I Got Rich in Period Fiction-Chapter 85: Fake Blueprint?

He remembered that his mother had told him countless times to perform well—he was to be the only heir to his uncle, and eventually, everything the Wu Family owned would be his. Then, he’d see who would dare show off in front of her...

At that time, little aunt had regained her clarity; she desperately grabbed his mother to demand the whereabouts of her cousin.

The two of them began to fight fiercely, getting close to the pond. The heavy rain made the banks even more slippery, and ultimately, both of them fell into the water together. The downpour that day was extremely heavy, as if the heavens had sprung a leak, and the pond, normally half-full, was about to overflow.

The pond’s bottom was full of silt; after they fell in, it didn’t take long for both to be submerged.

By the time he managed to react, he started desperately shouting for help in the rain...

But for some reason, that day, not a single soul was present in the courtyard of his uncle’s villa.

He jumped into the pond.

He first managed to rescue little aunt, not because he had intentionally chosen to save her—he was disappointed in his mother, but he was her only son and loved her all the same.

However, it was only because little aunt was closest to him.

Clutching little aunt with one arm, he struggled toward the shore. Yet he hadn’t expected that his mother would stand up from the water, the water already reaching her neck, her eyes wide as if she couldn’t believe that her own son would save Lin Wanjun instead of her.

At that time, from where his mother summoned the strength, he didn’t know, but she managed to pull both of them back into the water.

In the end—

His mother became a vegetable.

Little aunt drowned.

As for him, after suffocating that led to coma for half a month, he finally woke up, not remembering anything of the ordeal.

At this moment, lying on the hospital bed, Wu Tai tightly shut his eyes, his body trembling slightly, tears slowly dripping from the corners of his eyes.

Later, someone came and fished all three of them out; his hands still clung to little aunt’s arms, while his mother was clutching tightly at his hair.

Perhaps it was because of this scene that his uncle spared them.

Over the years, he underwent hypnosis several times, but he still couldn’t remember what exactly had happened in the courtyard of his uncle’s villa.

Now, after seeing Qiao Qingyu, who greatly resembled little aunt, all the fears that suffocated him and the truths he avoided returned to his memory.

His mother—his own mother—was the real culprit who nearly devastated his uncle’s family.

Wu Tai clenched his eyes shut, emitting a gurgling sound from his throat.

He was sorry to little aunt, sorry to his cousin, and even more sorry to his uncle who treated him like his own son. Over the years, he even harbored resentment towards his uncle, and selfishly coveted his uncle’s riches.

In recent years, this desire had grown even stronger; he wished they would never find his cousin. Given his uncle’s affection and the riches of the Wu Family, it would all be his and his children’s eventually.

Meanwhile, the doctor and nurse standing next to him exchanged puzzled looks.

Clearly, the patient had woken up, but it seemed he was having a terrible nightmare; he was crying incessantly, a man in his fifties crying like a child.

The nurse moved forward but was stopped by the doctor.

The patient was entering a special emotional state; he must have remembered something.

They shouldn’t interrupt him, but unexpectedly, the next moment Wu Tai abruptly sat up from the bed, not even noticing those around him, and began slapping himself on the face.

This had to be stopped.

The doctor and nurse quickly stepped forward. By then, Wu Tai seemed to have awakened from his nightmare, his eyes cloudy, his face covered with tears, seemingly aged decades all at once.

Just before that, he had still been a refined and graceful middle-aged man.

A few minutes later, Wu Tai finally came to his senses.

He needed to return to America immediately.

Although his mother had become vegetative, there were still two maids alive from those days.

He wanted to confess to his little uncle.

He was going to tell his little uncle everything exactly as it happened.

Then, he wouldn’t do anything else; he must find his cousin in his remaining years to atone for his sins, for his mother’s sins!

...

The spirited delegation from M country hurriedly left Xichuan and flew directly to Beijing.

However, Wu Tai knew he had to come back, so he left his two most competent assistants in Xichuan to handle the affairs of the new factory.

Those two people from M country stayed behind as well.

They wished to find the female hero to learn from her, but Lu Ye stopped them and took them to the provincial capital instead.

Su Yunyao also returned to the base. She hadn’t slept all night and couldn’t figure out what was wrong with the blueprint or where the critical error was.

It was slightly bright outside now; He Xiuyu’s dormitory was right across.

He had been staying here these days.

Not far away, within the surrounding walls, was the newly built family compound of the base.

She even knew which room was He Xiuyu’s house.

Tomorrow, everyone in the temporary family compound would move into the new houses which had been painted, furnished with beds, sofas moved in, and the kitchen fully equipped.

It was ready to move into immediately.

A flash of jealousy passed through Su Yunyao’s eyes—an uncouth village girl. If she hadn’t married He Xiuyu, how could she ever enjoy such treatment, such a life?

She probably wouldn’t even know what a building was, or what cars and trains were, maybe she hadn’t even eaten a White Rabbit Creamy Candy.

She would be working in the village covered in mud and lice.

She wouldn’t be living this elitist life.

If it weren’t for Chief Engineer He, how could the kick she gave Lu Ye have been downplayed?

Lu Ye didn’t even utter a word, for some reason.

Su Yunyao’s fingers clenched around her pen, shaking her head vigorously. Now wasn’t the time to think about these messy thoughts. She must find the error in the blueprint; if she couldn’t, she couldn’t proceed with her work, and it would become a big joke.

But where was the error?

He Xiuyu would not lie or deceive; if he said there was an error in the blueprint, it meant there definitely was an issue.

But in her memory, it was this blueprint.

Suddenly, Su Yunyao stood up briskly, disbelief flashing in her eyes.

Could it be...

The blueprint their research team received initially was fake, and the real blueprint had always been with He Xiuyu?

A cold sweat broke over Su Yunyao in an instant.

She really wanted to rush to He Xiuyu’s dormitory to ask him what was going on, but she dared not, not even daring to ask about the nature of the error.

This was the consequence of a guilty conscience.

In fact, Su Yunyao didn’t know that He Xiuyu was half-truthful, the other half was probing.

After carefully verifying and calculating the blueprint, he was shocked to find an error, one that was difficult to detect, only someone with his kind of thinking could calculate it.

The error was clearly man-made, deliberate.

What was most eerie was that the setup of this error was very much in his style.