Soul Returns to Hong Kong: From Tailor Shop to Richest Woman

Su Cheng gasped in pain, but gritted his teeth and didn't dodge.

Su Zhihao was furious. He raised his hand and slapped him again: "Do you even know what kind of medicine this is? Do you know that taking random medications can kill you?! I've been experiencing chest tightness and hair loss lately, and I even went to the hospital for a checkup a few days ago! The doctor said my estrogen levels are abnormally high! I even thought it was because I'd been single for too long!"

Su Cheng was hit twice, and the fear that had been building up for more than a month poured out.

Tears streamed down Su Cheng's face as he shouted, his neck stiff, "Then what are we supposed to do?!"

Su Zhihao's hand holding the stick froze in mid-air.

Su Cheng cried and shouted, "Jun and I were unwanted children to begin with! Mommy thought we were a burden, abandoned us, and ran away abroad. Now you're making a lot of money, you're starting your second spring, you'll get married again, and you'll have more children!"

Su Zhihao was stunned.

"We don't have a mother to teach us. When our new stepmother comes in and our new brother is born, he'll definitely be smarter than us, better at charming people, better at studying, and always get first place in his exams to please you. We two are hopeless, and you always scold us for being useless."

Su Cheng cried, tears streaming down her face, her cries heart-wrenching, "Will there still be a place for us in this family? Will you just kick us out?!"

Su Zhihao wanted to curse, "Bullshit!" but the words caught in his throat...

Su Cheng sniffed: "We just don't want to be kicked out. What's wrong with us planning for ourselves and keeping our positions? Su Zhi said that Auntie couldn't have a fourth child because she ate this. You say the money is yours, you can give it to whomever you want, but we can only rely on ourselves!"

Su Zhihao's chest pain intensified.

Su Zhihao looked at Su Cheng standing in front of him, at his thirteen-year-old son who always pretended to be nonchalant, and for the first time he realized that this child harbored so much fear of being abandoned.

After a long while, Su Zhihao slammed the wooden stick onto the coffee table: "Where's Su Jun?"

Su Cheng wiped away his tears: "I'm at school."

Su Zhihao turned around, picked up his car keys, and walked out: "I'm going to pick him up."

Su Cheng's expression changed, and he rushed over to grab his sleeve: "Old Dou, we came up with this idea together, please don't kill him."

Su Zhihao turned around and glared fiercely at Su Cheng: "You still have the nerve to plead for him? You two audacious brats, neither of you will escape today!"

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In São Paulo, it's not yet time for school to let out in the afternoon.

Su Zhihao's car was parked at the school gate when Lin Ying was carrying a stack of homework to the office. Through the glass window of the corridor, Lin Ying saw Su Zhihao get out of the car, his face ashen.

Lin Ying stopped in her tracks.

Based on Lin Ying's understanding of Su Zhihao, he shouldn't be acting like this now that he's made a fortune; his appearance clearly indicates that he's here to settle scores.

After handing the homework to the teacher, Lin Ying turned and went downstairs without hesitation; the film still had second-half profit sharing to settle, and the major shareholder absolutely could not cause any major trouble at the school.

Su Zhihao stood at the entrance of the Academic Affairs Office, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked; when Su Jun was called out by the discipline teacher, he looked up and saw Lao Dou's fierce and menacing face, and his legs instantly went weak.

"Old Dou, I really haven't caused any trouble lately. I handed in all my homework today..."

Su Zhihao sneered, "You didn't cause trouble at school. You want to poison your father at home and send me to be your woman."

Su Jun's face turned completely white in an instant, devoid of any color.

Finished!

Lin Ying was walking to the door when she heard the words "to be a woman, to be a woman?" What the hell?

Su Zhihao caught a glimpse of Lin Ying out of the corner of his eye and barely suppressed his anger: "Ying, you come too. Get in the car with me."

Lin Ying glanced at Su Jun, who was cowering in the air: "Second Uncle, what happened?"

Su Zhihao gritted his teeth: "Let's go home and talk. Today I'm going to show you what kind of shit is in the brains of these two outstanding students you taught."

Lin Ying said, "Second Uncle, give me five minutes. I'll go ask my teacher for leave."

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Back at the Causeway Bay apartment.

Su Cheng sat on the single sofa in the living room, his eyes still red, and there was a noticeable red mark on his calf. As soon as Su Jun entered the room, he immediately shrank behind his brother.

