Chapter 575: Besides a good-looking face, there is nothing commendable about the 578th person.
“And my mother, my mother who sent Ye Xingbei to a brothel, she indeed made a grave mistake. But she’s still my biological mother. She’s birthed you three children. You handed over your wife to your enemy, hoping to placate his anger. Even if the Shi family survives this crisis, how could you still face yourself? How can our Shi family still maintain face in society? We’ll be laughed off and it will be the death of us!”
“What about the future?” Shi Maotong grinds out through gritted teeth. “Ah Jun, if I don’t do this, the Shi family will have no future. We’ll be left with a broken home and ruined lives. What future is there to discuss then?”
“Ah Jun, no matter whether it’s your mother or your sister, none of them are innocent. We’re acting for the greater good. No one will laugh at us.”
“Dad, stop deceiving yourself,” Shi Shijun’s features twist in agony. “We will be laughed to death, surely people will ridicule us!”
“Then, do you have a solution?” Shi Maotong countered him. “All of these troubles, one after another, were brought upon by your mother and sister. They did wrong, and now the Shi family has to bear the consequences of their actions, risking our ancestors’ century-old legacy. If I don’t do this, what else can I do? Should I just sit by and watch the Shi family get wiped off the map of Country Y? Watch our family line end with us?”
“No, that won’t happen …” Shi Shijun adamantly shook his head, his face pale. “We live in a society governed by law now, no one can just resort to violence as they please, whether it’s the Chi family, Gu family, or Ye family. At worst, they’ll bankrupt our family, they won’t take our lives.”
“Ah Jun, you’re still too naive,” Shi Maotong shook his head. “We’re still standing because we still have money, we have bodyguards. But once our family goes bankrupt, burdened with debts, and left homeless in the streets, the Chi family, Gu family, Ye Family, all of them will have countless ways to make us die!”
Shi Maotong paused, his voice dropped, and his face darkened, “Ah Jun, after the video of your mother sleeping with a gigolo came out, our stocks plummeted. In just one day, we lost tens of millions. More than half of our company’s top and middle management were poached by the Chi family and Duanmu family. The National Bureau of Industry and Commerce, the Tax Bureau, even the Environmental Protection Bureau, and various other government departments entered our company … Ah Jun, no one is intentionally targeting us. Our company could’ve withstood inspections, but what about now?”
Shi Shijun closed his eyes, his face ashen.
Shi Maotong took a deep breath, clapped him on the shoulder. “You need not worry anymore, I’ve prepared your passport. Pack up and leave to weather out the storm abroad. I’ll prepare some money for you and keep it in the RS Bank. I’ve put your bank card in the passport. Be on your way today, come back when our family has overcome this crisis. If we fail … don’t come back …”
Shi Shijun cried out in agony, “Dad!”
“Ah Jun!” Shi Maotong lifted his hand to lightly touch his son’s face, realizing he’s already grown up, he patted him on the shoulder instead. “No matter what, you must live well. As long as you’re alive, the Shi family still has hope. Regardless of what happens to your father or the Shi family, you must get married and have children someday. Teach them well, raise them to be decent individuals, regardless if they’re male or female, smart or not …”
One of his biggest regrets was adhering to the belief that sons should be raised by their fathers, and daughters by their mothers.
Shi Shijun had always been by his side, while his two daughters were with Wu Qizhen.
Just as his son said, aside from her beauty, Wu Qizhen was good for nothing.