Back to the 70s: My Childhood Sweetheart Spoils Me Rotten
Chapter 1042 - 1044: What Does It Mean to Be a Live-in Son-in-law?
This suggestion was opposed not only by Zhao Xuran but also by Gong Ruwen.
"How can you be so unambitious?" Gong Ruwen said with disappointment.
No ambition? How was she unambitious?
"I just think they all have a solid foundation. I’m a newcomer. What if someone sets a trap for me when I jump in suddenly?"
"If it weren’t for Brother Xu Ran, I might still be able to get by pretty well." The people at Jing University are quite proud and generally don’t resort to petty tricks.
But Gong Ruini worries that girls might be more petty, not worried about comparing with them, but concerned about being at a disadvantage.
The problem is, it seems pointless, and Gong Ruini doesn’t want to waste her brain on such trivial matters with them.
"I don’t need to prove how capable I am to them, and I don’t need their validation."
Whether she is capable or not, as long as the people she cares about know, the rest is just fluff.
"I really have too many things to handle."
"I need to study English, then memorize legal texts, and also keep an eye on my tutoring school."
"If possible, I hope to start studying foreign laws." Gong Ruini doesn’t know how big the gap will be between her and her classmates when she airs into an overseas school.
At least, Gong Ruini hopes the gap won’t be so large that she’ll regret it with tears.
"I don’t want to get to the United States and find myself reading until the early hours every day."
Effort is necessary, but if she reads nonstop and can’t even see the shadows of her peers, just thinking about this pressure burdens Gong Ruini.
Gong Ruini originally thought time was quite ample, but now, after calculating, she’s shocked.
"I feel a bit tired. No, I need to talk to Guang Ran and see if I can get some undergraduate law books and notes."
"You’re crazy." Gong Ruwen was stunned.
Although he didn’t study law, he’s not unfamiliar with it; there’s a lot to memorize, truly testing one’s endurance.
He didn’t expect his own sister to plan on studying foreign law; he was truly shocked.
"Can you keep up?" Zhao Xuran was surprised but then found it understandable; this was Ni Zi, someone who always brought them surprises.
Keep up? This answer, Gong Ruini didn’t know. "I just know that if I don’t work hard, I definitely won’t keep up."
"I must work hard."
"Then let’s work hard together." Zhao Xuran looked at Gong Ruini, who was determined, and suddenly felt a surge of motivation.
People say he’s smart, say he’s capable, but they don’t know he also worries, worried about being caught up by his younger siblings, especially by Gong Ruini.
"Ah, Brother Xu Ran, you plan to study too?" My goodness, such a big shot also plans to study hard; is this meant to push them to their limits?
Zhao Xuran nodded, "Actually, I also think about the things Guang Ran sometimes talks about on the phone, and I feel I should learn more."
"I’ll also ask Guang Ran to get more books on business management." Since he’s already going to help Ni Zi find books, it doesn’t matter if he also takes time to find books for him.
Gong Ruwen, stimulated by them, also felt a lot of pressure, "I actually think I should have studied economics back then."
This era has changed too much; there’s so much talk about the importance of economics, and Gong Ruwen genuinely feels a lot of pressure.
"Then study it; anyway, the work pressure after graduation isn’t that high." Gong Ruini thought Gong Ruwen would start working in the grassroots elsewhere, not expecting him to stay in Beijing.
Though it’s just a small assistant in a district office, it’s still progress.
At least it allows Gong Ruwen to start learning.
"What no pressure?" Gong Ruwen, knowing his assignment, also felt relieved, "I originally thought I’d go to some remote countryside."
"But staying in Beijing, it’s not easy to get promoted." Staying in Beijing has its pros and cons; life’s not worrisome, but climbing up the ladder is very hard, especially as one goes higher.
He hasn’t even started working yet, and he’s already obsessed with officialdom; Gong Ruini thinks this mindset is undesirable.
"Do what you want to do; don’t care too much about these things." Zhao Xuran doesn’t have much hope for Gong Ruwen’s career path.
"I know, I’m just a bit anxious, and if my rank is too low." Gong Ruwen claimed not to care about the Chu family’s opinions, but he couldn’t dismiss it.
"So what if it’s low; at least you’re relying on yourself. If you care about their opinions, will they give you a bit of help?"
"They won’t help you; they’ll just undermine you. If you achieve something, they’ll just feel they can’t let the people from Chu Ling’s house show off." Even though the Chu family didn’t fight tirelessly for a family head position like the Wang family did.
However, family resources are limited; there surely are considerations.
Sigh, "It’s frustrating, their mentality is different from ours." They’re all in business, striving hard, believing everyone’s success is true success, while they have to think that only when the other side isn’t well, their life can be good.
Gong Ruini doesn’t understand, but the upside is her big brother is wary. Otherwise, thinking the Chu family is the same as theirs, mutually supporting each other, who knows when the crying days would come.
After briefly discussing Cai Guoqing’s family moving to Beijing, Gong Ruini and the others turned to other matters; for them, since they’ve found a way to make a fortune, they certainly won’t miss it.
For Cao Li, it’s truly distressing.
Seeing Cai Zhiheng and his group just lounging at home waiting to be fed, her anger rapidly rose.
"Can’t you work?"
"Do you really consider yourselves guests? Come on, you’re not guests at all."
Cao Li thought about taking advantage, but never expected Wang Yudong and the others to come up with such a tactic.
Cao Li isn’t foolish; she knows from Cao Na that the Cai family’s visit this time is fruitless, thinking they can cause trouble?
That’s just a dream, Cai Ming might be in business, yes, making good money, but it’s all Wan Qiweng’s.
It seems they had an agreement that once divorced, Cai Ming would leave clean, with nothing.
If they really provoke Cai Ming and his group, who knows if they’d really follow through, and by then, who’d be crying?
Especially hearing Cai Guoqing and the others discuss how once they find Cai Ming, they’ll live a great life, she’s not amused, "That house’s not Cai Ming’s at all."
"Ah, no way." For the past few days, Cai Guoqing had been enduring Cao Li’s stepmother face, all because of the thought of soon living in his brother’s big house.
"It’s not your sister Cai Meina’s either, it’s none of theirs."
"Plus, when Cai Ming got married, not only did he move in, but signed an agreement that once divorced, he’d leave clean, with nothing."
"Do you think you’d get to live in that house?" Just because they think they’re elevated because of being the mother-in-law and father-in-law of Wan Qiweng, it’s just laughable.
Cai Zhiheng was furious, "How could he do that."
"Did he ask me when he got married?"
Moving in was fine, but how could he sign such an agreement, not knowing it easily gets one kicked out?
Getting kicked out was one thing, but with no benefits at all, "What about the child?" As long as there’s the child, it’s fine.
The child? Cao Li coldly looked at Cai Zhiheng, "The child has the surname Wan."
"Don’t you understand the term ’move-in’?"