A lifetime of peace and care

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LTPC Chapter 29: Dissatisfied

Yi Ran feared that Gu Tingchuan was being too severe and might scare Gu Tai. She silently frowned and struggled to say, “Today, I spoke with Teacher Yao. He said that Hao Ziyue claimed that you’re always making a lot of the kids in class think that he was bullying you, whether it was breaking an umbrella or throwing a pencil box, including this t-shirt incident.”

Gu Tai’s popularity in the classroom was already very high, making it easy for him to completely isolate Hao Ziyue and pushing him to the point that everyone would hate him all the more. As a result, Hao Ziyue could only intensity the use of violence as a means of gaining “attention” and “friendship.”

Gu Tai’s face was still expressionless, but when he turned to look at her, his eyes were fierce. “Anyway, you all believed what he said. I have no evidence to prove that these were all done by him, so I won’t even bother.”

Gu Tingchuan smiled and said without any fluctuations in his tone, "Okay, here’s what you did. Your uncle had thought of the script for you. You broke the umbrella first, then hid the pencil, and made everyone mistakenly think that classmate did it. He was angry with you and rebuked you, and you never fought back but allowed others to see it. Later, at the sports meeting, you wanted to escalate the situation, but you did not expect that the girl would get injured. "

Yi Ran understood that Gu Tingchuan’s assumptions were not just hypotheses. The small details had initially been confusing, but now they made perfect sense. All the fragments were now connected into a whole picture, making it more believable. In the end, all these were Gu Tai’s tricks.

She messaged her eyebrows tiredly, lowered herself in front of him, and looked at his silent face very seriously. “Jia Jia went and confronted Hao Ziyue because she likes you. Do you understand? Gu Tai, you should not allow those who loves you to get hurt.”

Gu Tai had always been an excellent boy in her eyes. Compared to the slightly more arrogant Gu Tingyong, he seemed to be more like Director Gu. He was prideful and a little unyielding, looked handsome, and was especially fun to tease.

However, this kind of precocious child was no match against a man like Gu Tingchuan, who had faced countless difficulties and who was strong and independent.

Gu Tingchuan began to guess his motive. “Did he first look at you unpleasantly? But, he didn’t really dare to do anything to you.”

Gu Tai could not find any words to cover himself, when his uncle had correctly guessed everything he had thought. The fortress of his thoughts fell apart in an instant. He couldn’t hold back so much thought, and finally opened his mouth, his voice shaking. “He couldn’t bully me, but he bullies my friends. I was just giving him back what he was owed."

This was the first time Yi Ran heard Gu Tai speak in such a tearful voice, the sound like a muffled, whimpering little beast. Her heart softened, but Gu Tingchuan did not stop. He lowered his head slightly to look at his nephew and asked, “Why would you do this kind of thing?”

“Why not? He deserves it.”

“Gu Tai, you don’t have the right to manipulate and deprive others of life, do you know? You are 100 times worse than your classmate. If this goes on, in the future, perhaps you might even wonder why you can’t put people to death?”