No. 28 Repulse Bay, Guo family villa.
The sandalwood door of the study closed gently, blocking out the subtle noise in the living room.
Guo Letian stood with his back to the desk, facing the wall where hung an old photo of his late wife, his figure stretched long by the light from the window.
The only sounds in the study were the steady ticking of the grandfather clock and the old man's slightly heavy breathing.
"Mengmeng,"
Guo Letian didn't turn around. His voice was slow and deep, with a hint of barely perceptible fatigue, "Sit down."
Liu Rumeng sat down in the armchair as she was told. There was no expression on her cold face. She just looked quietly at her grandfather's broad but slightly hunched back.
Her hand gently pinched the hem of her plain cheongsam.
"Young Master Huo will be coming home soon, did you know that?"
Guo Letian finally turned around and said, "Huo Zhenting, the future helmsman of the Huo family.
You should have understood a little bit about what the Huo family means in Hong Kong Island during your time here."
Liu Rumeng nodded slightly: "Grandpa, I know."
"This is a big deal for our Guo family, a huge deal."
Guo Letian was thinking and struggling in his mind - in order for the Guo family to truly establish a solid foundation and become a top family in Hong Kong Island, rather than relying on some warehouses and ocean-going fleets on the edge of the new port and becoming a nouveau riche that was always inferior to others in the circle of wealthy families.
If I could climb up the Huo family's tree...
His second son, Guo Zhiming, worked very hard for five or six years to open up several border trade checkpoints. The hardships he went through were hard for outsiders to imagine, but perhaps just a casual word of advice from the eldest son of the Huo family could make up for all the hard work.
This power cannot be easily described by the word "wealth and honor".
Guo Letian's heart was like a pot of boiling oil.
On the one hand, reason and the calculating instinct of a businessman scream clearly: Grab it!
Seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
By marrying Liu Rumeng to Huo Zhenting, the Huo and Guo families became in-laws, and resources, connections, and status came with them. The Guo family had the most solid foundation for prosperity and wealth in the next few decades or even a hundred years.
This is a business that is highly profitable, with only profits and no losses, enough to make all the ancestors in the Guo family ancestral hall smile in their graves.
Who in the family doesn’t look forward to it?
This is a situation where everyone is happy.
But in another deeper corner, guilt and dull pain were entwining his heart like poisonous ivy.
He thought of his youngest daughter Guo Linxian. Due to the circumstances, he cut off contact with his daughters in mainland China and did not dare to go to the mainland to find them.
How much hardship did she endure as she struggled to survive with her young granddaughter Ru Meng during the turbulent and difficult times on the mainland?
How many times have you been looked down upon?
Now that all the hard work has finally paid off, and you've just brought her back home and haven't even warmed her up yet, you're going to use this granddaughter, who has suffered such a tragic fate and was so hard to find, as a bargaining chip to marry someone else just for the benefit of the family?
How is this different from those profit-driven businessmen?
Is Guo Letian really going to become an old bastard who can even trade blood ties?
Besides...alarm bells rang in Guo Letian's mind.
There is also a fatal time bomb - Liu Rumeng's unknown marriage in the mainland.
It may seem like everything is fine now if we keep it secret, but what if the truth comes out in the future?
In a family like the Huo family, you can keep it secret for a while, but how can you keep it secret forever?
Once it is exposed, it will not just be a simple loss of face, but a catastrophic disaster that will be devastating to the entire Guo family.
At this moment, while everything is still uncertain and Huo Zhenting comes to visit, which is the most appropriate time, if Liu Rumeng can speak frankly and reject the Huo family outright, wouldn't it be a quick way to cut the Gordian knot and avoid an irreparable disaster in the future?
With all kinds of thoughts entangled and pulling at him, Guo Letian felt a dull pain in his temples.
He sighed heavily, raised his eyes and looked directly at Liu Rumeng, his eyes revealing unprecedented complexity and helplessness: "Mengmeng! Grandpa called you in today to ask you what you really think.
This marriage to the Huo family is good and beneficial in every way, but that is only the family's consideration.
What about your own heart?
If you are really fed up with the Huo family, or have no interest in Huo Zhenting, or even feel a little reluctant... listen to grandpa, while he is here today, find an opportunity and tell him directly.
Don't worry about your family, don't care about anyone's face.
Grandpa..."
He paused, his voice a little hoarse, "Grandpa just hopes that you...can have a truly smooth life."
Liu Rumeng lowered her eyelids.
At an angle that Guo Letian couldn't see, her nails almost dug into the flesh of his palm.
Heart?
Of course her heart was with Awang. She thought about him day and night and wished she could return to him openly at this moment.
But……
Not yet!
"Grandpa! You're taking it too seriously."
Her voice was clear and cool. "Mr. Huo... a man like that is an opportunity that many ladies in Hong Kong would beg for. I... I'm also willing to try to get in touch with him."
If after meeting him, I find that he is as good as my grandfather said, and I can also... fall in love with him, then marrying into the Huo family sounds like a good choice for me personally and for the whole family, doesn't it? "
Guo Letian felt as if the breath he had been holding in his chest suddenly relaxed, as if a heavy burden had been lifted.
He looked at his granddaughter's slightly "shy" but rational and appropriate expression.
A relieved and happy smile suddenly appeared on his face, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were like blooming chrysanthemums:
"That's right! Good, good! It's good to think like that!
This is Grandpa’s sweet dream!”
Yes, young people will naturally develop feelings for each other if they get to know each other more, let alone an outstanding young man like Peter Ho?
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