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"I just wanted to make sure you were okay."
The room was eerily quiet, with only the sound of breathing mingling in the air. After a long while, Li Hetai finally slowly raised his head and stared blankly at Gu Xinglan.
His pupils were devoid of any light, filled with suppressed darkness.
This feeling is familiar.
Like a bird bound in a cage, it has no soul, only a shell.
As if struck hard by a hammer, Gu Xinglan vaguely saw her past life through Li Hetai in front of her.
"How are you feeling?" I suddenly felt like asking this question.
"very tired."
Li Hetai slowly lowered his head and rested it on Gu Xinglan's shoulder.
The breath he exhaled clung to his thin short-sleeved shirt, quickly soaking the area.
"that……"
Liu Feizhou stood awkwardly in the corner, looking somewhat unnatural. "Mr. Gu, this is President Li's idea. It's normal to be a little tired now. It will be easier after you inherit the position of family head."
The boy's head slowly drooped into his arms. Gu Xinglan raised his hand and touched the black hair, brushing the strands back.
"Your methods are too radical."
Even as she said this, Gu Xinglan lacked confidence.
If he hadn't gone through all that, would Li Hetai have become the powerful business tycoon he was more than a decade later?
“Young Master Li is very smart, but he still has weaknesses in other areas. Being a bit radical is a last resort.”
Liu Feizhou shuffled over and sat down opposite Gu Xinglan.
"President Li must have gone through a lot of trials to get to this position. It's normal for Young Master Li to have the experience now."
“Normal?” Gu Xinglan looked at the emaciated boy in her arms. “What kind of normal is this? A child’s mental health is also very important. Are you willing to raise a successor who appears successful on the surface but is riddled with holes inside and could collapse at any moment?”
The two men faced off stiffly.
The temperature kept getting hotter and hotter, and the room felt like a sauna.
Liu Feizhou's face was also flushed from the heat. "Forget it, this isn't something I can decide on my own. If you really want to blame someone, you should blame President Li. That was President Li's plan." After saying that, he prepared to leave.
The door had barely opened a crack when Liu Feizhou's eyes widened, and he quickly slammed it shut.
Two loud bangs echoed as the door was pounded on and shook.
"Feizhou, change the driver. It's time to teach him etiquette."
The stern voices from outside carried in word for word.
Gu Xinglan looked at the door, then at the child in her arms, and made a quick decision, "If we can't afford to offend them, can't we at least avoid them? Shall we run away or not?"
Upon hearing the word "escape," Liu Feizhou tensed up and quickly blocked the only window in the room.
"Liu Feizhou! I know you're in there! Open the door!!"
The door was pounded so hard that the entire door frame was shaking.
Gu Xinglan carried Li Hetai on her back and ran to Liu Feizhou.
"What about you? Are you leaving or not?"
What shocking words? Liu Feizhou shook his head, refusing to budge.
"You...you can't leave through the window!"
Gu Xinglan paused, looking around. In the corner of his eye, he saw Li Hetai with his arm around his neck, a smile on his face.
"……never mind."
A minute passed, and the door still hadn't opened. The people outside were running out of patience.
The temperature has been above 30 degrees Celsius for the past few days, and even now at night it's over 20 degrees Celsius, so you can imagine how hot it is, especially since there's no air conditioning here.
The man, covered in sweat, looked grim and prepared to call the villa's housekeeper to bring the keys.
When Hong Liang arrived, his smile was somewhat stiff, he was drenched in sweat, and his clothes were not properly on, hanging loosely.
"Please open the door, I suspect he knocked out the flying boat."
We must not underestimate this child; he is like a wolf whose canine teeth have not been removed, and he could bite them and devour them if we are not careful.
"Knock him out? He wouldn't dare!"
Hong Liang feigned agreement with the other person's words and picked out one of the keys from the pile of keys to open the door.
The door opened as soon as it was inserted into the hole.
Sure enough, Liu Feizhou was lying on the ground inside.
"Teacher Liu!" Hong Liang felt a chill in his heart.
If that guy escapes to the third floor, Yu Yue will be in danger. Last time they encountered Li He Tai on the way, the kid was actually holding a knife. If they hadn't called Li Tai He halfway, someone might have been killed.
"Hey, did you see Young Master Li go down the stairs?"
Even after receiving a negative answer, Hong Liang was still worried and quickly sent a message to Yu Yue on the third floor, telling her to take it easy.
After sending the message, he called a maid and said, "Tell those guards on the stairs to be careful. Also, call the master and tell him that the young master skipped school and beat up the teacher so badly that he ended up in the hospital."
"Give the hospital's phone number and take Teacher Liu to the hospital."
After giving several orders, the people around Hong Liang looked at him with admiration and approval.
A calm and composed demeanor in the face of adversity is what a steward of a large family should be like.
"and many more."
The person on the ground coughed a few times, got up, and said, "I'm fine, I just have a bit of heatstroke, no need to call an ambulance."
"No."
Hong Liang strode over, looking at the person on the ground with a serious expression. "Heatstroke can also be fatal. It's safer to go to the hospital."
The room was so big that there was nowhere to hide. Hong Liang peered out the window and could vaguely see a shadow pacing back and forth below.
"Go, bring that guy from the backyard to the main hall." Hong Liang called security.
After giving all the instructions, he scrolled through his phone contacts and found Yu Yue.
"Have you left? Call the master now."
The two were very familiar with the process of filing a complaint.
If you want to discipline Le Ho Tae, Le Tae Ho's words are more effective.
The call had barely ended when the phone was snatched away. Before Hong Liang could react, a sharp pain shot through the back of his neck. His pupils contracted sharply, his body stiffened for a moment, then everything went black, and he collapsed limply to the ground.
The door clicked shut and was locked again.
Dizzy and lightheaded from being knocked on, Hong Liang slowly started bleeding from his nose. When he saw Gu Xinglan, he had a sense of déjà vu.
Gu Xinglan let out a long sigh of relief.
The two of them had been hiding behind the door panel. The doors of the Changgu villas were large enough to hide both of them.
"Tell me, you look like a decent person, so why do you always do things that bully children?"
He took the other person's phone, flipped through it a few times, retrieved the instructions, and then used his own phone to send a message to Song Zhengsi to hide. Finally, he squatted down next to Hong Liang.
"It's very hot, isn't it?"
Gu Xinglan carefully buttoned up the other person's clothes one by one.
When the clothes are tied all the way up, sweat quickly forms on the neck.
“This is a warning.” After saying that, Gu Xinglan took out the hook rope she was carrying.
Originally intended for climbing through windows, it's now perfect for tying people up.
The rope quickly bound Hong Liang.
Hong Liang twisted into a caterpillar shape on the ground, his face flushed red, and he mumbled "you" for a long time without being able to utter a complete sentence.
outside.
The etiquette teacher sensed something was wrong and was about to turn around when she was interrupted by Liu Feizhou's cry of pain. She quickly went over to help him up.
The two walked further and further away, and Liu Feizhou blinked a few times uneasily.
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