Nan Zhou told Huo Xingye about it. "I don't remember ever meeting him before."
Huo Xingye said nothing.
Lu Zhou and Gu Tang had recently been arrested. Both had hired lawyers, and Gu Zheng had also arranged for his company's legal team to represent Nan Zhou.
Huo Xingye had contacted Gu Zheng himself. In a rare moment of agreement, the two were determined to get both men the longest detention terms the law allowed.
Lu Zhou hated Nan Zhou and had caused trouble because he refused to accept things. That much, Huo Xingye could understand.
But beyond jealousy, there was something else to Gu Tang's hatred.
Before, he had never been able to understand why Gu Tang had drawn those strange things in his room.
Later, Huo Xingye learned through the lawyers that Gu Tang had drawn those bizarre talismans because he insisted Nan Zhou was possessed by something unclean and wanted to drive out the evil spirit.
Huo Xingye knew perfectly well who the unclean one was. He had someone make a few inquiries about what happened three years ago and learned from an hourly housekeeper employed by Gu Tang's family that, shortly after Nan Zhou's car accident, Gu Tang had drawn the same symbols at home.
At the time, everyone's attention had been on Nan Zhou. No one had connected Gu Tang to the accident at all. They had merely thought he was mentally unstable, as though he had been badly frightened.
Later, Huo Xingye arranged for someone to visit Gu Tang at the detention center. A little bluffing was all it took for Gu Tang to confess.
"That day, he saw me using his name to hook up with the Fu Family's young master."
But in reality, Nan Zhou's gaze had never landed on him.
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