Chapter 456 - The First Song of Qin (29) (2/2)

The cost of making these robots were very low. They came up with all sorts of testing measures for them. The testing period lasted a month, during which no problems arose.

As a result, the negative impact these robots brought before was gradually reduced.

By the time they launched, the sales were exceptionally good.

When Qin Ge released the promotional clip for the high-end robots his own company was developing, he immediately received olive branches from various people—even the government—who were looking to co-operate.

Shi Sheng and Qin Ge had beenholed up at the company over the past few days. Even while they were resting, they did so inside the company building.

Once they finally got everything sorted out, the only thing Shi Sheng felt was exhaustion. ‘This money was too exhausting to earn… I wanna go home and rest.’

Shi Sheng left Qin Ge alone at the company, getting the company driver to send her home first. She had only just entered her little neighbourhood when she heard someone call out to her.

“Chu-Chu…”

Shi Sheng turned around to see Qiao-fu, who appeared to have aged a lot in the time since she last saw him.

“Dad?”

……

Qiao-fu examined the place. It wasn’t big—only having a living area and three rooms. It was well-kept, and the kitchen was a normal one.

Shi Sheng set a glass of water down in front of Qiao-fu. “Dad, why didn’t you call me before coming over? If I hadn’t come back just now, how long were you planning to wait for me?”

“Chu-Chu.” Qiao-fu seemed to have trouble talking about something.

Shi Sheng gave him an odd look. ‘What happened?’

Qiao-fu arranged his thoughts into words and only told her what had happened after quite a while.

He was originally planning to return the money to Shi Sheng, but Qiao-mu took it without discussing with him and gave it to Qiao Qian’qian.

Qiao-mu thought, since they were all one family, it was the same whoever got the money. Qiao Qian’qian was alone overseas right now—how hard must her life be? And since Shi Sheng had managed to get a powerful support in the form of Qin Ge, she wouldn’t miss this itty bit of money.

Because of this, Qiao-fu and Qiao-mu got into a big fight. That meant rehashing old scores. Welp, this resulted in the two impulsively getting divorced.

Qiao-fu ended up with almost nothing—Qiao-mu only left him a single card with around 200k inside. As for the company, the house, and the car, Qiao-mu took them all.

Shi Sheng was utterly stunned once he had finished. ‘And you agreed to those divorce conditions?!’

Qiao-fu smiled bitterly. “We were married for so many years. As a man, I can’t just leave her with nothing to depend on for the rest of her life, can I?”

He had also grown tired of arguing with her.

“Does she even know how to run a company?” Shi Sheng was speechless. ‘Wouldn’t it go broke in her hands? Qiao-mu’s pretty ‘awesome’ too. She wasn’t this capable in the plot, so how come she’s following the FL in breaking character? Scared!’

Qiao-fu’s expression changed, but he’d already given the company to Qiao-mu, so there was nothing he could do now.

Shi Sheng sighed. “Dad, stay with us for now.”

“No need; I just came to have a look. I didn’t have anyone to talk about this to, so it was getting a bit stifling, keeping it all to myself…”

Sometimes, one just needed someone to talk to.

Qiao-fu made to leave as he spoke, “I can still move around. Since I could build myself up from nothing back then, I can do so again.”

“Dad.” Shi Sheng stopped him. “We have a lot of spare rooms here, so you should stay for now. Tomorrow, I’ll go look around and see if there are any suitable houses nearby for you.”

Hearing that he wouldn’t be staying with them long-term, Qiao-fu relented. “Okay then.”

He didn’t want to trouble his daughter and future son-in-law.

[1] Play on Sun Wukong’s title, Great Sage Equal to Heaven.