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Chapter 188 Only Daughter Inherits Family Business

"What's wrong?" Zhang Zhe followed the other person's gaze and turned to look at them.

Upon noticing Xia Yi looking in their direction, they happily waved and greeted her.

Just as Zhang Zhe was about to wave in response, the girl next to him spoke first: "Excuse me, Brother Zhang, a friend of mine is greeting me from over there."

"friend?"

"Yes, we live in the same neighborhood. We used to be classmates, but we rarely see each other after we started working."

"Is your friend...?" Zhang Zhe quietly turned off the microphone in the live stream before continuing, "Xia Yi?"

"Yes." The girl answered subconsciously, then suddenly came to her senses: "Brother Zhang, you know her?"

“We’re not just acquaintances, we’re currently in talks.” Zhang Zhe smiled slightly.

"what?"

"You are..."

“We met through a blind date,” Zhang Zhe said with a smile.

"Really? Uncle Xia will introduce Xia Yi to a matchmaker?" The woman was a bit blunt, but she quickly realized that what she said was a bit hurtful.

"Brother Zhang, I'm not saying you're not good enough, I'm just saying that Xia Yi is really lucky to have found a handsome guy like you."

"It's okay, it's okay, you're just making things worse." Zhang Zhe didn't care at all. For a guy who wants to find a partner who's more desirable, this little bit of pressure is nothing.

"Let's talk about your matter. Continue, and I'll help you analyze it clearly."

"Okay, thank you." The woman nodded and continued her introduction, at which point Zhang Zhe turned the microphone back on.

Am I deaf?

Was there a period of silence just now?

Huawei has a voice.

[It's probably a problem with Zhang Ge's equipment, or it could be due to network fluctuations.]

“My family’s assets, excluding houses, should be around 500.”

"That's not much." Zhang Zhe calculated that a senior professional's monthly salary is about 5 yuan, which is 60 yuan a year. Even if her family can only save one side of the income, it would only be less than 10 years of accumulation.

For families in the middle to upper echelons of these dual-system households, having assets that don't even reach the level of an A9 is already considered quite generous.

No, to be precise, the fact that his daughter even came to the matchmaking event already shows that he has a conscience.

Normally, this daughter should be studying in Australia.

"What about yourself?"

“I’m also in the system. I work under my dad. My annual income, including all the miscellaneous things, should be around 13 yuan, which averages out to just over 1 yuan per month.”

"That's great! Are you in the city?"

"No, I've been exiled to the village by my dad. This event just happened to be near our village, and he called me over."

“Exile…” Zhang Zhe was speechless for a moment. It was obvious that this girl had been put into a government position, and her father wanted her to gain experience at the grassroots level so that she could be promoted.

So they sent him to the village to stay for a few years, and then he'll go back and get a great promotion.

If this is considered exile, those within the system wouldn't be scrambling to come. Being stationed in a village offers a higher salary than before, less constraint, and is generally more enjoyable than working in the original unit.

Judging from the girl's current appearance, it's obvious that she's been letting loose in the countryside. If she were still in the city, her parents wouldn't let her go out unless she kept herself tidy.

“Your qualifications are already better than most women working within the system.”

“Even among eligible young women in our city, you’re quite good-looking.” Zhang Zhe told the girl earnestly, “What you need to do right now is lose weight and tidy yourself up. Marriage won’t be a problem for you.”

“I don’t think losing weight is important.” The woman shook her head: “Brother Zhang, you don’t know, my parents are urging me to get married because they want me to marry someone according to their arrangements.”

"To put it bluntly, it's a form of arranged marriage."

"But I don't really want to."

"You're an only child, right?" Zhang Zhe confirmed. "That's right, I was born in '98. Most of my generation were only children, and the rules were very strict about it."

I was born in 99, and I'm also an only child.

It seems her parents work within the system and follow the rules; actually, many people secretly have a second child.

[Have her parents really wanted their daughter to inherit all the family's resources?]

Whoever marries this girl will be set for life! Her father-in-law will treat her with absolute devotion.

[The viewers in the live chat probably don't think that just anyone could marry a girl like this, right? Even if she's overweight, it wouldn't matter at all.]

"If you're an only child, you'll have to think about it carefully."

Zhang Zhe's view is very direct:

"It seems that you need your family's help right now. You can't accept that your family will cut off their relationship with you or stop supporting you."

"Otherwise, you would have rebelled against your parents long ago."

"Yes," the woman admitted with some distress, "I work under my father, and if he makes things difficult for me, I can't get through a single day."

"So I find it strange that you're willing to join the system. From my perspective as an outsider, it means you're implicitly accepting that you want to inherit your parents' resources."

Why are you having second thoughts now?

Zhang Zhe truly didn't understand; he had no idea what Zhang Zhe was thinking.

If she, as an only child, hadn't entered the system, her parents might have already started monetizing their resources, or found her a good husband within the system long ago.

For example, finding a son-in-law like her father's apprentice or a colleague's son would allow them to start training him earlier.

She won't be single until she's 27; normally, at that age, she should already have children.

But this girl herself entered the system, which means she's going to inherit the family business, doesn't it?

"I actually don't like working within the system." The girl's expression was as miserable as could be when she said this: "My parents probably found out about my feelings, so they want to marry me off as soon as possible."

"But the more they do this, the more uncomfortable I feel."

“I understand, you’re stuck in a rut.” Zhang Zhe understood this mentality well. Many of the people who had consulted him on the microphone before were like this; they suddenly started to rebel when they were almost 30.

This is actually caused by excessive stress that cannot be released for a long time.

Would you be willing to listen to my advice?

"Yes, I believe you. I know you won't cheat me." The woman looked at Zhang Zhe with eyes full of trust.

She could indeed trust him, because Zhang Zhe had already laid out his relationship with Xia Yi in front of her. She could then confirm it privately later and find out whether what Zhang Zhe said was true or false.

"Alright, listen carefully."

"What you need to do now is lose weight while going on blind dates." Zhang Zhe stretched out both hands at the same time and said, "Losing weight will improve the quality of your blind date partners, and at the same time, the failure of blind dates will also motivate you to continue losing weight."

"When you're overweight, your parents can only help you find a husband or wife to marry the son of a colleague or even the son of a subordinate. But once you lose weight and dress up nicely, you might even be able to consider marrying the son of your parents' boss."

“I know you resent the marriage arranged by your parents, but you can’t do without their resources right now, so you have to show that you’re actively going on blind dates to ensure that your family’s resources continue to come.”

"Once you are truly capable, it won't matter whether your family supports you or not, then you can choose not to get married."

[No problem, it's fine as a way to appease my parents, let's get promoted first.]

[So this is how my boss treats his own daughter too? Suddenly I understand.]

This kind of family is incredibly complicated, so complicated it's suffocating. If she doesn't get married, I bet all her relatives will try to persuade her to stay.

How can you get promoted within the system if you don't get married? Without a family, who would dare keep you in an important position?

"Not getting married?" The woman hesitated for a moment before replying, "But we still want to get married, right?"

"You originally wanted to get married?" Zhang Zhe asked, feigning surprise. "Then what are you still hesitating about? Don't you think you can find someone with better conditions on your own, without your parents' resources?"

"Should we look in the village, or rely on this matchmaking event?"

(End of this chapter)