Chapter 2302: Not Raising the Price (3)
Li Yayan obviously understood that w.a.n.g Yang was at the end of his wits. That was why he had started lambasting Qiao Zijin and Qiao Nan. If w.a.n.g Yang was as capable as he said and could take action directly, he would never have wasted his breath complaining about them while leaving his enemies alone.
Ring!
w.a.n.g Yang’s and Li Yayan’s expressions changed immediately as soon as the phone rang. The couple couldn’t help but move away from the phone. Neither of them was willing to pick it up. There weren’t many people who would call them on such a day. The prime suspect was w.a.n.g Yang’s father, Li Yayan’s father-in-law.
The only thing Father w.a.n.g had to talk to w.a.n.g Yang about now was naturally the Zhu family’s inheritance. Qiao Zijin had returned to Ping Cheng, and Qiao Nan had no intention of taking their bait. With less than twenty-four hours to the court hearing, w.a.n.g Yang’s chances of winning the lawsuit were diminis.h.i.+ng by the minute.
He was already in a foul mood and was reluctant to pick up his father’s call. His father would not only scold him as though he were a little child but also lecture him for marrying Li Yayan instead of Qiao Nan.
Since w.a.n.g Yang didn’t even want to pick up the call, Li Yayan, who had never been liked by her father-in-law, felt immensely stressed as though the phone was a ticking bomb. How she wished she could run as far as possible to save her own life.
“Dear?” Li Yayan shrank away from the phone with tears in her eyes. “Dad’s calling.” So, are you picking it up?
w.a.n.g Yang grasped his own hair. “I’m not blind.” Li Yayan could choose to avoid it, but w.a.n.g Yang couldn’t. He picked up the call with a dark expression. Immediately, Father w.a.n.g asked, “How’s the lawsuit going? Remember what I said, right? The Zhu family’s a.s.sets are ours. I’m not going to accept bad news. w.a.n.g Yang, you were the one who chose this path. If you fail again, you’ll be a criminal in the w.a.n.g family’s eyes.”
When they had first learned that Zhu Baoguo’s death had something to do with w.a.n.g Yang, Father w.a.n.g and Old Master w.a.n.g had spent a lot of effort and money to settle the matter with those hooligans. The w.a.n.g family had spent all their money on w.a.n.g Yang just to protect him and absolve him of any responsibility regarding Zhu Baoguo’s death.
Father w.a.n.g was so insistent on getting the Zhu family’s a.s.sets because he felt that the w.a.n.g family had already made an investment in w.a.n.g Yang. It was only right for them to get a return on their investment. Their princ.i.p.al sum wasn’t what mattered. What mattered was the interest generated. Why did he always have to be mocked by others, who said that he always used his wife’s money? The w.a.n.g family was rich, but he had had to depend on his wife instead!
It was all because he had forked out all of the w.a.n.g family’s money to send those hooligans related to Zhu Baoguo’s death away so that Zhu Chengqi would never find them in Ping Cheng again.
If that had been an investment on the w.a.n.g family’s part, it was time for their family’s thirty-year investment to come to an end now that Zhu Chengqi was dead.
w.a.n.g Yang had to resist the urge to smash his phone upon hearing his father’s stern words. Did he not want to succeed? Did he not want to bring the w.a.n.g family to greater heights? Did they really think that he wanted to fail after all the effort he had put in over the years? But his dad had done nothing to help him and was even pressuring him even further! Was that even his biological father they were talking about? Had they simply picked him up from the trash?
“Are you mute? Reply to me!” Father w.a.n.g grew more impatient because he had not gotten a response from his son. Father w.a.n.g knew that w.a.n.g Yang’s reaction meant that the Zhu family’s a.s.sets and resources were only getting even further out of their reach. They had been so close to it, and now, it was going to be someone else’s!
The w.a.n.g family had emptied their bank accounts to solve that matter regarding Zhu Baoguo. Ever since then, apart from w.a.n.g Yang, who had made slight progress and hadn’t let the w.a.n.g family fall into dire straits, none of Father w.a.n.g’s siblings or nephews had performed well.
While Old Master w.a.n.g had still been alive, he had already made Father w.a.n.g and his siblings promise that w.a.n.g Yang would lead their children, asking them to wait until the day they couldn’t afford to wait anymore. Although the promise had been slightly vague, the w.a.n.g family wasn’t stupid and they understood what that had meant.
Knowing that Father w.a.n.g was Zhu Chengqi’s brother-in-law, Father w.a.n.g’s siblings had held it in. They could only hope that their nephew, w.a.n.g Yang, would be able to make a name for himself one day. Then, their lives would improve as well. The w.a.n.g family knew that Zhu Chengqi’s death was fast approaching too.
Two entire generations of the w.a.n.g family had toiled through those times, and the third generation of their family had already been born. Finally, they had seen the last of the Zhu family. The entire w.a.n.g family had been waiting for w.a.n.g Yang’s good news when such a will appeared out of blue. Father w.a.n.g, who had been living in Ping Cheng, bore the brunt of the entire w.a.n.g family’s resentment and anger. After a while, even Father w.a.n.g couldn’t hold it in any longer.
Now, he could only convey and vent all the accusations and pressure he had faced from the w.a.n.g family onto w.a.n.g Yang. Even he wasn’t willing for the son, whom he and his father had devoted themselves and the family’s money to, to let the family down.
Because he knew that the court hearing would happen the next day, Father w.a.n.g knew that w.a.n.g Yang had been exploring other alternatives in an attempt to convince Qiao Nan to give up the inheritance. But now that the court hearing was looming, they couldn’t expect Qiao Nan to give up that huge inheritance after the court made its judgment, right?
It wasn’t that he was gauging the Zhai family by his own measure. The Zhu family was pretty much a second Zhai family. The Zhai family didn’t need the Zhu family’s money, but that didn’t mean that they would be any more reasonable when it came to money.
As such, Father w.a.n.g was clear that they had to get all of the Zhu family’s a.s.sets before the lawsuit ended and before the judgment was pa.s.sed. As the date of the court hearing date neared, Father w.a.n.g gradually lost sleep, never even having one good night’s rest. He didn’t want to place so much pressure on w.a.n.g Yang or ask w.a.n.g Yang about the situation either. He was hoping that w.a.n.g Yang would take the initiative to contact him with some good news.