According to the laws of Qinghua State, if parents and children want to sever their relationship through notarized procedures, it can only be done after the children have reached adulthood, and it is considered that the parents have voluntarily given up their responsibility to support their children.
Children can also sever ties with their parents. However, if the children take the initiative to go through the procedures, they need the parents' consent and must assume the responsibility for their parents' retirement expenses. The amount of expenses is determined by the children's income and assets, and must be specified in the notarized documents. The notary office will send the retirement pension to the parents every year.
So, Chi Kangyong endured it until his father and stepmother took the initiative to sever ties with him.
After returning home from the hotpot meal, Bi Qiaoan learned about the Ji family's past from their words.
It turns out that Ji Kangyong's mother was once a young lady from a prominent family in Panzhihua Province. Because her family was too influential, a kidnapping incident occurred. As a result, Ji Kangyong's maternal grandparents sent her to live with relatives in Xiaoshan Province.
After growing up, Ji Kangyong's mother was admitted to a university in Shanghai. During her university years, she fell in love with her classmate, who was also Ji's father.
At that time, Ji's mother thought that it would be easier to find love if one dated as an ordinary person, because such love was free from self-interest.
Therefore, Ji's mother never revealed her true identity to Ji's father, and Ji's father only thought that his girlfriend was a girl from a well-off family.
Later, when the two were discussing marriage, Ji's mother decided to bring her lover home to tell Ji's father about her true identity. However, before they could go, something happened at home.
Ji Kangyong's maternal grandparents left a large sum of money and antiques for his mother in a foreign bank, and instructed her not to reveal her identity until the problem was resolved.
Ji's mother waited and waited until one day, she received news that her parents had an accident. At that moment, she was completely stunned. She didn't know if her parents had really had an accident or if they had been murdered.
Ji's mother kept her parents' instructions not to reveal her identity. After secretly attending her parents' funeral, she left Panzhihua Province and never returned.
A year later, Ji's mother and father got married and had a child, Ji Kangyong. The family lived a very happy life.
Ji's mother had considered reinvestigating her parents' accident, but having been raised outside since childhood, she knew very little about her own family's affairs. In addition, she had to conceal her identity, which had always been a constraint, and she had not made any progress over the years.
In recent years, Ji's father has made some success in his own business and has become a rising star in the Shanghai business circle. But when people achieve success, they are particularly prone to becoming arrogant.
Just like the story of Chen Shimei, Ji's father was admired by the daughter of the Zhu Group, and in the end, he couldn't resist and they had a child together.
However, the daughter of the Zhu Group couldn't just follow her father without a proper status, and the child in her womb couldn't be an illegitimate child. Left with no other choice, her father had to confront her mother, and after negotiations, the two chose to divorce.
At this moment, Ji's mother was very fortunate that she had never told Ji's father about the large inheritance she held after many years of marriage.
When Ji Kangyong's parents divorced, he was already ten years old. He could distinguish right from wrong and chose to leave with his mother without hesitation.
After observing for a year and confirming that Ji Kangyong had no contact with his father and could distinguish between important and unimportant matters, Ji's mother told Ji Kangyong about her background and property, and asked him to promise that he would not tell his father.
Ji's mother didn't tell Ji Kangyong about her parents' accident, fearing that the child might face danger if he investigated it when he grew up. To her, the living were the most important people.
Ji's mother understood that she would never remarry; everything she had was for Ji Kangyong.
However, the situation might be different with Ji's father. Once a person has a new love, their heart will unconsciously stray. If Ji's father knew that Ji Kangyong held a large amount of wealth, it's possible that he might try to kill him for his money.
Ji's mother analyzed the pros and cons for Ji Kangyong, and Ji Kangyong, being very clever, followed his mother's lead and pretended to be poor.
Of course, Ji's mother wouldn't let her son suffer with her. Over the years, she had helped Ji's father manage his business, so she chose to start her own business, which was the clothing business.
The mother and son's lives gradually improved, and their income increased.
Ji Kangyong thought that life would continue to be happy like this, but fate had other plans. Perhaps it was because his mother was too overworked, or perhaps it was because her failed marriage made her depressed. When Ji Kangyong was fifteen years old, his mother was diagnosed with cancer and passed away not long after.
Before her death, Ji's mother made all the necessary arrangements for Ji Kangyong and transferred all her assets to him.
Afterwards, Ji's father took Ji Kangyong back home under the pretext of taking care of his underage children. From then on, Ji Kangyong suffered from his father's favoritism, his stepmother's emotional abuse, and his half-brother's occasional framing and slander.
Ji Kangyong lived a very repressed life, but his father and stepmother, for the sake of their reputation, absolutely refused to let him move out.
And so, the stalemate continued for many years, with Chi Kangyong watching the family's happiness and sweetness as if he were invisible.
Fortunately, Ji Kangyong had money and was ambitious, so he was able to succeed in such an environment and also made three good friends: Shen Yanming, Zhang Heping, and Li Zhaozhao.
When they first met, Ji Kangyong pretended to be a poor student, acting as a pitiful little thing who was not favored by his family and had no pocket money except for food and drink.
But these three people never looked down on him. They always thought of him when there was something good to eat or something fun to do. Even after he said that he was rich, the three people still did what they wanted and treated him as well as possible.
And so, Ji Kangyong's heart regained its warmth. So what if he didn't have a father's love? He had a mother who was devoted to him, and he had brothers who were loyal to him. He felt that everything was worth it.
The longer the group spent together, the deeper their bond became. Shen Yanming and the others also learned about the conflict between Ji Kangyong and the Ji family, and they even tried to find a way to help Ji Kangyong escape.
But Ji Kangyong thought that even if he moved out, as long as their father-son relationship remained, he would not be able to escape his father's control.
Therefore, Ji Kangyong chose to lie low, waiting for the right opportunity to completely tear off this fig leaf.
And just like that, the timing came perfectly. Taking advantage of being disliked during the dry season, he could finally end his relationship with the Ji family.
Before moving to Qingyu Community, Ji Kangyong had already completed the notarization procedures with his father, and from then on, you are you and I am me.
After hearing about the Ji family's past, Bi Qiaoan sighed, "They're both sons, so why is the heart so biased?"
"Because one son only knows how to swallow gold, while the other son can make gold. Ji Kangyong's stepmother can bring hundreds of millions of yuan worth of projects from her family every year."
"So the Ji family is quite well-off, then why would they mistreat their own son? They're so heartless!"
"If you consider the issue from Mrs. Ji's perspective, it becomes much easier to understand."
I reckon this Mrs. Ji has always been jealous of Ji Kangyong's mother taking the position of the original wife. Don't be fooled by the respectful title of Mrs. Ji she's given now; everyone in the industry knows she was a mistress who rose to power.
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