Chapter 930: Mother Zhuang’s Ident.i.ty! (2)
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She looked at Cheng Sizhe for a few moments before saying, “Could you tell me a bit more about the Xiaos?”
Cheng Sizhe was never one to talk about people behind their backs, but Zhuang Nainai was acting all strange. It was rare that she had so much interest in the Xiaos, and so Cheng Sizhe nodded his head and parked his car by the roadside. It was then that he looked at Zhuang Nainai and smiled as he said, “You must have heard people talking about how I’m one of the chosen sons-in-law of the Xiao family.”
Zhuang Nainai knew about Cheng Sizhe’s engagement with Xiao Caibai, and she also knew that Cheng Sizhe had decided to become an entrepreneur in order to avoid such a marital alliance between the two rich families. She nodded.
Cheng Sizhe continued, “Then do you know why I’ve been particularly against the marriage?”
Zhuang Nainai shook her head.
Cheng Sizhe sighed. “I don’t fall in love easily. Xiao Caibai isn’t that bad-looking, but she isn’t that elegant either… Even so, it would still be possible to spend my life with her, if not for the fact that…”
At this point, Cheng Sizhe pursed his lips and gave a bitter smile. Sighing, he continued, “Once I marry Xiao Caibai, I’d have to move in with her family. I’ll have to marry into her family, in other words.”
What?!
Zhuang Nainai was astonished.
From the way Cheng Sizhe presented himself in Beijing, it was clear that he came from a wealthy family. And it was a known fact that the wealthier the family, the more the family placed importance on the carrying on of the family name. If not, why were all the celebrities who had married into rich families constantly being pushed to give birth to sons?
So, the fact that the Cheng family had agreed to Cheng Sizhe marrying into the Xiao family could only mean one thing: that the Xiaos were more powerful than the Chengs!
“How powerful is the Xiao family? Why have I never heard of them?” Zhuang Nainai asked in curiosity.
“The reputation that the Xiaos have overseas is akin to the way we see the Imperial Group back here. The Imperial Group is influential in our own country while the Xiaos hold sway outside of it,” Cheng Sizhe explained, then continued, “It’s fair to say that Mr. Si’s influence abroad can’t match up to the Xiao family; similarly, the Xiaos don’t have as much say as Mr. Si back here.”
Why was there a sudden mention of Si Zhengting?
The mere mention of the name “Mr. Si” made guilt and discomfort flash across Zhuang Nainai’s mind.
Luckily for her, what Cheng Sizhe said next drew her attention. “But the sad thing is, the Xiaos don’t have any grandsons. They have only a granddaughter in the form of Xiao Caibai.”
With such a large family business and only one granddaughter… If the granddaughter married herself out of the family, wasn’t the family going to be doomed?
Zhuang Nainai widened her eyes and thought of the way Xiao Caibai had carried herself. She thought, Actually, it’s quite impressive that the Xiaos have such a granddaughter!
“Wait, but what does this have to do with Mi Nuo? Is Mi Nuo obstructing them in any way?” Zhuang Nainai couldn’t help but ask.
Hearing this, Cheng Sizhe sighed and shook his head. “This problem goes way back to the elders. The person in charge of the Xiao family is still Old Mr. Xiao, Xiao Qi. Xiao Qi was the only son in his generation, but the Xiaos have always carried on their blood in this manner. But in Xiao Qi’s generation, in order to make his family seem a bit fuller, he adopted a girl and called her Xiao Guyun, thinking that her dowry wouldn’t cost them much if they were to marry her to the next Xiao son. But n.o.body expected that the next child from the Xiao family would be a girl.”
Upon hearing this, Zhuang Nainai began to get a sense of what was going on, and she guessed, “This daughter was Xiao Muqing?”
Cheng Sizhe looked at her Zhuang Nainai in shock, seemingly surprised that Zhuang Nainai knew all of this. He nodded and replied, “Yes, this daughter was Xiao Muqing. But it’s a pity that she pa.s.sed away early.”