Su Zhihao walked over and pushed the bottle of birth control pills to the center of the coffee table.

"Tell me." Su Zhihao stared at his two sons, pointed at Lin Ying across from him, and said, "Tell your tutor everything you've done, from beginning to end."

Su Jun looked at the medicine bottle and murmured, "It's just... we're afraid you'll find a stepmother and have a new brother."

Su Cheng picked up the conversation and recounted in detail what Chen Meishan had unintentionally said about the possibility that the medicine might already be in her stomach, as well as how her cousin Su Zhi had suggested stealing the medicine, how the two brothers had agreed on the plan, and how they had taken turns crushing the medicine and adding it to boiled water and hangover soup.

Lin Ying looked at the bottle of foreign brand oral contraceptives, then glanced at Su Zhihao, whose face was dark.

Su Zhihao, suppressing his anger, added in a low voice, "The doctor's blood test results show that my estrogen levels are too high. I've been losing hair every day lately."

Lin Ying closed her eyes, desperately suppressing the urge to laugh; looking at the fearful faces of the two loveless teenagers, she knew that although what she had done was absurd, it all stemmed from a lack of security.

Su Jun peeked half his head out from behind Su Cheng and whispered, "Lin Ying, is this medicine... not working?"

Lin Ying finally couldn't help but yell, "You two are really idiots with zero common sense!"

Su Jun shrank back: "So, does it even work?"

Lin Ying pointed to the bottle of pills: "This is an oral contraceptive for women. Its main function is to regulate a woman's endocrine ovulation cycle. Giving it to your dad, a grown man, is basically useless for contraception."

Su Cheng was stunned: "Completely useless?"

"It's useless." Lin Ying clenched her fists tightly to suppress a laugh. "Not only is it useless, it will also cause your father's endocrine hormones to become disordered, leading to chest tightness, hair loss, and abnormally irritable mood. If you eat too much, it can even damage your liver's metabolic function."

Su Zhihao's face had turned from blue to purple.

Lin Ying took a few deep breaths and added, "If you keep eating like this, it will only make your dad's breasts bigger and bigger, and slowly make him look like a woman."

Su Jun's mouth dropped open.

Su Cheng was also stunned.

Maria stood at the kitchen doorway and couldn't help but let out a soft "ah."

Su Zhihao immediately grabbed a wooden stick from the table: "Su Cheng! Su Jun! I'll beat you two disgraceful bastards to death today!"

Su Jun screamed in pain after being hit by the stick, immediately covering his head and crawling behind the sofa: "I didn't know, Lao Dou! Su Zhi said it was okay! He said that's how Auntie eats so much that she can't have children!"

Su Zhihao, gripping a wooden stick, chased after the sofa, yelling, "You believe Su Zhi?! Didn't you know he didn't even pass the São Paulo exam?! He's an idiot, and you all think he's brainless too?!"

While dodging, Su Cheng hurriedly explained, "We're really afraid you'll have another baby!"

"You drugged me because you were afraid I'd have another baby?!" Su Zhihao brandished a stick. "I haven't even found a woman yet, and you two little brats almost sent me to the hospital to become a woman!"

Lin Ying didn't stop him; he really deserved to be hit. His common sense was so lacking that he wouldn't learn unless he was beaten a couple of times.

Lin Ying waited until Su Zhihao had taken a couple of deep breaths and caught his breath before she slowly said, "Second Uncle Su, that's enough."

Su Zhihao stopped, panting heavily: "How could this be? They drugged my own father! And it was birth control pills!"

Lin Ying put down her cup: "If you keep hitting him and break his hand, no one will write a self-criticism tonight, and no one will be able to do their homework tomorrow."

Su Jun peeked half his face out from behind the sofa, his eyes still brimming with tears: "I still have to do homework? I already got beaten up."

Lin Ying turned her head: "Of course. Not only do we have to write, but we have to double the amount."

Su Jun cried out in despair, "Kill me!"

Lin Ying said expressionlessly, "Even if I kill you, I'll still have to brush up on your common sense first. Neither of you has any basic pharmacology knowledge, and you don't even know who should take birth control pills, yet you dare to plan a survival battle for the wealthy family? Starting this weekend, your tutoring fees will increase. You must add a basic common sense course every week."

Su Cheng lowered his head, knowing he was in the wrong and dared not refute.

Su Zhihao was taken aback: "Basic common sense?"

