I Treat You as My Sister, But You Want to be My Wife?!
Chapter 130: Women Should Be Practical_1

Chapter 130: Chapter 130: Women Should Be Practical_1

"I know what to do about this," Chen Yuting said.

"I don’t think you do," Dong Junjie replied irritably. "If you knew, you should have agreed to be Liu Chao’s girlfriend a long time ago, or even married him."

"Exactly," Dong Qikang chimed in.

"I’m full. You guys eat slowly," Chen Yuting didn’t want to deal with Dong Qikang and his son, so she put down her utensils and stood up to go back to her room.

"Chen Yuting, what do you mean by that? Turning your nose up at us, stop right there!" Dong Junjie yelled angrily.

Chen Yuting turned a deaf ear and entered her own bedroom.

"Dad, look at her. She’s trying to turn the world upside down," Dong Junjie was still furious.

"Lijuan, Yuting is being unreasonable. Why don’t you tell her off?" Dong Qikang was also angry, turning his accusations towards Feng Lijuan.

Chen Yuting had never dared to talk back to them like this before.

Yet tonight, she actually turned her nose up at them, which really annoyed them.

It was as if their authority had been challenged.

"Maybe Yuting is just in a bad mood. I will talk to her later," Feng Lijuan managed a strained smile.

"Hmph, I hope there’s no next time!" Dong Qikang snorted coldly.

"If there is a next time, just let her get out and never come back to this house. Let her understand who really is the master of this house," Dong Junjie said.

Feng Lijuan’s face stiffened, but she said nothing.

Dong Qikang furrowed his brows and glanced at his son.

Although he felt Dong Junjie’s words were inappropriate and hurtful, he said nothing.

After cleaning up the dinnerware, Feng Lijuan knocked on Chen Yuting’s bedroom door.

"Mom, what is it?" Chen Yuting opened the door, saw her mother at the doorway, and asked.

"Yuting, there’s something I want to talk to you about. Let Mom come in," Feng Lijuan smiled.

"Come in," Chen Yuting returned to the vanity in her bedroom and sat down.

Feng Lijuan closed the door behind her and sat down on the chair next to Chen Yuting.

"What’s the matter?" Chen Yuting asked.

"The New Year is just a week away. After the New Year’s Eve dinner this year, I’ll take you back to the Chen family to pay a visit. I know you only have your father, Chen Yuanxiang, in your heart. Dong Qikang doesn’t mean as much to you as Chen Yuanxiang does," Feng Lijuan said.

"Mom, are you thinking of getting back together with Dad?" Chen Yuting stared at Feng Lijuan and asked.

"No, I just want you to get closer to your dad. I was wrong before, keeping you from him. Now that you’ve grown up, I think you should do that," Feng Lijuan said, her eyes flitting about.

"Mom, isn’t that excuse a bit too fake?" Chen Yuting said somewhat speechlessly.

She knew very well what kind of person her mother was.

And she understood perfectly well what her words meant.

It was because her father had become the general manager of Shuidilao and was no longer that useless small restaurant owner.

And because Dong Qikang and his son, due to the Xingwang Hotpot affair, had no prospects in Xingwang Catering.

Just like that, they wanted to get back together with her father.

It had to be said, Chen Yuting really understood her mother.

Indeed, that was exactly what Feng Lijuan was thinking.

Dong Qikang and his son no longer had any prospects.

Dong Qikang had no room for advancement within Xingwang Catering Group, and it would be the same in any other company.

With the failure of Xingwang Hotpot as a precedent, no catering group would rehire Dong Qikang.

Dong Junjie was someone with high aspirations but low abilities, and he simply lacked the capability.

His recent use of underhanded tactics against Mr. Chen’s Restaurant was evidence of this.

In short, Dong Qikang and his son had lost their potential.

Aspiring for a better life was no longer possible.

Chen Yuanxiang was different, though.

Now, Chen Yuanxiang was the general manager of Shuidilao, truly in high spirits.

If she got back together with Chen Yuanxiang, becoming Shen Dong’s mother-in-law, and took a senior management position at Dongyan Guild or Shuidilao, wouldn’t that be an easy matter?

In the future, once Chen Yuting married Liu Chao, she would become Liu Chao’s mother-in-law as well.

The mother-in-law of two wealthy young men.

Thinking about such a life, that was genuinely good.

Hearing her daughter say this, Feng Lijuan gave up the pretense, "Then tell me, if I got back together with your father, you wouldn’t mind, would you?"

Chen Yuting said, "Mom, I don’t care about your affairs, just do whatever you want."

Feng Lijuan smiled and said, "That’s good, don’t blame me for being realistic. If we women don’t be a bit realistic, our end won’t be good."

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February 4th.

Shen Dong, Zhou Chengyu, Li Kaiyao, and Wan Pengfei had agreed to meet up every once in a while.

Today, it was Shen Dong’s turn to organize the gathering at a private restaurant.

After three rounds of drinks and five courses of dishes...

"Shen Dong, your Shuidilao is so popular, why don’t you expand to other provinces and cities? Is it because you’re short on cash? If that’s the case, just give us a shout. I won’t hesitate," Zhou Chengyu said.

"Yeah, Shen Dong, if you’re short on money, we can still put up a little," Wan Pengfei chimed in.

"Shen Dong, I also have some spare cash. Just name the amount," Li Kaiyao followed.

Hearing the three of them, Shen Dong understood what they meant; they wanted to invest in Shuidilao.

Indeed, over the past few days, Shen Dong had been thinking about introducing some investors.

It wasn’t that he was short of money, after all, Dongyan Guild was a cash cow at the moment.

And with Shuidilao’s business doing so well, it was earning money every day.

His desire to bring in shareholders was to introduce some powerful investors to clear the obstacles for Shuidilao’s expansion.

During this time, the people Shuidilao sent to other major cities to look for store rentals were facing obstacles, whether overt or covert.

Clearly, Shuidilao’s entry into other cities was infringing on some people’s interests.

Shen Dong was extremely angry at their actions but felt powerless.

He may have had money, but his network of relationships wasn’t that great.

The depth of a person’s background couldn’t be formed so easily.

At this point, he had to rely on external forces.

He now truly understood why some companies, despite being well off and not lacking funds, still needed to raise capital when they wanted to expand after reaching a certain size.

In the process of a company’s growth, many things can’t be resolved with money alone; you also need connections.

Bringing in some investors, forming a community of shared interests with those big financial groups and families, would mean that if the company faced any issues it couldn’t handle, those big financial groups and families would step forward to resolve them.

The people Shen Dong had in mind were Zhou Chengyu and Wan Pengfei.

Both of these men had families with strong networks behind them.

Zhou Chengyu’s father was a major shareholder of a large casino group in Ao City and had a network that spread across the nation, encompassing all walks of life, both legal and not.

Otherwise, Zhou Chengyu, being from Ao City, wouldn’t be doing so well in Hai City.

Many people, knowing Zhou Chengyu’s background, wouldn’t dare to offend him lightly.

As for Wan Pengfei, Wan Pengfei’s parents were officials, belonging to the middle tier.

Wan Pengfei’s maternal grandfather was an even bigger official, already within the nation’s top echelons.

Their investments in Shuidilao would be more than welcome.