Chapter 1786: Love Is Not Everything in Life

After two days and two nights of emergency treatment in the hospital, a life was finally pulled back from the brink.

Upon hearing the news that Liu Kai had woken up, Qi Shishi immediately went to the hospital to visit, but Liu Kai presented her with a difficult problem.

Liu Kai asked her to marry the Deputy Commander, who was Liu Kai's nephew; the military had always been under the Deputy Commander's control, and he was young, promising, and most importantly, loyal to the country.

Qi Shishi was unwilling; the person in her heart was Sheng Zirui, a fact everyone knew, and she was a hundred times unwilling to marry someone else.

But whoever holds the military in their hands holds the country in their hands, more or less.

If Sheng Zirui were still the Heir of Dingsheng, then of course this matter would be a different story.

But now he is not; not only is he not the Heir, he is not even a member of the Sheng Family anymore. The fact that Zirui has returned to the Sheng Family is known only to the family members; outsiders are not aware of it.

Liu Kai spoke earnestly to Qi Shishi, teaching her: "I watched you grow up, and I also watched Country L go from prosperity to its current state. You are the hope of your family, and also the hope of our country."

"We cannot do without you. You are a child of the Qi Family, so you are destined not to just concern yourself with romantic entanglements, nor can you be willful."

Qi Shishi promised to go back and consider it; upon returning, she locked herself in her office and did not come out for an entire day.

Finally, she walked out of the office and said to Black Widow: "You handle the arrangements for my engagement."

"Yes."

Qi Shishi and the Military Region Deputy Commander became engaged. When this news reached Jiangzhou, Zihan was dumbfounded.

He immediately called Qi Shishi to demand an explanation for what was going on.

"Aren't you dating Zirui? How could you turn around and get engaged to someone else? Do you know how much of a sacrifice Zirui made for you? He was demoted to be a Village Chief all because of you..."

Zihan was furious and vented all his dissatisfaction at once.

Qi Shishi listened quietly, without a single word of rebuttal.

He said a great deal, and seeing that it was quiet on the other end, he asked: "Are you listening?"

Qi Shishi took a deep breath, her tone calm: "Yes, I am listening. Please convey a message to Zirui and tell him I am sorry."

"Sorry?"

Zihan suddenly raised his voice: "Is this a matter of being sorry or not? You heartless woman! You deceived Zirui's feelings and ruined his career, and now a light, airy 'sorry' is all it takes?"

"What else?"

Qi Shishi could hear the sound of her own heart breaking, yet her tone remained incomparably flat: "This is a matter between Zirui and me; you don't need to worry about it."

He hung up the phone in anger.

Don't worry about it, don't worry about it—does he care to worry about it?

But no, he had to worry about it.

Then he dialed again: "I'm telling you, because of this, our cooperation will have to be reconsidered. I don't want to do business with someone of poor character."

Qi Shishi's voice was as flat as ever, but what she said made Zihan even angrier. She said: "Whether you do business with me or not is not for you to decide." After saying this, she actually hung up on Zihan first.

"Too much, this is too much. Let's see if it's up to me or not!"

Zihan was very angry, feeling indignant for Zirui and feeling that it was not worth it for him.

If he could have been a little calmer now, he wouldn't have gone straight to his father's office to say a bunch of foolish things, but he went anyway.

Chairman's office.

"Bang!"

Zihan pushed the door open and walked in.

"Why didn't you knock?" his father asked, displeased.

"Dad, I have something very important to tell you."

Since it was a "very important" matter, Sheng Hanyu did not pursue the small matter of not knocking.

"Speak."

"Let's terminate our cooperation with Country L. Let's stop working with them. Country L has had years of war and an unstable situation, with too many unknown risks; it's not worth it..."

He hadn't completely lost his mind; he didn't mention personal reasons, but instead listed a bunch of high-sounding excuses.

"If you want to stand up for Zirui, then just say you're standing up for Zirui. Don't make up a bunch of other things. That's enough, go back to work."

Zihan:...

Nothing could escape his father's wise eyes. Very well, since his intentions had been exposed, there was no need to hide them.

Zihan said: "Dad, my opinion is..."

"Not under consideration."

Zihan:...

He hurriedly explained: "Dad, I know you have never liked Zirui and Qi Shishi being together, and perhaps you are quite happy that something like this happened, but Zirui is my brother and your son. We are a family, and family members cannot ignore it when Zirui is bullied. We must vent our anger for Zirui."

Sheng Hanyu asked: "Just to vent anger, you would put the whole family in a dangerous position? Dingsheng is not just the Dingsheng of our family; it is also the Dingsheng of over a hundred thousand employees, and the families behind those hundred thousand employees. You don't consider them at all, and just because of your brotherly bond, you want to gamble with the future of all of Dingsheng?"

"You have disappointed me too much. Go back and write a self-reflection, at least ten thousand words. You must deeply recognize your mistakes. If the recognition is not deep enough, I will kick you out of the house, and you will never need to come back."

Zihan was lectured and slunk away from his father's office.

After being scolded, he also sobered up.

He deserved to be scolded; Qi Shishi was right, this matter really wasn't up to him!

His father was a businessman, and a businessman cannot act on impulse. Dingsheng had invested a massive amount of financial resources, manpower, material resources, and energy in Country L... If they let go now, everything they had done before would mean it was all done in vain.

Of course, Sheng Hanyu would not let all his previous efforts go to waste. One thing is one thing; doing business is not playing house, so of course one cannot just do whatever comes to mind.

In this world, there are many things that make people angry. If one were to stop doing business out of spite every time they got angry, Dingsheng would have gone bankrupt long ago!

Threatening to kick Zihan out of the Sheng Family was just to scare him.

Scaring Zirui wouldn't work, but scaring Zihan was very effective. Zihan had a very strong sense of family and deep feelings for his family members; he was even more afraid of being kicked out of the house.

Of course, Sheng Hanyu would not kick his younger son out; it was because of their deep brotherly bond, which touched him deeply.

He and Sheng Zerong had been close since childhood, and he thought that was all there was to the bond between brothers.

But his own sons had taught him a valuable lesson in life!

Brotherhood and unity are the most important things; as for other flaws... let's correct them slowly. It isn't realistic to fix everything all at once, so just have him write a self-criticism to realize his mistakes, as long as he doesn't act out of spite.

Zihan has been an expert at writing self-criticisms since he was a child.

A ten-thousand-word self-criticism, finished in just three hours, without even a single typo!

The entire piece revealed nothing but sincerity, along with a profound understanding of his own mistakes.

His father had originally been worried that he would act impulsively, but felt much more at ease after reading the self-criticism.

It doesn't matter if young people make mistakes; they are young, after all, and it is inevitable that they will make mistakes.

It is not that we fear young people making mistakes, but rather that we fear they will make mistakes without realizing them; only then would they travel further and further down the wrong path.