mutual benefit [gl]

This restaurant is the meeting place recommended by Liao Tezhu to Ji Cixi. It is far away from the city center, with small and quiet traffic, and it is a hidden place.

"Gao Xiu's home is now under strict control, just like the director. If you go out to find him, I'm afraid even ten Zhou Ming will not be able to protect you in the future."

Liao Tezhu's words last night were still vivid in his ears.

In the end, the three of them came up with a way to ask Special Assistant Liao to bring Gao Xiu here today, because Chen Zhishan still believes that he is in control of Special Assistant Liao, so if she was the one who contacted Gao Xiu, Chen Zhishan would not be suspicious.

The agreed meeting time was two o'clock in the afternoon, Ji Cixi looked down at his watch, the time was almost up.

Ten minutes later, just one minute after two o'clock, the door of Ji Cixi's box was pushed open, Gao Xiu stepped in, and Liao Tezhu was waiting in the box next to him.

"Lawyer Gao, you are finally willing to see me." Ji Cixi stood up, and she watched Gao Xiu walking towards her. Now he has recovered his previous brilliance, but the blue and black marks in his eye sockets can still make Ji Cixi Realized how tired and miserable he really was these days.

Gao Xiu didn't speak, just pulled out the chair and sat down. After sitting, he crossed his legs, raised his face and said with a smile:

"I heard that you have something to ask me, now that I'm here, you can talk."

"Do you want to order first?" Ji Cixi didn't answer him directly, but picked up the menu and looked through it patiently.

Gao Xiu stared deeply at Ji Cixi's white face, and suddenly smiled mockingly, then he suddenly slammed his fist on the table, but his face was still calm.

He curled the corners of his mouth and smiled warmly.

"You should know that I'm very busy preparing for the wedding. Is it interesting for Miss Ji to waste my time?"

Facing the already angry Gao Xiu, Ji Cixi still had a peaceful smile on his face.She gently closed the menu, put it aside, and said softly:

"The things I'm going to ask you next may evoke your bad memories. Based on this, I hope you can at least have a good meal and talk to me later."

Gao Xiu was a little stunned when he heard the words, he looked at Ji Cixi suspiciously, thought for a moment, then said with a cold face: "What exactly do you want to tell me?"

"It seems that Lawyer Gao really doesn't want to eat anymore." Ji Cixi smiled helplessly, "Since that's the case, then I won't play tricks."

After she finished speaking, she took out a document from the bag beside her and put it on the empty dining table.

"See for yourself."

Gao Xiu leaned over vigilantly and took the document in his hand, he just flipped through a few pages before closing it with a "snap", looking up and glaring at Ji Cixi angrily.

Obviously, Ji Cixi was not surprised by his reaction.

The eyes of the two faced each other silently like this, and they were indistinguishable from each other.

At this moment, Ji Cixi only had this one ray of hope left, she knew that Gao Xiu was a tough opponent, but it was the only way to save Chen Yuanzhen.

"You have investigated so much, what exactly do you want to know?" Gao Xiu asked.

"Then tell me," Ji Cixi said with a smile.

Gao Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Tell me why you have become so cowardly."

Gao Xiu turned his face away, as if he didn't intend to pay attention to Ji Cixi.

"You who lost your parents because of an explosion, what happened to you?" Ji Cixi asked.

But Gao Xiu stretched his lips, as if he still didn't intend to answer.

"Don't you think you are like a marionette now? You can't be free in what you do, say, or even who you want to spend your life with in the future. Is the prosperity and wealth you get in exchange really what you desire? "

"Miss Ji,"

Finally, under Ji Cixi's pressing step by step, Gao Xiu spoke.

"I want to ask you, if your parents are still alive, would you honor them and love them?"

Gao Xiu's words hit Ji Cixi's pain point, the unhealed wound in his heart was torn open again, the burning pain flowed from the inside out, Ji Cixi was so painful that he couldn't speak for a moment.

"The explosion at the age of six made me almost not know how to live. The person who saved me and gave me everything is the chairman, so now I should do what I should."

"Don't you really think that the explosion was..." Ji Cixi raised her voice, she wanted to explain to Gao Xiu that the explosion was not easy, but before she finished speaking, the other party had already taken the lead.

"It was an accident." Gao Xiu said firmly, he choked back what Ji Cixi hadn't finished speaking, as if he didn't intend to give Ji Cixi a chance to explain.

"Since the police report said it was an accident, it was an accident and there is nothing to say."

"It's not like that." Ji Cixi gritted her teeth and said word by word, the eagerness in her eyes gradually cooled down, and her tone was full of sarcasm.

"Actually, you know that, right?"

"Since I went to school, the chairman has personally attended every parent meeting of mine, and the parent's phone number left by the teacher has always been the chairman's number. In my memory after the age of six, I played the role of father. The only person is the chairman.”

Gao Xiu didn't answer Ji Cixi directly, but just talked to himself, as if making a self-statement.

"How painful it is to hate someone who gives you everything, but you have to hate, Miss Ji, can you understand?"

"So you want to numb yourself?" Ji Cixi asked, "He is using this so-called family affection to tie you down so that you can't hate him, because as long as you hate him, you will suffer. But, think about it yourself Think about it, even if you don’t hate him, at least don’t love him.”

"If you don't love, you will hate." Gao Xiu smiled wryly, "I am living in this situation, if I don't work hard to respect and love him as my father, then I will become an endless hatred."

After finishing speaking, Gao Xiu stood up, took out a lighter from his pocket, and lit the documents on the table.

The alarm device on the ceiling went off immediately after sensing the smoke, and then water fell, soaking the shredded paper that had turned to ashes on the ground.

Hearing the alarm, Liao Tezhu pushed the door open in horror, and what he saw was Ji Cixi sitting there with his head up, looking at Gao Xiu with cold eyes.

Gao Xiu smiled at Ji Cixi.

"The only thing I can do for you is to promise you that I will never love Chen Yuanzhen."

After saying that, he copied the pockets of his trousers and walked out of the box with a cold expression.

Seeing this, Liao Tezhu could only look at Ji Cixi helplessly, and then left the restaurant resentfully following Gao Xiu's footsteps.

And Ji Cixi could only press her swollen temples, and closed her eyes helplessly and frustrated.

Why do you want to live such a twisted life?