Xin Qianyu not only withdrew the lawsuit but also gave Uncle Xin a sum of money. Of course, Uncle Xin was now attracted to him.
The old man saw his filial children and grandchildren leaving one by one, causing him to beat his chest and he said, “Morals are eroding! People nowadays don’t value filial piety and have no respect for their elders!”
At this moment, the secretary knocked on the door and said, “Old man, Xin Qianyu is here.”
The old man glanced at Xin Simu and Uncle Xin, collected himself and said, “Let him wait.”
The old man did not know what Xin Qianyu’s purpose was, but he felt the person’s purpose was evil, so he planned to let Xin Qianyu wait for more than an hour to suppress his arrogance.
The secretary said anxiously, “He said if you don’t see him immediately, he’ll report you to the Banking Regulatory Commission.”
“!” The old man stood up suddenly and gritted his teeth. “Let him come in!”
Xin Qianyu walked in, glanced at Xin Simu and her father standing at the side, and said with a smile, “You are here too. What a coincidence.”
Uncle Xin smiled awkwardly, while Xin Simu was much more natural. “I figured it was almost time for you to come.”
Hearing what Xin Simu said, old man Xin’s face changed drastically. “Are you colluding?!”
“Don’t say that.” Xin Qianyu casually sat on the sofa and crossed his legs. “I’m just here to remind you of one thing.”
“What is that?” Old man Xin said coldly.
Xin Qianyu took out his mobile phone and sent a message to the old man. “Look.”
The old man frowned and picked up his phone, only to see that Xin Qianyu had sent a bank transfer record. It was from account A to account B to account C and finally to the Yu Zhuo’s account.
The old man’s palms were sweaty, but his expression was calm. “What do you mean?”
“Although it was transferred several times, we can still find out that the money you used to pay the taxes came from a Swiss bank account,” Xin Qianyu said.
“So what?” The old man said coldly. “It’s legal for individuals to open Swiss bank accounts.”
“Of course,” Xin Qianyu said. “The account itself is legal, but the means of making money are not.”
“What did you say!” The old man said sternly, breaking his usual composure and highlighting his guilty conscience.
“What did I say?” Xin Qianyu looked at the old man steadily. “I said that when Yuzhuo’s stock price fell, you immediately took advantage of the low price. Is this true?”
“What? Is this illegal?” The old man asked.
Xin Qianyu smiled and said, “Of course, this is not illegal. But what is illegal is that you used inside information to conduct these transactions.”
“What inside information? I don’t know.” The old man’s voice became even weaker.
Xin Qianyu said, “You took the lead in asking Uncle Xin to publish an article badmouthing my marriage to Su Zhong, and you used this inside information to take advantage of the situation. This is illegal.”
The old man said stubbornly, “I didn’t!”
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Xin Qianyu turned to look at Uncle Xin, “Did you?”
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“It’s not enough. However, your Swiss bank account is linked to a securities account,” Xin Qianyu said. “This securities account has been operated many times during the information-sensitive period, making more than one billion in profits. With the help of Uncle as a witness, does it count as having both witness account and physical evidence?”
The old man’s face turned red.
Xin Qianyu sent all the screenshots of the evidence to the old man on his mobile phone.
The device in the old man’s hand kept trembling. His muscles also trembled and fear struck his heart.
He immediately became weak. “Xiaoyu, you can’t be wanting to send Grandpa to jail?”
The words “Xiaoyu” and “Grandpa” could not touch Xin Qianyu’s admiration as a grandchild. However, it pleased Xin Qianyu greatly.
Because Xin Qianyu knew that he had defeated this once-mountain-like being, this sense of accomplishment made him extremely happy.
Xin Qianyu smiled and said, “Of course not, Grandpa, we’re all family! What I’m saying is the most important thing in a family is harmony. Only by harmony can we make money.”
The old man looked at Xin Qianyu in a daze, his lips trembling. “W-what do you want?”
Xin Qianyu said, “Your 67% equity is ill-gotten wealth. I’ll keep it for you.”
