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Chapter 60 The Reason for Birth

Hearing the noise, a refined man with the air of a university professor came out of the master bedroom, nodded to Ai Liang, and said, "You're back."

This man is Ai Liang's biological father—Ai Zhe.

"Just say what's on your mind. You wouldn't come to this apartment if there wasn't something wrong, would you?"

Ai Liang put down the pastry box and sat down opposite the two of them.

"Isn't today the end of the middle school entrance exam? We just happened to be passing by," Ai Zhe explained with a smile, but was interrupted by Feng Yue.

"Aizhe, stop with your hypocrisy. You only came because I showed up." Feng Yue crossed her arms and sneered disdainfully.

Aizhe did not refute, but smiled slightly at her and then shut her mouth.

This attitude made Feng Yue even more unhappy. She turned her gaze back to Ai Liang: "I came here today to discuss your future."

"My way out is not up for discussion," Ai Liang said coldly.

Feng Yue frowned slightly, but chose to ignore Ai Liang's words and continue speaking.

"Not long ago at Yuelai Shopping Mall, Shi Feng from the Criminal Investigation Team greeted me and said he was very impressed with your talent and planned to take you on as his apprentice. He is one of Yang Xingguo's men. Rumor has it that Yang Xingguo will be promoted to a position in one of the top ten international cities in a few years. Whether it is based on merit or background, the position of bureau chief is undoubtedly Shi Feng's."

Feng Yue gave a very realistic analysis of Shi Feng's future.

“If you apply to the police academy now, you can graduate in seven years with Shi Feng looking after you. With his promotion, you can establish yourself in no time. Once you have accumulated enough connections there, you can come back and take over some of the group’s affairs.”

"By the way, you found the real culprit who killed Gao Fuye's daughter, right? I heard Gao Jiajia has feelings for you?" Feng Yue asked, staring intently at Ai Liang.

"So what."

Ai Liang was too lazy to listen to Feng Yue's long-winded explanation; he just wanted to agree with the two of them so that they could leave quickly.

"Is that so? I've met Gao Jiajia a few times. Her personality is actually very suitable to be a wife. Since she's already dead, let's just leave it at that."

Feng Yue's inquiry into this matter was clearly not for gossip.

“Gao Fuye has a lot of key land. You helped him find the murderer of his daughter, who is also his daughter’s sweetheart. With this connection, the pressure on the group to expand its land in the future will be much less.”

Feng Yue's words profoundly illustrate what it means to be ruthless in the business world. She didn't care at all about the loss of a young acquaintance; she only cared about how much profit she could gain from this favor.

Perhaps this is why Gao Fuye only invited Ai Liang to the mourning hall.

While Feng Yue was still arguing, Ai Zhe interrupted her long-winded speech: "I feel it's better to let Ai Liang take the college entrance exam normally. It's such a waste to drag a genius with a super IQ into the quagmire of politics and business. Maybe he can invent some epoch-making technology?"

"And then contribute to your tech company?" Feng Yue bluntly exposed Ai Zhe's true colors.

Ai Liang sat opposite the two arguing and fell into memories.

Ai Liang's father, Ai Zhe, is a self-made entrepreneur. He and several partners invented a new type of microorganism at the university that can extract precious metals such as gold from electronic waste.

In the experiment, they crushed the electronic waste, reacted it with acid and oxidant, and then put the mixture into a filter press. The copper-containing liquid was discharged from the electronic waste residue into a treatment pool, and then the copper could be separated from the liquid by electrolysis.

The remaining waste residue is sealed and then infused with microorganisms they invented. These microorganisms absorb the gold in the residue, eventually producing gold-bearing clay, which is then handed over to smelters to extract gold with 99.99% purity.

The technology is not yet mature and the initial steps are too costly, but if fully improved, it will change the way the world deals with e-waste.

This would not only alleviate the environmental pollution caused by traditional refining techniques, but also alleviate the crisis of global gold mine depletion. If successful, it would certainly generate a huge international response and lead to instant success.

If Ai Zhe's company has a promising future, then Feng Yue is the chosen one.

Feng Yue is the only daughter of the chairman of the Schindler Group in Nevada City and the future heir to the group.

