Gu Min had always heard people talking about how unpredictable the world was, but this was the first time he really felt the true effect of the phrase. A second ago, he had been in seventh heaven, scorning the poor shop owner of "Definitely Not A Dishonest Shop". The next second, he was nearly beaten to death by his own father.

Unlike the other aristocratic families in the capital, such as the Li Family, the Ouyang Family, or the Jiang Family, which had more than 100 years of history, the Gu Family was kind of normal. Before Gu Hao, all of them used to be farmers, and Gu Min's great-grandfather was a bandit.

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Even though Gu Hao had brought the Gu Family's wealth to a whole new level through the game Glory, he still had the hooligan gene flowing in him.

However, no matter how Gu Min thought about it, he still could not figure out why his father would beat him up for a money-cheating shop owner.

As a movie critic, Gu Min had watched a lot of movies, so something popped into his mind.

"Dad, you are not keeping a woman behind my back, are you? Is she my half-sister?"

After hearing what his son had said, Gu Hao did not stop swinging his machete. Instead, he brandished it with newfound strength as he snarled, "How dare you try to ruin my business? Not only that, but you also made your own father look like an ingrate! For this alone, it wouldn't be enough even if you offered to apologize by dying!"

Gu Min was speechless.

He was nearly beaten to death by his father, but he spared him in the end. After all, he still needed to apologize to Fu Zhi.

Gu Hao asked Gu Min to stay still on the floor. He then took a few pictures of his son and sent them to Fu Zhi before leaving the room.

After his father left, Gu Min slowly got up from the floor. With his heart still beating fast in his chest, he logged into his Taobao and sent a message to Fu Zhi.

[Hey, are you still there, sis?]

Fu Zhi reminded him, [I'm your mother.]

[Didn't you say you don't have a bad son like me?] Gu Min replied.

[I don't want you, but that's my business. It doesn't mean that you can forget who I am to you.]

[But how do you know my father? He even calls you our family's guardian angel. Besides, is all the medicine you sell real?]

[Yeah.]

Gu Min felt like he was an idiot after hearing Fu Zhi's answer. If he had known about it earlier and believed Fu Zhi, he would have been spared the beating.

After he apologized to Fu Zhi, he closed the shop and bought a few bottles of Beauty Pills and Mind-Cleansing Pills for Mu Chenxi.

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There were a lot more shops on Taobao that sold fake medicine by using Fu Zhi's shop name. As Fu Zhi's faithful fan, Gu Hao felt that he should do something about it. After all, not only would it take a lot of time for Fu Zhi to get rid of every single one of them, but there was also a good chance that she would come across an idiot like his son.

As a rich person, an elite of the upper class, he called the boss of the APP and told him about this matter.

That very day, the few shops that sold fake medicine were gone, and Fu Zhi's shop was featured on the first page of Taobao by the staff.

The reason Gu Hao had come home was to punish his son. Since he had done his job, he had to return to work. When he walked past his luggage, he asked, "Where are you going this time?"

"To Yu City."

Gu Hao stopped in his tracks as he turned. "Yu City?" He studied his son from head to toe before saying, "There are a lot of elite families in Yu City, so what will you be doing there?"

'A lot of elite families? In Yu City? How is there any chance there would be an elite family in a small town like Yu City?'

That said, he still answered his father's question. "I'm going there for a gathering, and I will be back soon."

"Anyway, don't you dare do anything silly there," Gu Hao warned him. "Our company has come across some trouble recently, and your uncle hasn't finished the pirated game yet. When you're in Yu City, if you run into Fu… Forget it. Just make sure you don't offend any of the Lus, you hear me?"

Gu Min nodded. He vaguely remembered Mu Chenxi telling him before that her best friend was in the reformatory and her name was Lu something.

He wondered if she had something to do with the Lu Family that his father had told him about.

Gu Min then decided to call Gu Yanqi and ask him about the Lu Family.

At the same time, Gu Yanqi was doing something on his laptop.

Sitting beside him, Jiang Jinshu was helping Fu Zhi do her homework. He took a glance at Gu Yanqi and asked, "Twitch App? Nowadays, what kind of live-streamers don't use filters when they're live-streaming? I can assure you that they are not even half as good-looking as that little rascal above us."

"At least gaming streamers know what they are doing. It's better than asking a celebrity who knows nothing about the game to do the job."

The Gu Family had indeed been facing some trouble lately. Several years ago, with the help of several bigshots, Gu Hao had released the game Glory into the market, and because of this, the Gu Family had become one of the elite families in the capital. Many people were jealous of Gu Hao's success, including his own siblings. Gu Yanqi's uncle was the Gu who envied Gu Hao the most. He'd always thought he was better than Gu Hao and he wanted to set up his own organization. Thus, he'd cooperated with a few foreigners and come up with the game Monarch, a pirated version of Glory.

Monarch had the same game mode and skills as Glory. It was just that its heroes were prettier and more realistic than Glory's.

Anyone else would have been sued in court, but Gu Hao's brother was different. He was Old Master Gu and Madam Gu's favorite son, so Gu Hao could not do anything to him.

However, there was no way Gu Hao would allow the pirated version of Glory to exist in this world, so he kept pressing Old Master Gu and Madam Gu.

Therefore, the two oldest members of the Gu Family came up with an idea. Since their eldest son felt that he was better than Gu Hao and he only needed a chance to prove himself, they suggested having a match between Monarch and Glory. Depending on the game that received more players on Chinese New Year's Eve, the respective person would be the president of the Gu Corporation.

The winner made the rules, and the loser lived by them. Everyone understood this statement, so Old Master Gu and Madam Gu wanted their eldest son to win.

Gu Yanqi's uncle assured them that he had a plan. He was going to invite the most famous Esports team from Country M and Country N to be the ambassadors of Monarch. He was going to make good use of their influence to attract their fans to join Monarch, and then victory would be in the bag.

Truth be told, it was a good move, so Gu Yanqi and Gu Hao had to come up with a better plan to counter this.

"This girl is pretty good. Her name is Master Fu, right? Although she has never shown her face before, she has good skills and quite a number of fans. Maybe we can try to ask her to have a solo match with them on Chinese New Year's Eve."

Jiang Jinshu pouted. "Are you sure she can handle the job? After all, it would make us look really bad if we lost the match on Chinese New Year's Eve."

"I don't expect her to win at all. I just hope that she's pretty and she will last a bit longer during the match to promote our game…"