Chapter 136

Hearing this, Ye Chen smiled helplessly and said: "It seems Miss Song doesn't want to be constrained by the Song family?"

Song Wanting nodded and said: "I really don't want to, but I have no other way."

"Why?" Ye Chen said seriously: "I think your grandfather's concept should also change after this life-and-death crisis. Plus, you found me this time, which saved his life. If he is really grateful to you, if you ask him for freedom, or the right to freely decide your future husband, I believe he should agree."

Song Wanting shook her head with a bitter smile and said: "Impossible. Even if my grandfather loves me and wants to agree, he dare not agree."

"Why?" Ye Chen asked puzzled: "Isn't your grandfather the head of the family? He controls everything in the Song family, what else is he afraid of?"

Song Wanting said seriously: "The Song family has developed into many branches over the years. The branches rely on rules to constrain each other, so that everyone obeys the family rules. Otherwise, once you break the rules, others will imitate. Once the children in your family have free marriage, the children in other families also hope for free love. In that case, the Song family's losses will inevitably be very heavy. If everyone doesn't follow the rules, decades later, the Song family may be defeated."

As she spoke, Song Wanting said again: "The Song family has been able to stand tall since the end of the Qing Dynasty and grow to today, mainly because everyone abides by the family rules and does not cross the thunder pool. Even if the family is divided and there are many branches, we are all supervising each other between branches. No one is allowed to have anything that damages the Song family's interests."

Ye Chen sighed and said seriously: "I always thought Miss Song was a very strong woman, I didn't expect you to be a trapped beast, everything has to be at the mercy of others."

"Yes!" Song Wanting sighed very low and said: "This kind of thing, there is no way to resist."

Speaking of this, Song Wanting shook her head, picked up the wine glass, and said: "Mr. Ye, let's not talk about these unhappy things. Come, drink! Let me toast you again!"

Ye Chen smiled slightly, picked up the wine glass, and said: "This glass of wine is for freedom!"

Song Wanting was slightly stunned.

For freedom?

Where does her freedom come from?

Although she was very depressed, she still forced a smile, nodded and said: "Come, let's toast to freedom!"

Another glass of wine went down, Song Wanting was even more drunk. She looked at Ye Chen and sighed: "Many times I would rather be born in an ordinary family. In that case, my life might be more difficult, but there would definitely not be so many constraints. What my family can bring me, besides this high status and the wealth I can't spend in several lifetimes, has not given me any real happiness."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "Many ordinary people actually envy you rich people who never have to worry about money. Isn't there a saying, I'd rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle? In your eyes, an ordinary family is very rare, but in the eyes of ordinary people, this ordinariness is exactly what they want to get rid of most. Everyone sharpens their heads, isn't it just to make money?"

Song Wanting looked at Ye Chen and said seriously: "Mr. Ye, you are not for money! You don't seem to care about money at all. Just like just now, a medicine pill for ten million, you can earn tens of millions easily, but you are not willing to take it, you have to give it away. Isn't this treating money like dirt?"

Ye Chen smiled indifferently, thinking, I treat money like dirt, that's because I don't lack money.

You didn't see it when I lacked money.

At that time, Auntie Li was seriously ill. In order to raise enough medical expenses for her, I lowered my voice and borrowed money from Old Mrs. Xiao at her birthday banquet.

I thought she believed in Buddha, so she would have that Buddhist thought that saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda, and maybe she would lend the money to herself.

But I didn't expect that she believed in Buddha on the surface, but was actually an extremely greedy and shameless person inside.

At that time, if someone wanted to give me one million, I would even be willing to kneel down for him for this one million.

People, when they have no money, cannot resist the attraction of money.

Those who can really treat money like dirt are those who already have money they can't spend.

Just like me now, what is one or two million? I don't know how to spend the billions in my account, and the Dihao Group has billions in profits a year, and I don't know how to spend it either.

In this case, what is the meaning of this one or two million? I would rather not have this money, and let them worship me, calling me Master Ye, calling me a great benefactor.

This is the real refreshment!

It's just that I can't tell Song Wanting these words.

She now thinks I am a saint who treats money like dirt and has heaven-reaching skills.

Since that's the case, let her continue to think so!

At this time, Song Wanting was a bit drunk and talked to herself: "Actually, I can endure anything else, but when it comes to marriage, I really don't want to be at their mercy. I don't want to be their pawn, I don't want to marry a man I don't love at all, and I don't want to hand over my youth and happiness to the Song family. I don't want to repeat my mother's mistakes..."

Ye Chen asked curiously: "Was your mother also in an arranged marriage?"

"Yes." Song Wanting nodded and said: "My mother married my father and was never happy in her life. She was depressed for many years and passed away at a young age."

Ye Chen remembered that Song Wanting lost the relic her mother left her last time. According to Master Hong Wu, her mother had been gone for more than ten years.

Song Wanting is about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. It is estimated that her mother passed away when she was ten. In that case, her mother was really very young when she left.

Song Wanting drank a glass of wine alone, played with the wine glass in her hand, and said with an apologetic face: "I'm sorry, Mr. Ye, for letting you listen to so much nonsense."

Ye Chen hurriedly said: "Miss Song, don't say that. Being able to choose to tell me these things must also be your trust in me."

Song Wanting nodded gently, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said: "Speaking of which, thank you so much today, Mr. Ye. Not only did you save my grandfather, but you also listened to my complaints. Thank you!"

Ye Chen smiled slightly and said: "No need to be so polite. We are friends anyway. Being too polite between friends makes it seem distant."

"Hmm!" Song Wanting nodded heavily and said: "It's getting late, Mr. Ye, why don't I send you back."

Ye Chen waved his hand: "You don't need to send me, but you can't drive in your situation. It's best to find a designated driver."

Song Wanting nodded and said: "Don't worry, the female manager here can help me drive. Let me send you back first!"