Chapter 239: Chapter 168, Next Time For Sure_2

But the reaction of his cousin didn't seem to show any dislike; in fact, he seemed to be listening sincerely.

This was not at all how he remembered his cousin to be.

Of course, Wang Jiarong was pleased about it.

She saw a glimmer of hope for solving the problem between her aunt and cousin.

If it were possible to mend the relationship between the two, it would be a good deed not only in terms of family relations but more importantly, the biggest issue with her aunt's power within the Gu Family was a matter of legitimacy.

Her cousin was the most natural leader of this family force, her aunt's control over it was legitimized first by her late husband, and second by Gu Hang.

The problem, however, was that, after all, her husband was deceased, and the longer he had been dead, the weaker the legitimacy of this splinter force from the family would be; plus, with her son Gu Hang, who not only had a strained relationship with her but also had accepted a task likely to get him killed...