Reborn and Counterattack: The CEO's Powerful Sweetheart

Gu Tong threw out a myriad of questions, even Gu Qing didn’t know which one to answer first.

Gu Qing couldn’t help but furrow his brow, took a sip of tea, and said, ”With so many questions, I don’t know where to start. Perhaps, I should first tell you about the past.”

This statement made Gu Tong quiet down, she understood in her heart what Gu Qing meant by ”the past”—it was nothing more than explaining the many secrets of Li Yan’s past.

Starting from the beginning, Gu Tong was quite willing to listen...

”When Longxing Country was first established, there were many families that helped found the country, they were all colossal entities, and Longxing Country held them in awe. The elder of the Li Family was at the forefront. Back then, the Li Family was such a steadfast existence. Although he has now disappeared without a trace, and the Li family within has crumbled terribly, to this day, the Li Family is still the leading powerful family.”

Gu Qing took another sip of tea, casually discussing the knowledge of the past about powerful families, and said, ”It’s well known that the elder of the Li Family had an only son, who is Li Yan’s father, Li Quan, and now he and his former wife have been missing for many years, their whereabouts unknown!”

Yet another disappeared person.

Gu Tong frowned, but had not thought that the two authoritative figures of the Li Family would just disappear without a trace like that.

”Wait, why is it ’former wife’?”

According to common sense, a former wife is a divorced wife. This Li Quan leaving home but still taking his former wife along seems rather too bizarre.

”When Li Quan married, Longxing Country was just being established, and the system of multiple wives wasn’t yet banned, so Li Quan had two wives, one being his former wife, Bai Su, Li Yan’s birth mother, and the other being the eldest daughter of the Gong Family, Gong Qingwan. As per convention, Bai Su never divorced Li Quan, yet for some unknown reason, she became the former wife.”

The past events are just a part of the grievances among powerful families, and not many people truly know the specifics of how things were.

Even Gu Qing only knew one layer of it and didn’t know anything deeper. He deliberately brought these things up; it was just to let Gu Tong know the background, nothing more.

”Then continue.”

Gu Tong lowered her eyelids, and hadn’t expected this matter to become so complex, especially Li Yan’s identity being so hard to decipher.

”Next, I want to tell you about things from over twenty years ago. Back then, the Academy ventured onto an island to eradicate the bandits hiding there, but failed unexpectedly. Old Dad led trainees to rescue, yet due to an accident, he nearly perished in a sea of fire.”

”At the time, Deputy General Feng Yi went to reinforce, but unexpectedly encountered the eldest son of the Li Family, Li Quan. At that time, Li Quan, leading a less than five-year-old Li Yan, helped Old Dad eliminate the bandits in exchange for a trade, saving Old Dad’s life, and requested Old Dad to hide Li Yan for twenty years!”

”Old Dad, eager to save lives, agreed readily! Old Dad was sincere and honest, deeply grateful to Li Quan, and after hiding Li Yan, he sent money monthly to Ma Zhang’s family to support Li Yan. After Li Yan grew up, Old Dad introduced him into the Academy, personally provided him with an Academy quota, promoted him to become a Duke, and even out of gratitude, betrothed you to Li Yan in a finger-point marriage before you were born.”

”...” Calculating the time carefully, when Li Quan saved Old Dad, it should have been when Mom was pregnant, Gu Tong couldn’t help but think of Old Dad’s character, a finger-point marriage to repay the lifesaver; it’s absolutely possible...

Thinking of this, Gu Tong couldn’t help but recall asking Li Yan in the past what his feelings were when marrying her, to which Li Yan replied ’as it should be.’

It’s a finger-point engagement, so isn’t it just as it should be.