316 Please Believe Me (14)

So, when Gu Deshou called, she jerked awake. She didn't know where she was, nor did she know the time.

She placed the phone next to her ear in a daze and answered it with a slightly raspy and weak voice, "Hello, who is it?"

"Qingyan, it's me, your father." Gu Deshou's anxious voice sounded over the phone.

Zhuang Nainai's mind was still in a daze. She closed her eyes, her voice exasperated as she replied, "Mm, what's the matter?"

Just what had happened for him to call and wake her up at such an ungodly hour!

Gu Deshou ignored Zhuang Nainai's unpleasant tone of voice and said, "Nainai, the Imperial Group has commenced legal action against us. They're claiming that we plagiarized their design drafts. You have to help us keep this matter under wraps! The Gu Corporation is depending on this batch of clothes to turn our business around. I've invested all my operating funds in it — if their legal action is successful, the Gu Corporation is finished!"