Chapter 1126

Hearing the old master's arrangement, Su Shoudao nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood!

"Clearly it's the old master blindly messing things up, creating a whole bunch of trouble, and now I have to go to Australia to lay low? What the hell is this?"

Thinking of this, he hurriedly said: "Dad, you're letting me temporarily stay out of the public eye—I completely accept that, but there's no need to send me to Australia, right? The group still has a ton of things to handle, and I still need to figure out how to mediate and salvage things on Haiqing's end!"

Su Lao Ye Zi coldly said: "If you stay here, the paparazzi will keep stalking your every move, and don't forget—now who knows how many families are waiting to take advantage and drain our blood and eat our flesh? You're their breakthrough point!"

"So, in my view, you should still go to Australia to lay low—don't we have a seaside villa in Queensland? Go there and relax properly; I'll sort out everything here for you."

Su Shoudao was nearly on the verge of breaking down.

He inwardly fumed: "Letting me go to Australia at this time—isn't that just making me a moving target, drawing fire? If I don't go, it's still debatable, but in the outside world's perception of this matter, it's still the old master selling out his granddaughter. If I run, who knows how these people will frame me?"

"Besides, I'm currently the group's executive vice-chairman, the standard second-in-command. If I leave, who'll take over my work? Is it supposed to be Su Shoude? If that bastard Su Shoude takes over my job, then when I come back, the executive vice-chairman position will be his—won't I just be sidelined?!"

Just as Su Shoudao was racking his brains to politely refuse the old master's arrangement, Su Chengfeng directly spoke up and ordered: "Shoude, you arrange a flight for your brother—let him depart urgently tonight. His work at the group will be temporarily managed by you."

Upon hearing this, Su Shoude's heart surged with excitement, nearly making him want to cheer.

Still, he suppressed his inner excitement and respectfully said: "Dad, rest assured—I'll go arrange the flight right now!"

Su Shoudao pleaded: "Dad, even if you let me go, please grant me a two-day delay—at least let me have a proper talk with Haiqing first!"

Su Chengfeng waved his hand: "Nothing left to talk about. Based on my understanding of Du Haiqing, she's impossible to reconcile with you, so you might as well cut the knot quickly and divorce her!"

"I..." Su Shoudao's voice nearly broke into tears.

If this really has to happen, then the delays involved would be far too many.

Not only the wife matter, but also the group inheritance issue, and he also wanted to properly search for Su Ruoli's whereabouts—after all, she's his own flesh and blood, her life or death unknown, so he must try to find her, just in case she's still alive.

If he finds her himself, he could still secretly arrange a refuge for her, letting her live somewhere in this world under an alias, hidden from sight.

But if someone else from the Su family finds her, or if the Japanese side finds her, then she's surely doomed!

Seeing Su Shoudao unwilling to comply, Su Chengfeng immediately snapped angrily: "What? You dare not follow my arrangements?"

Upon hearing this, Su Shoudao instantly realized he had no room left to negotiate. To avoid completely angering the old master, he could only nod lightly and say: "Okay, Dad, I'll follow your orders—I'll leave tonight."

Only then did Su Chengfeng nod in satisfaction, wave his hand, and say: "Alright, go back and pack up. Say hello to Zhifei and Zhiyu—depart in one hour."

……

Just as Su Shoudao was called away by the butler, Su Zhifei and Su Zhiyu were still in their family's study, staring nonstop at the computer screen.

After their mother Du Haiqing left, while driving back to her parents' home, she called her two siblings.

On the phone, Du Haiqing calmly told them about Su Ruoli's situation, and both Su Zhifei and Su Zhiyu were stunned into silence by the news.

It's likely that any twenty-something young person, upon suddenly hearing that their father actually still has an illegitimate daughter, would find it hard to immediately accept this reality.

Especially Su Zhiyu.

She and her mother Du Haiqing share the same severe emotional cleanliness.

Although she has never dated so far, if such a thing happened to her, she would surely, like her mother, decisively divorce her husband without the slightest hesitation.

Therefore, although she finds it hard to accept this reality right now, she unconditionally supports all of her mother's decisions.

Su Zhifei, on this point, has somewhat more of a patriarchal mindset.

He believes that a man of his father's stature could hardly remain faithful to marriage his whole life.

Men who have reached the extreme of wealth rarely settle for only one opposite-sex partner, so occasionally straying outside is actually quite normal.

After all, he grew up in upper-class circles from childhood, where he's seen plenty of men playing the field.

Having illegitimate sons and daughters in this circle is practically a dime a dozen—long since become commonplace.

The most extreme case he's seen is an internet billionaire who found a bunch of women to bear him a bunch of kids, and even when idle, he'd show off on social media.

So, compared to that, if his father merely had a one-night stand with his personal bodyguard back then and gave birth to a daughter, Su Zhifei thinks his father is already relatively low-key and family-oriented in this circle.

Moreover, the women in this circle have long since become accustomed to such things—whether they approve or not is irrelevant; they're used to it.

Of course, he never said this to his mother or sister, because he knows their personalities—if he tried to whitewash his father now, he'd likely get scolded bloody by the two of them.

Su Zhiyu feels deeply indignant inside.

She empathizes completely with her mother's current feelings—if she herself encountered such a husband, she would unhesitatingly leave him, so she said on the phone, unable to hide her anger: "Mom, I support you divorcing Dad! Committing such a mistake and hiding it for so long—this absolutely cannot be forgiven! When I see him again, I'll definitely confront him face-to-face and demand answers!"

Du Haiqing didn't have her level of outrage—she just said lightly: "Zhiyu, I told you all this because you and your brother are adults now, and you have the right to know these things. But this is between us two—you don't need to confront your father over this."

"Besides, after I divorce your father, you two can choose to keep living in the Su family, or move to your grandmother's house, or even go out and live on your own—Mom has no objections."

"In the future, if there are family gatherings at your grandfather's or grandmother's house, you should participate normally as usual—just me and your father won't attend each other's family events anymore. Everything else remains as before."

Su Zhiyu said somewhat unwillingly: "Mom! This matter—we still need to confront that woman surnamed He! Seducing someone else's husband and still having the nerve to bear a child—this woman is way too over the top!"

"No need." Du Haiqing said calmly: "She's also a pitiful person—I have nothing to blame her for, and you shouldn't go confront her either. Feelings like this are purely personal choices—there's no right or wrong."

Su Zhiyu asked, voice trembling slightly: "Mom, what are your plans from now on?"

Du Haiqing smiled: "I don't really have any plans—just wait until your father figures things out, then hurry up and divorce him. If he can realize it quickly, I'll divorce and go out to relax; if he can't figure it out for a while, then I won't waste time on him—I'll just go out and wander around first."

Su Zhiyu hurriedly said: "Mom, where do you want to go to relax?"

Du Haiqing smiled faintly, said two words: "Jin Ling!"