Su Ziqing blew on her nails. "Second Uncle, you're thinking too far ahead. I don't have much time. Have you made up your mind?"
Su Tianhao glared angrily, his breathing disordered, as if a fire was burning in his heart and he couldn't get it out.
He doesn't speak, he doesn't make a choice!
Considering he's a rich second-generation, he did quite well both when Grandpa Su and Su Tianming were in charge of the company.
Not to mention that he eventually became the person in power, the chairman of the board, which should have been the pinnacle of his life. But how long did that pinnacle last? He actually brought himself down to this state.
Su Tianhao was truly unwilling to accept defeat; even losing to Su Tianming would be better than losing to his two little nieces.
However, back then, he also cooperated with Su Ziqing for his own selfish reasons, sending Su Tianming to prison.
He had originally planned to wait until he recovered before snatching the item from Su Ziqing's hand, but now, the other party had struck first!
What's most infuriating is that they're both just girls in their early twenties!! What was he doing in his early twenties? He was studying and having fun abroad, living the life of a glamorous rich kid!
Su Ziqing sighed, "Second Uncle, Su Xiaoman is not the Su Xiaoman of the past. You should have felt the development of the case these days. She has a way to send you to prison."
If Su Tianhao couldn't even avoid going to the police station and evade detention, then there's no way he could manage anything else.
There are always people more capable than you, and there's always something beyond your understanding. Su Tianming has already demonstrated this by 'leading by example,' but unfortunately, he still hasn't grasped the essence.
Su Tianhao understood Su Ziqing's meaning perfectly well; she wouldn't help him get out...
"Were you just planning to watch the show from the beginning?" Su Tianhao decided to get to the bottom of things. He looked at Su Ziqing and said, "When you approached me for cooperation, your plan was to send my brother to prison and then let me temporarily become the chairman, right?"
"Trying to scheme against you?" Su Ziqing shook her head. "Second Uncle, you're really wronging me. I told you before that I'm not very interested in the Su Group."
"All I did was seek justice. Su Tianming and the old lady were utterly heartless and did such a thing to my grandfather for the sake of property. I was loved and raised by my grandfather, and I must get justice for him!"
Su Tianhao, however, was not quite convinced.
Su Ziqing didn't care whether he believed her or not, "Do you think it would have been difficult for me to become the chairman of the Su Group back then?"
Su Tianhao chuckled softly.
“I thought you were different from others in the Su family,” Su Ziqing said calmly, “However…”
There's no difference between them.
Su Tianhao looked up at her, as if he had already made up his mind, "How do I know what you won't do after I turn myself in?"
Su Ziqing was too lazy to explain further. "Then go to jail under a different name and stay for a few more years." She stood up, as if she no longer cared.
Anyway, Su Tianhao is definitely going to be in jail; it's just a matter of how long he'll serve.
It really is a cycle of karma; Su Tianming faced a similar situation a few months ago.
"Wait a minute." Seeing that she was about to leave, Su Tianhao finally made up his mind. He had his own judgment.
"Don't you want to ask about what happened back then?" he said.
Su Ziqing sat back down.
Su Tianhao then slowly spoke, "Grandpa has always loved your mother the most. My older brother and I are sons, and according to the default inheritance tradition in City A, we will inherit the Su family's property in the future. As the saying goes, love goes to daughters and property goes to sons, so the family has lived harmoniously for more than 20 years."
Because of traditional assumptions, it is believed that daughters are not afraid of the right to compete for.
“Until your father married into the family.” Su Tianhao looked at Su Ziqing, then smiled sarcastically, “the balance of this family was broken.”
Su Ziqing still has memories of her parents, though they are vague. She can vaguely recall their loving relationship, and her father was a doting husband.
Many men consider marrying into the family shameful, but my father never thought so.
Because her father was an orphan who was adopted and raised by others, he was exceptionally intelligent and a top student. He was passionate about academic research and his personality complemented that of her mother.
Whether he married into the family or got married was not important to his father; what mattered was being with his mother.
Su Ziqing scoffed, "There has never been a rule that women must marry out of the family, and the practice of marrying into the wife's family has existed for a long time."
“Yes, but what does marrying into the family mean? Since ancient times, it's only when the woman's family has no male heirs that a man needs to marry into the family to inherit the family property.” Su Tianhao looked at Su Ziqing. “Your mother chose to have your father marry into the Su family instead of marrying out herself. Why do you think that was?”
"Of course it's because I can't bear to part with Grandpa. Besides, Grandpa said that he only has one daughter, Mom, and Dad is an orphan. No one will stop him from marrying into the Su family."
Grandpa doted on his daughter since she was a child, and he was reluctant to let her marry out. His son-in-law was an orphan, so it was only natural for him to join the Su family. Moreover, his son-in-law himself was indifferent to marriage.
"That's because the old man has the idea of making your mother the heir!" Su Tianhao looked at Su Ziqing and vaguely saw the shadow of his mother in her.
“The capable should take over. If Mom is capable of running the company, why can’t she be the heir?” Su Ziqing retorted sarcastically. “Grandpa founded the company himself. He has the right to decide whether to give the company to his daughter or son.”
Su Tianhao smirked, "Then tell me, how many wealthy families would make their daughters their heirs if they had sons, especially more than a decade ago!"
"Ridiculous, the gambling king's family business is now just his daughter inheriting it. Doesn't he have even more wealth?"
"Don't forget that the gambling king's daughter has no children." Su Tianhao looked at Su Ziqing.
"Ultimately, the inheritance rights will still return to the gambling king's family! But your mother is different." Regardless of whether Su Ziqing takes her mother's or her father's surname, the Su family, except for the old man, simply does not acknowledge her as a member of the Su family!
This ingrained, millennia-old patriarchal ideology makes them so stubborn that they have no intention of making any changes. Moreover, as beneficiaries of the existing system, they are far from being foolish enough to advocate for gender equality.
They were convinced that daughters should receive a dowry and sons should receive the inheritance. They felt it was wrong for the old man to want to give the inheritance to a married daughter with children!
“Grandpa has always treated everyone equally. If he intends for Mom to be the heir, he certainly won’t mistreat his two sons,” Su Ziqing said coldly.
"Heh." Su Tianhao chuckled softly, "You don't understand."
"I don't understand, I don't understand how you could kill your own sister and your own father for the sake of money!!" How could someone like that say she doesn't understand? Of course she doesn't understand!
"I never intended to kill my sister." Now that things had come to this, Su Tianhao no longer concealed anything.
He looked at Su Ziqing and said, "Although we are not from the same mother, we actually had a good relationship before you were born."
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