Fake Marriage To The Richest Tycoon-Chapter 43: The grudges between the two families

Or maybe he was misinformed? As far as he knew, the Qiao family would stop at nothing to pull him down. They were like still water under the bridge, just waiting for the right time to strike.

The Qiao family and the Shentu family had a long history of grudges and conflicts against each other.

Back then, when Old Master Shentu was a young man, he made friends with Qiao Dayi. Qiao Dayi became sworn brothers with him, and the two did everything together. They started businesses and shared common ground with one another. They were inseparable.

But one day, Old Master Shentu’s youngest brother, Shentu Pan, had an affair with a mysterious woman. It was said that he forced himself on her. However, there were rumors that she had agreed to it. No one knows the truth.

Shentu Pan was naturally a very lustful man. He rode on the fame and wealth of his brothers and father, indulging in all types of sins. He was a disgrace to the Shentu family. His brothers warned him many times, but he pretended to listen to them. When they weren’t looking, he would do the opposite of what they told him.

Shentu Pan had a son. That was Shentu Hu, the one who sneakily entered the Shentu mansion. This pair of father and son, as well as anyone related to them, were kicked out of the family a long time ago.

It turns out that this mysterious woman was Qiao Dayi’s youngest daughter, Qiao You. For some reason, Qiao You mysteriously died, and Qiao Dayi blamed the Shentu family for it.

So why would the Qiao family still want to let their daughter marry Shentu Chu? Wasn’t there a grudge between the two families? Shouldn’t the engagement that was made when Shentu Chu and Qiao Nian were babies be forfeited?

Qiao Dayi’s second son, Qiao Nai, was Qiao Nian’s father. This Qiao Nai was a mysterious and unpredictable man. He never participated in any family meetings or business conferences. Instead, he stayed at home and accompanied his children and played with crickets.

Shentu Jing even wondered why he would let his daughter marry Shentu Chu. There were many rumors of Shentu Chu being an illegitimate child. Why would Qiao Nai, a father who loved his daughter so much, let her marry someone lower in status? Qiao Nian was born to the principal wife of the Qiao family.

Shentu Jing became more and more suspicious as time passed. This agreement of marriage between the two families was made before Shentu Chu and Qiao Nian were even born.

Shentu Chu and Qiao Nian had never seen each other before. Shentu Chu had only seen his fiancée’s photo and her videos in the news. They had never met face to face.

The more Shentu Jing thought about it, the more he wondered what his grandpa and father were up to.

"If you say so," Qiao Shenji sighed.

Shentu Jing snapped out of his reverie.

"Then I will be waiting for your results. Here is my number," he passed a small piece of paper to Shentu Jing.

"Don’t you have WeChat? I can scan yours or you can scan mine. Writing phone numbers on a piece of paper is old-fashioned," Shentu Jing remarked.

"I didn’t bring my phone," Qiao Shenji answered, a little ashamed.

"How did you know about the car accident that you say killed your parents?" Shentu Jing took the paper, glanced at it, and kept it in his coat pocket.

"What if I told you that I was there?"

There was an unfathomable glint in Qiao Shenji’s eyes.

In Jinjiu district, Shentu Chu was sent to meet with some business partners. After the meeting, he decided to take a walk and eat ice cream.

The weather was nice; the wind assaulted him and blew his coat open. The skies howled above the clouds. The summer in Shengjing was about to be replaced with rain and cold.

Shentu Chu leaned against the wall of a shopping mall. He watched as life went on before him—people walking in and out of the high-speed train station, children tugging on their parents’ sleeves to take them to the library or eat sweets.

Come to think of it, he, Shentu Chu, had never had the opportunity to taste the sweetness of this world. His childhood was a mess. He didn’t even know who his mother was. So he was told to call the principal wife of the Shentu family ’Mother.’ But from the way this mother looked at him, it was as if she loathed him.

He never got the privilege to do whatever he wanted, unlike Shentu Jing and Shentu Ling, who were born with noble blood in them. Shentu Mingye was the youngest in the family. His mother was a mistress whom Shentu Dong picked up one day when he was drugged by his enemies.

The mistress was a bar girl back then. Her name was Ning Ning. She saved the young Shentu Dong, and he fell in love with her and took her as his mistress.

To say that he wasn’t jealous of Shentu Jing and Shentu Mingye would be a lie. Shentu Chu clenched his fists, and the ice cream was squeezed into pieces in his hands. The cream melted and flowed down his fingers.

At that moment, a young girl happened to pass by with her maid holding shopping bags.

"Young Miss, isn’t that your fiancé chosen by your family, Shentu Chu?" The maid pointed.

A girl with her hair styled with curls that were combed and pinned to the back of her head by a hairpin turned to look where the maid pointed.

Two jade earrings hung off her ears, and as she turned, they dangled with grace.

Qiao Nian scanned her fiancé from head to toe. Her mother had told her that he was an illegitimate child and looked extremely ugly with a crooked nose.

However, the more she examined him, the more she found him dashing. Her gaze fell on his hands. The ice cream dripped onto his shoes.

Who in their right mind would let ice-cream dirty their expensive leather shoes?