Volume 1 Chapter 13 The Family's Shock

  The next morning, Chen Shao returned home with Yun'er and Xiao Xian. Having been away for five years, he was very excited and nervous. The two girls knew how Chen Shao was feeling at the moment, so they kept comforting and encouraging him by his side.

  Still the same residential area; still the same swing; still that building; as Chen Shao walked into the neighborhood, heading home, he looked around at everything familiar and thought of many hours spent here in his childhood.

  When he walked to the door, Chen Shao became even more nervous and didn't dare press the doorbell for a long time. Seeing Chen Shao's current state, Yun'er and Xiao Xian smiled in their hearts. This was the Chen Shao they were familiar with. As soon as he got nervous, he would stiffen up all over and become hesitant. Chen Shao's current state was very familiar to them, but they also knew that if he couldn't calm down, he would continue to be like this until he calmed down. However, it was unknown when he would calm down now. The blankness of the past five years wouldn't be resolved in just a short while. Both of them thought of this and looked at each other, ignoring Chen Shao, Yun'er pressed the doorbell on the side.

  "Ding Dong" Chen Shao heard the sound, lifted his head and looked at Yun'er. Seeing Yun'er's encouraging eyes, he then looked at Xiao Xian, who also had encouraging eyes. Chen Shao's mood calmed down, thinking of pressing the doorbell again. Just as his hand was about to touch the button, the door opened.

  The door was opened by a beautiful woman in her early twenties; looking at Chen Shao outside the door, she said softly to her "You're back" although she tried to suppress her excitement when saying this sentence; but Chen Shao could still hear it out, how excited her sister who hadn't seen each other for five years was; not just her, even herself seeing her sister was very excited, and her eyes became moist.

  He walked forward, gently hugging the woman. "Sister, I'm sorry, I made you worry for five years, but I'm back now and won't leave again." It was indeed Chen Shao's sister, Chen Ning. When Chen Ning heard her brother's words, tears flowed out like they were free. How could she not have worried about her 11-year-old brother who had run away from home in secret? For five years, Chen Ning had been worrying every day about how her younger brother was doing, whether he had a place to live and food to eat. Every time she thought of this, Chen Ning would silently shed tears because she blamed herself for not taking good care of her brother, letting him run away from home and suffer outside.

  "Alright, now that you're back, go ahead and come in. Dad, Mom, Aunt Lin, Uncle Lin, Yoon-hee is also here; if it wasn't for Hyeon calling us last night to tell us you were coming back, who knows, we might not have even been home today? You really are something, coming back without even giving your family a call?" Chen Ning remembered that there were still people waiting in the living room, so he let Chen Shao go in first.

  As he entered the house and walked into the living room, looking at those familiar faces, especially when he saw a couple already staring at him with tears of excitement streaming down; needless to say, Chen Shao knew they were his parents.

  "Dad, Mom, I'm back; sorry to have made you worry for so many years, it's the son's unfilial piety. This time I'm back, I won't leave again, even if you drive me away, I won't go." Chen Shao walked up to his parents and knelt down, saying this to them.

  "Wake up, silly child... just come back and it'll be fine" Chen's mother was already crying uncontrollably. "Just come back and wake up, hurry up and greet Uncle Lin and Auntie Lin, as for your father-in-law and mother-in-law, you can handle them yourself." As soon as Chen's father spoke, the tense atmosphere from earlier was immediately dispelled.

  Chen Shao and Xiao Xian's faces turned red with embarrassment upon hearing the last sentence; Chen Ma and Chen Ning smiled at Chen Shao, having already known and accepted that Xiao Xian was their daughter-in-law and sister-in-law, and they were very fond of her. As for Lin Yun'er's family, they couldn't help but laugh out loud when they heard it, but Lin Yun'er's mood turned bitter.

  "Cough cough" Suddenly hearing his father's words, Chen Shao was choked.

  "Hey, Auntie Xu..." Chen Shao's words were cut off as he heard "Huh!? You're still calling me Auntie now?" Xu's mom was unhappy when she heard Chen Shao call her that; "What? You're not happy about it? You little brat may be my proud disciple, but you've taken our family's Xiaoxian away and made her wait for five years. Now that you're back, you don't even want to call me Mom and Dad?" Xu's mom's strong tone made Chen Shao shrink back; he could only shout out "Dad! Mom!" amidst the crowd's smiling gazes. When Chen Shao called his parents that, Xiaoxian's face turned bright red like an apple and she quickly hid in Chen Ning's arms, too embarrassed to show her face.

  "Hmm, that's not bad. Let Xiaoxian wait for you for five years, are you not going to do something about it?" Xu Dad also spoke up now;

  "Dad, don't buy anything else; oppa has already bought a mansion and several cars in Jiangnan District under my name." Xiaoxian heard her father's words and was afraid that he would still want to buy something for Chen Shao, so she inadvertently revealed what Chen Shao had told her last night.

