After Rebirth, the Celebrity Daughter is the Medical Expert!-Chapter 355 - 267: The Shi Family Sells Their House for Help (Ten Thousand Words)_4

Then, she curiously asked her dad, "Dad, can you tell us how the Crown Prince lost his family fortune like that? We want to use it as a cautionary tale, so we don’t fall into the same trap in the future."

Zhuang the boss felt even more conflicted.

With children so unambitious like these, he truly didn’t know whether to feel happy or sad.

He turned his head away to avoid looking directly and glanced at his adopted daughter, who was working diligently not far away, finally finding a bit of balance in his heart.

Fortunately, the heavens were still looking after him.

Although he didn’t have a pair of smart and wise biological children, he was given an exceptionally bright and insightful adopted daughter.

In any case, he took it in stride.

It didn’t matter if they were biological or not, as long as his "Kaicheng Group" had a qualified successor.

He organized his thoughts a bit, deciding to start from "how Shi Group nurtured an unqualified heir."

He thought this story would be quite an enlightening reference for his good children—

"Actually, the Crown Prince was groomed as an outstanding heir from a young age. I don’t know much about his school years, you should ask your sister, she was high school classmates with the Crown Prince."

Zhuang Kaicheng said.

Zhuang Siqi and Zhuang Jianxian glanced at their sister, who was too busy to pay any attention to them, and nodded, "Alright, you tell us first then."

"Then I’ll start from how he entered the company," Zhuang Kaicheng said, "These are industry secrets, you know."

Zhuang Jianxian and Zhuang Siqi urged, "Got it, got it, hurry up and tell us."

"Before old Chairman Shi stepped down, it’s said he had planned a path for the Crown Prince. Even if this eldest grandson was unruly and unmotivated, a large donation was made for him to attend a prestigious foreign university. After graduation, a route was mapped out for him to join the company, starting from small projects."

"The positions planned for his training included roles in areas like landscaping, property management, and construction, all part of the real estate development chain. Of course, since he was the Crown Prince, when he rotated through the basic positions, he would also be involved in the group’s core business— he would even be involved in decision-making phases."

"However, no matter how good the plan his grandfather made, it couldn’t withstand the Crown Prince’s lack of willingness," Zhuang Kaicheng said. "Upon hearing he needed to start from the basic positions after returning to the country, he told his father, ’I, as the great young master of the Shi family, am not here to learn and train with these commoners.’ As the rich second generation himself, his father thought as well, ’With me backing him, why should my son learn these things? He just needs to learn how to be a boss.’ So, his father directly used his power to issue an appointment notice within the group, appointing his son as chairman of one of the group’s subsidiaries."

"At that time, since old Chairman Shi was in poor health, he had already transferred power to the Crown Prince’s father, and before this, the appointment was kept strictly confidential, even old Chairman Shi was unaware of it."

"Didn’t old Chairman Shi have confidants in the company to inform him?" Zhuang Siqi, who loved watching palace drama, asked.

"Of course he did," Zhuang Kaicheng thought his younger daughter seemed a bit promising, so he explained more specifically and in detail, "Old Chairman Shi’s confidants in the company were quite surprised when they received Shi Jinrong’s appointment document, as the official document used an English name, which was a first for the group. Later, after some inquiries, they found out this was the Crown Prince."

"Being treated like this right off the bat shows how much his dad really valued him," Zhuang Jianxian admired how the Crown Prince had such a supportive father, yet didn’t envy him.

As a salted fish with dreams, how could one envy a young master destined to be a dominant CEO?!

"He was indeed very valued," thinking of how Shi Jinrong doted on his son, Zhuang Kaicheng felt that what Shi Group became today was truly not undeserved. "It’s said that after Shi Group moved to the new office building, Shi Jinrong especially allotted an entire floor for his son."

He continued, "In the business world, the Crown Prince was quite like his father, bold in action. For his first appearance at a land auction in F city after taking office, he directly pushed the floor price to match the sale price of surrounding projects, breaking the record for the highest price per unit in the same area."

"I was at the auction scene too at the time. His bold move really opened the eyes of us old-timers in the industry," Zhuang Kaicheng deeply lamented, "Following that, he got another chance to shine with the S Sun Island project in H state. It was a project his grandfather acquired at the end of 2020 from his old friend, the boss of Hengfu Group, a project spanning 1.6 million square meters purchased for the price of 2 billion yuan, with extremely favorable payment terms, only needing to pay 200 million yuan upfront, and the rest within two years. But even with such a value-for-money low initial payment project, the Crown Prince failed to handle it well and was dismissed in less than five years in office."