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Chapter 1260 I won't listen, I won't listen to this bastard's chanting!
"Don't go too far!"

Lu Tao grew angrier the more he thought about it, even though his girlfriend Xia Lin kept grabbing his arm, signaling him not to take it seriously.

But how could he not take it seriously?

"Me?" He Chen pointed to his own nose, revealing a classic expression of astonishment: "Where did I go too far?"
"Publicly and privately, emotionally and rationally, I was doing all this for your and your adoptive father's good. You don't wear a suit to say thank you, and you say I'm being unreasonable?"

At this point, he stopped joking and said seriously, "From an official standpoint, what you and your father are doing now is a real estate company, while ordinary people in China are emptying their six wallets, and three generations of families are struggling for decades only to fall back into poverty overnight, all for the sake of a house!"
It's easy to see how important housing is to ordinary people!
Forget about all those schemes involving shared areas and other shady ways to make dirty money; everyone does it, so we have no choice but to accept it.

If you're still not satisfied with this, and you still want to use back channels, resort to underhanded methods, and try to compromise the quality of the house, then that's just too heartless and inhumane!

If I don't know, that's fine; if I do know, I'll definitely have to take action!
Otherwise, you'll make a fortune and then just walk away, leaving countless families with substandard housing and potential harm. I can't accept that!

And your father, oh, your adoptive father whom you don't even want to call "father," from your description, he is an upright person who has not been corrupted by the constant pulling and robbing between you and your mother, which is remarkable!
It's not easy to cultivate someone like this!

Now that he has managed to resist being dragged down by you for over twenty years, I cannot stand idly by and watch him lose his integrity under your increasingly insatiable attacks.

And what's more, it's you, your mother, and your own father—all three of them who have wronged him—who, for your own benefit, joined forces to scheme against him, using all sorts of tricks and persuasion to drag him down with them!

If someone as lowly in rank but high in power as him is dragged down by you, he may become completely corrupt and cause endless harm!

I will never agree!
This is a matter of public interest and public safety!
This is righteousness!

Personally, we are all friends of Hua Zi and Xiang Nan. I know you don't want to walk the right path, but want to take the crooked path, and you even want to drag your adoptive father down with you. Once this kind of thing starts, it may be a domino effect. At that time, you will be completely unable to stop, and you will push yourself and the people around you down and smash them to pieces!

You might not care!

But I can see this risk, and I won't sit idly by and watch my circle of friends be at risk of collapse!

Aside from your family's undue interests and selfishness, tell me, where did I go too far?
Who would say I'm going too far?

"You're so high and mighty, you think you're so great!" Lu Tao grabbed Xia Lin and left.

He stopped rambling on with He Chen, because he couldn't out-argue He Chen in a casual conversation.

He Chen always manages to occupy the moral high ground, just like his adoptive father, putting on a hypocritical act that is nauseating.

They act as if they are the only good and kind people!
But isn't that how everyone is in this world?

Why does it have to be blown out of proportion like that?

So it wasn't about any grand principles or friendship at all; He Chen and his adoptive father simply enjoyed the dark pleasure of blaming others.

He couldn't argue with them, but he could choose not to listen.

Don't listen to the bastard chanting sutras.

As long as he doesn't listen or think too deeply about it, he'll be fine!

The problem lies with He Chen and his adoptive father. If everyone says that, then the world is at fault!
It definitely won't be him!

There was a reason why he had never wanted to listen to his adoptive father chanting scriptures since he was a child!
"Lu Tao, where are we going?"

After being pulled out by Lu Tao, Xia Lin asked, "Let's go to my house!" Lu Tao said angrily, "He won't let me do it, but I'll do it anyway! I'll not only do it, I'll make it a success! Once I succeed, you'll see what kind of face he has then!"

"Lu Tao, don't be impulsive!" Xia Lin worriedly pulled him back. "He already knows. If you do this again, he might really report you."

"Let him report it!" Lu Tao roared. "I want to see what he can report! As long as Lu Yaxun gives in, Lu Yaxun has plenty of ways to make sure that even if he knows and reports it, it will be useless!"

Lu Yaxun may not have many other skills, but he can definitely do this!

"Lu Tao, why don't we think about it again?" Xia Lin was a little uneasy, but she didn't want to say that He Chen was different; he wasn't the kind of person who just talked big, and he might actually do what he said he would do.

Although she echoed Lu Tao's disdain for Lu Yaxun, she didn't think Lu Yaxun was anything special and even felt that he was not good enough for Lu Tao's mother.

But she also knew in her heart that Lu Yaxun was the source of Lu Tao's confidence in being able to live so freely even when he couldn't find a job before Xu Zhisen came back.

If she wants to continue her relationship with Lu Tao and get married in the future, she'll have to rely on Lu Yaxun.

Just like Lu Tao's mother thought, with one biological father and one adoptive father, she felt that her boyfriend Lu Tao should not give up either of them. He should have both and be strong in both, so that life would be more carefree.

Therefore, she didn't want Lu Yaxun, her boyfriend and adoptive father who could provide her with a safety net, to fall apart over something like this just because her boyfriend was impulsive and reckless in his insistence on competing with He Chen.

"Don't even think about it!" Lu Tao completely ignored all advice, his mind only focused on the success philosophy instilled in him by his father, Xu Zhisen: as long as you succeed, even your farts smell sweet. Only by quickly surpassing He Chen could he break He Chen's arrogant and condescending attitude towards him.

Moreover, he has already voluntarily admitted defeat and lost face. If he still follows He Chen's pace and is forced to back down by He Chen's threats, wouldn't that be just like making a bet, falling right into He Chen's trap?
No!

Absolutely not!

He doesn't care what He Chen says now, he just charges forward, rushes to the front, and lets He Chen inhale the exhaust fumes on the road to success. That's the only right way!
Lu Tao's home.

Lu Tao pulled Xia Lin into the house, which immediately made Lu Tao's mother very happy. Lu Yaxun also came out of the study, but he was not so happy and glanced at Xia Lin a few more times.

In the original storyline, Xia Lin was only puzzled by Lu Tao's refusal to call his adoptive father "Dad." But now, with He Chen's detailed analysis of the mother-son dynamic between boyfriend and son, it suddenly doesn't seem so strange anymore, and it's hard to even say anything about it.

However, compared to the original storyline, she has gained much more approval for Lu Tao's adoptive father, Lu Yaxun.

That's not surprising!
A woman as despicable as her, second only to Lu Tao's mother, would naturally have some affection for a sycophantic man like Lu Yaxun.

Because they are truly willing to sacrifice for them.

So this time, she paid more attention to Lu Yaxun's scrutiny, and then noticed the scrutiny and dissatisfaction in Lu Yaxun's eyes. After a little thought, she understood what was going on.

Without him!

It must be about Milai!

Mi Lai was Lu Tao's first love, and they dated for several years. Given Mi Lai's infatuation with Lu Tao and her lively and active nature, she must have met Lu Tao's parents long ago.

Lu Tao's parents probably both liked Mi Lai, a rich and beautiful woman who only had eyes for their son. Now that it's her turn, Lu Tao's mother might approve, but that doesn't mean his old-fashioned adoptive father would.

When Lu Tao was called to the study by his adoptive father, she answered Lu Tao's mother's questions while listening intently to what was going on in the study. Sure enough, she vaguely heard Lu Tao's adoptive father asking her what was going on between her and the girl surnamed Mi.

(End of this chapter)