The Young master's fake bride and her lucky system
Chapter 454 - 454 Being plumped up

454: Being plumped up.

454: Being plumped up.

Shen Biao raised her eyebrows curiously when she saw Alix’s movement.

“It looks like i have frightened your daughter madam Mo.”  “Well, our darling gets easily scared because she is not used to violence.” Auntie Mo rubbed Alix’s left arm gently up and down.

Shen Biao smiled dryly and made a few excuses before bidding them farewell and being escorted out by her bodyguards.

The ones who remained behind set out to do the same thing the Zhang family often did in such cases, bribe witnesses, make them sign non disclosure agreements and check their phones to ensure that there was no proof of the incident.

Even Alix received an envelope of cash and signed a non disclosure agreement.

“Ho!” she gasped in disbelief when it was all over.

She had seen it done to others but never experienced it personally.

Her grandfather had not allowed her phone to be checked however.

Without counting the bills, she put the envelope away.

Another envelope was shoved into her hands.

“Here, father will give you some spending money.”  Chairman Tai surrendered the envelope he had been given.

His phone had not been checked and he had not signed any agreements.

It was the same for grandpa Tai and auntie Mo and both of then gave the envelopes they received to her.

The actions which had taken place however made her rather curious.

Auntie Mo nodded.

“Mother, is this a common practice for all wealthy or political families?

Paying people off and walking around with those NDA’s and lawyers.”  “Most corporate families do.

It was a tradition they picked up from the Zhang family.

The political ones are new to the habit and some of them are taking it a little too far.

This practise has given some of the younger generation a license to misbehave in public.

Someday, they will meet someone who is not interested in the money or afraid of power and then learn a thing or two.”  “I agree, lately, the younger ones are taking things too far.

They think they are invincible and go around doing as they please.

One of them blocked off an entire section of the road, beat up his driver and forced him to lick the dirt off his shoes with his tongue.

Things are getting out of hand.” Chairman Tai added.

Alix soaked up the story like a sponge and she felt sorry for the driver that had been humiliated.

How could a normal human being make another lick his shoe?

Having money didn’t give anyone the right to be a asshole to those that had less.

“What a rotten fruit, if i was that driver i would have picked him up and thrown him into the window of the car.

Then, i would take that shoe and shove it down his throat.” Three people listened to Alix describe in even more precise detail all the ways in which she would physically rain blows and violence on the other party if she had been in the place of that driver.

Eventually, she sighed and asked, “So, mother what happened to the driver of the car finally?”  “The usual my dear, a large pay off and job transfer.

I heard that his daughter was even given a job in the company.

I guess the compensation package worked because there was no news or gossip online about the incident.”  Alix had never once given compensation packages a second thought but now she was beginning to see their downside.

While the witnesses got have free money landing in their arms, for the one that had been hit, it was another form of humiliation.

That poor driver had been beaten and forced to lick shoes in front of witnesses.

The memory would never leave him no matter how much money he was compensated with or the fake apologies he had probably been given.

“No amount of money will ever make up for the loss of dignity which he suffered.

Just like Shen Biao’s husband.” She said and sighed sadly.

Seeing the sad look on her face made her family uncomfortable because they had brought her to give her good news which was meant to cheer her up.

“Pretty baby, don’t think about bad things like that.

Look around, this whole gallery now belongs to you.

We wanted to give you a surprise but…” Auntie Mo smiled and spread her arms out.

Alix didn’t expect to receive such a big present out of the blue.

She looked around the art gallery and then turned to her mother with wide shocked eyes.

“Me.” she blurted out.

Auntie Mo nodded.

“It used to belong to your father and i, one of the first little side projects we invested in together.

I think we were being prepared for the future because we got lucky to have you, our daughter that enjoys painting.

Now you can put up all your paintings for people to admire instead of keeping them in that small room at school.” “Look, we have already hung up the paintings you painted of us.” Grandpa Tai pointed her in the direction of a wall that had only paintings of members of the Tai family.

Some of them had been taken out of the storage room before she could deliver them to their owners.

She had also painted Caishen, Xiaobao, the Zhang elders, nanny Luo, the cats and more.

However, while the cats and children had made it into the gallery, the Zhangs had not.

She did not need to guess to know whose handiwork this was.

Her grandfather and his mission to be petty continued raging strong.

“We have to make you plump in preparation for your wedding.

The gallery can be a part of your bridal dowry.” Grandpa Tai told her.

Alix sharpened her mouth for a few seconds and looked at auntie Mo.

“Bridal dowry.” she repeated.

Auntie Mo nodded.

“The Zhang’s are a traditional family and so are we.

They have to send betrothal gifts and we have to send you off with a dowry.

It doesn’t mean that you are handing the gallery over to them of course.

We have already discussed most of this with them and they are on board.”  “Hmph, no amount of betrothal gifts they send is worthy of my only granddaughter.” Grandpa Tai muttered.

“If they have any decency then they should give you shares in the company.

Their family tradition of keeping daughters-in-law down will not fly with me.

I will protect you so that you don’t end up like…” “Father, please.” Chairman Tai called out to his father in a tone that expressed disapproval and a plea for him to drop the subject.

The reason for this was because the name his father was about to mention was Yura, Caishen’s mother.

Grandpa Tai was of the opinion that if she had shares in any subsidiary of Zhang group, the elders would not have sat back and watched her leave.

They would have defended her and dealt with Nana more ruthlessly instead of waiting around until their son was ready to kick her out personally.

Even though his father was right in worrying, they had agreed not to bring this up unnecessarily.

But of course, he should have known that when it came to Alix, his father did not hold back.