Chapter 53 No More Interruptions (1/2)

Late at night, in Elder Kang's office, the elder and his eldest son, Kang Mu, sat silently looking at each other from across a table.

Kang Mu was shocked to have received a call from his father, but he was more shocked that his father had asked for him to come alone.

Fear rose inside his chest as his fathers discerning eyes scanned him until he couldn't take it anymore. ”Look… dad, I didn't do anything this time. I swear. What happened last time was an accident and I didn't mean to mess—”

Elder Kang slammed his cane on the mahogany desk. ”Silence!”

Kang Mu jumped out of his seat. He wanted to run away but there was no running from Elder Kang so he just sat silently. Seconds away from probably pissing himself.

”I didn't call you here for something trivial like that.”

Kang Mu breathed a sigh of relief.

Though now, he was completely curious. What had his father called him here for then? Out of anyone in the family, Kang Mu was never the first one called when something important needed to be discussed. After almost destroying Kang Corporations, Kang Mu was put at an even lower status than the housekeeper.

”I called you here today for this.”

Elder Kang removed a single piece of paper from his desk and then slipped it towards Kang Mu.

”What's this?” he asked curiously as he stared at the paper.

”A contract signed by both your son and me.”

Kang Mu looked at his father with confusion. It was a contract, so what? Hmmm, wait. There was something weird written on it.

Kang Mu took his glasses on and once Kang Mu saw the title of the contract, his eyes opened so wide that they seemed as if they were about to pop out of their socket.

He picked up the piece of paper and began to read the first line.

”A marriage contract? Are you serious?” Kang Mu looked panicked. ”Wait... which one of my sons signed this?”

Elder Kang didn't say a word. It was written on the contract so if this lazy son of his wanted to know, he'd look. Seeing that his father wasn't answering he looked over the piece of paper and once he found Kang Jun's name, his eyes widened.

”You can't be serious… This is impossible”

Elder Kang: ”If by that you mean why. Well, let me tell you. Your son, unlike you, is finally ready to take some responsibility and go after what is rightfully his, in the right way.”

Kang Mu sneered.

His father didn't have to throw shade like that. Kang Mu knew he'd made mistakes in the past but from his mistakes came 5 capable young men so he thought that his father should have forgiven him by now.

”So you're saying he finally decided to succeed you? He really agreed to something like this?” Kang Mu was still shocked. Kang Jun was at a complete disadvantage. ”Why now?”

”The boy finally understands that passivity will lead him nowhere and that he needs companionship and strength” By strength, Elder Kang meant the strength to lead the family not knowing that in Kang Jun's mind, that wasn't the strength that was most necessary. The man wanted to protect Kang Mingyu.

Somewhere in his heart, Elder Kang knew this but the elder didn't dare to mention what happened between Kang Jun and Qiao Lan, it would just cause unrest.

Knowing his son, he would propagate the news like the flu.

”Also, I think he found a girl he likes.”

Hearing the last thing his father had said, Kang Mu began to laugh awkwardly.

”Stop joking. Kang Jun has no interest in women.”

Elder Kang's face immediately darkened.”Are you saying he has an interest in men?”

Kang Mu waved his hand in the air, telling his father to stop with his strange fantasies.

”Men, women, brother, sister, father, mother; they are all like flies and garbage to that boy.”

Elder Kang didn't say a thing.

He loved his second grandson very much but even he didn't know the extent that Kang Jun could care about others. That was why he had expressly written in the contract that Kang Jun and his wife would be moving into the Kang old house with him, Kang Mei Xue and Qiao Lan. He feared that after the honeymoon period was over his wife would notice that Kang Jun was cold and that that was unchangeable. He also didn't want to lose the chance to see his grandson every day either, so for him, it was a win-win.

”Did Kang Jun give up on life or something?” Kang Mu asked.

He wasn't quite worried about his son, but he was having a hard time taking in that his strange son would do such a thing.

From the time he was young, Kang Jun wasn't a rebellious child but when he chose his path no one would be able to divert him. This made him hard to deal with once he reached the age of 18. At that point, Kang Jun had left to go abroad where they lost contact with him.

The boy didn't even think to contact them once.

Then he suddenly reappeared in T City, three years later. Even then, Kang Jun didn't care to explain what had happened during that time period. He just came by and reintegrated into the family as if nothing had happened but with more passivity than he had ever had before.

Back then, Kang Mu had been shocked by his son's change but now, he really couldn't believe what the boy had done.