“!” The old man’s eyes widened and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot. “You, you!”
“Don’t worry, I won’t be as absolute as you. I won’t kick you out of the trust,” Xin Qianyu said with his hands crossed. “From now on, you’ll still be able to withdraw your pocket money regularly and your retirement will not be a problem.”
The old man’s lips trembled and he pointed at Xin Qianyu. “You, are you trying to force me to death?!”
“I don’t mean that. I won’t force you. You can choose for yourself.” Xin Qianyu stood up and raised two fingers. “Two options: One, I will hand over the evidence to the China Securities Regulatory Commission and you’ll be in prison for your retirement; Two, we’ll pretend nothing happened and you’ll receive a pension of 500,000 yuan a month and retire in your favourite home.”
After saying that, Xin Qianyu waved. “I’ll leave first and give you 24 hours to think about it yourself.”
The old man slumped on the sofa and watched Xin Qianyu leave the chairman’s office with elegant steps.
The old man pointed at Xin Simu. “With Xin Qianyu in charge, what benefits can you get?”
Xin Simu said calmly, “He has said that he does not like to be the head of education, so he’ll retain 30% of the shares and leave the rest to me. Moreover, he’ll only control the shares and not participate in management. He’ll let me hold his shares on his behalf and I can be the head of Yuzhuo. From now on, I don’t need to look at anyone else’s face in the group.”
The old man’s eyes widened. “Do you believe him?”
“I trust him more than you,” Xin Simu replied with a smile.
After Xin Qianyu finished handling the affairs of the Yuzhuo Group, he sent a message to Su Zhong. “It’s done.”
Su Zhong replied, “I know you could.”
Xin Qianyu smiled and replied, “It couldn’t have been done without you.”
Su Zhong replied, “Are you free now?”
Xin Qianyu replied, “Very free.”
Su Zhong replied, “Go to the roof.”
Xin Qianyu put his mobile phone in his pocket and walked up to the roof, but saw a helicopter descending from the sky.
“Doing such things,” Xin Qianyu laughed and scolded. “It’s a waste of money.”
The helicopter stopped, but Su Zhong was not in the helicopter.
A text message came from Su Zhong. “I’ll wait for you at the new home.”
“New home?” Xin Qianyu frowned. “It can’t be the manor, right?”
“Yes, it is,” Su Zhong replied.
Xin Qianyu smiled. No wonder he had to take a helicopter.
The helicopter quickly carried Xin Qianyu to the sky above the manor.
While Xin Qianyu was busy managing the Yuzhuo Group, Su Zhong was not idle. He had been renovating the manor to give the entire place a completely new look.
From mid-air, the manor was colourful. An artificial stream had also been carved outside the original wall, surrounding the entire village. The water sparkled in the sunlight, which was very moving.
Xin Qianyu alighted at the lake and saw Su Zhong waiting in formal attire.
Xin Qianyu thought, Proposing again?
Su Zhong came up first to offer an arm to Xin Qianyu and said, “Have you noticed?”
“Noticed what?” Xin Qianyu asked with a blink.
“This artificial stream.” Su Zhong pointed to the river that exuded soft brilliance.
“Why?” Xin Qianyu asked.
“‘The water that flows east does not return to the west. Retrieving spilt water cannot fill a cup’,” Su Zhong suddenly said. “This stream flows back. Even if it flows east, it will return to the west.”
Xin Qianyu was taken aback and after having a closer look, it turned out to be the case.
Xin Qianyu smiled faintly. “This is artificial and unnatural.”
Hearing Xin Qianyu’s comment, Su Zhong drooped. “You don’t like it?”
Xin Qianyu smiled playfully. “Do I look like I don’t like it?”
Su Zhong was greatly encouraged and led Xin Qianyu forward again, walking to the small garden that Xin Qianyu had praised so much.
