Chapter 484 - 424: Golden Glitter
Chapter 484: Chapter 424: Golden Glitter
On the way back, Xiao Man and Yang Liu’er rode in Zheng Shaojin’s car. Yang Liu’er leaned back against the leather seat and sighed comfortably, "It’s so much better to have your own car. You can go wherever you want without having to squeeze onto a bus... Just you wait, I’ll be able to buy my own car soon!"
Xiao Man knew she wasn’t joking. If her clothing company continued to grow like this, she could become a millionaire many times over, or even a billionaire. Buying a house and a car would be a drop in the bucket.
But she deliberately shot her down, "Stop bragging. Do you even know how much a car costs? Look at my Brother Shaojin. His family is pretty rich—they’re even planning to send him abroad for his PhD—but this car he’s driving isn’t even his. It’s borrowed from his work!"
Yang Liu’er scoffed, "I’m not bragging. Just you wait. By the time you graduate from college, I’ll have definitely earned enough money to buy you a brand-new car as a graduation gift. You can even pick the brand you want!"
"I’ll be waiting then. If that’s true, it’ll be like manna from heaven!"
"Deal! You just wait. Manna won’t fall from heaven, but I’ll definitely buy you a car. I keep my word!" Yang Liu’er thumped her chest a few times as a guarantee. Noticing Zheng Shaojin looking at them in the rearview mirror, she felt a little embarrassed. She remembered Xiao Man saying he couldn’t afford his own car and felt she had made the young man lose face, so she thought it was necessary to offer a few words of comfort:
"Cousin, you’re very good-looking, quite handsome. After studying abroad for a few years, you’ll come back as a highly sought-after ’sea turtle.’ Girls will definitely be fighting to marry you, and all the companies and organizations will welcome you with open arms. Your income will be higher than the average person’s, so buying your own car won’t be difficult. Besides, cars won’t be that expensive in the future. Lots of people will be able to afford them."
Xiao Man put a hand to her forehead and let out a snort of laughter.
Zheng Shaojin: "..."
’Sis, your brother is being pitied to this extent, and you can still laugh!’
’And you, Miss Yang, your observation skills and logic might be a little off, but is there something wrong with your ears? Manman made it very clear during the introduction: This is Brother Shaojin! I’m Tang Manman’s brother, okay? Not her cousin!’
’And are you sure you’re trying to comfort me? Why does everything you say sound so off?’
’Do I really look like some commodity for people to fight over? And this car I’m driving tonight isn’t from work—it’s a genuine private car! I just had it imported from Country Y. Open your gorgeous titanium eyes and look! This is a world-famous brand, a *brand*! There’s no way a public entity would spend money maintaining such a high-end, expensive car!’
It was rare for Zheng Shaojin to be so crushed. Lost in his own gloomy resentment and silent complaints, he had to focus part of his energy on driving and didn’t notice that the two girls in the back seat had already changed topics several times.
Yang Liu’er said to Xiao Man, "It’s so strange. If this is the same Sun Family that runs De Ren Hospital and the Sun Pharmaceutical Group, then these people are all wrong! In my past life, I..."
Xiao Man glanced toward the front, then turned to look at her. "You what? Now you’re talking about past lives and next lives."
Yang Liu’er laughed. "No, I mean the man who gave the opening speech tonight, Mr. Sun and Miss Sun’s father... he’s the Family Head, the big boss of the Sun Family?"
"Of course. He’s the eldest grandson of the main branch, the one Imperial Doctor Sun valued the most. He’s the Clan Leader of the Sun Family, the very top man at the Sun Group!"
"But in the... in the previous Sun Pharmaceutical Group, the man at the top wasn’t him! And his successor wasn’t Mr. Sun, Sun Yiming, either!"
"I told you, that dream of yours is a mix of fact and fiction. It’s not necessarily accurate."
