Chapter 780 - What Happened Back Then (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Old Mr. Wen was sitting in the study and reading some proposal plans for the Ai Shang Group’s product launch. Ideas flowed through his mind and he constantly felt like he had to do something.

He had gotten such a thought because of everything that had been happening to the Wen Family lately.

The various events and issues had caused the Wen Family to be pushed over the edge and he had also been pondering over the past, the thoughts that he had been keeping to himself and burying deep down within his heart.

Back then, he was just a penniless boy who worked hard to make a living in the Northern region. He met a beautiful and elegant girl, whom he then hopelessly fell in love with. Just as he was working hard and laundering money for their future, the girl transformed into the heiress of a wealthy family.

He still remembered how she smacked his face with a 500,000 yuan check and stared at him condescendingly. She said to him, “I was just having some fun. I don’t genuinely fancy you. You’re poor, powerless and you have no status. How could I possibly fall in love with someone like you? You have to toil and moil and slog away to earn money. I find it revolting to be with you.”

He only found out much later that that girl’s family had already arranged a marriage for her against her wishes and they had also made a pact with her. They promised not to interfere with her personal life again if she were to be able to adjust to life as a commoner.

He then became the lab rat that she could experiment on.

The ending was devastating.

Back then, he felt insulted, exasperated and indignant!

However, he still accepted those 500,000 yuan!

He could take the insult and humiliation.

Full of resentment and indignant feelings, he used those 500,000 yuan to build his empire, bit by bit. At last, he married Qin Shulan, a simple and boorish woman who stayed by his side throughout all the obstacles and failed ventures that he went through. He knew that he had picked the right person. She did everything she could to keep the family together and she knew her place, even though she was not cla.s.sy enough.

Later on, he finally established the Wen Corporation!

The first thing that he did was to destroy the rich girl’s family, after which her father jumped to his own death because of the major debts that they incurred. Unable to take the blow, the girl’s mother also killed herself by overdosing on sleeping pills.

However, the destruction of her family did not put an end to his resentment towards her. He even began to tackle the family of the girl’s husband and caused him to be put behind bars for money laundering. He then acquired all of the cosmetic companies owned by the girl’s husband and denied them of any other way out!

Throughout all these years, he had been neglecting the management of the cosmetic brands belonging to the Wen Corporation. As a result, cosmetics made up only 20% of the Wen Corporation’s business and that gave the Xiao Family the chance to take advantage. The matter then spiraled into the acquirement of Ai Shang Group!

He sighed and thought to himself that he had no choice but to believe in karma and retribution.

He had caused the destruction of two families and thus, he ended up with only one son who did not have an upright personality. His daughter-in-law lived a short life, his son was cold and heartless, and his granddaughter had been separated from the family since birth and left to fend for herself…

Now that he was old in his years, he wondered… if he could atone for the sins that he had committed in the past.