The Birth of Shanghai's First Conglomerate

Chapter 829 Ten Years of Marriage
The conflict between Chen Lu and Su Xiaoxi started three years ago.

At that time, Su Xiaoxi was already doing very well at Teng Hui Capital, and had a great reputation worldwide.

After leaving the Dream Fund, Chen Lu has been leisurely running his own small investment company.

The conflict between them did not originate from a dispute over their careers.

The fact that they were often apart was only one aspect; the main reason was that Chen Lu met Shen Xi again three years ago.

Unlike Su Xiaoxi, Shen Xi doesn't have much ambition; she's more passionate about her hobbies and enjoying life.

This may be related to the different experiences the two had growing up. Shen Xi was born into a wealthy family and was a little princess who never had to worry about food or clothing.

Naturally, he didn't have much ambition.

She has been pursuing her music career all these years, and she is proficient in dance, piano, and even drums.

She also possesses a unique talent for singing, and ten years later she has become a household name and a national music goddess.

Both her appearance and her temperament are unique.

She is no less than, and perhaps even better than, those top-tier actresses of the past.

Shen Xi and Chen Lu met again at a music party. At that time, she was already the most famous talented woman in the second generation circle, as well as the most beautiful and richest in the music industry.

Any one of her accolades would be an unattainable dream for anyone else.

Not to mention that it's all focused on her alone.

Chen Lu was naturally very happy to meet her again.

In most men's hearts, the one they don't have is the one that stirs their most restlessness.

Even if Shen Xi was pushed away by himself back then.

Chen Lu gradually realized that his and Su Xiaoxi's emotional needs were not the same.

The differences are even significant.

Chen Lu prefers a simple life and doesn't have much ambition for his career; his father is an insurmountable obstacle for him.

His two older sisters could also overwhelm him, so he rarely went to those so-called business parties and disliked showing off in the circle of rich second-generation people.

Su Xiaoxi, on the other hand, has been pursuing her career all these years, even when she was pregnant with her second child.

Less than a month after giving birth, she went to Hong Kong and stayed for ten days to half a month without returning.

This made Chen Lu realize the serious differences between the couple, and even the significant disagreements in their emotional needs.

The two started bickering more often, and Chen Lu stopped telling Su Xiaoxi everything.

Whenever Su Xiaoxi talks to him about her favorite career, Chen Lu immediately cuts off the conversation or leaves impatiently.

He doesn't like to talk about his career, mainly because he hasn't achieved much in that area.

Even compared to his wife, he was far inferior.

This made Chen Lu feel that he and Shen Xi had more in common to talk about.

The two met frequently after that party. At first, Su Xiaoxi didn't mind, but as time went on, the couple started arguing.

Su Xiaoxi, who was once the envy of a generation of young women, eventually experienced a major emotional rift in her marriage ten years later.

This rift is difficult for Chen Pingsheng to mend.

It is also completely different from the way ordinary people live, making do with whatever they can.

Wealthy people have more options; once they believe a relationship has broken down, they can move on to the next one at any time.

This is the main reason why the more prosperous a city is, the higher its divorce rate.

Even Song Yanxi, who had supported Shen Xi in the early days, has now turned against her and told her to have less contact with her son.

Chen Lu is already married and has two children. Song Yanxi is now openly supporting Su Xiaoxi. If Chen Lu dares to be that scumbag and cheat on her with two women, she will berate her only son until he questions the meaning of life.

Their family doesn't allow this to happen, and just like before, the more they push him, the stronger his reaction will be.

In marriages within wealthy families, problems are rarely related to money; they are either due to physical infidelity or emotional infidelity on one side.

Chen Lu is now teetering on the edge of emotional infidelity.

He could never understand Su Xiaoxi. She had already married into a family like theirs, so why did she still need to work so hard?

I still can't empathize. If we look at Su Xiaoxi's growth path, she has always been extremely grateful over the years.

This sense of gratitude was evident to everyone in the Chen family.

Su Xiaoxi wanted to repay Chen Lu's father through her own efforts, and also wanted to prove that the Chen family had made the right choice in choosing her as their daughter-in-law.

She worked tirelessly to earn money.

The only one who can't understand this is Chen Lu, because Su Xiaoxi has been neglecting her family throughout her career.

He was often busy with contracts or work until very late, so Chen Wuyou and his second son were left on Jingyan Island to be taken care of by their grandfather, Chen Pingsheng.

Su Xiaoxi spent all her free time with Chen Lu, but unfortunately it was still far from enough.

The inability to balance work and family is not limited to ordinary families; it also occurs in wealthy families like theirs.

For these reasons, the couple's relationship encountered many problems.

The most important one is Chen Lu, who did indeed break his promise to Su Xiaoxi.

As for Shen Xi, she only considered Chen Lu a friend. Even after meeting him a second time and learning that he was already married, she didn't have any ulterior motives.

Now it's Chen Lu who's chasing after her everywhere.

This infuriated Song Yanxi so much that she almost chased after her son and hit him.

Of the three in the family, the only one without any emotional issues is probably Er Ya, Chen Xinyi.

She is a typical example of someone who wants children but not their fathers; her stance on not getting married is one that no one can break.

No one would dare to scold a child without a father, no matter where she puts her child.

Er Ya loves freedom and dislikes being bound by anyone. Her talent isn't limited to investing. In her opinion, rich men will cheat sooner or later, and there are very few men like her father in the world.

If that's the case, why get married at all?

Even his childhood sweetheart, who was determined to stay together no matter what, and whose parents' objections were useless, still chose to have an emotional affair when he was approaching thirty.

Men, you really can't trust the vows they made when they were young.

Chen Lu's situation has caused a lot of controversy in his family, but no one can change anything about it.

Relationships require effort from both parties; once one party stops trying to maintain them...

The other party will either try every means to appease and win back the other party.

Alternatively, one could be a more magnanimous daughter-in-law of a wealthy family and simply turn a blind eye.

At least 90% of wealthy daughters-in-law do this.

No matter what a man does outside, as long as he doesn't bring women home or have illegitimate children, it's as if nothing happened.

Chen Pingsheng couldn't be sure whether Su Xiaoxi would come to this point.

But he knew one thing: the more he forced Chen Lu to turn around, the more fiercely he would resist.

It's better to just ignore it and let them solve it themselves.

This is something we can only do out of necessity!

(End of this chapter)