Miss Zheng suddenly went crazy and shook her hair as she looked at Lin Dong and angrily shouted, “Lin Dong!”
Her mother pulled her daughter behind her while shaking with anger too. “What are you doing!”
Lin Dong’s dad and brother’s faces immediately changed as well. “Lin Dong!”
President Zheng narrowed his eyes. He didn’t look at Lin Dong but instead turned to Lin Han and saying, “President Lin, what is the meaning of this?”
Lin Dong slammed his hands onto the dinner table and answered President Zheng in his father’s place, “What do you mean?”
Then, he suddenly flipped the dining table with both hands and said in a deep voice, “This is what I facking mean! Go eat a d!ck! If you have something, just say it out loud! Is it fun to hide daggers behind smiles? If you are going to interrogate me for dumping your daughter, do you really have to go in such a big circle? It’s already tough living life as a human, why the fack do you like to make it even more complicated?”
The rest of the Lin Family was dumbfounded.
The Zheng Family was also dumbfounded.
President Zheng pointed at Lin Dong while shivering in anger. “You! Alright, you brat, you actually dare to treat my daughter like this!”
Then, he looked to Lin Han and said in a deep voice, “Lin Han, don’t blame me for what I’m going to do. Your son actually dares to bully my daughter like this, alright! Guess we aren’t having dinner anymore! We will wait and see! If the Lin Family can still survive in Shangcheng, then I, Zheng Baorui will kick myself out of this goddam city!”
“President Zheng!” Lin Han immediately panicked as he hurried over and pulled President Zheng back from leaving the room. “We can talk this out.”
“Talk what?!” President Zheng roared as he pointed at his crying daughter and said, “I’ve never seen someone who dares to bully my daughter like this! Just shut up already, we will wait and see. Starting from tomorrow, I will make sure you can’t run your factory anymore. Doesn’t the Lin Family just have about 500 million in assets all together? Tomorrow, I will show you what a hostile takeover looks like!”
“President Zheng, can you please give me a chance to make this right?’ Lin Han hurriedly pulled him back.
President Zheng directly pushed Lin Han away, causing him to fall onto the ground.
Lin Dong immediately came to help his dad up. Then, he threw a punch at President Zheng’s face and shouted, “If you are going to fack off, then fack off.”
“Just you wait, brat!” President Zheng pointed at Lin Dong and fiercely cursed, “Since your stupid dad couldn’t teach you right, then I will teach you how you should act when you step into real society!”
Then, he left with his wife and daughter.
The whole room was in a mess, there were broken bowls and plates everywhere.
When Lin Dong went back to helping his dad up, he was pushed away by his dad and then received a beating.
It was right for the dad to beat the son, so he didn’t fight back. He was in the wrong, but the other party was clearly in the wrong too for humiliating them. It was his principle to break his own spine before lowering his head!
His big brother couldn’t stand it anymore. “Alright, Dad, it’s useless if you beat him too.”
Lin Han beat Lin Dong into a corner, venting his anger. He had his hands on his waist angrily, and he pointed at Lin Dong, sighed, and said, “We originally came to apologize, you know very well that we can’t afford to offend President Zheng, why did you still do this?”
Lin Dong’s face was bruised and he stubbornly said, “I apologized, but why did she throw that drink in my face?”
Lin Han: “Can’t you just tolerate it for a bit longer?’
Lin Dong: “Dad, in this matter, seriously, you are worse than my teacher! Back then when I first knew him, he was still a small officer. And then? He still dared to go directly up against North Gate, and he’s able to say ‘no’ to anything that breaches his principles! Do you want to know why I admire him but not you? It’s because, on some things, you really don’t show that you have much respect for yourself. What’s the use of making more and more money? I would rather our family be ordinary, at least then, we can often be together.“
“That’s enough!” Lin Dong’s big brother scolded, “Stop mentioning that teacher of yours. He’s probably fired already from his police station, and it probably has something to do with that crappy temper of his. Lin Dong, you have to know, this is how the real world is like. If you don’t know how to be slippery and blend in, you will only be excluded. Look at the teacher you admire so much, he probably doesn’t even have a job!”
Lin Dong: “But you can’t lose your dignity as a human!”
“You b@stard, you still dare to talk?” Lin Han scolded, “You can feed the family with dignity? Because of your dignity just now, tomorrow I don’t even know how much hot water the company’s going to be in! I didn’t expect that you would bring something to the family, but I didn’t know that you would even make it more difficult for our family!”
At this time, Lin Dong calmed down a bit, and he felt that he indeed didn’t handle this well.
“Since it’s becoming increasingly difficult to run machine manufacturing companies, how about we just go into another industry?” Lin Dong said.
“You think going into a different industry is just as simple as switching schools? Crossing industries is like crossing mountains, do you know how many companies went bankrupt because they tried to get into a different industry? Forget it, I can’t explain it to people like you.”
Lin Dong: “Dad, let’s not be angry anymore. We shouldn’t let an outsider sow discord in our family. Right now, let’s think about how to solve the problem.”
Lin Han yelled, “How? You make it sound so easy, you tell me, how to solve this problem? Tomorrow, I will bring you to the Zheng Family to apologize on your knees, are you going?“
Lin Dong: “No.”
“Then I will pretend I never had you as a son!” After Lin Han said that, he brought Lin Dong’s big brother and left the room.
Lin Dong could only follow them home in a different car. After his mother knew about this, she beat him again too. Then, Mommy Lin began crying and she said, “It’s over, it’s over, President Zheng’s assets are worth near 10 billion. It wouldn’t be as bad if he took over our factories, but what if he pulls strings and screws up our supply chain and client network, causing us to lose everything?”
The dispirited Lin Dong sat there, and all four of the Lin Family were in a daze, not knowing what to do. The atmosphere was a bit stiff, and Mommy Lin was crying, feeling like the sky was about to collapse.
At this time, Lin Dong couldn’t help but ask, “Is there really no other way? If President Zheng wants to buy out our factory, just let him, and we will just sell the factory for cheap. We’ve already made quite a bit of money over the years, we can just move into a different industry. We can also make some safe investments. Dad, I believe in your business skills, you can definitely make a comeback.”
Lin Han said in a deep voice, “The company still has a lot of debt with the bank, are you going to apologize to the bank? If I could get out this easily, I would’ve done it already. The last batch of equipment and materials were just invested in the company, we still haven’t broken even yet. This time, if we were to encounter malicious competition and lose everything, even if we still have fixed assets, that would still not be enough to pay the banks. Do you understand?”
Lin Han sighed, “Dong, this is the situation the family is in. How about you just go and apologize with me?”
Lin Dong rubbed his hair and he lowered his head on the table. After pondering for a long time, he thought of something, pulled out his phone and said, “Maybe my teacher has a way. I remember before we left, he said that I can ask for a favor from him if I run into anything.”
Lin Dong’s big brother snorted. “When are you going to grow up? You are already in university… If he really is that capable, then he wouldn’t have been a little officer in the first place.”
Lin Dong: “I believe that my teacher is not simple.”
Young Master Lin: “It’s not a joke. If he can actually help us with this, I can even go and kowtow and apologize to him.”