Chapter 1149: Chapter 1149: Sudden Reversal, Everything Turns to Ashes

What are you taking?

Shangguan Wanwan looked at Gu Jingyan with some surprise.

Could it be that Mr. Gu scratched out names from the family register and used a different pen?

But Gu Jingyan’s hands are empty.

Mr. Gu looked at his grandson standing there foolishly without reacting, frowned, and scolded, "Don’t play dumb. You, rascal, haven’t you learned to smoke recently? Hand it over!"

Gu Jingyan: "..."

How did the old man know?

Recently, he was a bit confused, occasionally lighting one out of melancholy, watching the swirling smoke and clearing his mind.

Of course, he also admitted wanting to recreate that dreamlike smoky and misty scene, calling out to the delicate, beautiful figure calling him brother.

He coldly threw the lighter from his pocket to the old man.

"Want to burn Zuzi’s name, right? Good, might as well burn mine too." He coldly, lazily, indifferently threw out the words.

Mr. Gu ignored him.

The atmosphere around him was gloomy as if nearing the end.

"Poof."

The lighter flame leapt up.

Mr. Gu took a deep breath, spread open the thick family register, and ignited a page in the middle.

The golden flame instantly swallowed the entire piece of old, fragile paper.

With the wind, the entire family register started burning with a whoosh!

In the old man’s hand, it was as if he held a ball of fire.

Finally, someone felt something was wrong.

Wasn’t the plan to burn the names of Gu Yuzhi, Gu Qiusha, and Zuzi and expel these three from the Gu Family?

"Mr. Gu, don’t hurt your hand, I’ll help you extinguish it with water." Shangguan Wanwan quickly picked up a cup of tea next to her to pour over.

Indeed, the elderly are not useful anymore; even burning a piece of paper can go wrong.

But before she could pour the tea, Mr. Gu slapped it away: "No need to interfere."

Gu Yuzhi was also stunned: "Dad..."

"Shut up, I don’t want to hear you speak. You are not my own." Mr. Gu glared at him fiercely, fire-lit, appearing even more aged, turning to Gu Qiusha: "Sha Sha, tell me, do you hate him? What do you think of him?"

Gu Qiusha, completely overwhelmed, paused at his words, thought of something, and then firmly said: "Dad, the mistake was committed by my brother and me together. I don’t hate him, I am willing... to bear the consequences together with him, to live and die together. If he alone is punished, I will never be happy in my lifetime, Dad! So, please expel me and my brother from the family. Just please keep Zuzi, Zuzi is innocent..."

"I knew you were a silly girl..." Mr. Gu closed his eyes, looking fatigued, but veins stood out in his hands, his tone solemn, announcing to everyone—

"Sha Sha is my biological daughter, Zuzi is my biological granddaughter. If I can’t protect them, what kind of old fool am I?"

"You’ve all heard, they are not blood-related, yet they are in love, willing to live and die together."

"If forced to slander or separate them, it will only breed unhappiness!"

"So-called family honor is worthless in front of my daughter and granddaughter’s happiness!"

"I’m incompetent, stubborn prejudices, outdated family rules, should have been abolished long ago!"

In the flames, the elder’s words startled everyone’s hearts.

The old man who was stubborn all his life and valued family rules and honor the most, at this moment, chose to unconditionally protect his daughter and granddaughter, and unexpectedly, burned the family register for them?!

The thick family register turned to a pile of ashes, scattered by the old man on the ground, ground to dust.

Gu Qiusha burst into tears, rushing forward: "Dad, your hand, hand..."

Everyone was stunned by this unexpected scene; no one cared about the elder’s burned calloused and mottled palm.