Fight the Landlord, Fall in Love

Chapter 33 - The Romance Drama Has Left Again

Chapter 33 - The Romance Drama Has Left Again

Within a week after the site accident, Sun Zinan and the other biotechnology company suspended negotiations with Jin Ke Real Estate. A commissioned lawyer sent a subpoena notice to the company. But this was just the beginning as one disaster after another piled on. What really trapped Jin Ke Real Estate was that the administrative department suddenly started inspections and punishments.

A week later, the plan for the construction of a sewage treatment plant in the southern suburbs was officially released.

This decision directly pushed Jin Ke Real Estate and the Hongcheng Real Estate behind it into a desperate situation. Sun Ziyan had bought this land and treated it like a hen about to lay a golden egg. But now all the plans regarding Jinyuan Villa had been smashed, and even the price of the land was shrinking. Hongcheng’s capital turnover was already tight. Due to the news, it seemed that this fracture would be visible to the naked eye even in the future.

Sun Zinan closed the news webpage in satisfaction and sent a WeChat to the boss of the other biotechnology company to express his gratitude. When he turned back to check the news about Sun Luo, he finally received Secretary Wang’s call.

“Director Sun,” Secretary Wang said politely, “The chairman invites you to go home for dinner tonight.” Among all the people in his family, Secretary Wang was the most well-behaved. He would always call Sun Zinan little master; now that something had happened to Sun Ziyan, he immediately started calling Sun Zinan ‘Director Sun.’

It was no wonder he had become Sun Ying’s confidant; this ability to change his words with the situation was not an ability normal people could master.

Sun Zinan secretly laughed to himself but his tone stayed innocent. “En, I will be on time.”

He sent Tang Kai a WeChat to tell him that he was going back home to eat dinner tonight, so he wouldn’t wait for him and would make do with the school canteen instead.

Tang Kai was still in his lab. Sun Zinan did not wait for his response and drove off.

Dinner was still at the luxury mansion by a peaceful lake. The last time Sun Zinan came over, it didn’t look particularly pleasing to the eye. However, today, perhaps due to his good mood, he decided to finally disengage his emotions from the place. At this moment, Sun Zinan was willing to abandon all his preconceived notions and enjoy everything.

There were four people sitting in the dining room. When Sun Zinan entered the door, Sun Ziyan impulsively stood up to beat him. He was immediately pulled back by the rest of his siblings, but he was still angry, his face red as he pointed at Sun Zinan and shouted, “Traitorous son of a bitch! What the hell are you doing! You better not fall into my hands, laozi will kill you!”

Sun Zinan smiled unconcernedly. “Good evening. It’s so lively. What’s Third Brother yelling about?”

“That’s enough! Third Eldest, sit down!” The eldest Sun Ziyuan came out and scolded Sun Ziyan, then said to Sun Zinan, “You also talk less.”

Sun Zinan didn’t buy his attempt to smooth things over and feigned surprise. “I merely entered through the door and said hello. When has even ‘good evening’ become a prohibited word in our family?”

Sun Ziyan was furious, jumping his feet and shouting, “Just who are you trying to fucking play dumb with?”

“By saying this, what is Third Brother is saying I’m playing dumb about?” Sun Zinan didn’t want to bother with following his train of thought and said directly, “If you know, then why don’t you say it?”

Sun Ziyuan could not control the two of them. He sat to one side with a headache, sulking; the second oldest decided to pretend to be deaf and mute, and did not say anything. Only Sun Ziyi had a good relationship with her brother. Seeing that no one else was speaking up, she laughed coldly and sneered, “Does this need to be said? Doesn’t everyone think about it? Isn’t he just a traitor who’ll bite people out of unfamiliarity? What kind of thing did Dad pick up? If we had known this before we would have just let him die outside.”

“Ziyi!” Sun Ziyuan roared, “What nonsense are you spouting!”

