20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3659 Yuxuan

Zhao Chang'an couldn't tell the two women what they were thinking—that he came from the future and that his brother had already solved the problem in his previous life.

However, it's not that he can't invest in the Ye family's research institute, but if he were to negotiate now, those two old foxes would definitely ask for an exorbitant amount.

Just as Ye Pinghe said, he and Ye Pingbai wouldn't be able to keep up their momentum for another two or three years, meaning that Zhao Chang'an still had a long way to go. Their decision to invite Zhao Chang'an to participate in the investment and shareholding was to help Zhao Chang'an and Wen Ye, and it was also out of a sense of historical mission. So they could be indifferent, but Zhao Chang'an and Wen Ye could not take it lightly.

Given the appetites of these two old foxes, Zhao Chang'an estimated that they would demand at least two hundred million US dollars in investment, and the shares they would give him would be pitifully small. At most, they would just be consoling him, saying that as a shareholder, at least his and Wen Ye's problems would no longer be a problem.

During his visit to the research institute yesterday, Zhao Chang'an discovered that many of the core devices inside were over ten years old. With the rapid iteration of the electronic computer and chip industries in recent years, the performance of these devices has long been outdated.

The reason why Ye Hechou and Ye Henian were unwilling to invest in the research institute was that the institute could be said to have been abandoned long ago. Zhao Chang'an spent half a day inside and found that there were very few Chinese faces among the employees; they were almost all Westerners, and there was no trace of the field of traditional Chinese medicine.

This contrasts sharply with the fact that the pharmacies here are almost entirely retro, advocating ancient methods.

If Zhao Chang'an hadn't transmigrated and knew that in his previous life, Wen Ye, in his forties, was still handsome and dashing, attracting groups of women like moths to a flame, Zhao Chang'an might have actually sat down and talked with Zhang Zhijing, aiming to obtain systematic support from the research institute for him and Wen Ye.

However, Zhao Chang'an's current interest in this research institute lies more in its decades of research accumulation, which he wants to monetize in the future—in short, to make money.

He has many ways to make money, so one more or one less won't make a difference. That's why he put things aside for now, to put Ye Pinghe and Ye Pingbai on the back foot, and to discuss it later.

Besides her father Ye Hechou, Ye Ziyu's family also includes her mother Yao Zehui, her brother Ye Jingtian, her stepmother Zhang Yuxuan, and her half-sister Ye Yaxin.

Moreover, Ye Hechou had taken a mistress two years ago, a college student from China who went abroad to study at her own expense. She was currently living outside because she was not pregnant. Judging from Ye Ziyu's words, if she became pregnant, she would officially come to the Ye family.

Ye Hechou would then divorce Zhang Yuxuan and openly marry this female college student, making her his third wife.

Zhang Yuxuan is Zhang Zhijing's aunt. In short, the relationships involved are quite complicated, which gave Zhao Chang'an a headache.

Zhao Chang'an originally planned to buy a small gift for everyone to express his feelings, but Ye Ziyu was unhappy when she heard that she also had to buy something for her second aunt. So she had no choice but to not buy anything else to avoid unpleasantness over such a small matter.

Although Zhao Chang'an couldn't do that, he admired Ye Henian. This old man had certainly been with many women, like his secretary who had just been released to get married. But he was still quite principled and didn't rush to have other women have children for him to carry on the family line just because Ye Bai was dead.

Of course, this was only because Ye Bai hadn't been dead for long when he found the daughter of the small hotel he had gotten pregnant and she gave birth to his grandson. Otherwise, if Ye Henian had waited a few more years and was already in his fifties, who knows if he would have started looking for young women to have children for him.

The car circled the city's ring road and arrived at an island in the northeast of the city. This island was not as bustling as the hotel where Zhao Chang'an was staying; it was mainly a cluster of villas belonging to wealthy people.

The Ye family's estate covers more than 30 acres, facing the sea on two sides, with a dedicated helicopter landing pad and a small dock. This estate was originally a piece of land purchased by Ye Pinghe's father-in-law. At that time, it was a deserted island near the city. Over the decades, the city expanded and bridges were built between it and other islands.

Ye Pinghe adopted five male descendants of the Crane generation and their offspring. Currently, there are seven men and four women of the Jing generation. Including gardeners, servants, drivers, and employees of a small pharmacy, there are fifty or sixty people living here.

Of the five people in the "He" generation, two died in the conflicts over the years, as did a woman in the same generation.

Including Ye Pingshan's branch, one person from the "Ping" generation died, one person from the "He" generation died, two people from the "Jing" generation died, and one person was disabled.

Originally, only Ye Pingbai's group was lucky enough to escape unscathed, but in the end, Ye Bai, the most promising member of their group, was killed by Ye Jingtian in an internal power struggle.

During this trip to Europe, Zhao Chang'an roughly understood Ye Hesong's logic. Wan Qiao and Ye Jingtian had been married for over ten years and had only one son who was eleven or twelve years old. Ye Jingtian's new young star was only twenty years old and was already pregnant.

If Ye Jingtian and Wan Qiao divorced, the Ye family would at least gain a new member. But if Ye Jingtian were to leave that little star, it would most likely be Ye Hesong's branch of the family, and by the time the character "Xue" appeared in their names, Wan Qiao would be the only son left.

In clan-based communities, having many children and grandchildren is always the most important thing, and many things have to be compromised for this. Moreover, although Wan Qiao's family is a wealthy Chinese family in Bavaria, they are engaged in modern agriculture and have no connection with China.

This kind of thinking can only lead to men in the family marrying ordinary women who are content to be mere ornaments, playthings, and tools for procreation. For women with independent thoughts and career aspirations, this is generally very difficult to tolerate.

Therefore, Wan Qiao chose to divorce.

Zhao Chang'an thought of Wan Qiao's appearance. This woman liked to wear cheongsams. He had seen her many times, in spring, summer, autumn and winter, and she was always wearing a cheongsam.

Moreover, when Wan Qiao wears a cheongsam, she never seems to hide her lower abdomen, which is slightly protruding on the cheongsam. Her breasts are not very big, but they are well-shaped.

Honestly, a husband would be very worried if he saw such a stunning young woman in public. Zhao Chang'an really didn't understand what had gotten into Ye Jinghai, that he would actually get involved with a skinny little starlet.

Zhao Chang'an had never met that minor celebrity in person, but after hearing the news, he specifically looked up the TV series in which she played the second female lead. She was only considered to be of average appearance, less than 1.7 meters tall, and weighed less than 80 kilograms.

At 1.73 meters tall and weighing approximately 110 kilograms, Wan Qiao was, in Zhao Chang'an's opinion, completely capable of beating this minor celebrity.

If Zhao Chang'an had a choice, and was given a hundred chances to favor these two women, he felt he would use all one hundred chances on Wan Qiao and not a single one on that little starlet.

This is called "better to eat one fresh peach than a basket of rotten peaches".

(End of this chapter)