Chapter 937 — Old Master Chu's Attitude
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"Father, I can give up the Group, but Yaoyao's happiness I absolutely will not give up! I cannot let her marry into the Yu family; it would ruin her whole life!" Gu Pengzhan smiled bitterly. "And you know Yaoyao's temper. Force her into the Yu family, and she would sooner die!"
"Why marry her into the Yu family?" Old Master Chu laughed. "Didn't I tell you to marry her to Wei Zhao?"
"Oh?" Gu Pengzhan was startled, then smiled bitterly. "Wei Zhao has lost all his martial arts and is going back to his hometown to seek a way to restore his strength. I tried to keep him here before. I wanted him for my son-in-law, offered the Gu Group as dowry, and would have married Yaoyao to him, but he refused..."
"Pengzhan, your thinking was wrong from the start. The Gu Group means nothing to Wei Zhao! So you must look further ahead and not fret over immediate profit and loss," Old Master Chu said. "Have you forgotten what I told you before? It is our Gu family that clings to Wei Zhao—not he who covets the Gu family's fortune!"
"I haven't forgotten. I bear that firmly in mind. That is why I have always been so genial to Xiaoyi and treated him as one of our own..." Gu Pengzhan said humbly.
"Then what problem remains before you now?" Old Master Chu laughed.
"Hm?" Gu Pengzhan did not quite grasp his father's meaning.
"Keeping Wei Zhao is more important than keeping the company!" Old Master Chu said.
"What you mean is..." Gu Pengzhan was momentarily taken aback. He thought he roughly understood his father's meaning, yet he was not entirely certain.
"Isn't Wei Zhao going back to his hometown to take refuge? Then why not have Yaoyao go with him?" Old Master Chu said with a smile. "If Wei Zhao won't stay, then you take the initiative and deliver Yaoyao to his door!"
"Ah? But Wei Zhao has a girlfriend... and she's going back with him this time too. If Yaoyao and I tag along after him, wouldn't that be rather inappropriate?" Gu Pengzhan felt this was a bit shameless.
"Who said anything about you tagging along?" Old Master Chu retorted. "Don't tell him in advance. After he leaves, you take Yaoyao and follow a little later. Once you've arrived, can he really drive you out?"
"Is that so?" Gu Pengzhan said. "But isn't this a bit shameless? Besides, Xiaoyi has a girlfriend now too. If Yaoyao goes like this, wouldn't that make her the lesser wife?"
Although Gu Pengzhan could accept Tang Zhi for his daughter's sake—and he had made this point clear when he spoke with Wei Zhao—that acceptance was founded on the premise that Wei Zhao would marry Gu Mengyao. In that arrangement, his daughter would hold the dominant position. As for Tang Zhi, so long as his daughter raised no objection, Gu Pengzhan naturally had nothing to say.
But now, going back with Wei Zhao under such circumstances—would that not amount to placing her beneath Tang Zhi?
"Hmm, so are you going to have Yaoyao be a concubine to the Yu family, or a lesser wife to Wei Zhao?" Old Master Chu asked.
"I... I understand!" Gu Pengzhan was suddenly enlightened. The old master, it turned out, had seen the situation most clearly of all!RO