The news was on this cover story everywhere. It was on the T.V., the radio, National News, International Forums, and even the neighborhood aunties couldn't stop gossiping! The illustrious master of the Fu family, known to be cold and ruthless, Zho Zhihan was holding the most expensive engagement party in all of modern history. This made headlines everywhere: FU ZHIHAO IS GETTING MARRIED!
It was very well-known that the Fu family was one of the most powerful families in the world, they had their hands in everything, the black market, the film industry, politics, media, and even International trade! To be friends with the Fu-family was like receiving a favor from the Royal family.
And to be married into the Family...was like marrying into Royalty and dying with a golden coffin!
Nonetheless, getting married to the Fu family was no easy matter for any members of high society either. Daughters of wealthy businessmen and families would be used to flock around the Fu family sons, but none of them got even an ounce close of favor from them.
And to think it was the master of the Fu family getting married of all people? That was even wilder!
But the problem was: that nobody knew who the woman was. And thus began the search for the Cinderella or the Princess that would marry into such an illustrious family.
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"Aish! The woman he must be getting married to be must the daughter of the Li family!" Aunty Wen, a middle-aged woman hushed over the coffee table. "You know, the Li family were once the descendants of the Royal lineage!"
"That's not true! The Li-Corporations and the Fu-Corporations lost a deal with each other a few weeks ago. Those two are at the standing edge, it can't be them!" Mother Zhao, an older woman, snapped back at her sister-law, gossiping as she peeled the fruits and vegetables on the kitchen table. "I heard that the woman was a celebrity in the Fu Film Industry."
"Hah? Don't question my sources~ I've heard from the Insider that it must be the first daughter of the Li family!" Aunty Wen told Mother Zhao, "If it's not them, then who? Those small fries? Those Fu don't take anyone for their daughter-in-law."
"How would I know? I heard it from my husband anyway," Mother Zhao tiredly stated as she looked up at the time. "But no one knows what's going on in the minds of the rich anyway. It's not like our own daughters are getting married to them."
"True, not like our middle-class bloodline would impact them! Ah! Speaking of marriage– how is your daughter, Wei'er?" Aunty Wen mentioned Mother Zhao's only daughter, Zhao Wei.
"Isn't it time for her to get married? Where is she? Didn't she leave abroad seven years ago? She hasn't contacted either of us and even came back home at all! Is she even family?! At this rate, she'll never get married!"
Mother Zhao sighed at the mention of her daughter, Zhao Wei.
"Wei'er... she will come home when the time is right." Mother Zhao said. "Until she finds a stable job that is." The Zhao family was an ordinary working middle-class family living in the countryside, without fame, or any achievement in life. That was until Zhao Wei was accepted to study abroad with a scholarship, leaving home without a word except for: 'I will bring honor.
Truly, that child hasn't come home in ages, and her heart as a mother pricked, thinking about her daughter. What will her poor daughter do abroad? Can she survive there? Will she come home soon? What will become of her daughter if she doesn't get married?!
"Please come home soon, Wei'er."
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X-City Airport:
A very elegant, tall, and beautiful woman stepped down from a plane, wearing designer clothes and fashionable brand purses. Black sunglasses trimmed with a gold frame covered her bright round eyes as if trying to hide her majestic appearance. Her lips were bright red, and her skin was pale and clean.
Eyes had turned to see such a clean appearance at the airport. Her aura exuded that of a Model or a daughter of wealth. But what surprised them the most was a small boy who trudged alongside her path, holding her hand.
The boy had skin glowing like a sun, his handsomeness was met with the adorable baby-fat cheeks. If none of them knew better, they would have assumed this child was an actor! Such a face could only be born from the heavens! He was wearing a designer tuxedo suit with a small wristwatch trimmed with silver and gold.
When the woman's heels touched the ground, she could only breathe and rest in the air of her past as she entered X-City. This woman's name was Zhao Wei. And the boy beside her was her son, Zhao Zhelan.
"Zhelan, we are finally back home." Zhao Wei told her little bun next to her happily with a smirk as she gazed towards the buildings of City X. Alas, the woman who had been gone abroad for seven long years was finally back home.
To claim everything back.
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