"Basic human physiology, basic pharmaceutical knowledge, basic legal knowledge, and basic inheritance principles," Lin Ying listed one by one, "especially the last one."

The three members of the Su family—father and sons—all looked at Lin Ying.

Lin Ying reached for the medicine bottle on the table, then slammed it back down. "You're afraid of your stepmother, afraid of your new brother, afraid of being kicked out. These crises can never be solved by giving your own father birth control pills."

Lin Ying looked at Su Cheng and Su Jun: "If you want to keep your positions in this family, you need to rely on excellent grades, your ability to earn money, and your legal knowledge. Not on these low-class, underhanded tricks."

Su Jun muttered to himself, "Does he have to learn legal awareness too?"

Lin Ying glanced at him and said, "You can even give the wrong medicine. If you don't learn, you'll be sold out sooner or later and still be helping the seller count the money."

Su Jun shut up.

Su Zhihao stood to the side, slowly lowering the wooden stick in his hand. The anger that had been building up in his chest gradually subsided after hearing these words.

Lin Ying turned to Su Zhihao: "Second Uncle Su, they were stupid, but this stupidity didn't happen for no reason."

Su Zhihao's face darkened: "Ah Ying, you want to plead for them?"

"I'm not pleading for leniency; those who deserve punishment must be punished severely." Lin Ying earnestly advised Su Zhihao, "I hope you, Second Uncle, can also reflect on how you plan to educate them in the future. As a father, it's not enough to just give them money, or just to scold them as worthless, much less to use your own second spring to provoke children who lack a sense of security."

Su Zhihao remained silent.

Su Cheng and Su Jun also bit their lips and remained silent.

The living room suddenly fell silent. After a long while, Su Zhihao let out a long sigh and threw the wooden stick in his hand into the corner with a thud.

"Fine." Su Zhihao stared at his two sons. "I won't fight them tonight; you two, get back to your rooms and write self-criticisms. Three thousand words each!"

Su Jun's eyes widened: "Three thousand words?! My hands will break!"

Su Zhihao scoffed, "Too little? Then five thousand it is!"

Su Jun immediately covered his mouth with both hands.

Su Zhihao then turned to Lin Ying: "Ying, you're in charge of arranging that basic common sense course. Pay for the extra class as usual, I'll double the fee."

Lin Ying deftly unzipped her backpack: "Deal."

Su Zhihao clutched his still slightly tight chest and took a breath: "Also, I'm going to the hospital for a follow-up check-up tomorrow morning. What if the doctor says there's something seriously wrong with my liver..."

Su Zhihao gave his two sons a sinister look, and both Su Cheng and Su Jun shivered simultaneously; "You two just wait to copy an entire 'Compendium of Materia Medica' for me!"

Su Jun, with tears in his eyes, said, "Old Dou, you can keep hitting me now."

Lin Ying took out a blank exercise book and pencil from her schoolbag and put them on the coffee table.

"Stop talking nonsense." Lin Ying stared at the two brothers. "Sit over here and write the title of your self-criticism first."

Su Cheng asked in a low voice, "What should the title be?"

Lin Ying picked up a pencil and neatly wrote a line of large characters at the top of the first sheet of paper.

[How a Lack of Common Sense Can Lead to Elevated Estrogen Levels in a Father]

Su Jun stared at the line of words, his face contorted in pain.

Su Zhihao was still stern and angry, but when he caught a glimpse of the headline out of the corner of his eye, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Maria, holding a tray at the kitchen doorway, couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Su Zhihao, embarrassed, turned and glared at Maria: "What are you laughing at! Go and boil a clean pot of soup! Don't put anything in it!"

Maria quickly shrank back.

Lin Ying shoved the pencil into Su Jun's hand and tapped the table: "Write."

Su Jun looked down at the white paper and painfully uttered his first words: I was wrong.

Lin Ying: "Not specific enough. Cross it out and rewrite it."

Su Jun grabbed his hair tightly: "Then how do I write it?!"

Lin Ying spoke calmly and patiently: "Write it clearly. Your mistake was that you didn't read books, you lacked common sense, you didn't ask the doctor before stealing the medicine, and you didn't ask me before administering the medicine. Write down in detail every psychological process you went through when you administered the medicine."

Su Jun: "..."

Su Cheng silently picked up a pen and wrote the first line on his piece of paper:

My mistake was trusting Su Zhi.

Su Zhihao took a deep breath.

well.

I'll have to go to Central tomorrow to settle this score with Su Zhisu.