The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

An'an will only feel at ease preparing for childbirth when she is at least six months pregnant.

By then, Chen Pingsheng will definitely have to come out and manage his family business for her.

Her marriage to Sun Siming simply involved more business collaborations; their respective companies remained publicly known.

The same applies in the future; even if you divorce, no premarital property will be involved.

Chen Pingsheng sat here and chatted with An'an for a long time. In fact, with the current medical technology, it is entirely possible to detect the sex of the child in advance.

There's just no need for it.

When they left, An'an specifically chose to invest in a large project of Su Zi's company.

As for the previous failed project, without her father's approval, no one would dare to invest, and no one would invest.

When they were on their way home, they passed a high-end shopping plaza. Su Zi wanted to buy some things, so she asked Chen Pingsheng if he wanted to come along.

He thought about it and realized that he really needed to go to a big shopping mall for a good look around, since he didn't have anything he wanted to buy.

Chen Lu is growing and needs to change into many new clothes every year.

Although Chen Lu is living an ordinary life now, he is not lacking in any aspect of clothing, food, housing, or transportation.

He knows his own family's situation perfectly well, so why would he deliberately pretend to be poor?
He simply couldn't afford to help his only friend, Su Xiaoxi.

This has always been a source of great distress for Chen Lu.

Everything else is fine; his mother just wants to force him to leave Shenzhen and return to Shanghai.

"Master Chen, I was so sorry I didn't know who you were before."

Mo Yao recalled how she used to frequently ask Lao Chen to come to her house to fix the water pipes, and now she felt quite embarrassed.

"It's nothing, I've always been a free person."

Think about it, since Chen Lu came to Shenzhen, he hasn't worn a luxury watch or used any luxury items in a long time.

This little guy has probably really gotten completely used to the ordinary.

Once he truly gets used to all of this, Chen Pingsheng intends to gradually guide him back to his normal life path.

Someone of Chen Lu's status could never be raised in poverty indefinitely.

While raising children in poverty has its advantages, its disadvantages are even more pronounced.

Whether he returns to Shanghai or not, he can no longer live such an ordinary life.

"Master Chen, how come you live so discreetly upstairs from me?"

"Isn't it all because of my disobedient son?"

The three of them went to a Richard Mille store, and it was the first time Mo Yao had ever seen a wealthy person picking out a gift for her son.

Chen Lu is still young, so an expensive watch wouldn't be suitable; one priced at three or four million is just right.

Chen Pingsheng bought him three pieces at once; their family is the highest VIP level among all top luxury brands.

There is absolutely no such thing as a purchase restriction.

Don't be fooled by the cheap price of children's clothes; it's just because you haven't picked out the real big brands.

It's perfectly normal for a piece of clothing to cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Back when Chen Lu was in Shanghai, his wife doted on their only son to an extreme degree.

I've had an infinite number of cards on me since I was a child.

I never expected that he would actually give up such a wealthy life for Su Xiaoxi.

If he continues like this, all future training programs will likely be ruined.

Chen Pingsheng bought Chen Lu three or four sets of clothes of all sizes, which probably cost three or four million.

Including watches, spending ten or twenty million on a single shopping trip is considered frugal.

As for himself, he remains the same as before; whenever a new model of a top luxury car is released, he buys it and tries it out as soon as possible.

Rolls-Royce launched a world-class luxury car this year, valued at 1.2 million.

Ferrari has released a top-of-the-line sports car worth over 50 million yuan, and flying cars have already been invented overseas.

It can still be driven on public roads, but not in China.

It's hard to say whether this is the future trend, after all, flying is much more difficult than walking.

When Chen Pingsheng was in the group, the company's technology department proposed to develop flying cars.

The research and development funding provided was limited, mainly because Chen Pingsheng himself wasn't very optimistic about the project. This was primarily because the technology for small helicopters was already quite mature, and the price wasn't high.

If you have the means to buy a car that can fly, it's far better to buy a small helicopter.

Moreover, given the current situation in China, it's unlikely that the approval process for air travel will be relaxed for decades.

Private planes need to apply for and register their flight routes in advance before taking off, let alone flying cars like these.

Future flying vehicles will undoubtedly become more and more advanced, provided that no-fly zones are lifted.

If this restriction isn't lifted, the domestic consumer market won't take off, and who would dare to invest so much money in this?

He invests billions of yuan annually in the research and development of flying cars, which is already the highest in the industry.

Chen Pingsheng is very decisive when it comes to buying things. He doesn't pick out styles for Chen Lu; he mostly chooses big brands and buys them for her if they're suitable.

After thinking it over, he decided to buy Su Xiaoxi a watch worth over a million yuan before leaving.

That young girl has had a tough time too, but there's nothing he can do; he can't even persuade his wife.

Only by witnessing people like them shopping in person can one truly understand just how vast the gap is between ordinary people and the super-rich.

Clearly, even the smallest shopping trip by Chen Pingsheng was an amazing experience for Mo Yao.

He didn't actually buy anything; he just randomly picked a Richard Mille watch worth tens of millions of dollars.

I used to think it wouldn't be appropriate to wear this kind of watch, but now that I'm a driver wearing it, it looks like a fake.

There's no need to introduce them to anyone.

By the time they got back to the company, it was already 5 p.m.

Chen Pingsheng drove to pick up Chen Lu from school himself, and only after Chen Lu got into the car did he point out the gifts behind him.

"I bought all of these for you."

"Dad, why did you buy me all this? Our family's ordinary life is completely devoid of any pretense."

"If you keep pretending, I'm afraid you'll really start to think you're an ordinary person."

Chen Lu opened the watch box naturally and put on a white Richard Mille worth over four million yuan.

"Dad, I don't really care. I can live any kind of life."

"You don't care, but I do, okay?"

Chen Pingsheng said helplessly, "There's another women's watch on the back, which is for Su Xiaoxi. Isn't that girl's birthday coming up soon? You can give this watch to her."

"Dad, you've agreed that I can be Su Xiaoxi's best friend."

"I just don't object."

Chen Lu was especially happy, even happier than if he had received so many clothes.

This silly boy really likes that girl too much.

She's quite similar to him in his younger days, but while I may like her, the truth is that few men are truly faithful.

He simply controlled his desires because of his family.

When I was younger, I also liked Liu Yifei, Yang Mi with her big breasts, and those "white moonlight" actresses from Tencent Video.

Rather than letting Chen Lu continue to avoid contact with Su Xiaoxi, it's better to let things develop naturally.

Who knows, maybe in a few years I'll start to hate it?
You should know that in any relationship, what you can't have is always the best.

Once you have a relationship, it requires both people to put in the effort to nurture it.

His gift of a watch to Su Xiaoxi also signifies a natural shift in his attitude.

In fact, he and Song Yanxi had the same idea.

He also doesn't think Su Xiaoxi is a good match for his son.

Even Sun Siming would find it difficult to be a good match for his daughter.

There was nothing they could do; the Sun family was already one of the top wealthy families in the country.

Sun Siming is indeed outstanding.

Even so, he believed that only the best man in the world was worthy of his daughter, Chen An'an.

This is fatherly love.

(End of this chapter)