“What, did I say something wrong? Brother, I don’t believe you don’t think this too.” Sun Ziyi stuck her neck out. “Dad was already fifty and came back with a child he said was his younger son. Did you not think about the possibilities? Who knows if he’s the son of the old Sun family? We’ve spent so many years raising him at home and feeding him, and now he begins to harm the family! Since the day he entered the door, there has been no security at home. Tell me, what ill-omened star is this!”

“Fourth Sister, I advise you to not say too much. You’re Dad’s only daughter. Don’t you know what kind of character he is?” Sun Zinan was not angry, but his tone was sarcastic. “If I could choose, I wouldn’t want to be in your Sun family. All you do is bossily peck for bugs at home like a chicken. Even if your IQ is low, you still want to grab at things.”

He came back from abroad only recently and no longer had the appearance of a doormat, but he usually didn’t act too tough in front of his siblings. In general, Sun Zinan acted rather calmly and tolerated them, so it was no wonder Sun Ziyan took him as a soft persimmon to pinch at.

But no one expected him to not only avoid the pit, but also easily put Sun Ziyan in his place. It was just that Sun Zinan had suddenly proven a little difficult to deal with. The four siblings were a little overwhelmed and the atmosphere in the dining room was temporarily silent and awkward.

Sun Zinan didn’t want to bother talking with them. He didn’t come to fight war tactics with them today, so he turned to ask the housekeeper, “Didn’t I get called back for dinner? Where’s my Dad?”

Sun Ying’s old, hoarse voice sounded from the other end of the dining room. “So you still know I’m your father?”

”There’s no me without you.” Sun Zinan smiled, but his eyes were cold. “Didn’t I come like you told me to? What else are you not satisfied with?”

Indeed, as soon as he acted tough, Sun Ying’s momentum weakened.

The old man knocked on the ground with a cane and said to Sun Zinan, “Come with me to my study.”

“Come on, we’re in front of so many people.”

Sun Zinan remained unmoving. ” I think talking here openly and honestly is very good. We can reveal everything that has happened in all these years, lest other people have to secretly guess. It’s very inefficient otherwise.”

Sun Ying’s expression sank. “Have your wings hardened, so you don’t need to be taken care of anymore?”

“Recently a lot of people have been speaking ruthless words, so if my tone is a little rushed, please forgive me.” Sun Zinan sat down on a sofa. “Dad, did you call everyone back today to chat with everyone one by one?”

Sun Ying was blocked by him to the point of chest pain. “Isn’t it because you’re causing trouble outside? At this age, I still have to go clean up the mess for you! You still have the face to ask me!”

“This is your blood-related brother. You hit him so hard without even greeting him. Who is going to clean it up afterwards? Isn’t it still your father?”

Sun Ziyi immediately helped add fuel to the fire. “Dad is so old, do you have no conscience? Are you trying to provoke Dad?”

“That’s right.” Sun Zinan lazily cocked his legs up and said, “If we all compete against each other for a bit, let’s keep ourselves safe and don’t engage in too much. Then Dad won’t have to work so hard.”

His words flowed smoothly. No matter what Sun Ziyi handed him, he returned them to Sun Ziyan. His attitude was still very sincere.

It would be too unreasonable if Sun Ziyi kept provoking him.

Sun Ying looked at him unconcernedly. But for some reason, he had the inkling of a premonition, so he immediately changed his strategy and became gentle. He said as peacefully as possible, “Things have turned out like this; talking about it now is just an afterthought. If you have the time to quarrel, why not think about how to clean it up?”

Everyone became silent at this.

The crusade against Sun Zinan was one thing, but cleaning up the mess was another. For the former, they only needed to move their mouths; the later required contributing money. Sun Ziyan’s Hongcheng Real Estate had suddenly lost hundreds of millions. Hongsen Group was not short of this money, but it was not a small amount to any of them.

“Dad, this is an issue of infighting between two children after all. No matter how we deal with this, someone will feel like it’s not fair.” The second eldest son Sun Ziqing opened his mouth for the first time and kicked the ball back to Sun Ying. “I think we should do our best to save Hongcheng Real Estate in accordance with the group’s regulations.”

Sun Ziyuan suddenly became very anxious. “Second Brother!”

