Chapter Eleven: Holy crap, the cannon fodder is a real young master!
Chapter Eleven: Holy crap, the cannon fodder is a real young master!
Chapter Eleven: Holy crap, the cannon fodder is a real young master!
Zhou Ran, male, age 16
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The first page contains a personal profile.
The text provides a basic introduction to Zhou Ran.
School experience didn't matter, but the age section made Zhou Ran raise an eyebrow.
No wonder I thought this kid was so weak, turns out he's just a little brat.
Humans tend to be more forgiving towards their young, and Zhou Ran was no exception.
Forgive this kid's weak physique; he still has room to grow.
This introduction appears to have been taken from the school archives, and it includes numerous student reviews.
Beyond polite phrases like "studying diligently" and "working hard."
The most common traits mentioned in the comments are introverted and honest.
It seems this kid doesn't have any other redeeming qualities.
Zhou Ran continued flipping through the documents, which became increasingly disorganized.
There are photos, screenshots, and even a screenshot of a newspaper.
Finally, there are a few DNA reports.
After reading all the information, Zhou Ran finally understood what was wrong with her body.
It's a very cliché plot, a male version of the real and fake heiress story, and a real and fake young master story.
And this body belongs to that unfortunate young master who was stranded outside.
This story begins with the Zhou family twenty years ago.
The current patriarch of the Zhou family, starting with Zhou Ran's greasy father, Zhao Feng.
That's right, Zhao Feng's surname isn't Zhou.
That greasy guy was once an innocent and cute young man, and also a top student.
He came from a rural area and was admitted to the prestigious Zhejiang University.
He left the mountains alone and saw the colorful world outside, so different from the village.
The dazzling world is captivating, and the allure of luxury and extravagance is enticing.
Zhao Feng looked at the city dwellers with envy and dreamed of becoming one himself.
But his background destined him for an exceptionally difficult path.
He fawned over the rich kids at school.
As life gradually improved, he was unwilling to live like this forever and wanted to become a superior person.
At that time, his best option was to marry into a wealthy and powerful family.
In those days, the emphasis was on having fewer and better children, which was also the time when there were many only daughters.
Being a live-in son-in-law is the best path he chooses after weighing the pros and cons.
He used every means to orchestrate a chance encounter, rescued the damsel in distress, and won over Zhou Ran's biological mother, Zhou Mengwei, the only daughter of the Zhou family.
She was not particularly beautiful, but she had an exceptional temperament and a flamboyant and open-minded personality.
Zhao Feng knew that Zhou Mengwei had been strictly disciplined since childhood.
They never mention learning or responsibility.
Take her with you to experience a different life.
Go and experience the everyday life of ordinary people.
Take her to see the mountains covered in red leaves, take her to see the same.
Take her to see the rippling blue waves, take her to fly kites and make lanterns.
His warmth and thoughtfulness gradually won over Zhou Mengwei's heart.
They spent their time together enjoying romantic moments, and their feelings for each other deepened.
Finally, Zhou Mengwei became pregnant.
Back then, unmarried pregnancy was frowned upon, especially for girls.
The Zhou family disliked Zhao Feng.
She was utterly disgusted by his impregnation of her daughter.
At this time, Zhao Feng acted humble and submissive, showing great care for Zhou Mengwei.
The Zhou family could not resist Zhou Mengwei's persistent pleas.
Zhao Feng came from a rural area with no connections, and he always acted subserviently.
I'm barely qualified to be a live-in son-in-law.
Give the Zhao family some money and make him behave himself in the Zhou family. They are confident that they can control Zhao Feng, and their daughter will not suffer any losses.
And so, Zhao Feng became a son-in-law of the Zhou family.
Zhou Mengwei's pregnancy did not result in her giving birth.
An unexpected car accident took Grandpa Zhou's life, while Zhou Mengwei, who was riding in the car with him, survived, but lost her child.
Zhou Mengwei was heartbroken, and Zhao Feng stayed by her side at this time.
They comforted her, protected her, helped with the funeral arrangements, and assisted Grandma Zhou in managing her company.
As a son-in-law, he was flawless.
With Zhao Feng's support, Zhou Mengwei finally recovered from the shock of losing her father and child.
She took over the company, and Zhao Feng followed her, helping Zhou Mengwei consolidate her position and seize power.
The couple worked together and quickly took control of the company. Three years passed in the blink of an eye, and things were thriving. Everything was going well.
The only thing on my mind is my child.
For the past three years, Zhou Mengwei has not been able to conceive.
She would occasionally get anxious, but Zhao Feng would comfort her instead.
They said that having children is something that should be left to fate, and that they will have their own children.
Zhou Mengwei, however, kept dreaming about her dead child.
Five years after their marriage, Zhou Mengwei finally became pregnant.
She doted on this child immensely.
The doctor said he had damaged his health before, and the pregnancy was not going well when he conceived this time, so he might not be able to keep the baby.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Mengwei felt immense regret for being so careless and failing to discover the child's existence.
She was working herself to the bone on a project. She was constantly drinking, socializing, and traveling all over the place.
If someone drinks more coffee than food, and their child's gestation is not good, it must be related to those things.
As a mother, she felt incredibly guilty.
She did everything she could to protect the child.
She quit her job and rested as advised by her doctor.
She gave her all for this child.
She always felt that this child was the child she had lost, and that he had come back to find her.
But unexpected events kept happening, and Zhou Mengwei spent almost all of her last few months in the hospital.
Having money can sometimes really save your life.
At least Zhou Ran's life was saved.
Zhou Ran was finally born at full term.
When Zhou Mengwei heard the baby crying, she finally fainted with relief.
