He Youdao said, "That's all."
Ji Juntao examined the papers over and over for a long time, his expression unreadable: "You may all leave."
The key employees in the office exchanged bewildered glances. Was the big boss going to clash with the second boss again? The second boss hadn't done anything wrong this time... Her family is her family, and she is herself...
Despite thinking this, everyone slipped away faster than anyone else, like a gust of wind, leaving only Shang Yechu and Ji Juntao in the conference room.
Once everyone else was out of the room, Ji Juntao finally spoke: "How long are you going to lie there like a corpse?"
Shang Yechu ripped the towel off her face: "What did Shao Guangji say?"
"Same old tricks, always trying to outsmart us. Let's ignore him for now." Ji Juntao picked up the few sheets of paper. "What are you going to do with these things?"
"Whatever." Shang Yechu leaned back again. "If President Ji gives the order, I'll set the Shang family ablaze and eliminate any future worries for you."
Ji Juntao felt a surge of anger seeing Shang Yechu's resigned and defiant attitude. Whenever it came to family matters, Shang Yechu was always this stubborn and unyielding, as if she only had two options: either give up like a lump of mud, or strap herself with a bomb and take her whole family down with her. She was like a binary entity made of mud and piss!
Ji Juntao admired Shang Yechu, especially her ambition. She had always despised people who were cowardly and incompetent, and now that she had put that same quality into Shang Yechu, it was particularly jarring.
Ji Juntao was seething with anger, and he wanted to go up and pull the dragon throne off Shang Yechu's bottom to wake her up. However, when he actually got to her side, he softened.
There's a case in psychology. When circuses train baby elephants, they tie them to stakes. The baby elephants are too weak to pull the stakes off the ground. Over time, the baby elephants subconsciously come to believe that the stakes are invincible.
As the baby elephant grows into a full-grown elephant, even though it has enough strength to destroy the stake, it will no longer try to break free from that small stake.
Shang Yechu had grown into a strong female elephant, but she was still unable to break free from the wooden stake in her consciousness.
Ji Juntao knew the powerful and indestructible influence that childhood habits could have on a person's entire life. The curse that was about to escape his lips was swallowed back down.
Shang Yechu is a mouse, a stubborn donkey, a wild horse, a stupid elephant... But who says that a baby elephant can only fight a stake alone?
Ji Juntao pulled up a chair and sat down next to Shang Yechu. After thinking for a moment, he softened his tone and smiled, "Now I finally understand what it means to 'not see the true face of Mount Lu because I am in the mountain myself.'"
"What do you mean by 'the true face of Mount Lu'?" Shang Yechu lazily propped up his eyelids.
Ji Juntao flicked the two paternity test reports and asked, "Are Shang Hongxuan and Ji Ya your biological parents?"
"Isn't that obvious?" Shang Yechu lay back down.
"Answer me whether it is or not."
"Okay, okay, yes, yes, yes. Are you satisfied?" Shang Yechu pouted.
Ji Juntao chuckled: "If that's the case, then why do they still need to do a paternity test?"
Shang Yechu stiffened, finally sitting up straight and looking at Ji Juntao: "What do you mean by that?"
“I don’t mean anything by it. But this couple is quite interesting.” Ji Juntao held the two paternity test reports and shook them. “Do you know? In China, if you want to sue your children for not supporting their parents, the primary document you need is not a paternity test report, but your household registration book.”
Shang Yechu's expression slowly froze: "—"
"Looking at this appraisal report reminds me of something." Ji Juntao snapped his fingers. "When the businessmen came to the company to make trouble, they brought out a lot of things. Your student ID, exam papers, photos, but not your family's household registration book."
"..."
"I didn't think much of it at the time. But now it seems strange. I'm your boss, so I definitely know your ID number. When they showed me their household registration book, I couldn't just lie and say that your ID number wasn't the one on the book, could I? Or when you went to see them, they also showed you their household registration book—you couldn't just lie and say, 'My ID number isn't this,' could you?"
"This is solid, readily available evidence with legal force, and neither you nor I dare to deny it—why doesn't this family produce it? Instead, they go through all this trouble, showing you exam papers, photos, and student IDs, then feeding you shrimp dumplings and secretly pulling out your hair? Have you thought about that?"
"Now that they've hired this shady law firm to sue you, you and I both know that paternity tests from private institutions are not legally valid, and all lawyers know that too. Since the business owners have a paternity test report confirming your identity, why don't they just show the household registration book to that shady firm and sue you, instead of threatening you with these two worthless documents?"
Shang Yechu's eyes widened slowly, and she spoke in a barely audible voice: "Ji Juntao—"
Ji Juntao smiled slightly, a smile that held both pride and composure: "I've told you countless times before, don't always bury yourself in plays, study history, learn about the times, and study psychology. Ye, think about what policies were in the era you were born into, think about how greedy Shang Hongxuan and his wife were, think about how much Shang Hongxuan and Ji Ya doted on your younger brother. I'm an only child, so I don't know the specifics of how these things work. You'll have to figure this out yourself!"
Shang Yechu's throat tightened. She looked at Ji Juntao. She had just finished negotiating with Shao Guangji, her tongue hoarse from talking; she wore cold, stiff work clothes; her hair was slicked back like it had been licked by a cow. Yet, at that moment, Shang Yechu felt there was no one more beautiful than her in the world. Perhaps that was the beauty of rationality and wisdom she had always pursued…
Suddenly, Shang Yechu felt a surge of passion and hugged Ji Juntao tightly!
She didn't say thank you.
Ji Juntao was slightly taken aback. After a long while, he silently tossed aside the two paternity test reports, put his arm around Shang Yechu, and whispered:
"Go, mammoth."
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