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Chapter 1272 The one-month period has arrived!
"Ugh!"

Lu Yaxun sighed, but did not do as his wife wished, to speak up for He Chen, nor did he even comfort her.

This made her tears, which were once easily shed by a manipulative woman, become real tears.

Lu Yaxun could actually hear the difference.

But he held back.

He was extremely grateful to He Chen for pulling him back from the brink of disaster, preventing him from destroying the principles and bottom line he had upheld for over twenty years.

It was because he almost missed his chance that he understood even more the importance of lending a helping hand.

Because of this alone, he couldn't bring himself to say anything harsh to He Chen.

Not to mention, He Chen did absolutely nothing wrong in this matter!
If it were him, he would want to do the same.

Of course, he may have strong principles, but he doesn't have He Chen's strong execution ability to truly put those principles into practice.

Therefore, he would only admire He Chen, who is the same age as his son, even more, instead of knowing that He Chen did the right thing and still criticizing He Chen because of his wife's tears.

He doesn't have that kind of face.

Furthermore, he couldn't help but think of the things He Chen had said, the unfilial behavior of Lu Tao, the adopted son, and He Chen's hypothetical scenario: if he had only adopted Lu Tao instead of treating him as his own son.

If he hadn't taken his wife's feelings into account and had voluntarily given up the idea of ​​her giving him another son, he would have been better off.

So, will his own flesh and blood grow up to be like He Chen instead of Lu Tao?
After all, the same education can have vastly different effects on a biological father and an adoptive father.

So did he make a mistake back then?

To reach his current position, he must have more than enough brains and experience. He just hadn't thought about it before, nor was he willing to. Now that He Chen is forcibly leading him in this direction, of course he can't help but overthink it.

Once you think about it more, your feelings will be completely different.

Whenever he and Lu Tao argued, his wife would smooth things over, telling Lu Tao that he loved and admired Lu Tao the most. He admitted that Lu Tao was somewhat clever, but that was just petty cleverness.

If you don't follow the right path, your cleverness may backfire, and your petty cleverness is more likely to cause big trouble.

Just like now, following her lawless father, she's doing dangerous things.

Compared to Lu Tao, how much he wanted a son like He Chen!

Although he knew that someone as outstanding as He Chen was unlikely to be able to have a child with his wife, what if they were?
The more Lu Yaxun thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. He became so lost in thought that he completely ignored his wife's tears and sobs, which almost made Lu Tao's mother lose her composure.

He Chen chuckled inwardly upon seeing this.

Although Lu Yaxun is a simp and a cuckold, he's not entirely without temper.

Putting everything else aside, the fact that he was able to stick to his principles for over twenty years, enduring constant coercion and enticement from his wife and adopted son, proves that he is not just a simple sycophantic man.

In the original storyline, when he was educating and persuading his adopted son to follow the right path, he lost his temper when faced with his adopted son who did not treat him like a father at all, and his wife who completely sided with his adopted son and did not even allow him to educate him. He then refused to eat and made the mother and son eat alone, his words full of accusation and sarcasm.

It is precisely because of Lu Yaxun that He Chen specifically sought him out in advance to remind him to avoid taking the first misstep of being soft-hearted and compromising.

Otherwise, if it were truly without principle, He Chen wouldn't bother with the effort at all. Firstly, he knew it was useless, and secondly, he would simply crush such people.

Lu Yaxun's silence already signaled the start of Lu Tao and Xu Zhisen's one-month detention.

Of course, even if Lu Yaxun wanted to say hello, it wouldn't make a difference.

However, given Lu Tao's biological mother's attitude towards Lu Yaxun, she could only accept it with a heavy heart. Of course, it goes without saying that she would have heated or cold wars with Lu Yaxun after returning home.

Not in an ambiguous sense, but in the literal sense.

They either argued fiercely or subjected each other to cold, icy treatment. This past month had felt like an eternity. Thirty years had passed, and for Lu Yaxun, it was almost enough to lead him to enlightenment.

Because beneath the facade of happiness over the past two or three decades, perhaps this is what the past truly looked like.

For Lu Tao, these 'thirty years' were a difficult time.

It's not just the pain of losing freedom, but also the failures of every encounter with He Chen, and the worry and torment of whether Xia Lin, his girlfriend outside, can remain chaste for him.

He was very worried that after a month, when he came out, everything would have changed and all would be lost.

Back then, it took him less than 24 hours to get together with Charlene after their first meeting. In a month, Charlene could have been a bride 30 times every night and completely forgotten about him.

Fortunately, when he came out, Xia Lin, Hua Zi, and their group were waiting for him outside to take him home.

Lu Tao abandoned his own father and ran over to Xia Lin, embracing her tightly. He inhaled her scent deeply, like a demon from the Black Mountain, both as a way of remembering her and as a way of checking on her.

God knows if his girlfriend, who loves thrills, was still looking for excitement with someone else right before he left.

If so, he can smell it.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem so now.

"You go first." Releasing Xia Lin, Lu Tao coldly told his father to leave when he saw his car arrive to pick him up. He would rather ride in Hua Zi's beat-up jeep than in his father's luxury car.

That's right!

Although the two spent the entire month together in prison, their relationship did not improve; instead, they grew distant.

It wasn't that Xu Zhisen didn't work hard, but that Lu Tao was too disappointed in his biological father.

In the original storyline, although he verbally complained and felt that his biological father wasn't very rich unless he had billions of dollars, he was actually using these complaints, doubts, and belittling tactics to make his father doubt himself and increase his efforts.

He's a total scumbag, so he's naturally very familiar with the tricks of manipulating relationships between men and women. Women like to treat their boyfriends this way, and a scumbag like him naturally likes to treat his rich and beautiful girlfriend, Mi Lai, who's like a lapdog, in the same way.

In fact, he soon revealed his true thoughts, praising his father as very capable and successful, and asking for his father's opinion, etc.

But it's different now.

He was very disappointed in his biological father, such a rich and successful American-Chinese businessman who came to China to invest and took him to banquets. He had the audacity to decide the fate of many large companies with a single word, and he had even lectured the executives of those companies like grandsons, directly ordering the executives he had fired to get out immediately.

This kind of biological father couldn't even protect him, and even caused him to be imprisoned for a month by He Chen.

what is this?
Nothing!

Seeing his son like this, Xu Zhisen's face turned ugly, but he was speechless. He could only suppress his embarrassment and, while his assistant opened the car door to block the roof and prevent him from hitting the roof, he climbed into the back seat.

The same actions no longer conveyed the same dashing and noble demeanor he displayed at the airport upon his return to China; instead, he appeared somewhat disheveled.

Like many of He Chen's enemies, he was extremely annoyed that this wasn't a foreign country. Otherwise, He Chen wouldn't be so arrogant, and he wouldn't be left with no choice but to endure after He Chen provoked him.

If this were abroad, he wouldn't even bother going in!
Let alone something as simple as driving under the influence without a license, even a real crime can be committed without consequence as long as you have money.

"Jimmy!"

"boss?"

"Please also help me hire a full-time assistant, with preference given to those with experience as private investigators."

"Yes!"

He instructed his assistant Jimmy to find someone to keep an eye on He Chen. Once He Chen went abroad... then it would be his turn to make He Chen know what a wolf in Wall Street is all about!
(End of this chapter)