He surveyed the people present and chuckled. “It was actually Little Wang and his mom that pushed for me to come back to build my parents’ tombstone. The company is short in funds right now. Ay, I won’t hide this from you. Little Wang’s mom is the one paying for the construction of the tombstone. It’s been getting harder and harder to do my line of business……”


  After he had laid enough groundwork, he looked at his great-aunt. “Great-aunt, it looks the prices for the houses here have gotten really high too. Back then, my dad owned two properties. I was still young when he and mom passed away, and the properties weren’t transferred to my name. Great-aunt, you were the one that handled everything for me back then. I want to transfer those properties back to me. I’ll sell those two properties and that will solve my company’s current financial problem.”


  Ruan Xia was truly convinced.

  Song Tingshen’s great-aunt’s expression was very ugly. She didn’t know what to say.

  After a few seconds of silence, it was that middle-aged man that spoke. “Tingshen, your parents had passed away so suddenly. It was my mom that brought you to our home to take care of. You know what our family’s situation is like. My mom did a muddle-headed thing. She sold those two properties. Otherwise, how would she be able to raise you and support you while you went to school…… Look, you did the best in your studies out of the children of your generation. Back then, my mom said everyone else in the family can suffer hardship, but we can’t let you suffer.”


  They had already spoken to such a point. Ruan Xia figured out what had happened back then. After Song Tingshen’s parents had an accident, there were still two properties in the family. However, since the procedures for selling and buying houses weren’t complicated back then and Song Tingshen was young, Song Tingshen’s great-aunt took advantage of those factors to sell those properties……

  Song Tingshen lowered his head and smiled. “I’m very grateful for great-aunt and her family’s “care” over the years.” There was a bite to his voice when he said the word “care”.

  “However, there was an insurance payout and compensation by the other party when my parents died in that car accident.” Song Tingshen looked at his great-aunt. “I don’t know exactly how much money that was……”


  Now, even Ruan Xia didn’t understand Song Tingshen’s intention in coming back here.

  Did he want revenge against his great-aunt and her family? It didn’t seem like it.

  So then, what did he want?

  “Anyways, since great-aunt said all of that money was used up, let’s just leave it as it was used up.” Song Tingshen put down his chopsticks and glanced at Ruan Xia. He smiled. “I can only ask father-in-law and mother-in-law to sell their home to help me out. Xiaxia, I’m very sorry.”


  Ruan Xia discovered that Song Tingshen might be a natural-born actor. If she didn’t know the inside story or how successful his business was, she would really fall for his story that he didn’t have any money and would have to rely on his in-laws to sell their home to pass through this difficult hurdle!

  “It’s okay.” Ruan Xia’s desire to act flared up. She cooperated with Song Tingshen to finish this show. “We don’t differentiate between what’s your and what’s mine. What’s mine is also yours. My parents won’t have any objections. In the end, only your loved ones will help you at a critical juncture. Other people will only think to approach you to benefit from association or to get money from you under the guise of a relationship when you’re rich. So, we have to treat my parents twice as well in the future.”


  Song Tingshen’s great-aunt’s expression wasn’t simply ugly. However, she couldn’t say anything. She wouldn’t spit it out the money she had taken. There was no logic that one would give back something after taking it. Moreover, Song Tingshen’s father was her nephew. There was no reason why she couldn’t use her nephew’s properties or the compensation for his accidental death. Even if word got out about this, it would be fine. She was standing on the side of reason. After all, she had fostered Song Tingshen when he was at such a young age. Feeding him and clothing him, all of those things cost money.

  Of course, Song Tingshen’s great-aunt had already completely forgotten that she hadn’t spent a single cent on Song Tingshen once he was admitted to college. Plus, the insurance payout and compensation for his parents’ accidental death had been a large sum of money back then……

  Song Tingshen paused, then he looked at another relative sitting at the table. This relative was a young man in his twenties. Smiling, he asked, “Ling Feng, you have a girlfriend, right? I recently heard from great-aunt that your girlfriend works in the Bureau of Finance. And her dad is the deputy director of the Water Resources Bureau, right?”