CHAPTER 834: CHAPTER 834: YOU WILL PAY THE PRICE (1)

Have always been daughters, four daughters already, at such an age, no matter what, a son must be born.

Those who don’t understand think Xiao Jianming and Ruan Ruzhen are both people who prefer sons to daughters.

But how is that possible?

Ruan Ruzhen, a highly educated woman, knowledgeable, and although she is a female herself, she can still become a top talent, equally capable of excelling in the business world. She should know better than anyone that whether it’s a son or a daughter, a daughter can become an excellent businesswoman like her. There’s no need for a son.

However, just looking at Xiao Shumei being influenced by others, it’s obvious that from the start, Ruan Ruzhen never intended to entrust her property to her eldest daughter, essentially meaning she wouldn’t give her assets to any daughter.

Why?

Does she really have a bias towards sons over daughters?

A woman of such high education and wisdom, having a preference for sons?

All contradictions point to the essence of this marriage arrangement.

If this couple isn’t truly in love, though Gu Nuan doesn’t want to contemplate the feelings between her father-in-law and mother-in-law, based on current clues, she really cannot see what Xiao Jianming has that could truly move Ruan Ruzhen.

Because regardless of the clue, Ruan Ruzhen is undoubtedly more principled than Gu Nuan, meaning she’s an extremely unyielding woman. Ruan Ruzhen’s cold-blooded nature is even harsher than Gu Nuan’s.

Under this premise, although Xiao Jianming and her husband are father and son, Xiao Jianming is far less capable of pleasing women. Such a Xiao Jianming can truly move Ruan Ruzhen?

Not to mention, most outsiders see this couple as a model pair. It’s said that the more you flaunt love, the quicker it dies. Pretending to be perfect is much easier than honestly admitting your flaws.

Things that are too perfect must be fake.

All this leaves only one answer. This man and woman, perhaps after so many years of marriage, have formed some feelings. But ultimately, neither could compromise.

He won’t compromise with her, and she certainly won’t compromise with him.

The insistence on having a son is because it was agreed from the beginning of their marriage that if they had a daughter, she would take the Xiao surname, and if a son, he would take the Ruan surname.

This is likely the condition for Xiao Jianming, as a live-in son-in-law, to marry the Ruan family’s daughter.

Ruan Ruzhen could not possibly leave her family’s assets entirely to someone with an outside surname; her ancestors would never forgive such a thing.

This reasoning is quite easy to deduce, but the man in front played the part so well that nearly everyone mistakenly thought he was wholly devoted to his wife, thus concealing all other flaws.

The saddest part is, once a person is dead, no one considers the thoughts of the deceased anymore.

Those who listened were all silently pondering, seemingly considering the truth of Gu Nuan’s words, but no matter how they thought, Gu Nuan’s words were flawless.

The truth appears to be just that.

But can Xiao Jianming admit all of this?

Impossible.

"Nonsense." Xiao Jianming sat back in his chair, appearing calm, squinting his old eyes as though the events before him were all absurd, "Is this all you have to say? Do you know you’re slandering and defaming Yebai’s mother, that great mother, turning her into a vulgar woman in your imagination? Don’t you find it quite shameful?"