An Empress's Return to the Present: The Real Young Lady's Strong Comeback

Chapter 124: Crime of abandonment

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

The thoughts in Ji Gao’s mind only wandered for a moment before disappearing. Even Gu Xiao, who was beside Ji Gao and sensitive to emotions, did not notice the sudden change in Ji Gao.

Ji Gao waited obediently for Old Master Ji to talk to Ji Chen for a while before bringing Gu Xiao to Old Master Ji.

Old Master Ji glanced at Gu Xiao indifferently before shifting his gaze away, as if he did not want to look at her at all.

“Who is this? Why did you bring her in front of me?” There was a hint of disgust in Old Master Ji’s words. His undisguised disgust made everyone around him hear him clearly.

Ji Chen gave Gu Xiao a comforting look and then looked at Old Master Ji helplessly.

“Grandpa, this is my biological sister, Xiaoxiao. She’s also your biological granddaughter!”

Hearing Ji Chen’s words, Old Master Ji looked directly at Gu Xiao. Then, he looked at Ji Gao. His intimidating gaze made Ji Gao unable to raise his head.

“Ji Gao! What exactly happened?!”

Old Master Ji did not pay much attention to the news online. Coupled with the fact that he had been traveling previously, this was the first time he had heard of the relationship between Gu Xiao and Ji Yao.

Cold sweat trickled down Ji Gao’s forehead. He explained the entire situation as quickly as he could.

After hearing Ji Gao’s words, a dark look flashed across Old Master Ji’s eyes. He reprimanded the other party, “Look at what ridiculous things you’ve done!”

“This is my fault. I was negligent.” Ji Gao nodded in agreement.

Old Master Ji snorted and looked at Gu Xiao again.

He sized Gu Xiao up as if she was an object.

He saw that the other party’s eyes were clear and firm, and her expression was natural when facing him, without retreating at all. Forcibly, he nodded in satisfaction.

Then, he said in a charitable tone, “Since you’ve returned to our Ji family, stay obediently. Our Ji family has a big business and doesn’t care about raising another person like you. However, you have to remember that what shouldn’t be yours, you should not think too much about it!”

With that, Old Master Ji glanced at Gu Xiao threateningly.

When Gu Xiao heard Old Master Ji’s words, she snorted in her heart. It seemed that compared to the timid her in her previous life, Old Master Ji was satisfied with her in this life. After all, the other party had said that he was willing to let her stay and not die outside.

But… she didn’t need it.

“Old Master, you have to be clear. It’s not that I want to return to the Ji family, but you have no choice but to beg me to return!”

As Gu Xiao spoke, she glanced at Old Master Ji arrogantly, as if she did not take him seriously at all.

Ever since Old Master Ji became rich, he had never been treated like this.

Faced with Gu Xiao’s attitude, his face darkened and even the veins on his hand that was holding the walking stick bulged.

“In the end, you’re a wild girl with no upbringing! Who taught you to speak to your elders like this?! Moreover, our Ji family has a big business. How could it be that our Ji family begged you to come back?!”

Gu Xiao sneered in front of Old Master Ji. “Of course it was your Ji family who begged me to come back. If 1 was outside, your Ji family would have committed the crime of abandonment! You would have to go to jail! Wasn’t it your Ji family who begged me to come back?”

Ji Yao and Jiang He did not expect Gu Xiao to get into a conflict with Old Master Ji before they could start sowing discord.

Seeing Old Master Ji glaring at Gu Xiao, they felt a little pleased.

On the other side, Old Master Ji was completely enraged by Gu Xiao’s words. A trace of coldness flashed across his turbid eyes.

“So what if there’s such a crime of abandonment? I can find a way to get rid of you without anyone finding out.” Old Master Ji looked at Gu Xiao darkly. “Do you want to give it a try?”

The Ji family was not an ordinary family.

The law was just to control those ordinary people. It could not control them!

Gu Xiao was not afraid of Old Master Ji’s words at all. She even shrugged nonchalantly at him.

“I’m afraid you don’t know some of the news on the Internet, right? There’s a lot of attention on me and the Ji family on the Internet now. Do you want to try and see if your Ji family can survive if something really happens to me?”

As Gu Xiao spoke, she took out her phone and opened a webpage. She waved it in front of Old Master Ji..