Many people came to the wedding.
After returning to China, Jiang Tian made many friends, just as she had abroad.
She is an extremely charming person, and being friends with her is a wonderful thing.
If she chooses to get married, she will definitely try her best to invite her good friends to her wedding; this is a matter of etiquette.
Compared to Jiang Tian, Cheng Yanzheng didn't have as many friends. Apart from his comrades-in-arms from that time, few of his other relatives came to visit.
The main reason is that he didn't invite me.
In his opinion, he should remember how good his grandparents and maternal grandparents were to him, and he would definitely invite them to his wedding.
It doesn't matter about other relatives.
After all, their relationship was just that of relatives from the beginning, with no special connection. In fact, these relatives even needed to get projects through his company.
From this perspective, relatives should respect his authority and refrain from interfering with his decisions.
In fact, the older generation of relatives have no sense of boundaries whatsoever. They will bring up things they find unpleasant to Cheng Yanzheng one after another, showing absolutely no emotional intelligence.
They have been corrupted.
All Cheng Yanzheng could do was use his attitude to shut them up.
Although he has been living abroad during this period, he has not neglected his domestic affairs, and he has also opened up a new market overseas.
He has a good business sense. Making more money for his family's group and leaving more assets for his children is what he should do as a father. So why would he give up his profits to others?
However, this group of people were very dissatisfied.
They believe that since his children don't have his surname, why should they take his property?
In short, some oddballs insist that he should divide his property among his good-for-nothing cousins.
He should be aware of his own limitations. Since even his children couldn't get the same surname as him, he should reflect on his actions and leave everything he can to the Cheng family.
How could someone with a different surname take so much stuff? He shouldn't forget that the reason he was able to defeat Gao Yaohong and acquire so much wealth was simply because his surname was Cheng.
If he doesn't even understand this principle, then he doesn't deserve to be considered part of their family.
In short, greedy people have countless excuses to gain benefits.
Especially when faced with self-interest, they always shed their kind facade and reveal their true fangs.
Cheng Yanzheng ignored all of these comments.
He has already taught the people he cares about well.
His grandparents and maternal grandparents initially did not accept that their fourth generation would take his mother's surname.
What do they consider this a big deal?
The meaning of "passing on the family line" is simply to inherit the surname, right? What's the point if the surname goes to someone else?
But Cheng Yanzheng also made it clear to them that if he hadn't met Jiang Tian, he might never have truly wanted to be with someone else and have a child of their own.
People will always make do, and they will also seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.
Not meeting someone you truly love doesn't mean Cheng Yanzheng won't get married.
But Cheng Yanzheng could imagine what his marriage would be like.
—It must be as bland and tasteless as plain water.
He would choose a partner within a pre-defined framework, have a child according to societal norms, and then continue with his work.
Some people, if you meet them, you'll find that they can bring you pain as well as sweetness, but they can also make your life less empty.
A bland life is ordinary and uneventful, which is what many people yearn for.
But Cheng Yanzheng did not have that desire.
He enjoys being with the person he loves, because that's when he feels the passion of life.
He can hardly recall how he lived his life before he met Jiang Tian.
It's nothing more than watching the sunrise and sunset, repeating similar lives at every stage of life.
He would never have felt this way again, filled with anticipation for each day and genuinely happy.
People should live for themselves. If you can't find your own agency and are always being pushed forward by others, what's the point of such a life?
As for the surname issue, this can be considered a structural issue.
As an individual, Cheng Yanzheng cannot shake everyone's mindset, but he himself is not feudal or rigid.
If Jiang Tian's own child doesn't take her surname, whose surname can it take?
His grandparents were indeed very dissatisfied, and even told him to take the child back and then divorce Jiang Tian.
But their dissatisfaction was of no use.
Cheng Yanzheng wields absolute power within the group, and his grandparents have no special interests involved with him.
Luo Nianzhen and Cheng Yuanshan were even forced to retire and stay at home.
Cheng Yuanshan handed over a group riddled with problems to his son, knowing full well that his abilities had reached their limit.
If this continues, he might jump off a tall building.
He backed down.
He has shown no intention of returning to public life in recent years.
Moreover, the group today is completely different from what it used to be.
Cheng Yanzheng has been good enough to them, allocating nine figures annually just to ensure they enjoy a good life. Which of his sons could do that?
Even their eldest son had become estranged from them, so they had no reason to lecture their children anymore.
Whose surname they take is none of their business.
The eldest son's attitude was so obvious that he had completely taken control of them.
Especially now that Gao Yaohong is still bothering them every day, they really have no time to care about others.
Similarly, even if Cheng Yanzheng's grandparents didn't accept it at first, they could see that their eldest grandson had grown up.
He no longer needs anyone's protection; his wings have grown strong enough, and all they need to do is watch him ascend.
Cheng Yanzheng no longer needs any guidance from them on his path.
He stabilized the group and led its development and expansion. Who can he leave his assets to, and who can truly interfere?
When Cheng Yanzheng took the child to meet the two elderly people, they were even more enamored with the child, and eventually had no choice but to accept it.
Cheng Yanzheng's maternal grandparents accepted it even more readily.
According to those conventional ideas, if they only had one daughter, who married Cheng Yuanshan and had a child with the surname Cheng, wouldn't their family line end?
In fact, this idea is no longer feasible.
The sweeping tide of social thought dismantled clan-based concepts and led them to accept many new ideas.
If they valued clan and lineage too much, they wouldn't have selflessly sacrificed for their daughter and helped her raise her grandson.
In their eyes, blood ties and kinship have surpassed traditional etiquette.
This couple has figured out how to live.
Therefore, in their eyes, it doesn't matter whose surname one takes; as long as the family is harmonious and happy, that's better than anything else.
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