Chapter 1441: Chapter 1445: Good Boy!
“Fine, fine!” Ye Xingbei threw herself into his arms, burying her face in his chest as she acted coquettishly, “Just this once, okay? From now on, you can leave it to those under you who are best at scheming, how about that?”
Gu Junzhu ruffled her hair, “Good girl!”
“But…” Ye Xingbei tilted her face up to look at him, “Le Yuzhou just stumbled upon a fortune and beca a billionaire. Of course, that’s great news, but now that he suddenly has so much money, he could set up his own operation, right? What if he jumps ship?”
“He won’t,” Gu Junzhu said. “My dear, don’t forget, he signed a fifty-year contract. If he wants to jump ship, he’ll have to wait until after he’s seventy.”
Ye Xingbei: “…I’m worried you’ll hold onto him too tightly and turn him into an enemy! If he has aspirations to strike out on his own but you keep him by your side as a subordinate, it could end up turning sour.”
“Don’t worry, I’ll keep an eye on things,” Gu Junzhu reassured her with a few pats. “A forced lon isn’t sweet, I understand that. Whether it’s him, Han Zuo, or Yu Mo, if any of them develop other ambitions, I’ll offer appropriate terms, have them pay a reasonable price, and give them their freedom. Everyone involved is smart enough to avoid making things ugly. You can rest easy.”
“Mm,” Ye Xingbei snuggled into his embrace, murmuring, “But, thinking about it, I still feel more at ease using people we’ve raised ourselves. There’s less to worry about that way. Like Xiao Chi and Xiao Cheng—I think they’ve been completely brainwashed. Deep down, they truly consider themselves Gu Family people, your people. The Gu Family is their ho, and no matter what happens, they won’t have other ideas. That kind of loyalty is just so reassuring.”
Gu Junzhu humd in agreent, “The bonds between people are nurtured over ti. Xiao Chi and the others are loyal because they grew up in the Gu Family. Over ti, as Han Zuo and the other two contribute more to the Gu Group, they’ll develop a similar sense of belonging to the Gu Family. Plus, Han Zuo and the other two were ticulously selected by ; they were chosen out of tens of thousands. Their character is beyond reproach—they wouldn’t be the type to bite the hand that fed them. You don’t have to fret.”
“Mmhmm,” Ye Xingbei tilted her head to look up at Gu Junzhu, “I was just thinking, should we also raise a few right-hand n for our son? You have Xiao Chi and Xiao Cheng, but what about when our son grows up?”
“Already in the works,” Gu Junzhu said. “The Gu Group has a Children’s Charity Foundation under its umbrella, which has been providing aid to welfare institutions across the country for years. The foundation’s staff selects promising children from orphanages and welfare hos to sponsor. Among them, the most outstanding ones, when they’re teenagers, will attend the sa school as Xiao Shumiao, possibly even the sa class, to build a bond while also observing their character. Back when my mom picked Xiao Chi and the others for , the Gu Group sponsored over a thousand children. In the end, only twelve were chosen to stay by my side.”
“What happened to the rest of the children?” Ye Xingbei asked.
“Those with good character and strong abilities ended up working for companies under the Gu Group,” Gu Junzhu explained. “Those with character flaws or diocre abilities sought their own paths.”
“That’s a really good approach,” Ye Xingbei said dreamily. “If I had the capability, I’d want to do the sa. Even if not a single exceptional talent cos out of it, just sponsoring so many children, giving them the chance to go to school and have a decent environnt where they can live like ordinary kids—that in itself is such a aningful thing.”
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