake.
Of course, this was also one of the reasons, but the nature of the entire thing had completely changed when Gu Nianzhi found out that Luo Jialan had actually been conspiring with Aiko Yamaguchi.
This was no longer a simple case of jealousy, but a matter of life and death.
Gu Nianzhi wiped the smile off her face and said in a low voice, ” … Does she really know that she was wrong? Miss Luo, would you dare swear that you didn’t know anything? That everything was Aiko Yamaguchi’s fault? That you were just an innocent victim?”
“I Dare! ” Luo Jialan immediately raised her right hand. “If I knew anything, I’ll… be struck by lightning and die a horrible death!”
“No, there’s no need for such an illusory oath.” Gu Nianzhi shook her head. “All you have to do is say that if you knew anything, you’ll bear all the corresponding legal consequences.”
“Fine! I swear! If I knew anything, I’ll bear all the corresponding legal consequences!” Luo Jialan repeated Gu Nianzhi’s words as if she was a parrot.
“Alright, you can arrest her now.” Gu Nianzhi stepped aside to make way for the three special operation forces personnel. “She’s the mastermind behind the attempt on my life in Germany.”
“What?!” Luo Jialan was completely flabbergasted. She glared at Gu Nianzhi and said fiercely, “How could it be me?! It was Aiko Yamaguchi! What’s wrong with you?! Was all that talk for nothing?! Do you not understand human language?!”
“You’re the one who doesn’t understand human language, and you’re the one who’s deliberately trying to confuse everyone.” Gu Nianzhi looked at Luo Jialan without backing down and took a step forward. She raised her chin slightly. Her gaze was calm and steady, and her vibe was overpowering. “You’re lying.”
“I’m not! ” Luo Jialan was fl.u.s.tered. She clutched her chest weakly and looked at Cai Shengnan. “Lawyer Cai, please help me! Please help me! You took my advance payment of six million US dollars, and you’re just going to keep quiet?!”
Cai Shengnan cursed Luo Jialan inside. As she expected, she was indeed blaming her, but she was also a little embarra.s.sed that she pointed out that she wasn’t doing anything despite having accepted the money, so she had no choice but to bite the bullet and say, “Lawyer Gu, you’re liable for what you say. Please don’t slander my client.”
“My client made it very clear just now. She met Yamaguchi Aiko in France, and Aiko Yamaguchi was the mastermind behind everything. Whether it was trying to kill you or scheming against you, Aiko Yamaguchi was the one who did everything. It had nothing to do with my client.”
“It really had nothing to do with her?” Gu Nianzhi’s face turned cold as she looked at Cai Shengnan. “May I ask, lawyer Cai, if you can say something that is legally responsible. Did your client tell you the truth, and do you know the entire truth?”
Cai Shengnan shut her mouth.
Of course, she couldn’t say that.
She hadn’t known anything about what Luo Jialan said about Aiko Yamaguchi just now.
The only thing she knew was that Luo Jialan told her that she hadn’t transferred the money herself, but had helped her friend Yamaguchi Aiko with her business.
She hadn’t even mentioned the nature of the business.
” … you can’t guarantee that, can you?” Gu Nianzhi smiled and said slowly, “Lawyer Cai, don’t get involved. I advise you to return the six million dollars in advance to Luo Jialan, because you can’t defend her regarding this matter.”
As Gu Nianzhi spoke, her cold gaze fell on Luo Jialan’s pale face. “Luo Jialan, are you still insisting that you’re the victim? That you were deceived by Aiko Yamaguchi?”
Luo Jialan nodded blankly and said in a hoa.r.s.e voice, “I’m telling the truth. Why won’t you believe me?”
“If you want others to believe your lies, you have to at least make your own lies sound plausible.” Gu Nianzhi curled her lips and stretched out her slender and smooth finger and shook it. Her soft fingernails reflected the light of the ward. Luo Jialan reflexively turned her head away and averted her gaze.
“How did I lie? I don’t understand.” Luo Jialan was puzzled. She had made things up pretty convingly…
“You don’t understand? Then I’ll reluctantly explain it to you.” Gu Nianzhi crossed her arms and chuckl lightly. “Luo Jialan, you said Aiko Yamaguchi became your close friend in Europe and asked you to lend her money. Then she died at the hands of pirates in the Caribbean Sea, so the money you lent can’t be repaid, right?”
Luo Jialan quickly nodded. “Of course, of course. Look…”
“Shut up!” Gu Nianzhi’s expression suddenly turned serious. “You’re still lying! I’ll tell you where your lies were exposed.”
