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Chapter 1254 A Bet! I'm a dutiful son, I'm a good eldest son!

Lu Tao had guessed it, but there was no use in saying it.

Because He Chen would say it.

And he deliberately used an exaggerated tone to say, "Isn't it hard to guess? Let me tell you the answer. It's actually your adoptive father whom you despise the most! Isn't that completely unexpected?"
Yes!

How could that be possible in your opinion?
A businessman who is incredibly successful in your eyes, so successful that you can ignore the fact that he abandoned his wife and children for twenty-two years, actually wants you, his biological son, not as his son, but as the son of the most failed and incompetent adoptive father in your eyes.

This is truly incredible!
It's simply an unsolved mystery for humankind!
You'd never guess!
It's really hard to guess!

These words caused Lu Tao's face to turn from flushed red to ashen, while the others listened with bated breath. Xiang Nan reached out and held Hua Zi's shoulder, turning his face away to avoid revealing his classic awkward smile again.

What's so hard to guess?

It's totally intuitive!
But for Lu Tao, perhaps it would be better to admit it this way.

If Lu Tao understood just as quickly as they did, it means that Lu Tao also understood that He Chen's previous insults towards him and his mother were justified.

That would only be more embarrassing!
It's like being so stubborn has led to a double bind!

"You're talking nonsense! I don't believe he thinks that way! He would never do that!" Lu Tao felt a pang of heartache for a few seconds, then, noticing the gazes of the crowd, he immediately and categorically denied it.

Whether it's true or not, he refuses to accept that it's true.

If he doesn't accept it, then it's not true!

"Alright, I accept your bet!" He Chen clapped his hands and laughed, "I'm also quite curious whether my guesses are always right. I also want to challenge my limits!"
Let's make this bet!
I bet your incredibly successful billionaire father will definitely make you seek help from your most despised, incompetent adoptive father, using him as your "real father" to "strive more efficiently"!

"..." Lu Tao's lips twitched. When did he ask for a bet?
How come it's your turn to accept 'my bet'?
"What if you lose?" Although he was unwilling to take the bet and felt he might lose, he wouldn't admit defeat out of pride and was willing to accept the bet.

Because if He Chen hadn't reminded him, this would indeed very likely have happened.

Once it happens, it happens.

Just like what he and Charlene did, as long as he's shameless and doesn't care, he can just do it.

Even without He Chen, he dared to tell his friends not to mention this matter, or at least not to make sarcastic or mocking remarks about them.

Now that He Chen is around, doing something like this again would definitely be a psychological burden, making my face burn with embarrassment. I would immediately have PTSD thinking about how I felt when He Chen slapped me in the face in the past, and the image of being slapped, mocked, and humiliated by He Chen again soon.

But that was afterward!
Now that things haven't even happened yet, he's already on guard, and the situation is completely different!

He could have easily prevented this from happening!
His own father didn't necessarily want to do that. Without this reminder, his father would have just done it subconsciously without caring.

Now that he has spoken up and strongly insists on not doing it, he doesn't believe his own father would refuse to give him face.
It’s impossible!
So he's bound to win!
In this situation, what does he have to be afraid of?

He'd rather have a free bet than pass up a free one! Even the exact nature of the bet didn't matter; what mattered was that he had to beat He Chen once!
His own father knew about this and said he would help him.

This is the first time that the father and son have joined forces, and it's a great start to their unity of purpose!
He saw no possibility of losing.

“If you lose, I want you to shout three times in public, ‘I am the most filial son, Xu Zhisen’s good eldest son!’” He Chen said with a smile, skillfully making the bet.

These words made everyone present feel uneasy.

Especially Hua Zi!
He had already inquired about He Chen's legendary experiences from Liu Xing and the others, and knew very well that He Chen had been told these kinds of things several times during his senior year of high school.

Anyone who has watched the TV series "My Own Swordsman" and knows about Guo Furong's humiliation of the scholar, making him shout "I am a scholar" after losing, will immediately understand this kind of mockery and humiliation.

What kind of filial son is he? He's just someone who shouts that he's an unfilial son!

What do you mean by "good son"? You're clearly saying that Xu Zhisen and Lu Tao are birds of a feather!
This is more bitingly ironic, more poignant, and more likely to break a person's defenses than simple self-admission!

Although Xiang Nan and Yang Xiaoyun didn't know that He Chen was so skilled at this and had this tradition, they could understand the sarcastic tone in He Chen's words.

"And what if you lose?" Lu Tao naturally understood. Although he was angry, he was confident that he wouldn't lose, so he directly asked what he planned to do if he won against He Chen.

Actually, he wanted to state his own desire for victory himself.

But he needs time to carefully consider it.

Because He Chen directly rejected his last attempt to use Huang Yimei, the "Heavenly Fairy," as a bet, and even mocked him for it, he became somewhat hesitant and needed time to carefully consider He Chen's bottom line, and to make sure that He Chen didn't find any more leverage to analyze his inner thoughts!
“That’s easy!” He Chen was naturally prepared: “If you win, all your disrespect and lack of filial piety towards your adoptive father, your real father, will be wiped clean!”
I will never use this to scold you again!

I will also retract my assessment that you are number one in selfishness, ruthlessness and cruelty!

Because even though you are still unfilial and unfilial, at least after you grow up and are reminded by others, you have some bottom line and some sense of shame!

There is no such thing as wanting to have it both ways!

He is neither a proper son nor an unfilial son, yet he puts on a show, boasting about his rebellious personality and hard work. The worst part is that he makes his adoptive father, who has sacrificed so much for him but whom he has never called "Dad," risk his life for his so-called hard work, which is a violation of discipline and the law by both of them, his biological father and son who have wronged him!

If you really do that, then I'll not only call you the number one selfish, heartless, and treacherous person!
As for saying that Prime Minister Zhuge wronged Minister Wang, when he scolded Wang Lang to death, he called Wang Lang "the most shameless person he had ever seen," purely because he had never seen anyone like him before!
Don't worry!
Thinking about it carefully, I'm not exaggerating when I say that!
Why was Wang Lang scolded by Prime Minister Zhuge?
It's because Wang Lang, as a subject of the Han Dynasty, betrayed the Han Dynasty and even went to the battlefield to rebel against the Han Dynasty!
Wang Lang was just a subject, one of the millions in the Han Dynasty, and he was only paid by the Han government. But given Wang Lang's family's circumstances, he could have lived a very good life even without receiving the Han government's salary.

But you are different. You didn't have your adoptive father to support you and your mother. You wouldn't have the conditions you have now, not to mention that you are his only son. For your sake, he had no descendants!

If you were to follow Wang Lang's example, "eating the Han's salary" while colluding with traitors to bring about the downfall of the Han Dynasty, you would be even more shameless than Wang Lang!
Then I will definitely learn from Prime Minister Zhuge!

If I can't verbally kill you, I'll verbally kill you to death!
Of course, if you win the bet, it means you're not quite at the level of surpassing Wang Lang. In that case, since I'm not just insulting you for the sake of insulting you, I'll choose to learn from your mistakes and help you recover, thus letting this shameful matter of yours go. Is there a problem with that?

(End of this chapter)