A relationship sustained by guilt alone was bound to be short-lived.
Although Gu Jiayi's maternal grandmother and uncle had initially gone to great lengths to take her in, their attitude shifted less than half a year after the Lin Family moved away. Her aunt had become pregnant again, and the two of them felt the mounting financial pressure. They also likely felt they had already done their duty by Gu Jiayi. After all, they had "rescued" her from the Gu Family and supported a 'Gu' for this long without asking for a thing. Surely that was enough to answer to the deceased Tao Jianren.
'Any debt they might have owed her had been more or less repaid, hadn't it?' So, in the end, they couldn't hold back any longer. They went to the Gu Family to demand child support payments for Gu Jiayi.
The ones who came forward to haggle with the Tao Family were, naturally, Chen Suxiang and Gu Jinhua.
