Chapter 193: Stop pretending, let’s be honest (33)

Flowers bloom in March.

There were a lot of vehicles on the road when I got off work on Friday.

At this time, no matter how expensive the car you drive is, you will still be stuck on the road and be in a dilemma.

"Will you continue to stay at home with your wife tomorrow?"

Jiang Lai was sitting in Su Mingzhe's "nanny car" and was putting on makeup in front of the mirror.

"Well, I've agreed with Xiaoyu that we'll go to the holiday resort for two days this weekend."

Su Mingzhe checked his clothes, and waited for Jiang Lai to check as well, then they got out of the car together and decided to walk to the banquet venue not far away.

There were so many people coming to today's charity banquet, and many big stars from home and abroad were present.

The two of them were not big stars, and no one recognized them when they walked on the street, so they walked in through the employee passage nearby very calmly.

Jiang Hao Kun brought his newly-wed girlfriend Gan Jing to attend the banquet. There was a traffic jam one kilometer away from the banquet venue, and by the time they arrived, more than half an hour had passed.

As soon as the two entered the door, they saw Jiang Lai, who was bright and generous in a red dress, dancing with Su Mingzhe in the crowd. Judging from the intimacy of their physical contact, it was obvious that they were not ordinary friends.

"This bastard! He even didn't let my sister go!"

Before the dance music even stopped, Jiang Lai's face was filled with panic and she pulled Su Mingzhe away.

There was no way. Ever since her elder brother Jiang Hao Kun entered the venue, his eyes looked as if he wanted to eat Su Mingzhe alive.

If he stayed any longer, Jiang Lai was afraid that the two would start fighting, and the consequences would be unmanageable.

After leaving the venue, Jiang Lai asked Su Mingzhe to get in the car and leave. She stayed behind to stop Jiang Haokun and Gan Jing who were chasing after them.

"Jiang Lai, get out of the way!"

Jiang Hao Kun was not in good health and Jiang Lai grabbed his arm, and he was unable to break free for a while.

Jiang Lai used all his strength to stop his elder brother, looked at him pleadingly, and said:

"Brother, if you want me to die, go and cause trouble for him!"

"You are trying to force me to death! Do you know what you are doing? You are being a mistress, or being a mistress to your brother's friend!"

Jiang Hao Kun had never said harsh words to his sister before, but today he was really angry and said something without thinking.

"I know I was wrong, brother, I beg you, let's go home and talk about it, okay?"

Jiang Lai listened to his elder brother's angry roar, his eyes full of bitterness and pleading.

She was really afraid that Jiang Hao Kun would make a big deal out of this, and once everyone knew about it, things would get out of control.

Looking at his sister's frightened eyes, Jiang Haokun was so angry that he couldn't vent his anger. He could only feel indignant and drag his sister home.

Jiang Haokun really loves his sister. Even when he brought his sister home, he talked to her alone in the study:

"Tell me, what's going on between you and Su Mingzhe?"

"Brother, I seduced him."

"You're still making excuses for him!"

Jiang Haokun was so angry at his sister's words that he couldn't sit still and almost died of anger. Just as he was about to lose his temper, Jiang Lai knelt down and hurriedly explained:
"Brother, what I said is true. Before I seduced him, I talked to Sister Xiaoyu about it, and Sister Xiaoyu agreed."

"Do you know what you're talking about?"

Jiang Haokun was almost going crazy. He didn't expect that his sister would tell him such an answer. He couldn't help but sneer:
"Jiang Lai, am I a fool? Would Zou Yu find a mistress for her man?"

"What I said is true."

Seeing that his brother didn't believe him, Jiang Lai quickly told him what he had discussed with Zou Yu.

Zou Yu was determined to carry out his father's last wish and set up the law firm.

But Zou Yu's ability was really average. No matter how hard she tried, her business didn't improve and even got worse.

When Jiang Lai went to help Zou Yu set up a charity foundation, Zou Yu talked about this with Jiang Lai.

