Chapter 1: Refusing Adoption

Chapter 1: Refusing Adoption

“This is fifty thousand. Uncle has already done more than enough for you.”

Gu Mang glanced at the bank card Lei Xiao had tossed onto the coffee table. Her cold eyes lifted slightly, the corners tilting upward with an inadvertent hint of defiance.

“No need, thank you, uncle,” she said casually, slouching on the sofa without a care.

Lei Xiao’s voice was icy. “You don’t need it? What about Gu Si?”

Gu Mang toyed with the toy gun in her hands. “I’ll take care of my brother.”

Lei Xiao snorted disdainfully. “You’ll take care of him? With what? Do you have money? What, you expect him to go out and work or beg on the streets with you, a high school dropout?”

Every time he saw Gu Mang, he felt ashamed. How did the Lei family end up with such an unworthy member?

Gu Mang twisted her lips into a faint, chilling smile, her eyes narrowing with a reckless gleam. “I have some money. You can leave yours to Gu Yin.”

Lei Xiao frowned at his striking niece, whose presence exuded a sinister charm he disliked.

From birth, everyone knew she would grow into a beauty.

He had spoiled his beautiful niece dearly.

But as she grew older, her temper grew stranger.

Although she was the eldest child at home, she never showed any leniency toward her younger siblings.

Touch her things, and she would glare with those eerie eyes and confiscate them.

Just touching her stuff was enough to earn her wrath — truly an ungrateful wretch.

His sister was kindhearted; even if the siblings didn’t like Gu Mang, they at least kept up appearances.

That changed when Gu Mang, still a child, beat a grown man into paralysis.

After that, their relatives feared and avoided her.

Though the man had committed a crime, how could such a young girl strike with such cruelty?

No trace of humanity.

Because she was so young, Gu Mang was sent to a special reform institution for a month, after which her sister took her back.

She stayed at home for a while, then was enrolled in elementary school.

But after just a few days, she was expelled for beating a classmate into the hospital.

She never knew how to study properly.

Her record was a mess.

Any family with such a child was doomed to misfortune for generations.

Now, with his sister and brother-in-law both deceased in an accident, three children were left without guardians.

He was treading carefully in politics, at a critical point in his ascent.

Gu Si and Gu Mang were both troublemakers—fighting, skipping classes, and shirking responsibilities.

Taking them in was courting disaster.

Especially in Mingcheng, a place full of influential figures.

If those two caused trouble, his career would be ruined.

Of his sister’s three children, only Gu Yin was obedient and sensible.

She excelled in studies and inherited her mother’s beauty, charming and likable.

Otherwise, his sister wouldn’t have left all her assets to Gu Yin, the second daughter.

Adopting Gu Yin was his way of repaying his sister’s lifelong care.

“Take care of yourself,” Lei Xiao said coldly, then strode out of the Gu household.

Gu Yin descended from upstairs, followed by Lei Xiao’s secretary carrying her luggage.

“Sis, even though mom and dad left me the house, you and Gu Si can live there first. I don’t mind,” Gu Yin said with a smile.

Gu Mang stuffed the toy gun into her backpack, raising an eyebrow. “No need.”

She glanced at the time.

Five o’clock. Time to pick up Gu Si from school.

She grabbed the black helmet beside her and headed outside.

A jet-black motorcycle was parked at the villa’s entrance.

The headlight lit up like the eyes of a demon, fierce and wild.

Gu Mang put on her helmet, stretched out her slender, straight legs, and clicked down the visor.

The motorcycle roared as it sped away.

Gu Yin approached a BMW, the secretary opening the door for her.

She glanced in the direction Gu Mang had left, her pupils narrowing, her gaze lingering for a few seconds.

Lei Xiao said, “Yinyin, get in.”

Obediently, Gu Yin responded, “Okay.”

Lei Xiao said coldly, “From now on, you’ll sever all ties with them completely. You will never come into contact with people of such low status again. They are only worthy of looking up to you.”

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