Chapter 155: Driven Out of the House Once Again

"Heh, no money is no money, and debt is debt! Yet you have the nerve to claim your budget is balanced and your assets are sound! Where is your shame? How on earth can you be so shameless? Come on, tell me, where did the down payment for your production line come from? If it wasn't borrowed, don't tell me you stole it?"

Liu Mingli's subsequent outburst of anger immediately gave Liu Qian a chance to confirm her suspicions.

It was true.

"What? The equipment in his factory was bought with only a down payment? Then what on earth was used as collateral?"

Lin Yongfen finally snapped to her senses at that moment.

So her husband's anger wasn't ignited blindly after all.

He had found out Wu Ya's true background, which was why he had suddenly erupted!

Especially when she heard that the equipment in Wu Ya's factory had been hauled back with nothing more than a down payment,

her heart instantly grew even more tense and anxious!

In those days, whether it was installment plans or loans,

they were simply unacceptable to ordinary people.

Everyone believed that taking such measures meant you were drowning in debt!

And the moment you couldn't pay, it meant complete ruin and bankruptcy.

Therefore, Lin Yongfen immediately joined in the criticism.

Could it be that their entire family had been deceived?

"Heh, what collateral? He's from an impoverished household, where would he get collateral? He mortgaged the equipment itself back to the manufacturer! If he fails to pay the final balance when it's due, the manufacturer will repossess the original equipment! And every single penny of his down payment will be completely gone!"

Liu Mingli looked at Wu Ya, undisguised mockery written all over his face.

You have no money, yet you want to be a boss?

No matter how big or small a tailoring shop is, it is still a legitimate business.

Yet you abandon a good business to go and play at being a corporate executive.

Do you really think that because you rescued a tailoring shop,

you suddenly have the ability to run an enterprise?

You are truly a frog at the bottom of a well, completely unaware of how vast the sky is!

Can a tailoring shop ever be equated with a large enterprise?

They are simply in completely different leagues!

"What? Wu Ya, did you really only pay a down payment and then use the equipment as collateral?"

Lin Yongfen had already chosen to believe her husband.

Yet, facing this sudden turn of events—

facing this plummet from joyful anticipation to utter despair—

she still found it somewhat difficult to accept.

Unconsciously, the question slipped from her lips.

"Yes, Auntie."

The answer she received completely plunged her from disappointment into utter despair!

"Don't you understand? The trick he's playing is..."

"A wolf in empty gloves!"

Liu Mingli wanted to continue,

but Lin Yongfen interrupted him directly.

A wolf in empty gloves.

It meant achieving the goal of doing business without spending a single penny.

In the current society, the great waves of reform and opening up were sifting through the grains.

Not only had it driven a batch of people to prosperity, but it had also stirred up the greed of others.

As a result, plunging into business and entering the commercial sea was no longer as pure as it had been in the beginning.

All sorts of scams had emerged.

And briefcase companies were the most typical among them.

Their habitual trick was precisely playing the wolf in empty gloves!

They would paint a grand blueprint,

make you watch it with relish, and then trick you into paying your hard-earned money,

only for you to realize in the end that it was nothing more than thin air!

You had been duped, cheated.

Yet in the end, you would find yourself with nowhere to turn for justice!

Because the contracts they signed with you were completely formal and legal.

Why wasn't the commercial outcome stipulated in the contract achieved?

Because of various other external reasons!

Under the fine-sounding name of force majeure!

This left countless people with no choice but to swallow their bitter pills in silence.

And now, this very trick

had actually appeared on Wu Ya, whom they had momentarily been treating like an honored guest!

If word of this got out, wouldn't people laugh their heads off?

Who were she and her husband?

They were the most renowned speculators in the Suiyan District!

The very definition of shrewd and capable!

"Heh, what a brilliant tactic indeed! Regardless of anything else, Wu Ya, to be able to play the 'empty-gloved wolf' game so skillfully at such a young age, your intelligence is certainly admirable! It's just a pity that we are a respectable family! A person of such flawed character and crooked intentions like you should probably stop associating with us!"

After a long silence, Lin Yongfen spoke again with a cold sneer on her face.

A respectable family.

With those words, she directly categorized Wu Ya and his family as crooked and depraved!

In their eyes,

a respectable family could never raise trash like this!

Wasn't there a common saying?

If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beams will follow!

"Indeed! Wu Ya, our family does not welcome your kind! Now, leave! Immediately, right this instant! From this day forward, if you ever dare to entangle yourself with Liu Qian again, watch out for your legs! Get lost!"

Get lost!

As Liu Mingli spat out that final word, the atmosphere in the room instantly dropped to freezing point.

