One of the guards replied, “Mrs. Jing, we are only in charge of the maintenance. Why don’t you gather some of the material and ask the developers?”
Mother Jing turned speechless.
Before Jing Jie could realize what was happening, Father Jing had already dealt a huge blow to his face.
Mother Jing felt heartbroken, but she didn’t dare say a single word.
Father Jing screamed in rage, “This is all your fault! If you took the opportunity to get the things from the third floor, this wouldn’t have happened! But, what did you do instead? You came down empty-handed with only two cards in your hands! Are they important now? Are they?! Are they?!”
Father Jing kept screaming at him, and in the end, he grabbed the card from Jing Jie’s hands.
Jing Jie’s eyes widened in shock, and he tried to retrieve it from his father, but he got pushed away.
Father Jing even said in a fierce tone, “Let me see what is actually more important than our family’s fortune and company!”
Then, Father Jing tore one of the cards, ruining the high-quality paper that it was made of.
The card that he saw was an invitation to the National’s League of ‘Counter-strikeZ16’.
Father Jing’s eyeball almost fell out of its socket. “A video game invitation?! I told you to study hard in order to take over the company. Your brains are useless, and you have always placed last in your class. Why are you only good at playing games? National’s League? You…”
Another slap landed on Jing Jie’s face.
As for Jing Lu, who was in her wheelchair, an interesting look emerged in her eyes.
Her father had only heard of her explaining video games to him. He actually had no idea that being in the National’s League meant that the person was a professional gamer. This was why Father Jing got so furious.
One should remember that being able to compete in the National’s League denoted that they were the best in their state. Even for those who don’t participate and were only a coach, they would earn quite a lot as well in a year.
She never knew that this kid who looked useless and couldn’t even speak properly turned out to be such a pro.
But…
She would never tell this to her father.
Father Jing was still beating up Jing Jie since he was burning in rage. Mother Jing wanted to stop him, but when she saw the invitation, she was unhappy as well.
She always thought that her son was a smart child. His bad results and his intellectual difficulties were because of two different reasons. His bad results were mainly because he hadn’t put in enough effort.
Therefore, she had always controlled Jing Jie’s schedule. All he could do was just eat, sleep, and study.
Well, she definitely did not expect her son to get an invitation to play a video game. Obviously, this implied that her son was good in that game, which was why he got invited.
Mother Jing suddenly felt the fire burning in her. Instead of trying to stop her husband, she decided to join him and started playing mixed doubles with Jing Jie.
“Who gave you the balls to play with these dumb games!”
Mother Jing was the one who was most angry at her son since she had always been extreme. The rage that she had toward Jing Jie at this moment was equivalent to the amount of hope that she had for him.
While Father Jing was still beating up their son, Mother Jing took the opportunity to take the other card from him. She picked up the invitation card of the video game from the floor and tore them both. She didn’t even look into the second card before tearing them into pieces.
Jing Jie was initially on the ground, and he wasn’t resisting his parents who were beating him. However, when he saw Mother Jing snatch the invitation that he got after putting in so much effort and witnessed her tear the same invitation he was about to show his big sister, he screamed at his father.
Father Jing was still venting his anger on his son, but when his son screamed, he jumped.
“You son of a b*tch, how dare you…..”
Before he could finish his sentence, he saw Jing Jie whose eyes were bloodshot, his chest puffing up and down, and there were veins popping around his hands and neck.
The Jing couple were frightened to see Jing Jie in this state and decided to stop.
Jing Lu decided to open her mouth and said in a cold tone, “Xiao Jie, how could you do that to your parents? Don’t you know how much hope mum and dad have for you? No matter what difficulties we go through, you wouldn’t have to do anything for us. All they wanted you to do was to study hard. Why can’t you just grant them this? If you’re being so irresponsible, how would they pass the company to you?”
If Jing Lu kept her mouth shut, her parents would have already moved on from it since they got frightened after seeing Jing Jie’s state. However, with Jing Lu’s act of adding oil to the fire, Father Jing grew angry again.
“The company? Does he care about the family’s company? When there was a fire, all he cared about was his video game. If he cared about the company, the safe wouldn’t be in that fire!”
Then, another slap landed on Jing Jie’s face.
“I’m telling you. If anything happens to that safe, you would never be able to inherit my company!”
Jing Jie was not aware of what Father Jing said.
His eyes were now on the cards that had been torn into pieces.
Those were things that he had gotten after putting in a lot of hard work.
This was something that he achieved with his teammates.
Without the invitation, he lost his spot in the competition.
Jing Jie burst out in anger and let out the words clearly, “I have never wanted your company!”
With that said, he ran.
Father Jing was still screaming at Jing Jie who had already left. Jing Lu, on the other hand, stared at her parents whose dreams were crushed, and there was a sweet smile that appeared on her face.
Never wanted the company?
Alright then.
The Jing couple continued to fight. Most of the content was Father Jing blaming Mother Jing for giving birth to such idiots, wasting all the good money they invested in him. He also said that with Jing Jie’s performance today, he would definitely change the heir to his company and give his rights to Jing Lu. He would never give Jing Jie a single penny from now on, and Jing Jie was only allowed to support himself with that stupid video game. Father Jing was sure that Jing Jie would die of hunger on the streets.
Mother Jing was angry as well, but that was her son, so she kept trying to put in good words for Jing Jie.
When the firefighters arrived and managed to put out the fire, Father Jing immediately rushed toward the third floor. The safe was made out of metal, which meant it should be durable. Plus, it was placed on the ground. However, for some reason, the place where the safe was at was the area that was destroyed the most. The box was already melted halfway, and all the documents that belonged to the company, as well as the certificates to the properties they had, were all destroyed.
Jing Lu got up from her wheelchair and limped upstairs with her mother’s help.
“Dad, don’t worry too much about this. Even if anyone found out about the tax issue, we still have Big Sister and Brother-in-law, right? Brother-in-law is so nice to my older sister, so I’m sure he wouldn’t want his wife’s reputation to be ruined, right?
Oh, by the way, Brother Qin’s mother is doing a small loan with her company. If we lost anything here, why don’t we invest some money in his mother’s factory? Brother Qin’s career is growing now and is also in need of money, which is why he will work hard. We can invest in him, I’m sure we’ll make a profit out of it.”
Father Jing looked toward Jing Lu, and he was finally in a good mood. “You always get to come up with good ideas. I think you should be the one to take over the company instead.”
Jing Lu smiled and said, “Dad, I am part of the family as well. Helping the company grow is also one of my greatest wishes.”
When Jing Jie ran away from his house out of rage, his head ended up being covered by a sack as he was walking by the alley.
