The rapid economic development of Xingcheng City is inseparable from the two giants, Zhuoshi Group and Jishi Hospital.
Food, clothing, shelter, transportation, birth, aging, illness, and death are the major life events that no human being can avoid.
With its core businesses of clothing, food, housing, and transportation, the Zhuo Group, primarily engaged in department stores and supermarkets, rode the wave of reform and opening up and soared to new heights during the decades of rapid economic development.
Relying on the four major stages of life—birth, aging, illness, and death—Jishi Hospital, dedicated to saving lives and healing the wounded, has become a well-known large-scale chain private hospital in Xingcheng City and even in the capital of China.
The two heads of the Zhuo Group and Jishi Hospital frequently appear in various business and economic magazines, where they are repeatedly discussed and compared.
One is Zhuo He, a cunning, shrewd, and treacherous fox with a smile that hides a knife;
One is Gu Sirou, a stern, decisive, and ruthless woman.
One lost his wife in his prime, the other lost her husband in her middle age.
A handsome young man who was a well-known refined and elegant gentleman in Xingcheng in his youth;
A beautiful young woman who was already a well-known socialite in Xingcheng during her teenage years.
With similar family backgrounds and matching talents, the phrase "a perfect match" is perfectly embodied in Zhuo He and Gu Sirou.
More than 20 years ago, many people in Xingcheng were secretly speculating whether the two most dazzling pearls of Xingcheng would come together.
But everyone miscalculated.
The Zhuo and Gu families were both developing rapidly and peacefully on their own, with no intention of forming a marriage alliance.
Later, Zhuo He married his little-known college classmate, while Gu Sirou married Ji Rongzhong, a rising star in the political arena.
They both got married in the same year, one marrying the other.
Less than a year after their marriage, the next generation of heirs from the Zhuo and Ji families were successfully born.
Those who witnessed the two families' marriages and the birth of their respective heirs all sighed with regret: It's over, it's completely over.
The two brightest stars of Xingcheng, Zhuo He and Gu Sirou, both have their own children now, so why are they still shipping them as a couple?
As a result, everyone's attention shifted from Zhuo He and Gu Sirou to the next generation of heirs of the Zhuo and Ji families—Zhuo Zhiyuan and Ji Siyuan.
One is a chubby little dumpling, so cute and round, I want to pet it!
One is an exquisite glass cup, its beauty unparalleled, its form ethereal and graceful, meant to be admired from afar but not to be touched or handled.
Well, they're too young to tell who's better yet. Let's wait a few more years and see!
Two years later, the young mistress of the Zhuo family passed away due to illness, and a year later, the son-in-law of the Ji family died in the line of duty.
The crowd's attention shifted back to the most distinguished widower and widow in Xingcheng City.
As people waited and waited, almost finishing a whole plate of sunflower seeds, in the eyes of the public, the two most compatible people in Xingcheng City still kept to themselves and shone brightly in their respective fields.
Everyone had no choice but to calm down, realizing that the two were simply not meant to be.
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Zhuo Zhiyuan had never met his grandfather since birth.
The old man experienced the ups and downs of the business world throughout his life, leaving behind countless business legends.
But he died young.
Grandma Zhuo was left all alone, raising her teenage son Zhuo He, and single-handedly shouldering the responsibility of the Zhuo family's vast business empire.
The business world is like a battlefield, and Grandma Zhuo, with her iron-fisted methods, was actually quite tired of the cutthroat competition in the business world.
After Zhuo He got married, Grandma Zhuo immediately handed over the entire Zhuo Group to her only son, Zhuo He.
Despite his young age, Zhuo He is ruthless in his methods.
In just a few years, under his management, the Zhuo Group has reached new heights.
After retiring, Grandma Zhuo became fascinated with square dancing, a popular group activity among senior citizens.
It's really no fun dancing alone in the villa.
Therefore, Grandma Zhuo specially moved out of her villa, where land was extremely valuable, and bought a second-hand house in an old community in Xingcheng City.
The house wasn't big or small, but Zhuohe was worried about his elderly mother living alone in the old house, and the old lady was also reluctant to part with her precious grandson who had just been born.
So the family of three moved in as well.
Happiness Community.
This is the earliest commercial housing built in Xingcheng. More than 20 years ago, houses here were the dream of every young person in Xingcheng.
But now, it has become an old, dilapidated apartment that everyone dislikes.
One afternoon that seemed no different from any other.
In a residential area dominated by electric scooters, bicycles, vans, and tricycles, a car suddenly drove in.
Like water droplets falling into hot oil, the Happiness Community suddenly became lively.
The whispers were all about the new family of four who had moved in.
"Wow—Old Sun's house has been sold!"
"Last year, the constant noise kept us neighbors from getting a good night's sleep for months. Now that we've moved here, we can finally get a good night's sleep."
"He drives a car, no wonder he could buy the Sun family's house directly."
Old Sun is a well-known figure in Xingfu Community. He and his wife are both high school teachers, and their only son is also successful. After graduating from university, he went abroad for further studies, and the entire Sun family immigrated with him.
The Sun family emigrated, so the house became empty.
Although it's an old, dilapidated, and small apartment, there are different levels of old, dilapidated, and small apartments.
The Sun family is well-off; their home renovation is among the best in the neighborhood, and the house has been well-maintained over the years, showing no signs of wear and tear.
The house was very spacious. Old Sun bought the entire floor and knocked down the non-load-bearing wall between the two rooms.
The floor is just right, it's three floors.
Everything was good, and the elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Sun, were not short of money, so the price was naturally high.
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