Chapter 36: She Was a Parasitic Host

Chapter 36: She Was a Parasitic Host

Gu Qiutang said nothing about Zhu Zhaojie.

Gu Kunling must have told him. But Gu Qiutang had said he wouldn’t interfere in the new company unless something major happened. He wanted me to make my own calls.

So no warning came.

I still hadn’t figured out why Zhu Zhaojie had appeared. I just felt that abnormal events hid sinister causes. But where? I didn’t have Fiery Eyes and Golden Pupils to see through it.

Gu Kunling resisted Zhu Zhaojie, but all I could do was protect her carefully.

To wake her sooner, I called Zhu Shiqing over anyway.

The day they met, I arranged a family dinner at my place. I cooked personally.

I had an apartment near the company. It was company property.

I invited Zhu Zhaojie first, then timed it and sent a driver for Zhu Shiqing.

The moment Zhu Shiqing walked in and saw his daughter, he was overcome. First time seeing her since she’d disappeared.

Just as I’d expected.

Zhu Zhaojie was extremely resistant to Zhu Shiqing’s appearance, her expression saying that strangers should not come close.

I’d warned Zhu Shiqing that she’d lost her memory and didn’t remember anything. But he ignored that, eyes wet, pouring his heart out to her.

She thought I’d set up a Hongmen Banquet and turned to leave.

I stopped her. I told her to hear him out, as a favor to me—help a deranged old man.

I also had to stop Zhu Shiqing. Things were more complicated than he thought. If he wanted answers, we had to go slow.

I explained Zhu Shiqing’s situation to her, hoping she’d understand what it felt like for him to lose his daughter. Even if she wasn’t Zhu Zhaojie, she could give him a little sympathy and comfort.

To Zhu Shiqing, I stressed repeatedly: don’t disturb her day to day.

Zhu Jie’s coldness deepened Zhu Shiqing’s pain. She said it several times—she was Zhu Jie, not Zhu Zhaojie. If we kept this up, she would stop dealing with us.

I said it was my fault for being rash. I apologized.

The family-recognition dinner ended badly.

But I knew she wouldn’t leave in anger. She probably had a mission.

So Zhu Shiqing could see her often, I rented him a room in the same residential compound as Zhu Zhaojie. He said he wouldn’t bother her, but being able to see his daughter satisfied him completely.

Two months later, something happened.

Zhu Shiqing was in a car accident.

Hit by a car.

The gate guard reacted fast, yanked him back. Saved his life. But his leg was injured. Hospitalized.

I deliberately brought Zhu Zhaojie to visit him.

The accident made me alert and filled me with self-blame.

This wasn’t an accident. Someone wanted those eyes gone from her side.

I checked the surveillance footage at the entrance of the residential compound. It was clearly a deliberate collision.

I met the driver. He said the car had seemed to go out of control on its own, just rammed forward.

I sensed his brain. He wasn’t lying.

Someone had remotely controlled the car.

I could control devices remotely too, but only switches. I couldn’t manage something this mechanically complex. The controller’s ability exceeded mine.

I didn’t regret calling Zhu Shiqing over. Since losing his daughter, he’d been in unbearable pain. This period had been his happiest.

I’d only underestimated how vicious my opponent was—willing to hurt ordinary people by any means, without humanity.

After Zhu Shiqing was discharged from the hospital, I brought him to live with me.

My place was 140 square meters, three bedrooms, two living rooms. Usually it was just me living there, empty. Zhu Shiqing’s arrival actually helped me keep the place in order.

I told him again and again: Zhu Zhaojie was under someone’s control. He shouldn’t be impatient. I’d find a way.

By then Zhu Shiqing had lost all judgment, placed all hope in me. Thanked me over and over, like a child.

Just as I was watching for anything unusual about Zhu Zhaojie, Gu Kunling told me someone had tampered with her secret room’s electromagnetic…