Chapter 208
Chu Huaiqin's words shocked the entire entertainment and business world. From the moment the news broke, Chen Minghui's phone was ringing off the hook, and the company's board of directors demanded an explanation. Chen Minghui was so overwhelmed with worry that he threw everything on his desk to the floor.
"Asshole, asshole." Chen Minghui was furious and slammed the table.
The secretaries and assistants outside were horrified when they heard this, and no one dared to go in.
"Bang!"
The office door was pushed open forcefully, and Chen Zigao and his mother came hurriedly from outside.
"Dad, is what he said true?" When Chen Zigao was watching the news, he thought Chu Huaiqin was talking nonsense, but he didn't expect his mother to tell him that there was indeed an agreement.
"What are you doing here?" Chen Minghui shouted, his chest heaving violently as he sat on the sofa. He didn't expect that Chu Huaiqin would give him such a big 'gift' as soon as he returned to China.
"Dad, is this true?" Chen Zigao was afraid of Chen Minghui, but even more anxious about what Chu Huaiqin had said. He had actually said that Gaohui Group was his. How could that be possible? Dad had named the group after him and himself, implying that he would take over the group in the future. How could it possibly belong to Chu Huaiqin?
"Go back." Chen Minghui was furious when he saw Chen Zigao. Everything had been fine before, so why did Chu Huaiqin suddenly say this in the media? Was he provoked by something?
Thinking of this, he quickly remembered Chen Zigao's participation in wilderness survival. This must have stimulated him, what an idiot.
"Why are you being so mean to Zi Gaozuo? If you have a temper, go take it out on that Chu guy!" Mrs. Chen burst into tears. She had fought for her husband, finally got him back, but he wasn't accepted by the upper-class wives of the imperial capital. She had been humble and subservient, and finally built the Gaohui Group, with its billions in assets, making those who used to look down on her smile and fawn over her. Now Chu Huaiqin had personally announced this agreement to the media. What did he mean? Was he trying to steal her son's things again?
Her husband was taken away from her, and this time, she would definitely not let that woman's son take away her son's things.
"What do you know?" Chen Minghui felt a headache watching her crying.
"Why don't I understand? I just want to ask you one question. When you said you tricked me into breaking the agreement, was that true? Did you not break the agreement because of that woman? Did you lie to me and want to give Gao Hui to her son?" Mrs. Chen was worried. Ever since the Chu girl died, she knew Chen Minghui felt guilty. When she died, this man even called her name in her dreams. She knew it all.
Chen Minghui glanced at the open office and immediately flew into a rage, "I told you to shut up, didn't you hear what I said?"
"Why are you being so mean to Mom? Why don't you dare admit it? Dad, the agreement is real, and you didn't destroy it, did you?" Chen Zigao looked at his father in disbelief. Just now at home, his mother said that Chu Huaiqin would take over the group, but he didn't believe it. It turned out to be true. "Why? Is it really as Mom said?"
"I told you to shut up. What agreement? I don't understand." Chen Minghui roared at the two of them, quickening his pace to close the door. Halfway there, Chen Zigao roared, "If I had known this would happen, I should have tied stones to the sack seven years ago. I don't see who can pull him out. He's dead..."
“Bang!”
The sound of crisp applause was heard, and the noisy voices quieted down.
Chen Minghui was shaking with anger. Chen Zigao looked at his father in disbelief, blinking and tears streaming down his face.
From childhood to adulthood, his father never beat him, not even when he drowned Chu Huaiqin in the sea. Why?
"Dad, if you hand over the group to Chu Huaiqin, I will hate you." Chen Zigao yelled and rushed out of the office.
The dozen or so people from Gao Hui Group's secretariat who were outside, pale-faced, fled in a hurry. What had they heard? No, they heard nothing.
Chu Huaiqin had no idea what had happened at Gaohui Group. He returned home and went into the bathroom in the main house to take a shower, leaving Xia En who was looking at them worriedly.
The little monk was in the bathroom downstairs, humming a song and in a very good mood.
Half an hour later, Chu Huaiqin came out touching his hair, and Xia En walked over to help him wipe it.
"Just ask if you have anything to ask!" Chu Huaiqin was drowsy after being rubbed by Xia En.
"You participated in the program to redeem the antiques you sold, so why did you donate the money?" Xia En was worried. He knew Chu Huaiqin valued his grandfather's antiques very much and felt extremely guilty about selling them. He was worried that Chu Huaiqin would feel guilty about not being able to redeem them after donating all his winnings.
"Why don't you lend me some?" Chu Huaiqin joked.
"Okay," Xia En jumped from the sofa and sat next to Chu Huaiqin, his eyes shining: "Let's go redeem it tomorrow!"
"Why is it so urgent?" Chu Huaiqin said helplessly.
"No hurry, no hurry," Xia En shook his head repeatedly. Seeing Chu Huaiqin's intense gaze, his eyes flickered and he murmured, "I'm afraid you won't lend it to me after tomorrow."
"Who's in such a hurry to lend money to others?" Chu Huaiqin smiled, thought about it, and asked, "Don't you want to know about the agreement I mentioned today?"
Seeing that he looked worried, Chu Huaiqin thought he was thinking about this matter.
"I do." Xia En nodded.
"Do you know why he dared to change Chu Corporation to Gaohui Group?" Chu Huaiqin touched his hair, dried it, yawned, leaned back on the sofa, looked up at the ceiling, and said after a moment's silence: "Thirteen years ago, my grandfather died of a serious illness. My mother finally came to her senses and divorced Chen Minghui, taking me abroad..."
