GLIHBN Chapter 91
by VolareChen Jingtian asked Su Shi to come home for dinner, and Su Shi had a premonition that it wouldn’t be anything good.
Sure enough, before everyone had even finished eating, Chen Jingtian began, “Chen Cheng will be on vacation soon. I plan to have him come to the company to learn this winter break.”
Back then, when he agreed to bring Chen Cheng into the family, Su Shi, reminded by other relatives of the Su family, forced Chen Jingtian to agree that the inheritance would go to Su Shi and Su Qing in the future.
Chen Jingtian had agreed at the time.
Now it seemed that it was just a delaying tactic on Chen Jingtian’s part.
Chen Jingtian cared more than anyone about whose surname the company bore. The plans he had for Chen Cheng entering the company were obvious.
Su Shi expressionlessly placed his chopsticks heavily on the table, looking directly at Chen Jingtian. “I don’t agree.”
Chen Jingtian felt his authority challenged and was somewhat annoyed. “I’m your father, what kind of attitude is that!”
Seeing this, Chen Cheng anxiously said, “Dad, I’m still in school, I’m not going to the company.”
Chen Jingtian scolded, “What do you know!”
Su Shi said coldly, “Has Dad forgotten what he promised me back then?”
Chen Jingtian knew he was in the wrong, so he could only try to cover it up with even more bluster.
“That was so many years ago, it doesn’t count.”
Su Shi sneered, “So the famous President Chen is someone who doesn’t keep his word and wants to go back on it.”
Chen Jingtian slammed the table. “Don’t be so sarcastic. Su Shi, you like men, you won’t have children in the future. The company needs to continue to be passed down.”
Su Shi had long known that the reason Chen Jingtian didn’t object to him liking men was so he could use this as an excuse to let Chen Cheng rightfully take over the family business.
How ridiculous, the industry left by his grandparents should be inherited by a bastard who doesn’t even have the Su surname, and he said it so grandly.
Su Shi’s expression was colder than ice.
Chen Jingtian thought Su Shi was somewhat moved, so he softened his tone, trying to appeal to his emotions and reason, “Xiao Shi, you and Xiao Cheng are both Dad’s sons, both flesh from my flesh. Everything Dad has will be yours in the future.”
“I know I’m not cut out to run a company, my ambitions lie elsewhere, but Su Qing can.”
Chen Jingtian laughed as if he’d heard a great joke. “Xiao Qing is just a girl, she just needs to find a good family to marry into and live a life of comfort and security. Chen’s family doesn’t need her.”
Su Shi’s voice suddenly rose. “It’s the Su family, the company’s name is Su!”
This was like stepping on Chen Jingtian’s tail. Chen Jingtian’s face flushed, and he stood up abruptly, the legs of his chair scraping against the floor with a sharp, grating sound.
Chen Jingtian brought his two fingers together and tapped heavily on the table to emphasize what he was about to say.
“I’ve worked hard for the company for over twenty years, the company has long since changed its name. Your grandparents and your mother have been dead for so many years, you should have come to terms with that reality a long time ago.”
On this point, Su Shi didn’t back down at all. He also stood up abruptly. “No matter how many years, the company will always be named Su, that’s an unchangeable fact.”
The two father and son were separated by a dining table, filled with the smell of gunpowder.
Chen Cheng couldn’t get a word in at all and could only worry anxiously. “Dad, Brother, don’t fight.”
However, no one paid attention to him.
Su Shi and Chen Jingtian argued until their faces were red, their voices getting louder and louder.
Suddenly, Chen Jingtian chuckled lightly. “Fine, then you get married and have children, and the children will be named Chen.”
Knowing that this was impossible, Chen Jingtian was doing this on purpose. Su Shi’s anger rose from his chest to the top of his head. “Don’t say I would never get married and have children. Even if I did, the child would never be named Chen.”
Chen Jingtian couldn’t suppress his anger any longer and cursed loudly, “You ungrateful wretch! Your mother only raised you for a few years, and you only remember her good points.”
It would have been better if he hadn’t mentioned Su Zhi, but mentioning Su Zhi made Su Shi even less able to bear it.
