Chapter 75 - 71: Call Him Brother-in-law

The living room was very quiet. Qiao Yuxian crouched on the ground, her head leaning against Gu Yanjing’s leg. Gu Yanjing looked down at her and, after a moment, gently patted her head. Feeling the warmth of his hand, Qiao Yuxian held onto his hand and pulled it forward a bit, placing it on her face. Gu Yanjing’s hand stroked her face. Neither of them spoke, but Qiao Yuxian’s heart gradually calmed down. She closed her eyes, feeling the warmth of Gu Yanjing’s hand soothing her inner turmoil. After a while, she heard footsteps approaching. Small footsteps, quite hurried. It was obviously Little Zhi Ang’s. She didn’t open her eyes and just continued to listen. Gu Yanjing also heard the footsteps, but he didn’t look up, keeping his gaze fixed on Qiao Yuxian’s long eyelashes. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Qiao Zhiang standing in front of him, and then... His small hand suddenly grabbed Gu Yanjing’s fingers, forcefully pulling his hand away from Qiao Yuxian’s face. With hands on his hips and his eyes glaring, his expression was very fierce, and despite his tender voice, he sounded exceptionally cold and harsh: "Don’t touch my sister!" Gu Yanjing looked up at him. The moment their eyes met, Qiao Zhiang’s expression instantly fell. Frightened, his little shoulders shrank back. Qiao Yuxian chuckled, opened her eyes to look at Qiao Zhiang, and seeing his slightly bewildered expression, she sat up on the sofa, pulled him next to her, and rubbed his little face: "So fierce." Qiao Zhiang pressed his lips together without speaking. Qiao Yuxian rubbed his face again: "Let me introduce you to someone, this is..." Qiao Yuxian cupped his little face to make him look at Gu Yanjing: "You should call him brother-in-law." Gu Yanjing looked at Qiao Yuxian, then turned to Qiao Zhiang. Qiao Zhiang looked at him timidly, clearly scared but stubbornly keeping his lips tightly shut. Not hearing him speak, Gu Yanjing narrowed his eyes slightly. Qiao Zhiang immediately hid beside Qiao Yuxian, avoiding his gaze. Qiao Yuxian looked at Gu Yanjing and smiled: "The child is shy, embarrassed." Gu Yanjing looked at her with an expression that said, "Do you really expect me to believe that?" "When a daughter gets married, family members will have some resistance." Qiao Yuxian patted Gu Yanjing’s hand and said, "Your family doesn’t have a daughter, so you can’t really understand this feeling." Gu Yanjing: "......" After sitting on the couch for a while, Qiao Yuxian went to make tea for Gu Yanjing. Qiao Zhiang didn’t dare to be alone with Gu Yanjing, sticking to Qiao Yuxian like a little tail. Seldom having entered the kitchen here, Qiao Yuxian took a moment to find things. After she finished making the tea and came out, Gu Yanjing glanced at her phone on the coffee table and said: "There’s a message." Qiao Yuxian poured him a cup of tea, placed it beside him, and then picked up her phone to check. It was a message from Liu Zhou. It contained a video of the interrogation of the man surnamed Gu, another video related to Qiao Lech, and an audio message. Qiao Yuxian took her phone to the first-floor bathroom. Qiao Zhiang immediately wanted to follow her, but Gu Yanjing grabbed him by the collar. Qiao Zhiang moved a step forward, only to be pulled back. He turned to look at Gu Yanjing. Gu Yanjing directly placed him on the sofa: "Sit." Qiao Zhiang sat upright on the sofa, hands on his knees, not daring to move. The bathroom. Qiao Yuxian locked the door and first checked the interrogation video. The video didn’t have Liu Zhou’s voice, only the man’s confession. "After nine last night, we left the Lin Entertainment celebration and wanted to find some girls at the Jing University gate. As soon as the car stopped at the gate, Jiang Shouzhuo saw this girl. After seeing her, Jiang Shouzhuo didn’t wait for anyone else and had me drive after her." Hearing the name Jiang Shouzhuo, Qiao Yuxian’s lowered eyelashes trembled slightly. "There’s a part outside Jing University that’s a blind spot for surveillance. We followed her there, and Jiang Shouzhuo dragged her into the car. The woman kept resisting and tried to call for help. Jiang Shouzhuo threw her phone away midway and hit her in the car because she kept struggling." Qiao Yuxian gripped her phone tightly. "After arriving at the club, Jiang Shouzhuo tore her clothes, tied her up, and hit her, even having someone film from all angles. I don’t know how that girl offended him. After humiliating her, he didn’t do anything to her. He just threw her to us, telling us to have fun." Qiao Yuxian’s hand gripped the sink so tightly that her index and middle fingernails broke, her fingertips bleeding. "But when I untied her, she ran like crazy into that compartment. By the time we chased after her, she had barred the door from inside and we couldn’t open it. I didn’t touch her, really, I didn’t. It was Jiang Shouzhuo, it was all Jiang Shouzhuo..." The video ended there. Qiao Yuxian’s face was pale, her neck tense. Her fingers lingered on another video for a long moment before she played it. The video played, filled with Qiao Lech’s desperate cries. And the sick laughter of several men. Along with Jiang Shouzhuo’s voice: "Didn’t you like me? Now that I’m stripping you, you should be happy. Why cry? Save your strength, you’ll have more reason to cry later." "Damn, what kind of people are the Qiao Family? Someone like you deserves to like me? People like you, I don’t even want to play with, you’re just boring!" "Make sure the video is good. Go back and tell Qiao Yuxian. If she doesn’t behave, I’ll release this video. I want to see how much her sister weighs in her heart." "Let the guys take a look first, and decide how to have fun later..." Qiao Yuxian turned off the video, leaning against the sink as her chest heaved fiercely. Her face was ashen, but her eyes were fiercely red. The bathroom seemed to freeze over, cooling inch by inch. Qiao Yuxian played Liu Zhou’s audio message. "Sister Xian, their video was shot with a camera. It’s on a memory card; I checked, and it hasn’t been distributed yet." Qiao Yuxian sent him an audio message: "Take care of everyone involved last night. I want this matter to disappear." After sending the message, she opened the bathroom door and walked out. Gu Yanjing had been watching the direction of the bathroom; seeing her expression when she emerged, he stood up. Qiao Zhiang also ran to her side: "Sister." Qiao Yuxian patted his little head: "I’m fine. Be good and stay home, don’t run around. I have something to do." "Okay." Qiao Zhiang replied. Qiao Yuxian glanced at Gu Yanjing. Both of them headed outside. When they reached the yard, Qiao Yu happened to return. "Yu Xian." Qiao Yu called out her name, immediately giving the man beside her a look. He frowned slightly, but before he could think further, Qiao Yuxian interrupted him. "Dad." Qiao Yuxian said, "Lech and Auntie are upstairs. A doctor will be over soon, someone very reliable." "Where are you going?" Qiao Yu asked. "To handle something." She said no more, not lingering, and got into the car with Gu Yanjing. Gu Yanjing started the car, and Qiao Yuxian opened her laptop while saying: "Jiang Family."