The Apple of My Eye
Chapter 353 They Deserve No Mercy (Part One)

"Why are you in such a hurry? I haven't said anything yet." Aron sneered.

"I know you hate me, Aron. But this is between a mother and a daughter today. Please keep your nose out of this and I would appreciate it." Wendy tried her best to act properly. Yet Aron only scoffed at what she had just said.

He gazed at Wendy and said, "Auntie, I just could not bear to see someone suffer wrongful treatment in front of me. It is my principle of being. And I think it might due to... my own experience in my childhood. At the sight of something like this, I could not help but think of being wrongly accused of stealing when I was a child."

"Mrs. Gu, may we know who he is..." Many reporters were not familiar with Aron for he rarely appeared in front of the media. Nevertheless, a few reporters recognized Aron immediately.

"Well, he is......" Clenching her fist, Wendy very nervously looked towards at Aron. She was at a loss how she should introduce him to the public.

"Hey everyone, I'm Aron Gu. I am Mrs. Gu's...... stepson." Turning his face to the reporters, Aron revealed, "Yvonne is my half sister. And her mother Wendy Ye, who is now standing in front of you all, slept with my father more than twenty years ago. There may be a lot of people who know nothing about this. But, my mother, with a broken heart, died because of this affair."

"Aron, please stop!" In an instant, Wendy was near the point of breaking down. The secret that she had locked away for more than twenty years, was now being openly exposed to the public by Aron. Looking at the contemptuous and judgmental eyes of the people around her, Wendy felt that she was almost going off the deep end.

"Stop?" With a sneer, Aron continued, "She tried hard to attach herself to my father that very year, though she knew perfectly well that my father had a wife. And you might guess what for? Wasn't it because of my father's money? My mother could not bear that my father had an affair and died out of depression. What was even worse, Wendy wrongly accused me, an innocent kid at that time, of stealing. And my fathe threw me out because of her vicious lies. She did that on purpose, because she was afraid that I would fight her for my share of his wealth. A woman like her, with such a twisted and wicked mind, dares to do anything evil."

"Aron Gu, just stop talking nonsense here." What Aron had just said made Yvonne and Wendy diffident and angry. They never thought he would appear at this event. "You must be saying these out of hatred for my mother. Because she was the one who found out your habit of stealing. You are taking your revenge on her today on purpose, aren't you?"

"Well..." With himself turning to address the public, Aron asked, "What would you do as parents if your child stole something?"

"For my own kid, I would beat him first, and then teach him well of course," a reporter blurted out. He had just become a father lately.

Aron smiled. "Exactly! Normally, parents would teach their children well in case they make the same mistake again. But this Mrs. Gu did not. She only incited Simon, that's my father's name, to throw me out. Luckily, my grandparents took me in and they have taken care of me ever since. They were the ones who raised me into adulthood."

"Not long ago, Simon told me that he would hand over the company to me, because I am the only son in the family. However, this Mrs. Gu was not willing to make that happen. She said that the Gu's Group was founded and operated both by her and Simon, and she would take a share of the company." With a quick pause, Aron sneered, "I might as well tell you all here that the Gu's Group investment capital came mostly from my mother's dowry. Thus, the Gu's Group would not grow to where it is today without my mother's contribution. I do not want the right of management of it, but...... my mother's dowry, Mrs. Gu, please give it back to me, "Aron said as he turned to Wendy.

"My mother died because of you. And you've commandeered her position of Mrs. Gu for so many years. It would be too inhumane to commandeer her dowry as well, wouldn't it?" Aron cared nothing about the money or the company at all. He just wanted to pound Wendy with such embarrassment.

"Aron, you asshole!" Knowing that the media would never believe in her and her mother any more, Yvonne went quickly straight at Aron and shouted angrily, "Stop talking nonsense here!" She took a swing at him and hit him perversely.

"Enough yet?" At the beginning, Aron endured her punches and kicks as she was a girl after all. However, Yvonne became excessive. With a frown, Aron could not help but stop Yvonne with his hand. "You are acting like you used to be when you were a child. What did Mrs. Gu do to your education?"

"Aron, what do you want from me exactly?" The embarrassed Wendy shouted, looking at Aron angrily. She made no attempt to hide her outrage any longer. She was losing face fast and she was getting desperate.

"I said I only had two intentions here. First, to let the public know the truth. And second, I want my mother's dowry back. Am I understood?" Aron sneered even more.

"You can't do that, Aron. The Gu's Group is now suffering from a slump. It would totally ruin the Gu's Group if I give the money back to you." Wendy said nervously to Aron, caring nothing about how the people around looked at her any more.

As soon as they heard that, everyone at the event were able determine the truth so far. It turned out that Wendy was the one who was cheating everyone all this time. And what Arthur, Autumn and Aron said were all true.

How horrible it was! How could there be such a cruel mother in this world?

"Mrs. Gu, did you just admit it right now?" a reporter asked. Only then did Wendy realize that the fish had finally been caught in the mouth.

She stood there with a straight face, silent, as if she had blacked out and fallen into despair.

Yvonne could not help getting at Aron again. "It's all because of you! You had left that year. Why did you come back? Without you, dad would not hand over the company to you. Such things wouldn't have happened. Why did you come back?"

Now out of control, Yvonne tried to threaten Aron, "I am warning you, every penny of the Gu's Group belongs to me. Don't you dare take anything away from it."

It seemed that Autumn and her birthday was forgotten at that moment. The reporters were busing asking Aron questions about the company and the money.

And now everyone had seen the truth.

Autumn was quietly watching on the side all this time. She did not want to go out to help at all. In her view, Wendy and Yvonne deserved to suffer from their own actions. And they were just not worthy of anyone's sympathy.

"When are you gonna stop this insanity?" All of a sudden, above the noise and confusion, the angry voice of Simon came from the door.

It turned out that Charles had made a call to Simon. Arriving in a hurry, Simon was able to witness Wendy and Yvonne getting mad because of his properties. He was so angry that he almost fainted. Trying hard to hold back his anger, Simon came up to Wendy and asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Simon, I......" Confused and afraid, Wendy looked at Simon anxiously and tried to explain, "Aron and I were talking about the Gu's Group. I was just saying on impulse......"