Originally, Su Shi had been patiently enduring, maintaining a peaceful relationship with Chen Jingtian.
But now, Chen Jingtian’s words and sentences were dancing on Su Shi’s bottom line.
Su Shi really couldn’t bear it any longer.
He knew that, under the joint instigation of his grandmother and aunt, in recent years, Chen Jingtian had become increasingly dissatisfied with him.
They disliked him for being arrogant and disrespectful to his elders, and they couldn’t stand him no matter how they looked at him.
In fact, Su Shi knew that his surname was Su and his mother was Su Zhi, that was the original sin.
This had nothing to do with whether he was arrogant or disrespectful to his elders.
“My mother was just good, at least she was faithful to her marriage, didn’t cheat and didn’t have children with men outside!”
This was completely a slap in Chen Jingtian’s face. Chen Jingtian’s eyes almost popped out. “So you’ve always minded me bringing Chen Cheng home?”
As soon as he said this, Chen Cheng’s eyes widened.
Chen Jingtian had other purposes in saying this. Now, he had completely torn his face with Su Shi.
That didn’t matter, but the bad thing was that Chen Cheng’s relationship with Su Shi was too good. Several times, Chen Jingtian had tried to subtly tell him not to worship Su Shi so blindly, but Chen Cheng seemed not to understand and couldn’t be taught no matter what.
Now, he deliberately said this in order to undermine Su Shi’s tall image in Chen Cheng’s heart.
Chen Cheng left his seat, walked up to Su Shi, and asked in a trembling voice, “Brother, is this true?”
Su Shi was in the heat of the moment and couldn’t pretend any longer. “What if it is! Only Su Qing is my real sister.”
Chen Cheng’s nose felt sour, and he started to cry again. He didn’t know why he, a man, had such developed tear glands.
But thinking that the last time he cried and made a fuss, Su Shi was very disgusted, Chen Cheng tried hard to hold back his tears and said to Chen Jingtian, “Dad, give the family business to Brother, I don’t want it.”
Chen Jingtian was about to be angered to death.
He didn’t know what kind of bewitching medicine Su Shi had given Chen Cheng. From childhood to adulthood, Chen Cheng didn’t listen to anyone’s words except Su Shi’s.
He remembered when Chen Cheng was a child, he once ran over to Chen Jingtian crying and said, “Dad, I don’t want to be named Chen, I want to be named Su, with the same surname as my brother.”
Chen Jingtian beat him up.
But Chen Cheng didn’t learn his lesson at all. He later made a fuss about changing his surname again, which made Chen Jingtian so angry that he wanted to remold him.
Chen Cheng grabbed Su Shi’s arm. “Brother, I know I’m useless, I’m not good at studying, and I don’t have any special skills. I’m not as smart as you and Su Qing. The family business will be ruined in my hands, I don’t want it. Don’t worry, don’t disown me because of this.”
Su Shi couldn’t describe how he felt when he heard these words.
He had indeed been patiently enduring and pretending to be a good brother, but after a long time, there would be some feelings.
However, Su Shi was clear-headed enough that this little bit of feeling could be abandoned in the face of jeopardizing his and Su Qing’s interests.
Chen Jingtian was so angry that he wanted to pinch someone’s philtrum. “Shut up, what do you know as a child.”
Chen Cheng shouted loudly at Chen Jingtian, “I don’t know a lot of things, but I’ve known since I was a child that I can’t take things from my brother.”
Chen Jingtian suddenly understood and pointed at Su Shi. “Are you satisfied? You deliberately taught Xiao Cheng to be like this, obeying your every command.”
Su Shi revealed a cool smile. “So what?”
Chen Jingtian was so angry that he grabbed a white porcelain bowl from the table and threw it hard at Su Shi.
Quick as lightning, Chen Cheng suddenly pounced on Su Shi, and the bowl hit Chen Cheng’s back, then fell to the ground with a crash.
Chen Cheng grunted.
Su Shi was a little dazed.
Chen Cheng released Su Shi and turned to glare at Chen Jingtian. “Don’t hit my brother.”
Chen Jingtian was trembling with anger.