Over the next decade or so, Zhou Mengwei regretted countless times why she hadn't persisted.
When Zhou Mengwei woke up, Zhou Ran had been replaced by Zhou Chao, who was later raised in the Zhou family.
Someone took Zhou Ran away and sent her to a remote mountain village, where she was sold for 1,500 yuan.
This amount of over a thousand is not even enough to buy a can of milk powder in the Zhou Dynasty.
Zhou Mengwei poured all her love into Zhou Chao.
No one knew that the child had been switched; it would never have been discovered otherwise.
Who knew that fate would play such a cruel trick on us?
Zhou Mengwei's second child, Zhou Qi, was diagnosed with leukemia.
She needs a matching bone marrow transplant to survive.
Zhou Mengwei did this to save her daughter's life.
All family members who were related to the patient underwent matching tests.
Only then did she realize that Zhou Chao, whom she cherished so dearly, was not her child.
She went crazy because she discovered that not only was Zhou Chao not her child, but Zhou Chao was also related to her daughter Zhou Qi by blood.
This report was a slap in the face to Zhou Mengwei.
They mocked her judgment of people, and ridiculed her for being a fool.
When Zhao Feng realized that his scheme had been exposed, he stopped pretending to be a good person.
Zhou Mengwei's trust allowed him to take control of the company and his family long ago.
He was ruthless and merciless, sending Zhou Mengwei to a mental hospital and abandoning the treatment of Zhou Qi.
This substitution tactic, eliminating the root of the problem, is ruthless.
In a swift transformation, they successfully turned the Zhou family's assets into the Zhao family's business.
With Zhou Qi's death from illness and Zhou Mengwei's death, Zhao Feng emerged as the winner.
The story should have ended here.
After all, not every story ends with the bad guys getting punished.
But reality is always full of unexpected twists and turns.
At the shareholders' meeting where Zhao Feng officially took over as chairman.
The arrival of Grandpa Zhou's old friend turned the story around.
Lin Cong led his lawyer directly into the conference room.
With a 32% stake, he became the largest shareholder and, in his capacity as the largest shareholder, suspended Zhao Feng's appointment.
The lawyer he brought announced Grandpa Zhou's supplementary will in public.
It clearly states that if Zhou Mengwei dies, all of his shares in the Zhou family will be inherited by the Zhou family bloodline.
If Zhou Mengwei leaves no bloodline.
All of these shares have been handed over to the state.
Zhou Mengwei's definition of parentage has been clearly supplemented.
Even if that bloodline is unrelated to Zhao Feng, the inheritance still applies because it is Zhou Mengwei's bloodline.
Upon hearing the will, Zhao Feng was so angry he wanted to kill someone.
Especially the supplementary agreement regarding parentage.
Zhao Feng was so angry he wanted to grind his teeth.
If Zhou Mengwei gives birth to a bastard child, that bastard child could easily take away what he has been plotting for so long.
He had previously investigated the shareholders' situation, and it was clear that 32% of the shares were held by retail investors.
He also arranged for people to make contact with those shareholders.
When trying to negotiate the transfer, we encountered obstacles every time.
In retrospect, this was a backup plan left by that old man.
It was all so that we could deliver a fatal blow at the crucial moment.
Now that everyone related to Zhou Mengwei by blood is dead, he can't just stand by and watch the shares be donated to the country.
Zhao Feng racked his brains before finally remembering the child he had switched earlier, Zhou Ran.
In order to save his shares and the company, he proactively claimed that Zhou Mengwei still had blood relatives living abroad.
Zhao Feng spent a lot of money to bring Zhou Ran back.
According to the will, Zhou Ran inherited these shares.
Zhou Ran was introverted, but not truly stupid. No matter how Zhao Feng tried to persuade, threaten, or entice her, she simply wouldn't budge on transferring the shares to him.
Zhao Feng initially spoke kindly to them, but later it became a form of abuse.
They withheld Zhou Ran's living expenses and deliberately framed her.
Various forms of school bullying and attempts to tarnish Zhou Ran's reputation.
This young master from the bottom of society suffered all the hardships of life.
Zhou Ran was able to endure being bullied for so long because she held onto hope and didn't want to die.
Seeing this, Zhou Ran couldn't help but look up at the handsome guy sitting opposite her.
That's right, that hope was Xia Chenggan.
Xia Chenggan was like a ray of light in Zhou Ran's gloomy life.
He was so perfect, so kind, so powerful.
Like a god descended to earth.
She was Zhou Ran's muse.
Zhou Ran remained steadfastly by Xia Chenggan's side, persisting even when bullied and ridiculed.
He used every means to stay by Xia Chenggan's side.
This includes harming his family, drugging him, scheming, and exploiting everyone he can.
He was like a fanatical believer, willing to give everything for his god, even his soul.
Zhou Ran's death was not an accident; he was arrested after drugging Xia Chenggan again.
She threatened Xia Chenggan with suicide, then cut her wrists in front of him.
He wanted to threaten Xia Chenggan to make him forgive him and like him.
Xia Chenggan felt extremely nauseous at the time, so he had Zhou Ran knocked unconscious and sent to the hospital.
Zhou Ran woke up from her slumber and secretly ran away from the hospital.
He sneaked into Xia Chengan and Xia Chengping's birthday banquet, hoping to catch a glimpse of Xia Chenggan.
He knew that Xia Chenggan cared about his family and would definitely show up.
Who knew that before you even met him, he would be in an unstable mental state and extremely weak.
She fell to her death, but got up again and became the Zhou Ran we know today.
He was completely transformed, and he also took on a whole mess for him.
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