While out picking up trash, I was forcefully pushed around by a beautiful female CEO.

"Good! Have Zu Wang investigate thoroughly. If this kid really made it up to deceive us..."

Meng Yuanhe nodded, and then snorted coldly at the end: "Hmph, if he dares to lie to us, I will definitely not let him leave so easily."

"good!"

Meng Boqu nodded in agreement, glancing at Meng Qingyao beside him: "Qingyao, don't take offense at what your uncle is saying. If Xiao Lin's captain rank is real, that's for the best. But if it's fake, even with you here today, your grandfather and I will absolutely not agree to this marriage!"

"Heh, is this how you all care about me? As long as someone has power, influence, and connections, it doesn't matter if they mistreat me. But if I have no power or influence, no matter how good they are to me, I can't marry them, right?"

Meng Qingyao laughed in anger: "Is this how you act as my elders? Hypocritical!"

After saying that, Meng Qingyao turned around and left, heading outside.

"You dare disobey your grandfather?"

Meng Yuanhe's face turned red with anger.

"So what if I don't listen? Grandpa, your granddaughter is all grown up now. And don't forget, I'm the one who secured all the projects for the Meng Group. If you want to force your granddaughter to her death, you can try!"

Meng Qingyao gritted her teeth and uttered a sentence, then walked out of the Meng family villa without looking back.

"You...you..."

Meng Yuanhe stood up, pointed at Meng Qingyao's back, and trembled, too angry to speak.

"Grandpa, my little sister is right. Why force her to marry Su Mingxuan? You know Su Mingxuan's character. What's the point? If what happened last night is true, can you really bear to watch Qingyao jump into the Su family's fire pit?"

Meng Jingran tried to persuade him from the side.

"Hmph, who knows if this girl made it up to break off the engagement! Our Meng family has already agreed to let Mengyao and Su Mingxuan get engaged, why would Su Mingxuan do something like this?"

Meng Qingyao's aunt, Meng Yun, chimed in again, adding fuel to the fire.

This aroused suspicion in Meng Yuanhe, who was already angry about Meng Qingyao's hasty marriage registration. He looked at Meng Bufan's father, Meng Botao, and said, "Third brother, go and investigate what exactly happened last night. Let's see if Qingyao is lying to us!"

"Okay, I'll go right now!"

Meng Botao nodded and turned to leave.

After Meng Botao left, Meng Boqu sighed and said, "Qingyao is a stubborn girl, Dad. We shouldn't push her too hard. What if Qingyao really does do something rash? Who will manage the company then?"

Meng Yuanhe fell silent.

The Meng family owns three companies in Minghai City: real estate, beauty, and pharmaceuticals. The real estate company is managed by the eldest son, Meng Boqu, while the beauty company is managed by the third son, Meng Botao.

As for the pharmaceutical company, a few years ago, Meng Qingyao's parents went overseas to discuss business and had an accident at sea. The entire ship evaporated on the vast ocean. Since then, the pharmaceutical company has been taken over by Meng Qingyao, who graduated from university.

Originally, no one in the Meng family had high hopes for Meng Qingyao. If Meng Qingyao mismanaged the company, they could simply find an excuse to take back control of it.

But to everyone's surprise, in just a few years, Meng Qingyao's company not only did not experience any mismanagement, but its assets and revenue doubled, which left Meng Boqu and Meng Botao feeling frustrated.

What's even more outrageous is that, whether it's due to the sluggish real estate and beauty industries in recent years or their management problems, the assets of the two companies under their control have shrunk by more than half in just a few years.

As a result, the Meng family's reputation is now almost entirely supported by the pharmaceutical group under Meng Qingyao's control.

This is why Meng Boqu was so worried after Meng Qingyao said those words.

He harbored no hostility towards his niece; on the contrary, he and his third brother, Meng Botao, admired and even respected her abilities.

