Gu Lanshan's big eyes stared straight at the cheque in her hand. Her vision became a bit blurry, and she seemed to see through those numbers to the past.....
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Gu Lanshan was not originally a Gu.
Her original surname was Ye, and her name was Chu Chu.
Charming Chu Chu.
In fact, Gu Lanshan truly lived up to her name. She was charmingly beautiful from a very young age, with particularly captivating big, watery eyes that were especially bright and pitch-black.
Before she was nine, Gu Lanshan did not live in Beijing but in a small town in Jiangnan Water Town, which was picturesque and had moist air.
Gu Lanshan's background was not good. She was raised in a single-parent family, and her father's identity was unknown; she grew up with her mother.
People said that her mother had attended university in Beijing, but in her senior year, she suddenly dropped out and returned to the small town, giving birth to her eight months later.
When Gu Lanshan was four, her mother married a teacher from the local middle school, and Gu Lanshan had a father.
When Gu Lanshan was five, her mother became pregnant and gave birth to a boy. She then had a younger brother, and their family lived harmoniously and happily.
However, when Gu Lanshan was six, her father suddenly fell ill, needing medication and injections for years, severely straining their financial capacity.
By the time she was seven, Gu Lanshan could already take care of her brother, cook, and help her mother sell small items at the night market.
When Gu Lanshan was eight, because someone bullied her brother, she fought off several naughty boys of the same age on her own. From then on, she became bolder and more fearless, learning at a young age not to let herself be wronged, retaliating in kind.
When Gu Lanshan turned nine, her father's illness suddenly worsened, requiring a large sum of money. Her mother wept bitterly before resolutely going to Beijing. When she returned, she brought back two people in luxurious clothes, a man and a woman. The man was impeccably dressed in a suit, and the woman wore an elegant white suit. They sized her up and down like merchandise in a store until the woman nodded in satisfaction. The man then handed her mother a cheque, and her mother said "I'm sorry" before turning away. Then, she was taken into a luxurious car by those two people.
The luxurious car drove on and on, taking her far away from her small Jiangnan Water Town, far away from her mother and home. She sat in the car, crying and crying. She had been a stubborn child from a young age, seldom crying even when she fell, but this time she cried until all her tears dried up, yet the car showed no sign of stopping, driving all the way to Beijing.
In Beijing, there were tall buildings that she had never seen before, cars that she had never seen so many of, and beautiful villa courtyards she had never seen before.
This pretty villa courtyard was her new home.
It was a very beautiful three-story villa with bright and clear glass windows.
Gu Lanshan was brought into the house by those two people. The living room was huge, and two middle-aged adults were sitting on the sofa. The ones who brought her in called them, "Mr. Gu, Mrs. Gu."
Mrs. Gu was adorned with gold and diamonds everywhere, which dazzled Gu Lanshan's eyes. She didn't know how much time had passed before Mrs. Gu, in a lukewarm tone, said, "From now on, you are the daughter of the Gu Family, named Gu Lanshan."
Before Gu Lanshan could speak, a burst of pleasant laughter came.