Compared to the simple Zou Yu, Jiang Lai was much smarter. After only thinking for a few minutes, he turned his suspicious eyes to Su Mingzhe.

If Su Mingzhe was willing to help Zou Yu, Zou Yu's law firm would definitely not have ended up closing down.

Jiang Lai explained what he and Zou Yu had discussed at the time:
"Su Mingzhe wanted Sister Xiaoyu to stay at home and take care of her husband and children, but Sister Xiaoyu was thinking about her father's last wish and was not willing to listen to Su Mingzhe's arrangements. Sister Xiaoyu told me that as long as I could help her and persuade Su Mingzhe to let her continue to be a lawyer and continue to maintain her father's law firm, she would make sacrifices and concessions."

"Assholes! Their whole family are assholes!"

After hearing what his sister said, Jiang Hao Kun gritted his teeth in anger, but he just couldn't get angry.

Because according to Jiang Lai's description, it was Jiang Lai who jumped up on his own.

If Jiang Lai hadn't talked nonsense to Zou Yu, Zou Yu might have become discouraged about her work and just stayed at home to be the wife of the richest man.

"I won't believe your one-sided statement. I will go and confront Su Mingzhe about this matter."

Jiang Lai didn't expect that even after he explained the matter clearly, his elder brother still wouldn't give in, so he continued to beg:

"Brother, Su Mingzhe doesn't know about this. He wanted me because I forced him to do so. Can't you just pretend that you don't know?"

"My sister is a mistress, how can I pretend I don't know?"

Jiang Haokun was furious. Seeing his sister's useless appearance, he felt angry but also distressed:
"Jiang Lai, you should stay at home and reflect on yourself these few days. I will settle the score with you after I talk to Su Mingzhe!"

In the Jiang family, Jiang Lai is a little princess. Everyone in the Jiang family holds her in their hands for fear of dropping her, and holds her in their mouths for fear of melting her.

As a result, now she has become someone's mistress.

Jiang Hao Kun would not allow anyone to bully his sister like this.

Su Mingzhe, who had just returned home, received a call from Jiang Lai.

On the phone, Jiang Lai confessed everything to Su Mingzhe, including her and Zou Yu's plan.

After Su Mingzhe hung up the phone, his mind was blank.

"Zou Yu knows whether it was me who ruined her law firm? Or Jiang Lai helped her analyze it, and Jiang Lai did all this just to be with me."

"Is this going to be a palace drama?" Su Mingzhe had a headache.

I thought I knew the plots of all TV dramas and everyone’s personality, and with my strong talent for making money, I could stand on the top of the mountain and overlook everyone.

Now Jiang Lai and reality have given him a severe lesson.

In fact, it is only a matter of time before such a result occurs.

After all, TV dramas are TV dramas and reality is reality.

It is easy for people to infer the reasons for what Su Mingzhe did from the results.

Sometimes, not many people are willing to dig deep and demand solid evidence like in TV dramas.

For many people, as long as there is reasonable reasoning, that is enough.

While Su Mingzhe was sitting in the study, daydreaming, Jiang Lai called Zou Yu again.

Since some things can no longer be hidden, there is no need to hide them.

Hiding things here and there will only waste everyone's feelings.

When Zou Yu came to the study to find Su Mingzhe with her bulging belly, she saw her man with a guilty and conflicted look on his face.

"Xiaoyu, am I a bad person? I deliberately ruined the law firm so that you can stay at home and take care of your husband and children. I am so selfish, do you hate me?"

Su Mingzhe knew that he had single-handedly destroyed the law firm left by Zou Yu's father. Zou Yu must have been very painful when he saw the law firm falling into disrepair bit by bit.

However, Zou Yu knew that she was the one who caused the trouble, but she did not hate herself. She gave up her insistence and agreed to get pregnant and have a baby.

Su Mingzhe couldn't imagine what kind of psychological journey Zou Yu had gone through.

Zou Yu came to the man and was silent for a while before saying:

"Mingzhe, this is my fault. I was obsessed with carrying on my father's legacy and ignored the pressure you were facing. We have been married for more than three years and have not given birth to a child. If Jiang Lai hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that you were under so much pressure alone."