"Heh, fine! I'll leave right now! But I hope you remember every single sentence and every single word you've said today! Don't end up eating your own words in the future, coming to me with bended knees and begging me to visit!"

Wu Ya was thoroughly enraged as well.

They could insult him.

Say whatever they wanted, anything went!

However, they had no right to insinuate and drag his parents into it!

That was his bottom line, and his absolute scale of wrath!

If he hadn't been standing in front of Liu Qian's parents at this moment,

he would have long since resorted to violence to make them pay the price!

One hundred per punch.

Even if it cost him tens of thousands of yuan, he would have made sure they were covered in bruises!

But alas.

He could not.

He had anger, and he could vent it.

Yet he could not unleash it here!

Therefore, leaving behind a few harsh words,

he turned on his heel and strode toward the door.

Behind him,

"Hmph, what kind of thing are you to think you deserve our invitation? Now that your true face has been exposed, you still dare to spout wild nonsense! I truly have no idea where the bottom line of your shamelessness lies!"

Liu Mingli's sneering mockery followed right behind his footsteps.

Wu Ya's body stiffened for a second.

Yet it was merely a single second before he resumed his stride and walked out.

"You think far too highly of yourself! Rest assured! Even if you, Wu Ya, eventually reach the peak and achieve glory, we will never have anything to do with you until the day we die!"

Lin Yongfen didn't even bother with insults anymore.

She burst straight into mocking laughter.

As for Wu Ya, he was already completely immune.

Without any further reaction, he walked straight out the front door.

Was he angry at such people?

Angry, yes!

Should he continue to fly into a rage?

They simply weren't worth it!

As someone reborn, carrying the weathered experiences of thirty-nine years,

how could he possibly let a trifle like this cause him to lose emotional control?

Never!

And thus,

he had once again been driven out of someone's home!

"Dad, Mom, have you two made enough of a scene? I am truly ashamed of you!"

The moment Wu Ya stepped out the door, Liu Qian's fury erupted!

It wasn't that she was slow to react.

It was simply that she had been weeping bitterly earlier, choking on her sobs.

Her parents.

These were her own biological parents!

Setting aside the fact that Wu Ya's true situation was nothing like what they had imagined!

Even if, for the sake of argument,

Wu Ya's situation really was just as they thought—

even then, Wu Ya's starting point was unquestionably to run his business well!

It certainly wasn't the "empty-gloved scam" they made it out to be!

Especially since today,

Wu Ya's visit had been requested by their own personal phone call inviting him over!

Though she had acted reluctant at first, in truth, her heart had been filled with joy.

Her parents had finally accepted Wu Ya.

Today, all past grievances could finally be wiped away.

Yet who could have foreseen

that the plot would twist once more!

And the reason for the twist was once again her parents' sycophancy!

The moment they assumed Wu Ya was an empty shell with no money, he instantly lost all value in their eyes!

Why bother maintaining a relationship with him then?

Cutting ties immediately had become their top priority!

After such an operation, how was she supposed to face Wu Ya from now on?

Especially since Liu Qian, who knew Wu Ya's temperament all too well, could tell that

when he dropped those harsh words as he left,

it meant...

he was truly furious!

The rift between the two of them might genuinely be irreparable now!

And all of this was thanks to her parents.

One could only imagine the depth of Liu Qian's grief and indignation at this moment!

Yet,

"What did you say? How dare you speak to us like that? Hmph! Ever since you started getting close to this Wu Ya, you've repeatedly talked back to your mother and me! And now, you even dare to speak to us like this? We make you feel ashamed? Did giving birth to you shame you, or did raising you shame you?"

Liu Mingli's temper flared even hotter and fiercer than hers.

Liu Qian had always been the apple of her parents' eye, their proudest pearl.

Countless acquaintances had always envied and praised her for being well-behaved and sensible.

Though she was occasionally willful and stubborn in nature,

she was nonetheless well-read and reasonable.

Even when she was unhappy, she would only show it on her face.

At worst, she would argue back a couple of times in private when no one else was around.

Yet now, everything had changed.

She was becoming increasingly unbridled, more and more lacking in manners!

Especially whenever Wu Ya was involved, her words and actions

became utterly and unreasonably abnormal!

Today was no exception.

She actually had the audacity to say that they made her feel ashamed—all for the sake of that Wu Ya!

How were they shameful?

Did they really have to keep a heavily indebted, good-for-nothing piece of trash for dinner

for her not to feel ashamed?

"Nandian, you truly disappoint Mom so much! We acted this way, wasn't it all for your own good? At first glance, Wu Ya is drowning in debt. Even if he somehow manages to turn the tables, that's only a possibility, isn't it? What if he can't turn it around? Right in front of him is a bottomless abyss! You want our daughter to associate with someone who won't even be able to clear his debts for the rest of his life? That is absolute nonsense!"

