Chapter 2097: Interwoven Time and Space, Transformed Lives (43)

Chapter 2097: Chapter 2095: Interwoven Time and Space, Transformed Lives (43)

But that Qiaoqiao is different. Everything is unfamiliar to her since her return, including the Gu Garden, so it’s absolutely right to place the decision in her hands.

What comforts her is that Fong Lei and Liang Yan have come back.

On the first day of his return, Fong Lei came to see her, and upon learning about her cliff-jumping attempt at suicide, Fong Lei angrily put his hands on his hips, pacing back and forth in the room, sternly reprimanding, eventually even scolding Gu Qiaoqiao, simply acting like he was desperate for her to succeed.

At that time, Qin Yize also frowned as he stood nearby. He was about to speak up for Qiaoqiao when Fong Lei ended up scolding both of them.

Fong Lei, the big brother, had valid points and scolded the two into silence.

Gu Qiaoqiao thought it was really a pity; those words should have been heard by that Qiaoqiao because she truly worried that the Qiaoqiao returning from that beautiful world might once again choose death.

After all, there’s really nothing to hold onto in this world, but she has put in so much effort just to retain her.

Her younger cousin stays by her side, her younger uncle familiarizes himself with the Gu Family’s industry alongside Uncle Gu, while her older uncle and older aunt are living happily in Lian Family Village. They would soon move over, but would stay in Lian Family Village for some time before moving.

Gu Qiaoqiao thought her older uncle might have a sense of pride, given that he had been oppressed by those people before, living very miserably for years. Now that life has improved, he certainly wants to live well, and truly, no one would dare bully him anymore. After all, her uncle indeed has confidence in Lian Family Village, as Qin Yize’s friends and former comrades had visited him several times driving.

So you could say her uncle’s situation has greatly improved now; she has changed his fate. If that Qiaoqiao returns and gives up on all this, it would indeed be a huge blow to them all.

Therefore, Gu Qiaoqiao is meticulously organizing everything now, wanting to leave many reasons for the returning Qiaoqiao to hold on.

She hopes Qiaoqiao finds reasons to be attached to this world, so she can keep living well. Time will gradually dull everything, slowly burying all pain and sorrow.

Time is also the best remedy for healing wounds.

Eventually, she and Qin Yize would be together, and maybe they would have Xiao Bao and Xiao Bei. At the thought of the two children, Gu Qiaoqiao felt sad again.

At this moment, Gu Qiaoqiao was in her own space, where items belonging to Xiao Bao and Xiao Bei were. He let out a long sigh, knowing Xiao Bao must have sensed something strange after more than a month, and Xiao Bei certainly knows too.

Because that “her” certainly couldn’t be a mom like she could, she would have distanced herself from them, be cold, perhaps not even utter a word.

Thinking of this, Qiaoqiao felt deeply hurt, and even found it hard to breathe, but there was no way around it, facts were just as they were. She didn’t blame that “her”; if it were her, she might have done the same.

Therefore, the two must return to their proper places as soon as possible.

And before that, she had to accomplish what needed doing—Gu Qiaoqiao had already visited the sanatorium to cure Grandma An’s illness. Grandma An is not very old and can definitely support the An Family’s business for a few more years, then guide the An Family onto a proper track, as Gu Qiaoqiao observed, there are indeed two decent people among the An Family’s descendants.

These two are children from Chairman An’s younger brother’s family.

The two kids, one is twenty-two and the other twenty. One has started work and the other is still in school. Speaking of Chairman An’s younger brother, one can’t help but mention the matter concerning Chairman An’s father.

It is simply a mess—Grandma An, Chairman An’s father, and even the biological mother of Chairman An’s younger brother, were all innocent in it.

And the reasons didn’t relate to Gu Qiaoqiao; she couldn’t dig deeper as this was an An Family issue. But because of this past mess, the child born of that woman never got recognition, though the woman was undeniably strong, raising the child alone, finding him a wife and birthing children. Unfortunately, the woman had passed away long ago.

Chairman An’s half-brother has three children, two sons and a daughter. The daughter is still in middle school, and the eldest son works at an electromechanical factory. Their life is ordinary and plain, not affluent, given that even with An Family’s overwhelming wealth, they have nothing to do with it and never set foot in An Family.

They only quietly appeared once at Chairman An’s funeral, then were never seen again.

After that, the Lijing Ho Hotel was taken over by An Family’s kinfolk, and then Grandma An became a vegetative state, lying in the sanatorium. Though the conditions are acceptable, they’re worlds apart compared to before, and not one of the An Family’s relatives went to see her or cared for her.

Many people are just hoping she dies now because, with her death, An Family’s fortune would completely belong to them, and those kinfolk are making a mess of Lijing Ho every day.

Fortunately, Lijing Ho’s manager, an external hire, is now like a stabilizing force, greatly curbing those kinfolk in some respects, preventing them from self-destructing and leading to Lijing Ho’s downfall. After all, this manager is indeed under contract with Lijing Ho.

Even if they don’t employ him, the immense penalty for breach of contract isn’t something those kinfolk want to pay. Let alone the millions of dollars, they don’t want to part with even a penny.

Besides, this manager is quite capable. With him there, they only need to fight over wealth; everything else they can ignore.

Thus naturally, no one cared about unconscious Grandma An lying in the sanatorium.

It was unexpected that the two kids of Chairman An’s half-brother, knowing of the situation, supported by their parents, would take their sister, visiting and caring for Grandma An daily at the sanatorium.

They had been doing so before Gu Qiaoqiao arrived.

They had even persistently done this for over a year, rain or shine, earning every hospital staff member’s praise, while An Family’s kinfolk even several times considered stopping the medical fees over that year.

Fortunately, the manager intervened, so in the end, it didn’t come to that.

This general manager didn’t have any deep affection for Grandma An, having never met her, but financially he did what he could; after all, he had no connection to Grandma An and had no standing to fight for her rights.

But now that these two brothers and their little sister are caring for Grandma An, he feels reassured.