CHAPTER 44: CHAPTER 44: DAD, THIS IS THE POWER OF INHERITANCE!

In Tianshui City, the boss of Lu Heng Real Estate, Zhou Tianheng, hurriedly returned to his villa—

He rushed back right after signing the contract. At his age, the back and forth travel really exhausted him!

However, when he entered the house, he found his silly son, who had just gone through a kidnapping, now lying sprawled out on the sofa playing with his phone, looking relaxed and at ease, showing no signs of having just faced a crisis.

His worry suddenly soured in his stomach.

It quickly fermented into anger: "My son is hopeless!"

Looking around and finding nothing to grab, he picked up a slipper from the floor and, with a "smack," whacked it onto Zhou Bai’s forehead!

The silly son immediately sat up, shouting, "Hitting the benefactor parent is not okay!"

However, the stunning figure wasn’t nearby; instead, there was a familiar, sinister voice.

"Whose father are you!"

His dad, Zhou Tianheng, was looking at him with a fierce expression.

"I am your—"

Zhou Bai quickly put down his phone in a fluster and held back the words in his throat.

He scratched his head, "Oh, you’re back from your business trip? Must be tiring, right?"

Eagerly, he offered him the sofa:

"Come, come, sit down. I let the maid take a leave, so no one’s here to serve you, see, how embarrassing..."

Whether he was the real estate tycoon of Tianshui City or not, Zhou Tianheng almost fainted in anger!

His face turned purple-red, and the flesh on his round cheeks trembled slightly:

"I come back to my own home, do I need your hospitality?! This house, this damn house is all mine!"

"Yes, yes, yes..."

Zhou Bai looked at him with an exceptionally affectionate expression:

"Dad, you’re always right. Whatever’s yours is yours! Your son doesn’t covet the estate."

This, this is truly...

Zhou Tianheng, with one shoe off, paced in circles inside the house, finally unable to restrain himself, grabbed the decorative vase on the table, and nearly smashed it over his silly son’s head!

DNA can’t prove heredity anymore; he just had to mess with his silly son’s brain matter today to see if it’s normal!

Just as he was about to go homicidal, the phone suddenly rang.

Zhou Tianheng paused in surprise, took out his phone to check, and saw the chat icon was of a young, pretty girl.

His expression almost cracked.

Unfortunately, the silly son never offers a way out...

After a while, he calmed down and, setting aside the awkwardness, slowly put the vase back on the table. Trying to compose himself, he took a deep breath before asking:

"I heard you got kidnapped. Are you okay?"

Honestly, Zhou Bai, being an uneducated second-generation rich kid, was always greeted with a beating when seeing his dad.

Of course, under his silver tongue (brainlessness), most of the time, his dad didn’t actually hit him.

But in this situation, a flare-up was expected; why did it subside so quickly?

—Something’s off.

Zhou Bai became wary, then thought of the phone notification sound just now, which seemed like a custom one, not like his dad’s usual habit.

Father and son stared at each other, and the atmosphere grew awkwardly eerie.

And at that moment, Zhou Bai suddenly emanated a wise aura:

"Dad, tell me honestly, did you lose big on your recent project?"

Otherwise, how could he be so calm and pleasant?

Zhou Tianheng: "..."

This son is incorrigible; take him away.

...

Anyway, after a good tussle, the two finally sat down peacefully in one space to chat.

At this moment, he was holding a teacup, as if he hadn’t seen the top-quality green tea scorched by the boiling water—at least his son could pour water, what was there to nitpick?

He pondered, "You said this girl you saved in the river the other day happened to bump into you on the day of the kidnapping and came to rescue you?"

His eyes gradually deepened: "What a coincidence? Is she that skillful?"

A young girl’s strength compared to an adult man is actually a different matter entirely.

Of course, if well-trained from childhood and with the element of surprise, it’s not impossible.

But this coincidence...

Zhou Bai recalled the two kidnappers’ faces on that day, splattered with colors like a dye house on the loose, and his expression was equally fantastic.

Anyway, since things went well, why overthink it?

He brushed off the coincidence perfunctorily but, when thinking back to the counterattack during the kidnapping incident...

If he weren’t aware some things shouldn’t be said, his eyebrows would’ve danced off his face!

"Of course, she’s outstanding! Takes down the enemy in one move, truly excellent."

He sighed and glanced disapprovingly at his own father at this point.

"Dad, honestly, talent truly depends on inheritance."

"I know this girl, her family is extremely poor, but she’s so capable, top of her class, might even snag the top rank—there must be extraordinary people in her ancestry!"

"Otherwise, Dad, tell me, I’ve never lacked anything growing up, never missed any education, how come I’m not as accomplished as her?"

While rambling on, he even made it personal!

"Indeed."

Zhou Tianheng also sneered:

"Who knows why you’re not accomplished?"

"Back then, why didn’t you go to He’an Bai Niao?"

Zhou Bai mumbled, "Why do you seize every chance to mock me?"

"It wasn’t that I didn’t want to go to He’an Bai Niao, was it? Inheritance, Dad, you need to know what’s key!"

"What I mean is, you have a deficient braincase, passing down to me won’t improve anything!"

"You know your brain’s no good!"

The father became even angrier.

Zhou Tianheng, hands on hips, paced around the living room:

"I raised you single-handedly since you were little. Our family has such a vast enterprise, which will be yours eventually. Yet you have no skill whatsoever. How can I entrust my business to you in the future?!"

"Such a heaven-sent opportunity, why don’t you use it for publicity?"

"Send a banner to the school, send a banner to the police station, sponsor this girl with her good grades, subsidize her poor family, provide whatever’s lacking, don’t you know how to build a reputation?"

Ah, really!

It’s driving me crazy!

Zhou Tianheng thought of that girl from Beijing, his expression softened. Now, his inner thoughts were wandering, considering other possibilities...

However, the foolish son wasn’t giving in.

"Can’t help it, genes have their limits."

After saying this, he nodded in a feeling of shared sorrow, "Dad, good thing mom only had me, or if she gave me a younger brother, based on the advantage diminishing rule, he’d be even worse off—your hypertension would surely spike now."

Zhou Tianheng: "..."

Don’t get angry, anger harms the body, bad health and no one to replace... screw it!

Today, I’m going to teach my son a lesson with a stick!!!

Seeing things were not going well, Zhou Bai quickly dashed out—

"Dad, my friend invited me, I’m off for a trip first. Take care at home, protect your heart and blood pressure!"

Zhou Tianheng: ...exhausted.

The silhouette of his son was long gone, his previous wandering thoughts instantly faded, yet as he sat down to catch his breath, the more he thought, the angrier he got—

Damn it, my hypertension is spiking right now!