Of all Han Qiang's children, Han Mingliang lived the most carefree and easy life. He had no contact with the real young master of the Han family, but because of this, he completely lost his position as the heir.
Han Qiang was unaware that this mistress had said this to Han Mingliang more than once.
"Son, joining them in scheming and plotting is the mark of an incompetent person. What truly makes a person capable?"
After hearing it so many times, Han Mingliang was able to chime in: "Reap the benefits without lifting a finger."
"By the way!" The mistress said leisurely, quite satisfied. "The Han family is so big. I just casually got what your mother received, and it's enough to last her for many years. When the time is right, we can make a big profit. Once Han Qiang is dead, our company can be established openly, and then Mom won't have to worry about her retirement."
His mistress had secretly opened a company in a place far away from Chongqing under the name of family members. She often took Han Mingliang out to "play", but in reality, they were all going to the company.
She is indeed not greedy, but she has to take what is rightfully hers.
Having been a mistress for so many years, she's not so easy to deal with.
The fourth young master of the Han family, Han Mingming, and the only daughter, Han Mingmei, are twins. Their mother was also a mistress, but she is still very favored by Han Qiang.
Especially after the birth of her daughter, Han Mingmei.
With many sons, daughters are truly the apple of everyone's eye.
The timing of these two children's arrival was also good. When people are young, they don't pay much attention to children, but they start to like them when they get older. The timing of the birth of these twins was exactly when Han Qiang liked children the most.
If it weren't for Han Qiang's second wife being so resourceful, and the fact that the Han family's children have grown up and become increasingly chaotic in recent years, she would have already moved into the family long ago.
Even so, she often told her two children that the Han family's things belonged to them, and if they wanted them, they had to take them; it was wrong to wait for them to come to them.
Therefore, the brother and sister never shied away from their status as illegitimate children, and would even beg Han Qiang to let them participate in some of the Han family's affairs.
Han Qiang had always liked the two of them. He no longer needed to consider his eldest son, his second son was too ambitious for Han Qiang to trust, and his third son was even more useless. Therefore, Han Qiang had high hopes for them.
This is why the second son sparked another round of discontent, which only had a negative effect.
But these two siblings are indeed quite capable. Over the years, they have been willing to be used by Han Mingzhi and still maintain a good impression on Han Qiang, which is why they have lived so long.
Given Han Mingzhi's personality, if he were truly threatened to a certain extent, he wouldn't care about anything else...
As for the youngest son, that was Han Mingrui, who is now dead.
He was pregnant by Han Qiang's second wife unexpectedly.
Because of the incident where Han Mingzhi was "not his biological son," his wife was deeply hurt and originally did not want to have any more children. Her marriage with Han Qiang was also in name only.
Unexpectedly, she became pregnant.
At the time, she was already considered an elderly pregnant woman, and if she terminated the pregnancy, it would cause great harm to her body. She had no choice but to try to give birth.
Fortunately, Han Qiang still loves children and especially hopes to have a daughter, so that he will have both a son and a daughter both at home and outside.
His relationship with his wife has also recovered somewhat.
However, when they were able to check the child's gender, they found it was another boy. Han Qiang wasn't very satisfied, but he didn't say much.
He had thought about it; if his youngest son proved himself capable, he could be used to deal with his second son.
Having more sons means having more options for heirs.
Han Qiang held this belief for many years before realizing it was wrong.
However, Han Qiang did not expect that, for him more than 20 years ago, waiting for a child to grow up was actually something he couldn't afford to wait for.
When Han Mingrui came of age, Han Qiang was already over sixty.
A company with such a large enterprise, such wealth, and such power cannot possibly be handed over to a newly adult heir.
More importantly, Han Mingrui did not act like an heir.
Or rather, compared to Han Mingzhi, Han Mingming, and Han Mingmei, he was far inferior.
It's not exactly a cause for celebration that he's even comparable to Han Mingzhi's son, who is over ten years old and Han Qiang's grandson.
Even though Han Qiang still disliked Han Mingzhi, and by extension, his grandson, he had to admit that his family had inherited his abilities and skills in managing the family.
But the more this happened, the more Han Qiang wanted someone else to defeat them.
It seems that in some ways, it can be considered a defeat of oneself.
People were always saying, and Han Qiang was always thinking, that the Chu family was small and gradually showing signs of exhaustion, yet they could maintain this state. Shouldn't it be just around the corner for the Han family to surpass the Chu family? Why is it so difficult?
With no other option, Han Qiang could only continue to wait.
I waited until he was over seventy. His temples weren't exactly gray, but his hair was almost completely white. Age spots started appearing on his hands and face, and his health was clearly declining. He relied on various medications daily, and sometimes even had to be hospitalized. It was under these circumstances…
They received news of Han Mingrui's death.
This was a huge blow to Han Qiang.
He sat in the car, watching the busy people outside, thinking about his whole life, about each child, about everything that had happened, those memories flashing before his eyes like a revolving lantern…
The more I thought about it, the sadder and more desolate I felt.
Perhaps that's just how it is as people get older; they become more sentimental.
Han Qiang was unwilling to admit that he had been wrong from the very beginning.
The sound of the car door closing brought Han Qiang's memories to an end.
Han Mingzhi had figured everything out and came back to report to him.
However, even though he called it a report, his tone was more like he was just informing you.
"It's been investigated. Mingrui was here early today, waiting for a woman named Shen Ru to bring him money. He had made some friends before, and he originally wanted to cause trouble for them, but ended up getting himself into a lot of trouble... He probably wanted to get something back from this Shen Ru, but she killed him."
Since Han Mingrui is already dead, saying good or bad things about him won't do much good for Han Mingzhi, so it's better to just tell the truth.
So Han Mingzhi's tone remained calm and composed, as if he were simply stating a fact. In the end, he seemed to find it hard to understand how Han Mingrui had managed to get himself killed.
Han Qiang stared at Han Mingzhi, but it was unclear whether he had listened or not.
After a long pause, he only said one sentence: "Your brother is dead, and this is your attitude."
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