Chapter 225 - 211: I am Ruyan
Gu Qili tightened her grip on his hand and shook her head under his gaze: "It wasn’t me."
Mu Shuoqian showed no sign of surprise; he must have known it all along.
Besides her closest kin, no one else knew about this matter. Why did Mu Shuoqian understand it so clearly?
Gu Qili didn’t probe further into the reasons but continued, "Ruyan is my sister, my twin sister. I only met her once when we grew up, and that was the last time. After that, she disappeared."
Mu Shuoqian laid his hand on her shoulder and gently patted it.
"If it weren’t for the sudden news about the top social butterfly in high society, I wouldn’t have even known I had a sister. My dad never mentioned her to me, he never even spoke of my mom. They divorced before I was born, my mom left pregnant, and later, my dad found my mom and then brought me back. Growing up, everyone knew the Gu Family had one daughter, and only one daughter. So, when Ruyan appeared, everyone mistook her for me because by that time my dad was already in the ICU. They thought it was me becoming a social butterfly to raise money for my dad’s treatment; this thought seemed somewhat plausibly reasonable."
When Gu Qili reached this point, her nose felt slightly sour. She least wanted to mention the three years Gu Dezhong stayed in the hospital—it was the most difficult time of her life.
Mu Shuoqian’s heart suddenly twitched, his fingers tightened on her shoulder, and his gaze became as dense as ink that couldn’t dissolve.
Gu Qili felt his hand tense suddenly and couldn’t help but lift her eyelids to look at him, meeting his tranquil gaze. She continued, "I think, there can’t possibly be such similar people in the world. It’s so similar that I almost thought I was having a split personality. So, I tried every means to find her. Her attitude towards me was cold, even resentful. That was when I found out that before my dad got sick, he had been secretly sending money to her and my mother. My mother has a mental illness, which needed a lot of money for treatment. After my dad had an accident, their financial support was cut off. She came to Aus City looking for him, only to find out he had become a vegetative state patient. Having no choice, she named herself Ruyan and navigated through high society to earn medical expenses for our mother."
"Everyone mistook me for her, yet I couldn’t explain it because, my voice just wouldn’t come out. Everything she bore was for our mother, and what about me? Although I’m no longer the Gu Family’s young miss, I still have books to read and an ordinary life to lead. However, she traded her youth and body for scant money, something I probably couldn’t do in this lifetime. So, what right do I have to explain to everyone that it wasn’t me, it was my sister, I never did those things?" Gu Qili said, shaking her head, her eyes unable to hold back the tears from falling, "In my eyes, not only is what she did not shameful, but I’m also proud of her. Others only saw the Ruyan in the social circles, but not the Gu Yunxi who was so oppressed by life she couldn’t even lift her head. So, saying I am Ruyan, then I will be. It’s just some slander and ridicule, which she, too, had once endured."