Luo Jialan’s heart pounded. What exactly had gone wrong?
Everything had been flawless…
“Because of the time, ” Gu Nianzhi said coldly. “You made up the wrong time when you were making up the lies.”
Luo Jialan suddenly seemed to remember something, and her expression changed. Her legs felt so weak that she could no longer stand up. She collapsed in front of Huo Xuenong’s hospital bed.
Gu Nianzhi took the arrest warrant from the Special Operations Forces member beside her. She took another step forward and looked down at Luo Jialan. She felt immense psychological pressure when she saw the arrest warrant in front of her.
“Luo Jialan, you realize it don’t you?”
“You said Aiko Yamaguchi was hunting me in Germany, but she died at the hands of pirates in the Caribbean.”
“But the truth is, Aiko Yamaguchi tried to kill me in the Caribbeans, and she died at the hands of ‘pirates’ in May of last year.”
“Moreover, I fell in danger in Germany and was hunted down in September of last year.”
“Combined with what you said, then she ‘died’ in the Caribbean before and after she tried to kill me in Germany. ”
“May I ask how a person who is already dead can come back from the dead and appear in Germany again?!”
Gu Nianzhi’s tone grew more and more harsh, “You deliberately confused the sequence of events and misled everyone into believing that the transfer of money to York’s bank account had nothing to do with you. It was a dead person who asked you to do it, so there would be no witnesses.”
“You’re lying! Because you’re covering up the truth!”
“The truth is that Aiko Yamaguchi never existed at all. You were the one who made yp the whole thing, weren’t you, Luo Jialan?!”
Gu Nianzhi’s tone was harsh, and she purposely placed all the blame on Luo Jialan alone.
Of course, she knew that Aiko Yamaguchi was definitely in charge. Back in the Caribbeans, Gu Yanran had put on an act and killed the “middle-aged woman” that Yamaguchi Aiko had disguised as in the Caribbean. She thought that Yamaguchi Aiko was really dead.
It was only when Luo Jialan tried to clear herself of the “money laundering” accusation that Gu Nianzhi found out that Aiko Yamaguchi, or rather, Yoko Yamaguchi, hadn’t died in a car accident in j.a.pan, nor had she died in the Caribbean Sea!
This person was like a poisonous snake, hovering around her. When the time was right, she would give her another fatal blow!
This time, Luo Jialan had given herself away. Gu Nianzhi wouldn’t let this chance slip. She had to continue investigating.
This was also why Huo Shaoheng had asked the special operations forces to take over the lead in this case from the imperial capital police.
Aiko Yamaguchi, or Yoko Yamaguchi, wasn’t dead.
She was also closely connected to the case where Gu Nianzhi was hunted down in Germany, and she even might have been the mastermind.
With Gu Nianzhi and Gu Xiangwen’s contributions to the Huaxia Empire, the a.s.sa.s.sination attempt oon Gu Nianzhi was, of course, a threat to national security.
On the other hand, Luo Jialan was on the verge of breaking down.
She had no idea that Aiko Yamaguchi had attempted to a.s.sasinate Gu Nianzhi in the Caribbean Sea and had even met her face to face.
She only remembered that Aiko Yamaguchi said that her ident.i.ty was very well hidden and that she had “died” at the hands of pirates in the Caribbean, so her plan definitely wouldn’t be exposed.
When Gu Nianzhi suddenly said that Aiko Yamaguchi had pursued and attempted to kill her in the Caribbean, Luo Jialan vaguely felt that something was amiss.
Only now did she realize that she had completely reversed the sequence of events.
This was a fatal faux pas!
How could she make up for this faux pas?!
No, she wasn’t Aiko Yamaguchi. Yamaguchi Aiko’s crime could not be blamed on her.
In a panic, Luo Jialan said, “I don’t know why Aiko Yamaguchi didn’t die in the Caribbean Sea. I swear I met her in France! ”
It was a pity. She had just been rejoicing that she didn’t leave any traces related to Aiko Yamaguchi, but in the blink of an eye, she was racking her brains to prove that the two of them were conneced.
How ironic!
“Come on, just now you said she died in the Caribbean Sea. Did she herself tell you she died in the Caribbean sea?”
Gu Nianzhi scoffed, but saw the corners of Luo Jialan’s eyes twitch. Gu Nianzhi suddenly understood. It seemed that Aiko Yamaguchi had even told Luo Jialan about this. In order to become friends with Luo Jialan, she really was extremely honest with Luo Jialan!
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This was the Third Watch of the day: Chapter 1324, fatal error.
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Good night, everyone!
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