The small garden had become more beautiful after being cleaned up, retaining Xin Qianyu’s favourite camellias, bamboo and osmanthus trees, and adding some elegant ornaments. The two walked into the elegant house in the garden and saw a calligraphy work hanging on the white wall. The calligraphy work was similar to the one hanging in the house: “The water that flows east does not return to the west. Retrieving spilt water cannot fill a cup.” However, Xin Qian Yu knew this was written by Su Zhong.
But Su Zhong had also written a line from Tang poetry:
“I am but thy to hold on to, for thou to love or choose not to.”
Xin Qianyu chuckled. “You’re lucky to find such an obscure poem.”
Su Zhong said, “Baidu is quick.”
Xin Qianyu was speechless. This guy was a romance killer.
Su Zhong had taken out another exquisite device, which shone with the unique lustre of metal.
Xin Qianyu asked curiously, “What’s this?”
Seeing a cup on the upper left side of the device, Su Zhong filled it with water and pressed the start button. The cup tipped downwards and flowed into the ditch on the lower side of the device. There was a steam device on the ditch. The water in the ditch condensed into mist and formed water droplets again, just like rain pouring into the cup on the lower right side.
Xin Qianyu was stunned and said, “You want me to see the atmospheric water cycle?”
“I let you watch the process of ‘Retrieving spilt water can fill a cup’,” Su Zhong said seriously.
Xin Qianyu laughed and said, “Very good. Very good.”
Seeing Xin Qianyu’s satisfied smile, Su Zhong was greatly encouraged. He looked at Xin Qianyu with bright eyes and handed the cup filled with water to Xin Qianyu. “Do you want to drink this full cup of water?”
Xin Qianyu was moved but Su Zhong added, “All the instruments have been disinfected and the water meets drinking standards.”
“…” Xin Qianyu sighed again. What kind of romance killer did I find?
However, Xin Qianyu felt he was hopeless because he could still be moved and found such intentions cute.
He nodded with a smile and took the glass of water. After shaking it, sure enough, he heard a jingle. There was a sparkling man’s ring at the bottom of the glass. The elegant white gold ring was just the size of Xin Qianyu’s ring finger. Its smooth curves and beautiful outlines showed elegance. The initials of Xin Qianyu and Su Zhong were engraved on the back. The front was studded with white diamonds. The diamonds were clear and flawless, like a heart given to him by Su Zhong.
“I do.”
-end-
Remarks from the translator: I would like to give a huge thanks to all the readers who have been following this story weekly since I started translating it, and all the readers to come. I’m slightly sad that the translation of this story has come to an end but at the same time, enormously relieved that I managed to complete it despite a few late releases. I will be taking a break from translating for now to focus on other things. My last break lasted a few years. Hopefully, this one wouldn’t be quite as long. Wishing everyone a great rest of 2024. 
He finally had a successful proposal! I loved reading this novel and your translation. It was very interesting and engaging. Thank you for the translation!
Enjoy your break and I hope I can read your future translations if you pick up something again!
Toilet proposal was best 10/10
Congratulations on finishing! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧
And thanks so much for your hard work.
Thank you for translating 💐
Thank you so much for your hard work, I really enjoyed reading this story. ❤️🌷
Wishing you all the best, and maybe one day there will be time for another project. ☺️
Congratulations on finishing! Thank you for the translation and enjoy your break!
Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful story!!!Your hardwork for us is so kind and commendable 😭😭
hope you get good rest and a bombastic irl!!!! Luv u (づ￣ 3￣)づ
Such a beautiful story. And I am so glad his proposal was successful. He is indeed very smart and a romance killer. 😂😍
Thank you so much for all your hard work and wishing you well in all that you do.
It ended already? But I haven’t had enough yet. I want more 😭
Thank you for the translation.
I wish there’s more post story.
I’m kinda sad it ended this abruptly but thank to all your work! I had such a fun time reading this
Ohh, its end. I’m quite sad n happy with the ending. Wish there are extra🥺.
Anyway thank you so much for translating this novel n njoy ur break n stay healthy ❤️❤️❤️