His idea was very simple. If they didn’t act according to Sun Ziqing’s words, Hongcheng Real Estate was sure to go bankrupt at the rate it was losing money. But forget about Sun Ziyan being able to continue on as president, this was also directly forgiving Sun Zinan’s doings. Wouldn’t that be a waste of today’s uproar?

“I was calculated against this time and forced to fall. I absolutely won’t forget it.” Sun Ziyan said, “Dad, if you favor him so much, sooner or later one day our brothers will be harmed to death by him!”

Sun Ying frowned. “What nonsense are you saying!”

“I know exactly what the little boy is playing at in his heart.” Sun Ziyan stared at Sun Zinan sinisterly, “He’s thinking about our family’s property. Face to face, he pretends to be a grandson, but behind our backs, he creates these black-handed plans. You want to make trouble for me, hm? You just wait. Sooner or later, I’ll destroy you.”

“Tsk, listen to you. Those who didn’t know better would think I bribed a member of your company to trick you into making poor decisions.” Sun Zinan laughed. “Third Brother, did you really brainwash yourself into believing you were the victim because you spent too long pretending you were pathetic?”

“Sun Zinan!” Sun Ying said, “He made a mistake, but he’s still your family after all. Stop pretending you have no relation to us!”

Sun Ziyi muttered, “What’s the point of telling him, he’s just a traitor who doesn’t recognize us.”

”You can’t say that.” Sun Ziyuan finally couldn’t stand listening to them anymore. “If you say Zinan’s actions towards Third Brother are traitorous against family members, then aren’t Third Brother’s actions the same?”

“How can that be the same!” Sun Ziyi shouted, “He’s not a part of our family!”

”You see.” Sun Zinan quirked his lips and said to Sun Ying, “This is the consequence of your decision to leave a tiger to grow up by itself. It’s too late to talk to me about family ties, Dad.”

His voice was very light and there wasn’t any hint of hatred within his tone, but the implicit meaning behind his words made Sun Ying shiver in fear. He couldn’t resist resorting to his usual threat. “You dare talk to me like this...do you not want your inheritance?”

As soon as the word ‘inheritance’ came out, the dining room suddenly fell into a dead silence.

Sun Zinan glanced at their faces one by one. On those aging faces, expressions of tension, suspicion and calculation could not be hidden. He suddenly felt an indescribable pleasure in his heart, floating on top of the faint pain and sorrow, like he was a man crawling out of a dark cave to see the sun for the first time. He was both excited by the bright new life, but also sentimental for his barren past.

He stood up.

“Today, while everyone is here, I want to announce an important decision.”

Sun Ying suddenly felt a very bad premonition rising in his heart.

“I’m sorry, I’m indeed Dad’s son and not some illegitimate or foster child. He found a surrogate to give birth to me. As for why, Dad knows very well, so I won’t say any more about that.”

“Although the current law of our country does not allow breaking off the father-son relationship, I have several siblings so our father shouldn’t fall to the point where I have to support him.” Sun Zinan said unhurriedly, “So from today, once I leave out the door, I will have no relationship with the Sun family. As for the inheritance, do whatever you want with it. Don’t use it to blackmail me, otherwise others will become like mad dogs, biting at me with no intention of letting go.”

The people in the dining room stared at him as if they had been frozen.

“Zinan,” Sun Ziyuan said calmly, “Do you know what you’re talking about?”

Sun Zinan turned away his eyes from boredom and scoffed lazily. “Elder Brother, we’re already at this stage. Don’t pretend to be a good person. Do you think you’ll receive a few extra dollars if you make me repeat my words?”

“I’ll get rid of all the work and shares related to the company and the group as soon as possible. Since we were once family, let’s end well.”

Sun Zinan turned and began walking out, then suddenly remembered something and stopped his steps. “Oh right—”

“I have a few documents about some ‘illegal operation’ Hongcheng Real Estate has been doing in recent years.” He turned towards Sun Ziyan. “I remember someone had just said they were going to kill me? I welcome you to try. I’ll be waiting.”