Two days before leaving the country, Chen Minghui approached him and told the ten-year-old boy that the Chu Corporation was in serious trouble and that he needed to take the agreement to a notary office to transfer the Chu Corporation shares to his name to take out a loan. He also promised to guarantee that Chu Corporation would be his, no matter what happened in the future. Seeing Chu Huaiqin hesitate, he threatened him, saying that if Chu Corporation went bankrupt, Chu Huaiqin, as the heir, would go to jail, something he couldn't bear as a father.
He spoke with tears in his eyes, and had no place to put his deep fatherly love, so he would rather die to protect him.
Chu Huaiqin felt a little strange at the time, very calm, as if he was looking at a stranger. He had been a little sad when his mother said she was taking him away last night, but now, he was not sad at all.
Chu Huaiqin turned around and went back to his room and gave the agreement to Chen Minghui.
"You really gave it to me?" Xia En was surprised.
"How is that possible? Am I, your brother, so stupid?" Chu Huaiqin poked Xia En's face tenderly.
What Chu Huaiqin gave Chen Minghui was a fake agreement. As for why he prepared that fake agreement in advance, it was because my grandfather said that the Chu family belonged to Chu Huaiqin. If Chu Huaiqin dared to hand over the Chu family, he would come to Chu Huaiqin every day after his death.
When Chu Huaiqin was young, he wanted his grandfather to come and see him, but it never happened once.
"So you carved a radish seal?" Xia En asked.
"Well, I knew he would come to ask me for an agreement. After all, he told Chen Zigao that he would marry my mother just to earn him a fortune." Chu Huaiqin sneered. Chen Zigao moved into his house, and Chen Minghui treated him like a dead man. He never thought that what he said would be heard by him, or rather, he didn't take a ten-year-old child seriously at all.
Chu Huaiqin closed his eyes and lay quietly.
Xia En looked at the man's indifferent face, and his heart ached. He knelt on one knee on the sofa and reached out to pick the man up horizontally. As soon as his hand touched his knee, Chu Huaiqin opened his eyes.
Chu Huaiqin: "Have you taken a shower?"
Xia Entropy: “…”
The situation outside was very serious. Gao Hui Group's stock fluctuated slightly, but it was still within a controllable range. The Gao Hui Group's board of directors was afraid that Chu Huaiqin would leak more information, so they asked Chen Minghui to come forward to negotiate with Chu Huaiqin. So after a nap, Chu Huaiqin saw Chen Minghui appear at his door, his face full of anger.
"Is there something?" Chu Huaiqin raised his eyebrows.
"What did you mean by what you said at the airport?" Chen Minghui now had two plans in mind. One was to acknowledge the existence of the agreement and publicly declare that Chu Huaiqin and his mother willingly sold it to him because his mother wanted to live abroad and never return. And now that the Chu family daughter was dead, there was no one to testify. If Chu Huaiqin made another fuss, he could then use public opinion to pressure him, accusing him of being unfilial. The other was to deny the existence of the agreement. After all, once he got the agreement, he had silenced the two witnesses and erased all relevant information.
Seriously speaking, the first option might get him branded as a stock scammer, but the second option is the best, completely clean.
"I have been an adult for five years, and I am only asking you for the Chu Group now. I have made things difficult for you." Chu Huaiqin crossed his arms and looked at Chen Minghui, whose face was pale and blue, indifferent.
"You, you bastard, what did I tell you back then? And what are you doing now?" Chen Minghui was so angry that his veins popped out. "I'm your father. Have you ever considered my position? Back then, you insisted on going abroad with your mother, and I risked going to jail to help you shoulder the Chu Corporation's crisis. And this is how you repay me now? Have you read so much that you can't even remember?"
"I'm only taking back what belongs to me. Also, don't mention my mother. Your mouth is not worthy," Chu Huaiqin said coldly: "Don't worry, this is just a cold dish. The main course has not been served yet!"
"Bang!"
Chu Huaiqin didn't want to see him again and closed the door.
Feeling very bad, Chu Huaiqin didn't want to go back to the bedroom to see Xia En, so he went to the study. Looking at the familiar antiques in the study, waves of pain surged in his heart.
When he first participated in the wilderness survival live broadcast room, in addition to the reason Xia Entropy said that he wanted to raise money, there was another reason, which was to gain fame.
He knew the power of the Gao Hui Group. Entering the entertainment industry and participating in wilderness survival were both gambles he'd taken, and they had paid off. He'd originally planned to wait a few more years to build up some strength, but Xia Entropy hadn't expected him to show up.
The son of the Xia family, a very unexpected identity.
"Qingqing," Xia En saw that the study was not closed. When he walked in, he saw Chu Huaiqin sitting there in a daze. Seeing that he looked at Chu Huaiqin strangely, he asked awkwardly, "What's wrong?"
"Xia Entropy, I want to use you." Chu Huaiqin stared at Xia Entropy without moving his eyes. He wanted to see hesitation, sadness, surprise, anger, etc. on his face. He had imagined every expression, but what he didn't expect was...
"Okay, Qingqing, how do you want to use me?" Xia En ran to Chu Huaiqin and looked at the man who looked like he was about to cry across the desk without blinking. He wanted to hug him and tell him not to cry, but he couldn't do that now.
Chu Huaiqin smiled, "You, really, really..."
It really makes my heart beat!
Just like seven years ago, you stayed by my side when I was the most lonely and helpless.
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