Chapter 148 - Summer Rain (1/2)

What should a master be like?

To be honest, Elly used to be curious about the master who saved her grandpa from dying, but she never admired the master — from the view of an ABC, she doesn’t believe in traditional Chinese medicine, let alone these “G.o.dlike” people.

In Elly’s mind, the so-called “master” should be either raunchy or sage-like.

This hot woman in front of her… is a master?

The woman sitting in the living room makes everybody anxious. Her eyes make people feel that thousands of little hands are tickling your heart. This is the description Elly thinks of after a long consideration.

Grandpa Ai is in his seventies and he no longer has feelings for enchanting women. He ignores her snow-white b.r.e.a.s.t.s and gives a brief explanation on the situation. The master smiles with her hand covering her mouth, “I do know about the owner of the No.18 Villa… In fact, the owner is someone from Miss Elly’s past!”

Grandpa Ai looks at Elly, who is wearing a bob wig. Elly is at a loss.

The master laughs and her b.r.e.a.s.t.s jiggle. Elly is attracted. The master says, “It is said that the owner is a beauty whose last name is Lin. Doesn’t Miss Elly know her?”

A beauty whose last name is Lin… The first thing Elly thinks of is the 150 million she lost in the stone gamble in Ruili, and then she remembers Lin Luoran’s face which outs.h.i.+nes everybody else. Elly’s heart is filled with hate!

Wait. Does it mean that Lin Luoran is the one who has done this to her hair?! Elly is astonished and angry. Suddenly, Grandpa Ai solemnly asks Elly what is actually going on.

Elly stammers. She doesn’t want to tell her grandpa that she stole another woman’s boyfriend and banned her from the industry. What she fears to say is that after Lin Luoran rose up and set a trap at Ruili, Elly lost 150 million yuan.

Grandpa Ai is old but not confused. Seeing Elly’s expressions, he knows that there is something fishy about this — the matter of the No.18 Villa concerns his life. Even though he loves his granddaughter, he sees nothing more important than his own life.

Under the interrogation, Elly reluctantly tells her grandpa the old grudge between Lin Luoran and herself. As soon as she stops talking, Grandpa Ai slaps Elly in the face, “You are such a shame of our family!”

Elly is stunned. She never thought that her grandpa would slap her in front of others.

Grandpa Ai closes his eyes and feels regretful. This is the successor he picked for the family. He was fooled by her granddaughter’s fake smartness and her mouthful of management terms. How can a person like her be the leader of the Fortune House?

Grandpa Ai is shaking because of anger, “Do you remember how we get our family name?!”

Five clear fingerprints are on Elly’s cheek. Grandpa Ai hit Elly so hard that her cheek is swollen.

Elly answers with tears in her eyes, “We are the descendants of the royal family…” The Ai family is the direct line of descendants of the Aisin Gioro family which ruled the country. If the Qing Dynasty weren’t conquered, Elly would be a princess. As a result, Elly always feels that she is exactly like a member of the British royal family. However, the foundation of the State of Huaxia made the Ai’s a civilian family. Therefore, Elly resents the State of Huaxia, and she enjoys being an ABC.

Nevertheless, what does this have to do with the current situation?

Grandpa Ai hates that his offspring doesn’t live up to his expectations. He says, “Since you know that you come from a n.o.ble family, you should set store by overall interest. How could you ruin the capital chain of Fortune House for your own happiness? How many times has your father told you about the history of the Fortune House’s development? How many times has your grandma told you about it?”

Elly lowers her head. The Ai family is proud of the development history of their family.

In those days, Grandpa Ai’s father, the great grandfather of Elly, was a lord. After the empire was overturned, the n.o.bles were not reconciled to let their luxurious life to be over. They buried their treasures at the suburb and fled to the South. They were detained at Sichuan Province by the warlords so they didn’t manage to implement the plan of going overseas… They stayed there so long that it was absolutely impossible for them to restore monarchy.

As time pa.s.sed, the ancestors of the Ai family lost all the hope. They dug out their hidden treasures and started to run a jewelry business. Though they became businessmen, members of the Ai family didn’t forget their happy days back when the Qing Dynasty still existed, which was the reason why they named the company “Fortune House”.

Every direct offspring of the Ai family knows about this. Liu Zheng’s family always respects Grandpa Ai, which means that a lot of people outside of the family also have heard of the history. The reality is, the age when people can make their own weapons is gone. Heads of government don’t care about the family background of the Ai’s. They pretend to know nothing because they are glad that the Ai family can provide fiscal revenue.

After reviewing her family history, Elly still has no idea what her grandpa is thinking.

The master can’t help smiling. This young woman of the Ai family is so stupid. Getting the thing she wants from Elly will be much easier than getting it from the old man who is one foot in the grave — why does she waste the “elixirs” she worked hard to make?

Grandpa Ai and Elly don’t know that the “master” is thinking something else. Though Grandpa Ai regrets much for choosing Elly as his successor, he doesn’t have another option. He has said so many times in public that his granddaughter is just like his younger self. He values his reputation so much that he can’t say things to shame himself. Grandpa Ai has to make things clearer for Elly to understand. He asks,

“How is my reputation in the industry?”

Though her cheek hurts so much, Elly admits that her grandpa is very much respected.