Gu Mingshan’s fingers twitched slightly as if he wanted to pull back, but he didn’t succeed.
He looked at her with a gaze filled with alertness, confusion, and a hint of fear that even he hadn’t noticed.
“Uncle Gu,” Su Wan’s voice was very soft, carrying just the right amount of tenderness. “I’ve come to see you.”
Beside them, Gu Huaiyu watched this scene, his eyes turning slightly red.
What he saw was Su Wan holding his father’s hand despite their history; he saw the girl he had once hurt choosing to forgive and let go before his father’s final moments.
He even felt that Su Wan’s willingness to do this was mostly because of him.
Because of the tender moment in the private room earlier, because he promised to help her get Su Zhuo out, and because she was finally willing to give him another chance.
He stood at the door and did not step forward, not wanting to disturb this moment.
Meanwhile, Su Wan’s mental power had already spread out like a wisp of silent smoke.
She didn’t touch Gu Mingshan’s consciousness; she simply let her mental power shroud the entire sickroom like a thin mist.
Gu Huaiyu’s gaze became slightly vacant for an instant. In his eyes, Su Wan was just quietly sitting by the bed, holding Gu Mingshan’s hand and occasionally lowering her head to whisper a few words of comfort.
He couldn’t hear those words, nor did he want to. He just watched from a distance, his heart swelling with a bittersweet and warm emotion.
Su Wan’s other hand gently pressed against Gu Mingshan’s forehead.
Her movement was very natural, as if she were checking to see if he had a fever.
Gu Mingshan’s eyes suddenly widened.
An invisible force, like an icy needle, pierced his forehead, through the skull, straight into the depths of his brain.
He wanted to shout, to struggle, but his body was so weak he couldn’t even lift a finger. Only his eyeballs trembled violently in their sockets.
Su Wan’s mental power, like an invisible hand, reached into Gu Mingshan’s brain.
Then, she saw the tumor.
It was perched deep in the right temporal lobe, like an ugly, rotting walnut.
The grayish-brown tumor tissue was intertwined with healthy brain tissue, its edges blurred, with countless tiny tentacles rooted deep into the surrounding normal tissue like tree roots.
CT and MRI scans appeared too mild in front of this tumor; the reality was far more hideous than any image.
Su Wan’s mental power swept over the tumor, understanding its internal structure perfectly.
The malignant proliferation of astrocytes was out of control. The tumor was filled with abnormally grown blood vessels, some of which had already ruptured, forming small areas of hemorrhage.
The surrounding tissue was severely swollen due to long-term pressure, and the normal sulci and gyri were almost squeezed out of existence.
The temporal lobe is the brain’s “memory center.” This tumor had chosen to grow here, slowly devouring all of Gu Mingshan’s memories, emotions, and cognition, turning his most precious things into its own nourishment.
With her current Level 3 mental power’s delicate control, she could completely do it—
She could use her mental power to weave an invisible blade, peeling the tumor tissue from the normal tissue layer by layer, destroying those abnormally proliferating cells one by one, and resealing the ruptured blood vessels.
This process would be very slow, requiring immense patience and precision, but with her ability, it wasn’t impossible.
But Su Wan only looked coldly at the tumor and then looked away.
Su Wan’s mental power bypassed the tumor and continued deeper.
Gu Mingshan’s memories unfolded in her consciousness like a dusty roll of film.
She saw his childhood, his youth, his ambition when taking over the Gu Corporation, and his iron-fisted methods of manipulation in the business world.
She saw how Gu Mingshan had step by step cannibalized the Su family’s business.
On the surface, he was Su Zhenhua’s close friend; their children were engaged, and they collaborated frequently in business.
But behind the scenes, he collaborated with the Bai family to cut off the Su Corporation’s supply chain, bribed the Su Corporation’s partners, planted moles within banks, and tightened the noose step by step.
She saw the scene where Gu Mingshan met with someone from that mysterious organization in Bai Hongyuan’s study.
That person always had their back to her, appearing only as a blurred shadow.
They talked about that plot of land, the “project,” and the necessity to “completely eliminate the Su family’s foundation to ensure no future troubles.”
She saw Gu Mingshan signing that document—the comprehensive development plan for the northern city plot.
She recognized every word on the plan, but combined, they seemed like some code she couldn’t decipher.
Those terms, those numbers, and those dense attachments pointed to something far beyond just the development of a piece of land.
Then, the scene jumped to that night.
Su Zhenhua and his wife’s car accident.
When Gu Mingshan received the call, he was sitting in his leather chair in the study.
After the person on the other end said something, he was silent for a long time before asking, “Was it handled cleanly?”
The other party said something else, and he nodded, hung up, and took a sip from the teacup on the desk.
His hand was steady, his expression calm; he even opened the document in front of him and continued reviewing it.
It was as if he hadn’t received news of two lives being lost, but a mundane progress report.
Su Wan’s nails dug into her palms, blood seeping through her fingers, yet she was oblivious.
She continued deeper.
Fragments of memory were like a shattered mirror; she needed to piece them together one by one.
Gu Mingshan’s later years were filled with calculation and defensiveness; he hid the core secrets extremely deep, beneath those most sordid memories he was most unwilling to recall.
She finally touched the deepest cluster of memories—
Just then, her mental power suddenly struck an invisible energy membrane...
This membrane wrapped around that cluster of memories like a layer of transparent amber, sealing the contents tightly.
The moment Su Wan’s mental power touched that layer, a jolt of pain like an electric current surged from her fingertips straight into her mind!
Attached to it was some kind of power she had never encountered before!
It didn’t belong to any ability system she knew—it was alien, ancient, and carried an aura that made her instinctively uneasy.
The moment her mental power touched that membrane—
In the distant horizon, in some unknowable place, a pair of sleeping eyes snapped open...
Su Wan felt it!
It was the feeling of being looked down upon by a gargantuan entity from on high, a gaze cold and merciless, piercing through time and space, through all disguises and barriers, falling straight onto her.
The energy membrane suddenly flared, and a massive recoil force surged back along her mental power!
Su Wan let out a muffled groan, her consciousness vibrating violently, and the world before her eyes instantly shattered into countless fragments.
She gritted her teeth, forcibly steadying her mind, and tore her mental power away from that sealed cluster!
That scrutinizing gaze stayed on Su Wan for less than half a second.
Then, everything returned to silence.
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