Lin Yongfen chimed in right behind him, looking at Liu Qian with a face full of sorrow.

She felt like a complete stranger to her own daughter.

Naive.

It was one thing that she didn't understand the cruelty of the world,

but now she didn't even trust her own parents!

Could it be that with all their experience, they couldn't see through Wu Ya's future prospects?

To put it in a nutshell...

he had pushed himself into an abyss purely out of a desire for quick success and instant glory!

Hundreds of thousands in massive debts—he would never be able to flip his fortunes for the rest of his life!

Yet,

"Heh, how can you be so sure that he is drowning in debt? And how do you know his business won't flourish and thrive? Everything you're saying is nothing more than your own subjective guesswork! To judge someone else's future based entirely on your own narrow mindset, don't you find that ridiculous?"

Liu Qian's lips curled into a cold sneer.

Looking at her parents, her tone was dripping with mockery.

Wu Ya—others might not know,

but she knew everything inside and out!

He was currently the undisputed richest man in the Suiyan District!

Yet, in public,

and especially in front of her family, he refused to utter a single word of it.

Why?

Simply to preserve that hard-won warmth and normalcy!

The moment her family learned that he had become the richest man,

the psychological shift would inevitably mean they could never treat him with the same casual ease again!

Little did they know,

the more low-key he tried to be, the more trouble it would invite instead!

And the root cause of it all was still her parents' snobbery!

This single hurdle had created the endless troubles before them right now!

"Our guesswork is ridiculous? Nandian, you are being childish to the point of being unreasonable! Your parents are famous speculators in the Suiyan District! The things we've experienced and the human hearts we've seen are beyond anything you can imagine right now! Even if we speculate, our judgments are based on hard experience! They are neither fabricated out of thin air nor spoken irresponsibly!"

Lin Yongfen remained stubbornly persistent.

This was her own daughter, flesh of her own flesh.

Snobbish as she was,

she couldn't bear to see her daughter tormented like this!

She had to convince her.

Only by completely changing her mindset could this matter be fully resolved in the future.

Otherwise, she would continue to pine for Wu Ya,

and their household would never know peace again!

After all, her daughter was heading back to university in half a month.

If she abandoned her studies because of Wu Ya,

wouldn't that be an absolute disaster?

A brilliant talent of Peking University.

That single halo alone was enough to guarantee her daughter a worry-free life.

"Hmph, your mom is right! Even when we speculate, we rely on experience! Unlike certain people who use petty cleverness to play dirty tricks! People like that are bound to bring about their own destruction sooner or later!"

Liu Mingli had finally calmed down a fraction.

Yet his words still sought to belittle Wu Ya.

Seeing this situation,

Liu Qian knew that saying anything more would be utterly futile.

It would merely be a waste of breath.

Therefore,

"Let's just hope your precious experience doesn't make you regret it in the future!"

Throwing down those words, she turned on her heel and walked toward her own room.

Thud!

With a muffled sound, the door slammed shut,

leaving Liu Mingli and his wife standing frozen in the living room.

What a rollercoaster of a morning it had been.

Yet, when all was said and done, it was entirely their own fault for being too impatient!

They had brought that punk into their home without investigating thoroughly,

leaving themselves in such a passive and awkward position!

Suddenly,

"Dear, do you think Wu Ya and that kid... could he possibly..."

"Hmph, why are you starting to indulge in wishful thinking too? Have you ever seen a briefcase company actually evolve into a real enterprise? Especially that kid's factory—it's already plunged into crisis right at the very beginning! With massive stockpiles of unsold products, how much money does he have to hold out until his sales channels take a turn for the better? Therefore, his ultimate failure is already a doomed conclusion!"

Lin Yongfen's lingering doubts had been stirred by her daughter's attitude.

Yet in the end, Liu Mingli's systematic analysis

completely crushed those doubts once and for all.

Meanwhile, Wu Ya, carrying a chest full of lingering resentment,

had already returned to the Chensi Factory.

"Huh? Weren't you going to your classmate's house for dinner? Why are you back looking so dejected?"

The moment he saw Wu Ya, Plant Director Pei wore a puzzled expression.

When the boy had left, he had been bursting with excitement and unable to contain himself!

As someone who had been through it all, Director Pei could tell at a glance

that the boy was going to have dinner at his girlfriend's house!

That phone call had surely come from his girlfriend's mother!

That was why Wu Ya had been so nervous!

So what on earth had happened now?

Why had he returned looking so gloomy and thoroughly unhappy?

And judging by the time, it wasn't even time for lunch yet!

Surely, he hadn't eaten!

Who could have guessed...