She now runs a high-end beauty salon independently. Her main purpose is to use this salon as a training ground to experience the difficulties of starting and developing a business, and to make connections with some wealthy women to prepare for taking over the company in the future.

The two met and got to know each other at an entrepreneur exchange meeting, and what followed was a natural progression.

And that's how Ai Liang came to be.

When Feng Yue discovered she was pregnant, it was too late. A hasty abortion would have had adverse effects on her health.

For Feng Yue, the money spent raising a child is far less than the impact on her health.

It's like someone offering you 100,000 yuan to make a small cut on your finger. Most people would gladly accept, and even ask if they need a couple more cuts to feel secure with the money. But Feng Yue was willing to spend 200,000 yuan to heal an accidental scratch on her finger. That's how much she values ​​her health.

Ai Zhe was willing to marry Feng Yue because of the business assistance promised by her father. In his view, the child in Feng Yue's belly would definitely have nothing to do with him in the future, and the child would change to Feng's surname after the two divorced, so there was no need to invest any feelings.

What a hilarious way to be born, right?

The main reason for the birth of a child was that the mother was pregnant unexpectedly and did not want to have an abortion to avoid affecting her health. The father only wanted business support. The marriage between the two had nothing to do with love or family affection. Their birth was an accident.

Ai Liang only learned these things later.

Because Ai Liang was a time traveler, he could read and speak when his vocal cords were almost fully developed. This scene was secretly filmed by the nanny who was in charge of taking care of the child and sent out.

Fifteen years ago, Ai Liang was once hailed as a child prodigy, but Feng Yue did not want to see her son become famous. She had married because she was pregnant, and she did not want to expose this matter under any circumstances.

So she used her family's influence to suppress the matter. In her eyes, he was just a genius, and she didn't feel much of a connection to him. Compared to the cheers for the birth of a genius son, she cared more about the scandal of getting married because of pregnancy.

Ai Liang didn't understand why Feng Yue did this, but at the time he didn't think much of it, assuming that Feng Yue didn't want to be famous.

Having experienced little familial warmth in her past life, Ai Liang initially tried to use her intelligence to please her parents, only to discover that they saw her as a burden. No matter what she did, all she received was, "Don't bother me, go find your dad (mom)."

Over time, Ai Liang stopped communicating with the two of them.

Firstly, they stopped coming home much when Ai Liang was two and a half years old, and the care of Ai Liang was entirely entrusted to the nanny, so there was no opportunity to communicate.

Secondly, Ai Liang, being an adult at heart, didn't want to be met with indifference, especially after learning the true reason for his birth from just a few words.

You're saying that a child, especially a genius who can read, write, and speak at the age of one, is not so difficult for two people to raise, so there's no need for this, right?
This brings us to the reason why they were lovers.

Six months after Feng Yue gave birth to Ai Liang, Ai Zhe started his own family. His mistress was nominally his mistress, but in reality, she was Ai Zhe's wife, and the two had a daughter together.

Aside from lacking official status, they are more like a happy and normal family.

Ai Zhe's lover is very bothered by Ai Liang. It is because of Ai Liang's existence that Ai Zhe finds it difficult to divorce Feng Yue and to give her and her daughter a proper status. The daughter can only grow up with the title of illegitimate child.

Feng Yue's lover was much simpler; he just wanted to swindle money from Feng Yue and was worried that Ai Liang would take a share of it in the future.

Little did he know that Feng Yue was only looking for him to get revenge on Ai Zhe. He had always wanted to have a relationship with her, but Feng Yue had always refused, and had even mocked him as a toad trying to eat swan meat.

In the past, every Lunar New Year, Ai Liang would travel between two families until she was six years old.

After the age of six, Ai Liang spent New Year's Eve alone. The nanny would cook dinner for him and then go home to reunite with her family. Occasionally, out of pity, she would stay and keep him company for a while.

Back then, after gaining superpowers, Ai Liang planned to become a hero in the dark to fill the emptiness in his heart. However, he encountered a power rampage that led to the birth of a throat-slitting maniac.

Recalling the tumultuous first ten years, Ai Liang slowly closed her eyes.

(End of this chapter)