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Was he really going to prison over sixteen million?

Bai Yuesheng felt like crying, but he knew he couldn't just sit around and wait for disaster. So he staggered after Gu Jiuque and returned to the Gu family home with him.

The moment everyone returned to the Gu family home, they heard a commotion in the courtyard.

Gu Jiuque stopped short and instinctively asked, "What happened?"

Lu Xunmei turned around. "Your dad took some people to the lumberyard in the outskirts to haul materials. On the way back, the brakes failed and they hit a utility pole. Luckily, your dad listened to you and wasn't driving too fast! Only the headlights and bumper were damaged. Your dad called the police right away. When the traffic police and insurance company came to inspect the car, they discovered the brake line had been deliberately cut."

For an instant, Gu Jiuque's mind went blank. Lu Xunmei was still cursing furiously. "Whoever did this is a heartless bastard! They were trying to murder someone!"

"...The brakes failed!" Gu Jiuque repeated hoarsely, with difficulty.

Gu Jiuque suddenly remembered his previous life. When he woke up in the hospital, Bai Yuesheng had tearfully told him that Father Gu and Mother Gu had died on the spot in a car accident while taking him to the hospital. Grandma Gu had also suffered a sudden heart attack and died after hearing the terrible news.

How exactly had that car accident in his previous life happened? Had it really just been an accident caused by the emergency? And Grandma Gu...

Gu Jiuque instinctively searched for Grandma Gu, only to discover that Bai Yuesheng, hiding behind the crowd, had actually revealed a flicker of secret delight the instant he heard that Father Gu had been in a car accident. The fleeting, furtive smile on his face quickly changed into worried concern. He struggled to squeeze out from behind the crowd and grabbed Lu Xunmei's hem. "How is Uncle Gu? Is he all right? And Grandma Yue—her health has always been poor. When she heard Uncle Gu had been in a car accident, did her heart condition act up?"

The moment Bai Yuesheng mentioned Grandma Gu's heart condition, Gu Jiuque's gaze immediately turned icy.

"What were you smiling about just now?" Gu Jiuque scrutinized Bai Yuesheng with a dark look. "You know who tampered with my dad's car!"

Gu Jiuque's overly certain interrogation gave Bai Yuesheng a fright. He instinctively defended himself, "How could that be? How could I know something like that? Gu Jiuque, you don't suspect that I cut Uncle Gu's brake line, do you?"

Hearing Bai Yuesheng's words, Lu Xunmei quickly realized what was happening as well. Her gaze instinctively turned toward her son as she asked uneasily, "Jiuque..."

Gu Jiuque had already judged from Bai Yuesheng's brazen attitude that he wasn't the one who had cut the brake line. But he definitely knew who the culprit was. Just as he had known Jade Celestial Pivot's secret before the Gu family did.

Thinking of Bai Yuesheng's endless strange behavior, Gu Jiuque's heart stirred. He said in a low voice, "As long as you're willing to tell me who cut the brake line and provide solid evidence, I can give you three months to raise sixteen million."

Bai Yuesheng's eyes lit up, and he instinctively tried to bargain. "Three months is too short—"

"You only have this one chance." From Bai Yuesheng's reaction just now, Gu Jiuque had also seen through his bluffing.

He didn't want to go to prison, nor did he seem to find it difficult to raise sixteen million in a short time. Gu Jiuque didn't know where Bai Yuesheng's confidence came from, but he should have noticed Bai Yuesheng's strangeness long ago.

"Or would you rather go to prison?" Gu Jiuque probed further.

"Fine!" Bai Yuesheng rolled his eyes resentfully and easily gave up on bargaining with Gu Jiuque. "I did see who tampered with Uncle Gu's car. But I don't know that person. I just happened to see it—"

"When did you see it?" Gu Jiuque pressed again.

Bai Yuesheng blinked. "I don't remember. Probably a few days ago."

Gu Jiuque asked, "Before the fire?"

Bai Yuesheng said nothing. Looking into Gu Jiuque's clear black-and-white eyes, he suddenly realized something. It seemed he shouldn't have truthfully admitted that he had seen someone tampering with Uncle Gu's car. But the possibility of going to prison had thrown him into such a panic that he hadn't thought of any of this at all!

Gu Jiuque fell silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled. "So you clearly saw someone tampering with my dad's car, yet you refused to tell me. Then you set fire to my house that night."

That was how it was in this life. There probably hadn't been any accident in his previous life, either!

To seize the Gu family's heirloom, it seemed Bai Yuesheng had not only put considerable thought into targeting him, but had also made many efforts behind the scenes!

How had he been so blind in his previous life?

Seeing Gu Jiuque's expression, Bai Yuesheng immediately panicked. "Gu Jiuque, you can't think of me that way. At the time, I didn't realize that person was cutting Uncle Gu's brake line. You know I can't even drive, so how could I know so much—"

"Wait for the court summons!" Gu Jiuque no longer wanted to listen to Bai Yuesheng's endless lies.

Bai Yuesheng stared at Gu Jiuque in shock. "But didn't you just say—"

Gu Jiuque answered casually, "You still haven't clearly told me who tampered with my dad's car."

Even if Bai Yuesheng refused to make it clear, Gu Jiuque knew roughly who the mastermind was—the person who would tamper with Father Gu's car, who dared to tamper with Father Gu's car, and who wanted nothing more than to see the Gu family destroyed. He simply hadn't expected Bai Yuesheng's involvement with that person to have begun so early.

He hadn't died unjustly in his previous life!

Gu Jiuque looked at Bai Yuesheng with a dark, brooding gaze. This time, even if Bai Yuesheng managed to raise the sixteen million in compensation within the deadline set by the court, he would not let Bai Yuesheng off.

Because what Bai Yuesheng owed him was not merely a west wing burned to ashes, but five lives from the Gu family.

Bai Yuesheng grew flustered under his stare and couldn't help saying, "I—"

Just then, a sound came from outside the main gate.

Everyone looked toward it and saw Gu Yugui walk in completely unharmed, followed by a young man in a suit.