There are three kinds of unfilial piety, and no one is the greatest.

In ordinary people's families, if a daughter-in-law does not get pregnant within three years after marriage, she will suffer a lot of pressure, and the rumors can be devastating.

What's more, the Su family is a large family, and inheritance is a more serious issue.

And Su Mingzhe is the best leader in the eyes of the next generation of elders of the Su family. The halo he carries is directly magnified by everyone.

During the period when Zou Donghai had just passed away, Zou Yu focused on his work and did not think much about these issues.

Later, after being enlightened by Jiang Lai, Zou Yu finally realized how much pressure her man was under.

Now the two of them have apologized to each other, and have rebuilt trust after revealing their deepest secrets.

The problem between Su Mingzhe and Zou Yu is easy to solve.

After all, the mistakes made by both of them are not a big deal in the eyes of their other half.

The Jiang family’s troubles had just begun.

Jiang Lai called Su Mingzhe and Zou Yu respectively, then felt relieved and went to rest.

At this time, a man in the Lighthouse Country was lying in a coffin, which scared a little girl.

"Lu Yuan, what are you doing lying here? Where's my dad?"

"Your dad is in the box."

Lu Yuan climbed out of the coffin and finally made a decision: "Jiahe, I want to take your father back home!"

"Go back home?"

Peng Jiahe was stunned: "Why are you going back to China?"

"This is your father's wish before he died. Return to your roots. Do you understand?"

Lu Yuan knew that Peng Jiahe had come to the Lighthouse Country since she was a child, and she did not quite agree with the ideas of the older generation, so he simply did not say much. As Peng Jiahe's guardian, he made the decision for her directly.

Soon, the two bought tickets and boarded the plane back home.

Without Jiang Lai's help, Peng Jiahe had to fly back in economy class for more than 20 hours.

After getting off the plane, the two people lost their luggage.

"Lu Yuan and Peng Jiahe are back?"

Su Mingzhe soon received news that Lu Yuan had returned.

As one of the two old friends that Lu Yuan had been keeping in touch with in China, when Lu Yuan came back and lost his luggage, the friends he could think of, besides Su Mingzhe, was Jiang Hao Kun.

Su Mingzhe quickly called back:

"Hey, Lu Yuan, are you back home? Did you just get off the plane? I'll pick you up at the airport right away. Not at the airport? Then where are you? Okay, stay there and don't move. I'll be there in ten minutes."

In less than ten minutes, Su Mingzhe drove and met Lu Yuan and Peng Jiahe, who had dreadlocks.

At this time, Su Mingzhe had to pretend that he didn't know Peng Jiahe, and said with a 'surprised' expression:
"Lu Yuan, sure. It's only been ten years since we went to Lighthouse Country, and your daughter is already this big. The milk in Lighthouse Country is nourishing, and the child is growing up so fast. Look at you, you didn't even tell me in advance, and I didn't even prepare a gift for my eldest niece."

"I'm not his daughter!"

When Peng Jiahe saw Su Mingzhe appear in a Rolls-Royce, she was stunned after she refuted him:
"You...you are someone, right? I recognize you. I have seen your photo in the Lighthouse Country."

"Haha, I should be that one."

Su Mingzhe chuckled and nudged the smirking Lu Yuan with his hand: "Can you introduce her quickly? Who is this girl? Is she your daughter or your wife?"

"My friend's daughter, Peng Jiahe, her father passed away, so I sent her back to China."

Lu Yuan explained that he didn't expect that after not seeing each other for ten years, he could still summon this childhood friend with just a message.

Su Mingzhe has cleared all the information about himself on the Internet in China, but there is also information about him abroad.

Lu Yuan and Peng Jiahe saw the news that Su Mingzhe was elected the richest man abroad.

Peng Jiahe got in the car and looked at Su Mingzhe carefully:
This is the first living richest man I have ever seen!

(End of this chapter)