Chapter 411: Brother and sister are at odds with each other
The Kang family and the Shen family are fundamentally different.
The Kang family has been an intellectual since their grandparents. Even if they did not make a fortune, they would still be an elite middle class with a prosperous life. Their life is not hard in the first place, and they do not care about the gender of their children.
But the two elders of the Shen family are different. They have been cultivating the land for most of their lives, and when the opportunity to make a fortune came by chance, they almost grasped the only hope and squeezed their heads out, even to the point of breaking their heads and bleeding, to get up from the bottom.
It was not easy for the two elders of the Shen family who did not have many educational opportunities to learn to read while making a fortune. In their past understanding, having a son was the most important thing.
Only by giving birth to a son can one inherit the land in the countryside, and then someone can come out to help the family farm and work, instead of marrying off someone else's daughter when they are old.
When Shen Yici was born, the Shen family's business was just starting to pick up. When their eldest daughter was born, the two elders of the Shen family were happy but still a little regretful. They believed that no matter how good their daughter was, she could only be a son who could inherit the property.
The birth of their second child, Shen Zuoren, was the heir they had been waiting for, praying to God and praying to Buddha.
By this time, the Shen family had gradually grown in size, and this man came at the right time.
From the time when the Shen brothers were young, they believed that their sons were the ones who would inherit the family business, and their daughters would be given a generous dowry to marry off, and they would become someone else's daughter-in-law.
The seeds of Shen Yici's grievance were sown under such circumstances. Why are we all the children of our parents, while we are the water thrown away and our younger brother is the hope of the family's future?
She has been competitive since she was a child, striving to be first in everything. Her family has so many medals and certificates that they can't fit in one room. She has excellent grades and was recommended to one of the top universities in the country during the college entrance examination.
After graduation, I joined the company and started working at the grassroots level. A few years later, I also studied for an MBA at Wharton School before returning.
When she returned to China, she discovered that her younger brother, who had just finished high school, became the director of Valin directly after graduation.
The siblings were drifting apart due to their parents' differential treatment. The tiny bit of rights and interests that Shen Yici fought hard to obtain were things that his younger brother, Shen Zuoren, could easily get as soon as he stretched out his hand.
She finally got the title of CEO in the company, but her brother, who is a director, has veto power.
The increase in income that she managed to bring to the company while socializing and running business outside was completely squandered by her brother's random investment. How could Shen Yici not hate the injustice of fate and gender?
Many times, she even wished that she could be a man.
Finally, the two elders of the Shen family found a "matching" partner for Shen Yici to marry. They wanted to join forces to make Hualin reach a higher level.
This was the first time that Shen Yici went against her parents' wishes. She acted willfully and ran away from home immediately. A few months later, she came back with a pregnant belly and a strange foreign man who said she wanted to marry into her family.
The second son of the Shen family was so angry that he almost fainted. For a moment, he even wished he had never given birth to this daughter. The relationship between parents and daughter once fell to the freezing point.
But after all, she was still her own daughter, and the two elders of the Shen family had no choice but to accept their daughter's only rebellion.
Nominally, Chu Chen's father came in as a wife, but the two elders of the Shen family still moved their daughter's household registration out and established a new household with their son-in-law and nephew. They did not allow Chu Chen to be named Shen.
After marriage, Shen Yici hid all her sharpness. In Shen Huainan's childhood impression, she had always been a gentle, generous and considerate aunt.