Campus Ace Girl

Upon hearing this, Kegui immediately turned around and quietly looked at his brother.

His eyes held a brief confusion but quickly regained a resolute pose, his voice also low: "I’ve figured it out, I can’t miss another chance."

Ke Fu, usually careless, suddenly became serious. He thought for a moment, then laughed: "Well, our Wang Family produces outstanding people, each more incredible than the last. Ke Ru needed no explanation back then, and now even Kegui is impressive, daring to defy the old man."

Kegui was speechless and somewhat bitter. If he could, why would he anger his father during his illness?

Ultimately, he just didn’t want to let that person down anymore.

He entered the ward. Old Wang was already lying down. Although he hadn’t had surgery, he wasn’t doing well while getting an IV drip, and his face was pale...which was a rare sight for Kegui.

He walked over and sat by the sickbed. Old Wang, very weak, slowly opened his eyes to look at him: "You’ve really decided, abandoning the family just to have that woman?"

Kegui’s Adam’s apple shifted slightly, then he softly said: "Dad, don’t call her ’that woman.’ Her name is Lin Shuang, the woman I love and have let down before. I plan to spend the rest of my life with her."

Old Wang sneered: "Love and have let down? You know you’ve let her down, yet you want to live with her. Leaving the Wang Family, what do you have to live with her? Teach? Earn several thousand a month? I think her spending isn’t low now. If you can’t make it through half a year, she’ll look down on you, then how will you handle that?"

Kegui was silent for a moment and softly said: "Lin Shuang isn’t that materialistic."

Old Wang laughed more coldly: "Isn’t she? Ha, that’s unknown. I’m afraid once you make one wrong step, all steps will be wrong, and it would be too late to regret. I’ll say this today; as a father, I won’t be biased. How I treated Ke Ru back then is how I’ll treat you now. If you insist on staying in Beicheng to teach, don’t come back to the Wang Family."

Kegui hesitated for a moment, raised his eyes, and softly asked: "Dad, have you thought it through?"

"Do I seem like I haven’t?" Old Wang sneered again and then turned away, no longer willing to pay attention to this son, just like a son wasted.

Ke Fu also entered and spoke up: "Dad, are you sure you’ve thought it through?"

The old man was furious: ’What haven’t I thought through? I don’t lack people to see me off, but he... I don’t know if he’ll live worse than pigs and dogs, realizing the harsh reality only when the woman abandons him.’

The old man, in high spirits, grabbed his eldest son as if he had met a confidant: "You’ll see, he doesn’t have the ability to give the woman a good life. They’ll separate within six months."

At this moment, Ke Fu slapped his thigh and shouted: "This is bad."

The old man glared and sneered, "What’s all this shouting about."

Ke Fu was crestfallen: "Old man, this matter, I’ve got to tell you. This time, I really didn’t mean to upset you, everything’s just coincidence."

The old man felt uneasy inside, his gaze sharp as a knife.

Ke Fu hung his head lower: "Didn’t I just take fifty billion from Lu Heng the other day? Plus, An Xi gave me shares. I felt uneasy, thinking of leaving some for Kegui, so...so I gave Kegui five billion. So, Dad, five billion, he buys a house with one billion, leaving enough for him never to return to our Wang Family, so have you really thought it through?"

Old Wang’s face was livid, staring unwaveringly at his eldest son and finally squeezing out a sentence: "Ke Fu, you’re really capable."

Ke Fu laughed dryly, but now he knew to protect his second brother, signaling Kegui to leave first.

Kegui hesitated and then received a signal from Wang Keru and had to leave first.

After he left, Wang Keru told Gu Anxi: "You should go back to rest too, not yet out of confinement, and the weather is getting chilly."

She gently adjusted her daughter’s coat, then couldn’t help but laugh, "Look how you’ve turned your second uncle into someone missing his soul, allowing you to mold him as you please. In the past, he never had this courage; in youth, he wasn’t impulsive. Now, however, he’s willing to give it all up for Lin Shuang."

Gu Anxi laughed along: "Isn’t that bad?"

Wang Keru gave her a look: "Good, it’s good, good enough for your second uncle’s old house to catch fire."

Gu Anxi continued to laugh, finally hugging her mother and softly saying: "Second Uncle isn’t perfect, but living with someone like Gu Xiufen is far too much of a grievance."

Wang Keru patted her back, gave a sound of agreement, and softly urged her to leave first.

Once Gu Anxi left, Wang Keru entered the ward. As soon as she entered, Ke Fu became spirited: "Ke Ru, tell us about your journey, to persuade Dad to let Kegui come back."

Wang Keru sat down, calm and composed: "What is there to persuade, Second Brother is resolute now! You saw; even at a young age he wasn’t this obsessed; now, he’s gone and cannot be pulled back, we just have to accept it."

Old Wang’s face remained cold: "You’re quite good, not only not advising but encouraging him. Anxi learnt all of her bad habits from you, concealing knives in honey, she’s calculated our Wang Family through and through."

No, not just through and through, but many times over.

Seeing him like this, Wang Keru smiled and helped tidy up the blanket, then appeared thoughtfully: "Anxi is indeed a bit scheming."

Her concession eased the old man’s demeanor, as if he had found a kindred spirit, "Right? She’s seven holes cleverer than common spirits. Kegui’s already steady enough, but he’s still played around by her, acting like an old fool, waiting in Beicheng half a year just to chase a woman."

The old man grunted angrily: "It’s just a woman, with your second brother’s conditions he could find plenty of young and beautiful ones."

Saying so, he unwillingly admitted: ’Lin Shuang is better than ordinary women, but not to the extent of obsession. For a man to make a woman such a big deal, what’s the point?’

Wang Keru went along with her father’s stubbornness, giving Kegui a good scolding, even adding a few words against Gu Anxi, releasing Old Wang’s displeasure and making him feel much better. He sighed and spoke: "Ke Ru, it’s not that I disagree, I just feel Kegui has changed. Plus, the family needs him; to just throw it away is too much. You know your eldest brother’s temperament and ability..."

The old man, strong all his life, now seemed fragile.

The Wang Family, in Jiangcheng, was among the top, yet faced a dilemma of no successors.

Although Kegui wasn’t a great talent, he was capable enough to maintain the family; thus, the old man wouldn’t let him go. If he chose teaching over family, he would rather not have this son.

He suddenly fell silent, and Wang Keru glanced at her elder brother.

Ke Fu swallowed hard and was about to speak when Wang Keru quickly said: "Dad, eldest brother isn’t as incapable as you think, at least he hasn’t blown the company up in the last six months...or let me take Yun Tian along, let him help manage the company."

Old Wang glanced at her and softly said: "I know Yun Tian’s health, don’t let him exert himself."

Wang Keru exchanged a look with Ke Fu, and Ke Fu immediately said: "Dad, I’ll work hard. Believe me once; if I do well, forgive Kegui...he’s had a hard time. All these years living with Gu Xiufen hasn’t been pleasant, watching him in his forties, having a shot at happiness isn’t that good?"

Old Wang stared: "You’ve turned over a new leaf?"

Ke Fu touched his nose, somewhat dejectedly: "I’ve played enough over the years, had lots of women, not much I can’t part with now...Kegui and I are different, he cherishes what he has inside, so...alright, I won’t play anymore, it’s lost its meaning, everything that should’ve been enjoyed has been."