"You’re questioning me again? The old boss of the Sun Pharmaceutical Group from before, and his eldest and youngest sons—I saw them all with my own eyes!" Seeing that Xiao Man didn’t believe her, Yang Liu’er became indignant and started speaking quickly and urgently. "You don’t know, but Bai Qingyue is a total scumbag. She never married, but she hooked up with tons of men from all walks of life! One of them, however, was completely loyal to her—that Doctor Jia. Doctor Jia also has a pharmaceutical company, and it did pretty well. I heard from Brother Junfan that the Jia Company was able to steadily make a lot of money because the Bai family pulled strings for him to curry favor with Sun Pharmaceutical! Later, at one of the Bai family’s banquets, the Sun Group’s boss and his son both came. I saw them! For real, it wasn’t the family from tonight!"
"Is the Sun Family Clan Leader going to change in the future? Or maybe Sun Yiming’s father doesn’t want to personally manage the family business?"
Of course, that wouldn’t be the case. Xiao Man was just saying it out loud, but inwardly she thought: ’According to what Yang Liu’er said, the Sun Pharmaceutical Group of the previous life really had nothing to do with Sun Jingde and his son’s direct line of descent!’
’In the last life, after Imperial Doctor Sun died, it must have been one of the descendants from the collateral branches in Wancheng who got ahold of the Sun Family’s heirloom medical texts and secret recipes. Riding the wave of the reform and opening-up, they founded the Sun Pharmaceutical Group.’
’In this life, I went with Grandpa to Wancheng to sell medicinal herbs, where I happened to meet Imperial Doctor Sun and "borrowed" the Sun Family’s heirloom medical texts. I also agreed to his request, which meant that after Imperial Doctor Sun’s death, those other people couldn’t find the texts and were unable to act. They lost their head start. Then, Sun Jingde and his son overcame their difficulties and returned to the country, I returned the books, and everything was set in stone. In this life, Sun Jingde and his son won.’
’So what happened to Sun Jingde and his son in the last life? I have no way of knowing, and the reincarnated Yang Liu’er doesn’t know either. She clearly never met them in her past life, otherwise she would have been clamoring about it to me long ago.’
’Considering that the dying Imperial Doctor Sun refused to pass on his medical secrets and secret recipes to the collateral branches, waiting and hoping desperately, and also considering the various crises Sun Jingde’s family faced abroad, it wasn’t hard to guess that their outcome probably wouldn’t have been good, whether they returned to the country or not.’
As Xiao Man was lost in thought, Yang Liu’er’s topic jumped again. She enthusiastically praised Second Miss Sun’s birthday party and asked Xiao Man if the birthday banquet she attended for Gu Shaoling a few days ago was as lively and fun.
Xiao Man shook her head. "Gu Shaoling and I have never really gotten along. We often start fighting at the slightest disagreement, so I left that day before the banquet even started. I have no idea if it was fun or not."
Yang Liu’er pursed her lips. "Gu Shaoling has been like that in both lives—spoiled rotten, bad-tempered, and completely blind! You don’t know, in her past life... she used to follow Tang Yaxuan to the Bai family’s house all the time. The Bai family was only nice to Tang Yaxuan as part of a plot to undermine her older brother, but she didn’t see it at all and even helped them a lot! She was also involved with Bai Junjie in some ambiguous way. That guy is a real piece of work, just like Bai Lihua, with a real knack for playing around with women. In the end, it was Gu Shaozhen who noticed something was wrong. He took Gu Shaoling with him and left Beijing for a while. The next year, Gu Shaoling married the eldest young master of the Zhu Family from Hong Kong. The Zhu Family is the richest in Hong Kong, and that wedding practically blinded the whole world—it was on TV! The venue was so beautiful, with gold sparkling everywhere! Gu Shaozhen basically sent her into a den of money, but unfortunately, she couldn’t hold her own. Later on, someone in the Gu family died and another disappeared, and they gradually went downhill. The Zhu family’s young master stopped respecting her much after that. He kept taking one mistress after another, brought all the children they had back home, and passed them all off as Gu Shaoling’s. In reality, Gu Shaoling never had a single child of her own. She just ended up being a mother to other people’s kids..."
Xiao Man was speechless. Who would want that kind of wealth and status? And with Gu Shaoling’s temper, how could she possibly have stood it!