20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3660 Ye Yaxin

"I am not refusing to cooperate with your third grandfather and Ye Pingbai, but I need cooperation that is equal and open and honest between both parties."

Zhao Chang'an said to Ye Ziyu, "Ye Pinghe has said so much to me, and it feels like Wen Ye and I asked him for help, and he's doing us a good deed. So I'd rather talk to Ye Pingbai in China. Although they're both old foxes, Ye Pingbai isn't as extreme as your third grandfather."

Sometimes, to understand a person, you can look at their family members and their relationship with them, as well as their opinions of them.

Just like Ye Ziyu said, her grandmother was preparing her thesis after graduating from university. She trusted Ye Pinghe, a cripple, and went into the mountains. As a result, she came out a week later and became Ye Pinghe's obedient woman.

The most standard answer to Zhao Chang'an can be found in Chen Jing.

At that time, Chen Jing still mistook Zhao Chang'an for Wen Ye. She took off her clothes in the dark and crawled into his bed.

Although Chen Jing rationally knows that she should hate Zhao Chang'an, her physical attraction to him is something she simply cannot overcome and is powerless to resist.

After Ye Pinghe seized power through various means, he quickly established himself by leveraging his father-in-law's connections in Europe. Large sums of money brought from China by his father-in-law also flowed into his pockets like ants carrying grains of sand.

When the Ye family split up, the weakest of the three branches was assigned to several small, sparsely populated, and economically underdeveloped Nordic countries. Yet, forty years later, these branches were able to overpower Ye Pingbai's branch.

And this manor, with the passing of the elderly couple, ultimately fell entirely into the hands of the Ye family, a complete plundering that left no descendants.

Therefore, in Zhao Chang'an's view, Ye Pinghe may have his own high-sounding reasons and moral standards, saying that he did this for the sake of his two older brothers' children. However, shamelessness is shamelessness, and no matter how many reasons he comes up with, they are all sophistry.

Neither Ye Ziyu nor Ye Yiyi uttered a word of rebuttal when Zhao Chang'an made such a blunt assessment of their third grandfather.

Because it is a fact, they cannot refute it, and by remaining silent, they too benefit from this shameless behavior.

The car entered the manor and stopped in front of a white, three-story European-style building. The lawns around the building were withered, and the various garden trees were neatly trimmed. From the outside, it was all Western style, completely different from the Chinese retro style of the pharmacy.

“My home is over there, in that house. If you think it’s too far to go back to the hotel tonight, Zhao Chang’an, you can stay there. My brother is coming back tonight, and he wants to talk to you.”

As Ye Yiyi got out of the car, she suddenly invited Zhao Chang'an: "That year, my third grandfather and the others went to see the White Dragon King. My brother, Brother Jingtian, and Ye Bai accompanied them and met him as well."

When Ye Ziyu heard her cousin invite Zhao Chang'an to stay at her house that night, her expression changed. She was about to say something to retort, but after hearing what she heard next, she didn't speak, though her expression was still not very pleasant.

"Your brother seems to have a deep understanding of the concept of a gentleman not being a vessel?"

Zhao Chang'an didn't really care whether Ye Jinghao had any research on the concept of "a gentleman is not a vessel" or not. He just needed a reasonable excuse to go to Ye Yiyi's place after dinner.

Just now, Zhao Chang'an had comforted Ye Ziyu on the grassy area on the mountain. Now, he also needed to do the same for Ye Yiyi before leaving Stockholm.

“He has always wanted to train, but his uncle disagrees. He is already twenty-eight years old this year. First, he may not be able to train successfully, and second, even if he does, he will be thirty years old. Time is too tight, and his chances of advancing smoothly are very slim.”

At this point, Ye Yiyi's expression darkened, and even Ye Ziyu, who was standing next to her, showed a sad expression, unsure of how to offer any words of comfort.

"Don't tell me it's for revenge?"

Zhao Chang'an found it unbelievable, but considering the business philosophies and methods of the Ye and Lu families, he could understand it. "Back then, Huang Li abused Fourth Uncle, forcing him to abandon the entire North African market. Fourth Uncle chose to commit suicide."

Leaf metaphor.

“When you were cooperating with the Tianyue Group, you chose Tianjin as the negotiation location. Huang Li came to us and told us that we should be glad that we were in China, otherwise she would have had two more bargaining chips.”

Ye Yiyi's pretty face showed a look of humiliation and indignation: "They have been eyeing the lost North African market ever since."

Looking at Ye Yiyi, whose voice was a little choked up, Zhao Chang'an thought that the disputes and conflicts between the Lu and Ye families were a microcosm of the fierce competition and backstabbing among many Chinese who went abroad in the business world.

Just as the Ye family hates the Lu family so much, many members of the Lu family are also in the hands of the Ye family and share the same hatred for them.

It's just dogs fighting; no one should claim to be more innocent or noble than the other.

The Ye family's advantage lies in being located in Europe, a country with a more developed national power. They can compete using rules and underground methods, while the Lu family, which is more focused on the jungle law outside the mainland, would definitely suffer losses and be unable to win against the Ye family.

Just like two years ago when the Lu family completely withdrew from the country and took away a large amount of money, it was because they spent a lot of time outside the mainland that they developed a foolish mindset of short-sightedness and the law of the jungle, where things were uncertain and not long-term.

"The guests have arrived! Why haven't you invited them inside? It's so cold outside."

At that moment, a warm voice came from the gate of the Western-style villa.

Zhao Chang'an saw a middle-aged woman in her forties standing there, smiling in his direction.

"My second aunt."

Ye Ziyu said to Zhao Chang'an with some displeasure, "She's very talkative. Don't talk to her too much, or she'll get all worked up."

"Hello, Aunt Zhang."

Zhao Chang'an greeted Zhang Yuxuan with a smile. The woman's name sounded very poetic, but she didn't look poetic at all. She was less than 1.6 meters tall and a bit plump, which Zhao Chang'an found unbelievable.

How greedy and face-blind must Ye Hechou be to even go for someone like that and marry her into his family?
"General Zhao is indeed a handsome man. No wonder Ziyu, who never gives boys a kind look, accompanied you to my dad's place. Are you cold? Hurry up and go inside."

As she spoke, she took Zhao Chang'an's hand and led him inside, saying, "Look how cold your hands are, come inside and warm up by the fire."

Zhao Chang'an had no choice but to bite the bullet and let the fat middle-aged woman pull him into the living room. At this time, the living room was very quiet, with only a chubby little boy of the same size watching cartoons.

When they heard guests enter the house, their eyes were fixed on the TV, and they didn't even glance in their direction.

He knew without Ye Ziyu and Zhao Chang'an telling him that the little girl was Zhang Yuxuan's daughter, Ye Yaxin.

What a waste of these two good names! It would be better if they weren't given these names at all; giving them these names just makes them look ridiculous and laughable.

(End of this chapter)