Rebirth of an Idle Noblewoman

Chapter 68: Tragic End

The words on Master Gu's tongue was a question, a question on whether everything happening was planned by her hands. But the words refused to come out.

Her words dripped with acid as she spoke, each of it piercing his heart and rendered him unable to move with the sheer coldness and resentment in it.

"As soon as I was taken in, you began to guard yourselves against me, and even started enabling Gu Xijin! How is this my fault? I was an orphan with no parents, a poor worm that nobody wanted... but once I had parents, I am the illegitimate daughter who is ungrateful and has ill-intentions!"

Her voice had gotten slightly hoarse. "Grandfather, I really do appreciate what you have done, taking me out from there. I've always thought that you were the only one who treated me with a semblance of fairness, until you came back this time, I realized I was wrong. You just latched onto my desire for family and brought me back, waiting for the right time to sell me off to the highest bidder. You'd even throw me back out without mercy if the need ever arises."

"I was so stupid, thinking that I could ever gain any of your approval, but... an illegitimate daughter who had been abandoned from the beginning, whatever she does would forever be in vain, wouldn't it?"

Gu Xiqiao's vision was getting blurry as she thought of her previous life, she had always been regarded as expendable by the Gu family. With no proper help nor care given to her, she was still an abandoned child in the end. It was such a simple reality, and yet it had taken her life to truly understand what it had been.

"Have a good look at this document, and consider this the last thing I will ever do for the Gu family. From today onwards, I'm severing all ties with this family!"

She released a deep breath, placing the stack of papers in her hand on the table. She smiled lightly at Master Gu, her eyes once again devoid of any emotions. "You will come to need these things in the future, but remember, my debt to the Gu family has been paid off! From now on, whatever that happens has nothing to do with me! Therefore, it'll be best not to provoke me either. Put a leash on Gu Xijin, you hear me?"

Reigning in her emotions and expressions, she once more bore an indifferent expression that she had come in with, her back straight and her head lifted in pride. The same instance she opened the door and walked out, a bolt of lightning struck through the sky. The light from it made her eyes flash eerily, the coldness in it more vibrant. The rain started off softly, gathering momentum before falling heavily from the sky, joining the tears on her face that were falling from her eyes.

The dull roar from the thunder sounded, exploding in her ears and covering the sky and earth with its majestic sight and momentum. The dark night sky seemed to be covered entirely in its light.

The petite figure walked into the night slowly, and the servant that had been standing by the door was petrified, an umbrella held tightly in his hand as they didn't dare to offer it to the person who had walked out. Not everyone was heartless after all, but all they could do was feel regret as they watched the scene play out.

Master Gu, who had been sitting on the sofa in shock, finally blinked back to reality. He reached out to the papers that Gu Xiqiao had left behind. After reading the first piece, his withered hand started trembling, his heart thumping violently in his chest as a wave of pain and regret swept through his body.

Gu Zuhui and Su Wan'er saw him with one hand clenching his heart, and hurried over to help him.

Master Gu waved them off coldly however, and with one hand clutching his chest, his other hand continued to flip through the stack of documents. The more he read, the more upset he became. When he was finally done reading through the documents, he couldn't help the tears that trailed down his eyes. "I have always prided myself in being wise all my life, but I have watched with my own eyes what would have been the best successor of the Gu family leave just like that! It's retribution, it's all retribution! Cough cough!"