Chapter 392: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 392: Chen Qiang, You're a Good Person

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Du Xiaojuan watched Chen Qiang's retreating figure as he turned and walked into the office, and couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Things have escalated to this point, and it's very obvious this isn't what she wanted.

If in the end she has to break completely with Chen Qiang, that would undoubtedly be a heavy loss for both her and Xiao Du Technology.

She hoped the situation could be eased.

So after she took Wang Dashan to tour the company's entire management process and saw Wang Dashan off downstairs, she immediately took the initiative to find Chen Qiang for a talk.

She hoped to move Chen Qiang with emotion and reason with him, to persuade Chen Qiang to consider the overall situation.

"Chen Qiang, we're businessmen. Doing business revolves around the word 'profit'."

Du Xiaojuan came to Chen Qiang's office and said this one sentence to Chen Qiang.

Chen Qiang was still in a foul mood; he wore a long face, and facing Du Xiaojuan's persuasion, he was somewhat impatient:

"I know the principle of businessmen pursuing profit; you don't need to preach that to me."

Du Xiaojuan then said:

"But your every move right now brings no benefit to you, to me, or to Dashan; on the contrary, it will ultimately lead to all three parties being harmed. If you truly care about me in your heart, can you bear to see me get hurt? Shouldn't you hope I find true happiness?"

Chen Qiang understands all the principles, but often knowing is easy and doing is hard. If he could achieve unity of knowledge and action, he wouldn't be a vulgar person — he'd be a sage like Wang Yangming.

"It's precisely because I can't bear to see you get hurt that I don't want you to get back together with Wang Dashan!"

Chen Qiang got emotionally worked up.

"But you're doing something that hurts me right now."

Du Xiaojuan looked at him with a resentful gaze.

Chen Qiang was speechless for a moment.

He lit a cigarette for himself and smoked silently with his head down.

When it comes down to it, love is ultimately selfish.

All "sincerely for your own good" must be premised on "having already obtained you".

Without the premise of having obtained you, that "for your own good" is just an excuse, an excuse used to satisfy one's own possessiveness.

"If you insist on contending with Dashan, then how about this: I'll sell all my equity in Xiao Du Company to you, I'll withdraw from Xiao Du Company, and from now on we won't see each other again."

Du Xiaojuan suddenly said this, which genuinely gave Chen Qiang a scare.

"You're crazy! For the sake of a poor lad like Wang Dashan, you'd actually give up Xiao Du Technology! Xiao Du Technology was founded single-handedly by you, built from nothing! Right now, although Xiao Du Technology hasn't gone public yet, professional institutions' valuation assessments have already put it at over a hundred million! You'd actually abandon such a company with limitless potential that you founded yourself, all for a poor lad?"

Chen Qiang simply couldn't believe Du Xiaojuan would make such a choice.

Du Xiaojuan used to be very rational; who would've thought she'd become this irrational over a man.

"I've earned enough money; the savings in my bank card can ensure I have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of my life. Now I just want my life to have no regrets. Ever since I entered society to work at seventeen, I've always strived to stay rational and suppress my emotions. I've had enough of this kind of rationality. Now I only want to follow my heart's feelings."

Du Xiaojuan said this with an expressionless face.

Actually she didn't truly want to give up Xiao Du Technology; she just wanted to use this extreme method to force Chen Qiang to compromise.

Xiao Du Technology is the "child" she raised single-handedly; how could she possibly give it up lightly?

This was actually also a test of Chen Qiang.

If Chen Qiang chose to agree with this decision of hers, that would show Chen Qiang loves money more than he loves her as a person; all the affection he'd shown before would be nothing but a disguise. Then she wouldn't need to consider Chen Qiang's feelings anymore and could just do whatever she needed to do.

But if Chen Qiang chose to oppose this decision of hers, that would show Chen Qiang truly loves her. As long as there's true love, there will be concession, there will be compromise. As long as she makes Chen Qiang compromise, she can fight for a situation that's friendly to all three parties.

"No matter what, I absolutely won't let you leave Xiao Du Technology. You're the soul of Xiao Du Technology; if you leave, this company will inevitably go downhill. I'm just a partner who joined later; I fundamentally can't control this company."

Chen Qiang's face was full of displeasure, making his attitude clear.

His answer proved his love for Du Xiaojuan is true.

It also proved he hasn't completely lost his rationality and can still see the reality clearly.

"Then please don't interfere in my private life. Who I choose to be with is my right. Please respect me, okay?"

Du Xiaojuan said this.

"Alright alright, I won't interfere in the feelings between you and Wang Dashan anymore. That should be fine, right?"

Chen Qiang finally compromised and conceded, his face full of dejection.

"Thank you, Chen Qiang."

Du Xiaojuan was grateful to Chen Qiang from the bottom of her heart. Her feelings were actually quite complex too. Chen Qiang is indeed excellent, very suitable as a partner, but she couldn't get past that barrier in her own heart.

"I won't interfere with you two for now, but I'll wait. I'm putting my words here: even if I don't meddle, you and Wang Dashan still won't last long. When you come back battered and bruised, I'll still accept you."

Chen Qiang smoked, speaking these words from the bottom of his lungs.

Du Xiaojuan was even more moved.

Her eye rims reddened; she hurriedly pulled a tissue from the desk and wiped the corner of her eye.

"Chen Qiang, you're a good person."

After saying this, Du Xiaojuan hurriedly turned and went out.

For a moment, an absurd thought even surfaced in her mind:

It would be nice if she could have both men!

Wang Dashan is the first man she truly fell in love with, a White Moonlight in a certain sense.

And Chen Qiang is an ideal partner with near-perfect conditions in all aspects.

It's just a pity reality won't let her have both; she can only choose one of the two.

Now that she had achieved no small success in her entrepreneurship, lacking nothing in money or material things, she chose Wang Dashan.

She dared not be certain that, if she were mired in poverty at this very moment, she would still firmly choose Wang Dashan.

Love may be great, but the blade of reality is sharper.

She was very grateful that heaven had allowed her to earn money, so she would not have to abandon love for material things.

After Wang Dashan returned to the company, he went over the management experience he had learned from Xiao Du Technology once more, reviewing it carefully and studying it seriously.

Chen Qiang's presence made him no longer dare to slacken in the slightest.

He knew he had to become even more excellent to be worthy of Du Xiaojuan.

If he did not strive for improvement, then even if he won Du Xiaojuan now, she would still leave him later.

Choosing to draw near to excellent people is simply human nature.

Those who long struggle in poverty do not deserve true love; poor couples face a hundred sorrows. If he did not become excellent, then his life with Du Xiaojuan would eventually descend into trivial quarrels and chaos.

His mother Li Xiulan had been loyal to her family her whole life, giving her all to her family her whole life, yet in the end never received her husband's true love. He saw all this with his own eyes and kept it in his heart.

He had now gained enlightenment, no longer ignorant and foolish as before, no longer selfish as before, so he warned himself that he absolutely must not tread his parents' old road...