The Canary that couldn't escape

After a moment of thought, Gu Hai added, "Spare his life. No matter what, he is still a child of the Gu family."

Gao Meiru’s eyes drooped, concealing the fleeting ruthlessness in them, "Don’t worry, Dad. Whatever he is, he’s still Chengcheng’s brother. I won’t do anything to him."

"That’s good. As for his marriage with Zhenzhen, go and talk to them about it."

"Mm."

Once Gu Hai left, Gao Meiru sat back down, her well-maintained fingers grasped a red ’cannon’ chess piece and placed it directly on the black ’general’.

There’s a chess move called "horse after cannon," where everyone thinks her weapon is the horse, but it’s actually the cannon behind it.

No one knew her true objective.

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