ASSHKHME Chapter 121

Chapter 121: Blood Pressure Medication

Just hung up.

Xie Liangjun’s call came again, his voice low, with a hint of anger: “You little rascal! You’re both men! I can turn a blind eye to you being young and unconventional for a while, but you really dare to be so reckless!

Don’t forget who you are! You’re a Xie! How do you think the group’s employees will see you? How will you command respect in the future?! You’re twenty, Xie Yu! Can’t you tell what’s important?”

Xie Yu was tired of hearing these words, his ears almost calloused. He frowned and said, “Dad, first of all, I’m not messing around. My feelings for Chen Zhuo have been serious from beginning to end. Secondly, commanding respect from employees depends on ability, not sexual orientation.

Finally, if you feel that I absolutely must get married and have children, then I can give up the identity of the company’s heir. You have Ningning anyway.”

Chen Zhuo sat up, tugged at Xie Yu’s arm, signaling him not to be so impulsive when talking to his father, to be calm.

On the other end of the phone, Xie Liangjun was so angered by his good son that he almost fainted. He had to hold onto the wall to steady himself. “Xie Yu, have you lost your mind? You’re giving up the company for a man? You little brat! Do you want to cut off relations with your parents?!”

In the past, Xie Yu would have exploded and kicked up a fuss with his dad by now.

But now that he has a family and a partner, Xie Yu has matured a lot. He quickly calmed down.

“Dad, don’t get excited, I didn’t mean that. I just want to say, please respect my choice, both you and Mom. I was immature in the past and caused you and Mom a lot of worry.

But I’ve really grown up now. I’m an adult, and I know what I want. I love Chen Zhuo, just like you love Mom.”

Xie Liangjun was silent for two seconds, then hung up the phone directly.

He couldn’t understand why his excellent and handsome son insisted on getting involved with a man.

Although he was busy with work, he had never been absent from Xie Yu’s education. Where exactly did things go wrong?

Xie Liangjun sighed deeply, feeling somewhat powerless.

He knew his son; he was a stubborn mule who would not only refuse to turn back after hitting a wall but would also try to break through it.

“What’s wrong, Brother Xie? What are you doing standing here? And sighing.”

The newcomer was Wu Jianguo, the old chairman of Jinsheng Real Estate. They were also interested in investing in this project, so they arranged a meeting to discuss it.

Although the two weren’t particularly close, they inevitably had dealings in their work and could be considered acquaintances.

Xie Liangjun said with a wry smile: “Brother Wu, at our age, we’re either worried about work or our children. My son found a… partner, how should I put it? The kid is a good kid, but I really can’t accept it, and there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s worrying.”

Wu Jianguo patted Xie Liangjun’s shoulder. “Take it easy, brother. Children and grandchildren have their own fortunes.”

Xie Liangjun shook his head helplessly: “Brother, you can’t understand my suffering. Your son and daughter are so excellent, and you have a well-behaved little grandson around. You’re enjoying life.”

Wu Jianguo sympathized deeply: “Not at all. Look at my eldest daughter; she was blind when she was young and found a gold-digging man. The bastard even dared to cheat on her, which made me furious. I was worried that my daughter wouldn’t be able to take the blow, but she’s very strong. After the divorce, she turned around and went back to the company to hold a meeting, managing the company perfectly. I’m just a figurehead chairman now. Sigh, children have to walk their own paths. And my son…”

Xie Liangjun looked at him, waiting for him to continue.

Wu Jianguo coughed twice, his brows furrowing: “My son is much more worrying than yours. He found me a tattoo artist as a daughter-in-law… Sigh, I can’t control it, but they control my son very well. There’s nothing I can do, really nothing I can do.”

Xie Liangjun said, “Hey, brother, what’s wrong with a tattoo artist? Do you have occupational discrimination?”

Wu Jianguo sighed, his expression complex: “It’s not occupational discrimination. It’s gender… It’s not discrimination, it’s just… Don’t you know?”

Xie Liangjun asked in confusion: “Know what?”

Wu Jianguo pondered: “Maybe because your family isn’t specifically in real estate, you’re not in the circle, so you haven’t heard. My son… Well… He found me a male daughter-in-law. Doesn’t that make you feel better by comparison?”

Xie Liangjun was silent for two seconds, then his eyes widened suddenly. “Ah? Your son also…”

He lowered his voice, “Are there so many homosexuals now? Is it some kind of virus infection?”

Wu Jianguo narrowed his eyes slightly, a glint in them: “What do you mean, ‘also’? Does your son also…”

Xie Liangjun nodded vigorously, feeling much better.

It was like when the teacher asked for homework, and you would be scared if only you hadn’t done it. But when your deskmate also hadn’t done the homework, you wouldn’t be scared at all, and there would even be a sense of reckless abandon.

“Brother Xie, we’re really fated!” Wu Jianguo shook Xie Liangjun’s hand vigorously, as if he had finally met a close friend. “I have faith in you. Jinsheng will co-invest in the Pear Blossom Bay project!”

Xie Liangjun was also quite excited. “We are fated, brother! I’d like to learn from you. How did you accept your son being with a man… Alright? My cultivation isn’t good enough. I really can’t figure it out.”

Wu Jianguo reached into his pocket and took out a bottle of pills.

Under Xie Liangjun’s puzzled gaze, he said leisurely: “There’s nothing to accept or not accept. When I can’t figure it out in the middle of the night, I just take two blood pressure pills. Staying alive is the most important thing.”

Xie Liangjun was silent again: “…………My blood pressure is pretty normal.”

Wu Jianguo patted the blood pressure medication into his hand, saying earnestly: “I think yours is about to rise too. Keep it handy, brother. Children and grandchildren have their own fortunes.”

Xie Liangjun looked at the blood pressure medication in his hand, truly like a mute eating *Coptis chinensis*, unable to express his suffering.

It wasn’t that he hadn’t considered taking extreme measures, but as his wife said, Chen Zhuo had already suffered enough hardships since he was a child.

As a father, he couldn’t bring himself to do something so immoral as to use the wealth and power he had accumulated over time and experience to pressure such a pitiful child.

Similarly, he couldn’t bear to use family affection to blackmail Xie Yu.

Xie Yu was his first child, and he gave him all his patience and love.

He still remembered the scene when Xie Yu was first born and the nurse handed him into his arms. The small person in the swaddling clothes, he was afraid of dropping Xie Yu, and his hands were shaking.

That kind of joy of becoming a father and the family responsibility pushed him to establish Huasheng Venture Capital with his own hands.

A father’s love is like a mountain, and he hoped that his child could stand on the top of this mountain and see his own world, instead of crushing the child under the mountain.

But why did the child he raised so carefully have to like men?

Jade must be carved to become a vessel, and parents are their children’s guardians. For the past ten years, he had been urging Xie Yu not to take the wrong path, to walk the right path.

But now Xie Yu was an adult, an adult who no longer needed a guardian and could be responsible for his own actions.

Children and grandchildren have their own fortunes. Learning to let go is a required course for parents. Was it time to let go?

Xie Liangjun sighed again. He still couldn’t understand whether he needed to correct his son’s liking for men…