Stars In His Eyes
Chapter 961: Termination of the Adoption Relationship 6

Chapter 961: Chapter 961: Termination of the Adoption Relationship 6

Seeing the disheveled Gu En sitting on the ground before them, the Gu Family felt a pang of compassion. After all, this was the child they had cherished for over a decade, the child they had watched grow up. Originally just another child from Zhou Family, but now a shadow of their former self.

But what good does this compassion do?

Has Gu En committed few wrongs over the years? Has the Gu Family not dealt with cleaning up after Gu En’s messes?

Grandma Gu asked herself. Since the Gu Family adopted Gu En, they had treated her with nothing but kindness, loving her as they would their own flesh and blood.

Seeing their granddaughter, whom they had raised with love and effort, become what she is now, Grandma Gu couldn’t help but feel heartache. Father Gu and Mother Gu were no different in their sorrow, but that sorrow and heartache were no longer of any use.

The mistakes Gu En had committed were too numerous. It wasn’t just Zhou Hongjin’s case that weighed upon her; the Gu Family could no longer afford to take responsibility for Gu En.

"Xiao’en, the Gu Family has raised you for many years and has done right by you. From now on, you have nothing to do with the Gu family. No matter how many years you have to serve in prison, you must use this time to reform yourself. Once you’re out, be a good person." Grandma Gu sighed, but she never offered to bring Gu En back home. "The Gu Family will find you the best lawyers in the world, trying to have you spend as few years in prison as possible."

"Try my best? Done right by me?" Gu En sobbed quietly on the floor, then suddenly snorted coldly, lifting her eyes to look at the three Gu Family members. "Easily said, spend fewer years in prison? The Zhou Family and Xing Ye won’t let me off. Ten years, twenty years - that’s considered few? When that time comes and I am released, my entire life will have been ruined! Gone!"

"This is the consequence of your own actions! Why did you kill Zhou Hongjin in the first place!" Grandma Gu was both angry and heartbroken. How could she not know that Xing Ye wouldn’t easily let Gu En go? And with Lin Chan around, Lin Chan would certainly take this opportunity to kick someone already down. How much Lin Chan hated Gu En was no secret to the Gu Family.

"He didn’t listen to me; he brought this upon himself. I regret not successfully killing them all back then!" Gu En growled.

"Grandma, Dad, Mom, you keep saying that you have done right by me, that your conscience is clear. In the end, isn’t it just because I, Gu En, am your adopted daughter, not your biological daughter? I’m just the daughter you can summon or dismiss at will. If, at this time, your biological daughter, Gu Zhilan, were the one sitting in prison begging for your help, would you be so heartless as to sever our parent-child relationship, abandon her in prison to fend for herself, and still tell her that you’ve done right by her?"

Gu En’s laugh grew colder, "Of course you wouldn’t! You’re abandoning me for the sole reason that I am not your biological daughter! All this talk about having a clear conscience, about doing right by me! However you put it, I’ve called you ’Dad,’ ’Mom,’ and ’Grandma’ for over a decade! This is how you treat me now? Are you truly so heartless as to watch me perish in prison?"

"Xiao’en, how can you say such things?" Mother Gu was somewhat astounded, "Although we adopted you, we have loved you as our own for all these years. How can you utter such hurtful words?"

"You still don’t know how to repent, still don’t understand your mistakes?" Grandma Gu felt a dull pain in her chest. "Who let you bring up the name of Gu Zhilan? If our Zhilan were still alive today, if she were still with us, I can guarantee that such a well-behaved and sensible girl could never commit the deeds you have! So your hypotheticals, we need not respond to them!"