  "Hmm! A mansion? In Jiangnan District? That little brat is so rich now!" Chen Dad, Xu Dad, and Lin Uncle were all shocked when they heard this. They all had their own jobs and knew how expensive houses in Jiangnan District were. Not to mention a mansion, even the ordinary apartments there were much better than where they lived now. And yet, Xiao Xian was talking about it so casually? A mansion! How much money would that cost?! And several cars too? Would the cars that could enter Jiangnan District be just bicycles and ordinary cars seen on the streets? Definitely not, they must be luxury cars.

  Upon hearing the surprise and inquiry from his father and uncles, Chen Shao had no choice but to explain the situation. "Yes, in the entire Jiangnan District, I have three estates and eight villas; they were all invested in by me personally, and I designed them myself before having others build them."

  "What" everyone in the living room heard Chen Shao's words and looked at him with a joking gaze; seeing that no one believed him, Chen Shao was also very helpless. Even he himself didn't know how many properties he had in Jiangnan District, as his business spanned globally and he was involved in almost every profitable industry. He even used to be involved in the diamond mining industry, but it turned out to be too small after investing a huge amount of money and manpower to explore just one mine. After developing the diamond mine, there wasn't much profit to be made, so he stored all the diamonds in his spatial ring and then shut down the diamond business. Of course, not many people knew about this situation.

  "You... you little brat, where have you been wandering for the past five years? Now you're so rich!" Chen's father was also startled by Chen Shao's words; even Yuner and Xiaoxian were the same, they had stayed in that kind of mansion last night, they knew what it was like, but Chen Shao actually had two more, villas too, how could they not be surprised? Especially Xiaoxian "oppa, so amazing! I feel like the distance between us is getting farther and farther apart, it's really frustrating to say" Xiaoxian's thoughts in her heart were left unsaid.

  "Me? When I left, my first destination was New York in the United States. I spent a year developing myself there, and then the second year was our motherland China, where I developed for about two years; Finally, it was the European Union, where I stayed for a year and a half; Finally, I returned to Los Angeles to rest and arrange the development route of each company; After resting in Los Angeles for half a year, I came back to Korea yesterday; This is my journey over the past few years." Chen Shao told everyone about his development places over the past five years and waited for questions from his family members. Of course, Chen Shao didn't hide anything trivial, because it wasn't convenient to say it out loud; Even if he said it out loud, no one would believe him, as it was really too shocking."

  When Chen's father heard his son say these words, his heart was almost in his throat. If there were any more stimuli, he couldn't guarantee that his heart wouldn't jump out. "Wait... wait a minute, let me calm down; my heart is about to jump out; wait for a moment and then you can continue." When Chen Shao heard this, he rolled his eyes and thought to himself, if it's going to jump out anyway, why bother listening? Isn't that just asking for trouble????

  "Alright, you can speak now; go ahead and tell me about your business in Korea, while my heart can still take it. Just say everything at once, don't drag it out bit by bit, or I'll be on edge. I'm even afraid that after hearing what you have to say, I might just drop dead." Not only did Mr. Chen think this way, but everyone else in the living room thought the same; the adults were a bit more composed, at least they had some experience with the world, but Yun'er and her sister Lin Yunxi, Xiaoxian and Chen Shao's sister Chen Ning all had their mouths agape, as if they could swallow two eggs whole.

  "Hmm..." Chen Shao hesitated for a moment, then said "In Korea, I don't have many industries, I know that SBS TV has 35% of the shares and MBC TV has 40% of the shares; as for the company's shares, I also have 67%; these are all in the entertainment circle, other aspects have the Gangnam district real estate that I mentioned earlier; oh, right, Lotte Department Store is also my investment, in Korea I remember only this much, now I can't think of anything else, wait until I check clearly and tell you again. Oh, right, Samsung Group also has some shares, but not many." Chen Shao lowered his head and said all the industries he knew in Korea, finally remembering that he had some shares in Samsung Group, so he added it; after he finished speaking, he raised his head to see that everyone in the living room was already lying on the ground, only Xiaoxian's eyes were shining brightly staring at her, not because she wasn't surprised, but because she was scared by Chen Shao's words and her soul had escaped.

  "I'm saying, do you have to be like this? Didn't you ask me to say it? Now that I've said it, you don't believe me. Even if you don't believe me, there's no need to pretend to sleep, okay? And even if you're going to pretend to sleep, can you please do it on the sofa? If I had known you wouldn't believe me, I wouldn't have said anything. Everything I said is true, not a single lie." Chen Shao looked at everyone's current state and felt really conflicted;

  PS: Sorry, I made mistakes in the previous two chapters, now corrected!