Chapter 472: Immeasurable?

Seeing several people who had always supported Tang Jihuai also draw a line with him righteously, Xu Tian curled his lips slightly, a flash of sarcasm crossing his eyes.

These people were just like this, accustomed to bowing to the high and trampling on the low.

They could lift you up, and they could also push you into the abyss.

Rather than saying they chose a side, it would be better to say they would always stand on the side with the greater momentum.

Xu Tian also knew the darkness of human nature well, so he didn't take these people's words to heart.

Before, they didn't put him, this Tang family son-in-law, in their eyes, just because they felt he had no background and no future, and would soon be abandoned by Tang Bingyan.

Plus, with Gu Beicheng by Tang Bingyan's side, they naturally would choose to support a marriage between the Gu family and the Tang family.

After this accident, some people should have seen the situation clearly. For the sake of stability, they didn't intend to bet all their chips on the Gu family anymore, which is why they came to curry favor with him specifically.

And in reality, these people's way of thinking couldn't be changed in just a few days, but after a few days, they definitely wouldn't be stupid enough to be used as guns and openly oppose him again.

At the same time.

In the conference hall of the Tang family's Lanshan Hot Spring Villa.

Old Master Tang and Tang Zhipeng were receiving Gu Qiankun.

Gu Qiankun coming to the Tang family at this time was nothing more than dissatisfaction with Tang Bingyan's shielding of Xu Tian.

"Old Tang, Elder Peng, for the Tang President to be so willful is truly a disgrace to the family style!"

Tang Laoyezi comforted him with kind words: "President Gu, to be honest, if I were to choose, I would also feel that Beicheng is more suitable for Bingyan. Moreover, our two families are family friends, and we know each other well. If we could become family through marriage, it would be even better. But Bingyan has her own ideas; I cannot force her to make a choice."

"Before Bingyan decided to come back and inherit the family business, she told me that her marriage would be decided by herself, and she would not marry for the sake of family interests. I agreed. As an elder, how can I break my promise now?"

"What's more, I told you about this situation back then. If the two children truly have no fate, even if we force them together for our own happiness, they won't be happy."

"Xu Tian, this child, his family background is indeed average, but he is sincere to Bingyan, and Bingyan also likes him. Moreover, they are already married. What reason do I have to oppose it?"

The more Gu Qiankun heard, the angrier he became. Old Master Tang had indeed said that marriage matters would be left to Tang Bingyan to decide, but at that time, he felt that his son and Tang Bingyan were childhood sweethearts and were well-matched in social status; Tang Bingyan would definitely marry him.

Who could have expected Tang Bingyan to suddenly have such an outrageous flash marriage with a pretty boy?

Fortunately, the two were secretly married, and the Tang family hadn't announced Xu Tian's identity to the world; otherwise, their Gu family would have become the laughingstock of the entire upper class.

"Then, Old Tang, do you mean that any stray cat or dog can step on our Beicheng just because Tang Bingyan likes it?"

The current Tang family was indeed in its prime after Tang Bingyan took over, but their Gu family was not to be trifled with either.

Gu Qiankun didn't believe that the Tang family would truly turn against them for the sake of a live-in son-in-law who had no family background to support him.

One must know that the age-appropriate girls from other families outside all wanted to marry into their family and be a daughter-in-law of the Gu family. It was just that his son was infatuated and hadn't given up even knowing Tang Bingyan was married.

In terms of strength, the Gu family might not be able to compare to the Tang family, but if the Gu family turned to support the Tang family's enemies, that would be a fatal blow to the Tang family.

For Gu Qiankun, as long as Xu Tian's identity hadn't been made public and Tang Bingyan was still single on the surface, it didn't matter.

There were many sordid things within wealthy families. For the sake of the big picture, as long as Tang Bingyan was willing to obediently divorce and be with Gu Beicheng, he could also not hold it against her.

Tang Zhipeng saw that Gu Qiankun's tone was unkind and hurriedly explained: "President Gu, please calm down. Xu Tian, this kid, comes from a grassroots background and hasn't seen much of the world, so naturally, he is very good at reading the situation and acting subservient. Beicheng, that child, has a proud personality and naturally disdains those little tricks to coax women. It is only natural that he temporarily loses to that kid."

"Women, they all like to listen to sweet talk and feel that such men are true partners. But I believe that when she matures a bit more, she will understand that a suitable partner should be well-matched in social status and have matching conditions in all aspects."

"That's true." Gu Qiankun's face softened a bit, but his words still carried anger: "Our Beicheng is not a spineless person who only knows how to use sweet talk to coax women and rely on selling his looks to gain benefits."

"Moreover, the families on both sides in Jiangcheng and the Imperial Capital all know the relationship between our two families. If Tang Bingyan still remains obsessed and insists on keeping that useless pretty boy instead of marrying our Beicheng, then it will only be your Tang family that gets pointed at."

"As elders, you should know what is best for the Tang family. Anyway, if our two families' marriage fails, the one who loses will definitely not be our Gu family!"

After saying this, Gu Qiankun didn't wait for Old Master Tang and Tang Zhipeng to react and left in a huff.

Tang Zhipeng looked at his back and rubbed his temples with a headache.

It was indeed as Gu Qiankun said; given Gu Beicheng's conditions and the Gu family's status, there were countless families who wanted to marry into theirs.

If it weren't for everyone tacitly agreeing that the Gu family would marry into their Tang family in the future, no one would dare to have designs on Tang Bingyan's man. Otherwise, the wealthy daughters pursuing Gu Beicheng would probably line up from Jiangcheng City to the Imperial Capital.

"Second Brother, our Tang family is not an ordinary family. The Family Head's marriage is indeed something she cannot decide on her own."

"I know you have spoiled her since she was a child, trying your best to satisfy all her requirements. Even when she said she wanted to study abroad and learn those unpresentable arts, you indulged her. But marriage is a major event concerning the future of the entire family; you cannot indulge her anymore."

"I believe you also know that if we truly fall out with the Gu family because of the marriage, the loss to the Tang family will be immeasurable."

Tang Laoyezi spoke with some displeasure.

"Immeasurable?"

"If Bingyan hadn't come home to take over the Tang family back then, the current Tang family and its various branch lineages would have long since fallen apart and governed themselves. Where would there be any loss?"

"It is precisely because of Bingyan that the Tang family avoided the tragedy of declining and being carved up by competitors. And when the Tang family was in chaos back then, did he, Gu Qiankun, ever show his face?"

"This..." Facing Tang Laoyezi's questioning, Tang Zhipeng was speechless.

When the Tang family was in internal and external trouble back then, the Gu family indeed didn't help. Instead, they used the excuse that outsiders shouldn't interfere in the Tang family's housework to try to reap the benefits.

Now Gu Qiankun kept holding onto that bit of friendship with the Tang family, but it was only because Tang Bingyan firmly held the Tang family and the Tang Group that he wanted to use the verbal engagement made during the older generation's casual chats to engage in moral kidnapping, forcing Tang Bingyan to divorce Xu Tian and marry into the Gu family. ===== CHAPTER 473 =====