As for agreeing to the engagement with the Su family, it was entirely because the benefits of such an engagement were too great, and they simply couldn't resist the temptation.

On the other hand, they couldn't very well offend the Su family. Otherwise, once Su Tianyang of the Su family really took the position of the second-in-command in Minghai City, the Meng family's life would probably be even more difficult.

Meng Yuanhe had the same considerations. As the head of the Meng family, he had to consider things more thoroughly.

"Ugh!"

After a long silence, Meng Yuanhe sighed and said in a bitter voice, "It's not that I want to force this girl, but the Su family is currently very powerful, and she really acted impulsively this time. I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain to the Su family."

"Let's wait and see. What if this Lin Feng's resume is genuine? A captain in his twenties, and from Kyoto at that—his family must be quite wealthy!"

Meng Boqu spoke up.

Just then, a middle-aged man in his early forties walked in.

"Dad, brother, what are you talking about? Oh right, didn't Qingyao get her marriage certificate? Where is she?"

After the middle-aged man entered, he looked around the room and, not seeing Meng Qingyao, asked curiously.

The person who came was Meng Yun's husband, Li Zuwang.

"Zu Wang, you're here? Please have a seat!"

Upon seeing Li Zuwang, Meng Boqu quickly invited him to sit down.

Li Zuwang found it rather strange. He was a soldier by training and had a straightforward personality, so he could never get along with people like Meng Boqu who were in the business world. In the past, although they weren't exactly cold to each other, they weren't exactly warm either.

What's wrong with you today? Why are you suddenly being so attentive?

Looking at Meng Boqu pouring tea for him, Li Zuwang felt uneasy. At the same time, seeing Meng Yun and his daughter Li Shuangshuang beside him, Li Zuwang felt a headache coming on.

Meng Yun is Old Master Meng's only daughter, so she has a somewhat willful and domineering personality, which has also affected her daughter Li Shuangshuang. He has been neglecting to discipline her for many years while serving in the army, and now that he wants to discipline her, Li Shuangshuang has grown up and is becoming uncontrollable, which leaves him feeling helpless.

The only thing that comforted him was that his son, Li Zhiheng, was of decent character and had not picked up any bad habits.

"Zu Wang, how's work at the Armed Forces Management Bureau lately? Is everything going smoothly?"

At this moment, Meng Yuanhe asked in a very friendly manner.

"Dad, he's still the same!"

Li Zuwang smiled and answered casually.

"What do you mean, 'just like that'? Zu Wang, your promotion to deputy head of the logistics department isn't anything shameful, so why are you hiding it?"

Meng Yun couldn't wait to speak, her words full of dissatisfaction. In less than a year, her husband had been promoted from assistant officer to deputy head of the logistics department at the Minghai City Armed Forces Management Bureau. That was ability!

Meng Yun was naturally proud. It's said that once a daughter is married, she's like water spilled from a cup, but in the end, if she wanted to have a voice in the Meng family, she still had to rely on her own man.

The higher the status of her husband, the more valued she was in the Meng family.

For example, even today, when she was so mean to Meng Qingyao, the old man didn't dare say anything to her, did he? That's the reason!

"Yunyun, don't talk nonsense. It's Director Qin, who also came from the military, who is giving me a boost. He saw that I spent half my life in the military and now my health is not good, so he took the initiative to improve my treatment and recommended me for the position of deputy section chief. It's just managing logistics and doing odd jobs, with no real power."

Li Zuwang was somewhat helpless. Given his personality, he hadn't originally planned to tell anyone about this, but now it seemed that his wife, Meng Yun, had clearly already told Meng Yuanhe and the others.

No wonder Meng Yuanhe and Meng Boqu were suddenly so attentive and enthusiastic towards me.

"Director Qin? Which Director Qin? Zu Wang, isn't your Armed Forces Management Bureau's director surnamed Zhang?"

Meng Boqu looked at Li Zuwang with some doubt.