In the coffee shop, Jiang Kecheng looked at his absent-minded daughter and almost understood the reason... This was also the reason why he took his daughter out shopping. Since his daughter already knew some things, he might as well have a frank talk with her.
"Xiaoyu, did you secretly open Dad's bag?"
"Um……"
"Did you see what was inside?"
"Um."
"No wonder you look like this." Jiang Kecheng smiled and said, "Your worries are unnecessary. Your mother and I are actually having a fake divorce."
"Fake divorce?" Jiang Yuzhu was stunned for a moment, and then her energy returned to her body. She asked quickly, "Dad, you are not lying to me... If what you said is true, then why did you fake divorce Mom?"
"Of course it's for business."
Jiang Kecheng explained: "Before coming here, you should have seen the situation on this road. Almost every store is doing its best to advertise and promote. However, under such circumstances, everything in the store is 50% off, and there are even special items that are not profitable or even lose money."
"This is all the fault of that bad guy Xu Shang!" Jiang Yuzhu said angrily.
"The truly shameless person is not him..."
Jiang Kecheng smiled bitterly, but he didn't want to say more to his daughter about this. He just introduced the current situation: "When gods fight, mortals suffer. Have you noticed that the brand of Feichang Cola that you used to see so often has suddenly become rare?"
"Dad, I think I understand a little bit... but not completely."
Jiang Kecheng sighed and said, "In a real war between giants, it is rare for one side to achieve complete victory. But almost without exception, the third party will become a victim in the war and become nutrition for the giants."
"Now, this is the situation for our family. If we don't do the publicity, our customers will be snatched away by others. But if we do it, we lose money every day!"
Jiang Yuzhu naturally sensed the chill in her own business early on, but she didn't understand what this had to do with her parents' fake divorce.
Jiang Kecheng continued, "After your mother and I got the divorce certificate, I went to all the banks in the city and borrowed all the money I could. With this money, our business can survive!"
"Hold on?"
"Yes, hold on! Just keep going like this. This business war won't go on forever. It will end sooner or later. Daughter, as long as our family can hold on until the end, we will become rich!"
"Ah? Why?"
Jiang Kecheng knew his daughter didn't understand, so he continued to explain: "I told you that the war between giants is bound to affect stores like ours that are one level lower in size. But the catering business cannot be completed by one store or two stores, so in the end... there will be a group of stores like this that go bankrupt, and the market share they vacate will be a big piece of cake!"
"When the giants eat meat, we can also drink soup. If we are lucky, we can even eat two pieces of meat. By then, it will be spring for our family... As long as we can survive this winter, spring will come!"
"What we have to do now is to survive, survive and wait! Like a seed buried in the snow, use its own nutrients to support the arrival of spring, and then grow into a towering tree!"
"Dad, I understand!"
Jiang Yuzhu clenched her fists. Get through this winter, right? She believed that as long as she and her family stayed together, they would be able to overcome this winter. By then, the family business would be able to make a comeback and she would be able to realize her dream of being a socialite who just eats and waits for death.
Thinking about it now, I feel a little excited and happy.
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"Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that we won't make it to that day." On the way home, Jiang's father further explained the reason for the fake divorce, "That's why I had a fake divorce with your mother and transferred the property to your mother's name."
"Even if the company goes bankrupt, I will be the only one to shoulder the debts. It won't affect your life."
"dad!"
Jiang Yuzhu pursed her lips, paused, and looked at her father's heavy back. There was no time when she could feel the heavy father's love more than at this moment.
"Our family will definitely get better! We will definitely wait until spring!"
"Yeah, for sure!"
Jiang Kecheng, however, became sentimental. He suddenly couldn't help but say, "In fact, this disaster today may be retribution."
"Retribution? What retribution?" Jiang Yuzhu immediately retorted, "Dad, you are such a good person! You are nice to everyone! You are nice to your employees too! How could there be retribution? Bah, bah, bah, there will only be good rewards in our family. I have already discussed it with the Kitchen God!"
Jiang Kecheng shook his head and said, "You are already an adult. Actually, there is one thing I can tell you."
"......?" Jiang Yuzhu had a question mark in his head. Could it be that his father was hiding some shameful little secret?
"Your father, I did something bad."
Jiang Yuzhu's heart skipped a beat, and he whispered, "Dad, why don't you just not tell me about this, and let's just pretend that this never happened?"
"..." Jiang Kecheng looked at his daughter and suddenly admired her a little, but he had already started talking, and it was really uncomfortable to hold back now, so he couldn't help but continue:
"That was more than ten years ago. At that time, I worked very hard and saved up 100,000 yuan. You have to know that 100,000 yuan at that time was not comparable to what it is now. It was at least equivalent to 1 million yuan now."
"Some of this money was earned, some was the savings your grandparents gave me, and some was borrowed. I plan to use this 100,000 yuan to open a restaurant... Yes, that's right, this is the prototype of Jiang Derik's first restaurant."
"But at this moment, your mother suddenly called me from a phone booth and told me...she had hit someone with her car."
Jiang Yuzhu's heart skipped a beat and he looked at his father in surprise.
"You have to know that this money was hard-earned. Besides, your mother didn't have a driver's license at the time, and the car belonged to my friend. Once the matter was investigated, the 100,000 yuan on hand would not be enough to compensate, so I asked her if anyone saw her, and she said no. Xiaoyu, you know, there were no surveillance cameras on the road at that time, so..."
"So, Dad, what happened to the guy Mom hit?"
“I don’t know…I don’t know either!”
Jiang Kecheng shook his head and sighed, "This matter has been bothering me for a long time. Now that I have spoken it out, I feel much better. Perhaps the disaster facing our family is the retribution for what happened back then. It's karma... But it's okay, Xiaoyu. Even if the business can't survive, I will find a way. As long as you two are fine, I will be able to hold on!"
"...Oh." Jiang Yuzhu responded, feeling dazed.
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