Time Travel: The Queen's Coronation

After I fired Rong Zixuan, Li Zhanwen regrouped and turned a profit in just one month. This made Rong Zixuan very unhappy. He stopped my car in the underground garage, sat in the passenger seat and started complaining to me.

"When will you get Li Zhanwen away?"

"Why should I get rid of him? I hired him to work here, and he did a great job. He even cleaned up the mess you left behind. Why should I get rid of him?"

"His surname is Li! Zhong Ding's surname is Wei!"

"You mean to say Zhong Ding's surname is Rong! You're afraid that if Li Zhanwen gets a firm foothold in Zhong Ding, there will be no place for Jia Shu and Jia Che anymore!"

"Isn't that right? Jiashu and Jiache are also your sons, and they are the eldest and second sons! The bell and tripod should be inherited by them!"

"You're afraid they won't be able to inherit the bell and tripod, and you won't be able to become the emperor! Rong Zixuan, your abacus beads are flying in my face!"

"Don't say such harsh words. Is it wrong for me to fight for the interests of my son?"

"You have to rely on your own ability to fight for the interests of your son. Why are you arguing with me now? As you said, he was fighting for the interests of his son. Li Zhanwen also fought for the interests of Wei Cheng. What did he do wrong? You are targeting him everywhere!"

"Why did he get to be the vice president while I'm just a small director?"

"He's a top Harvard graduate, and his major is relevant! Most importantly, he's been exposed to business management since he was a child under the guidance of his father and brother! He's suitable for being a leader, and he has the connections to drive business! Do you have them?"

"Aren't connections just relying on family connections? He's just better at reincarnation than me! If he were in my field, how could he have defeated me!" Rong Zixuan said disdainfully.

"Rong Zixuan! What qualifications do you have to bargain with me now? First of all, I am your creditor! Secondly, I don't owe you anything!"

"I am Jiashu Jiache's father!"

"That's all?"

"You're squeezing Jiashu and Jiache's interests by letting Li Zhanwen enter Zhongding! They're still young now, and by the time they grow up, Zhongding will have been Li Zhanwen's world! How can my two poor children fight him? These clearly belong to them! Why would Li Zhanwen take away what belongs to them?"

"It's all about you. You're worried your son will be pushed out of the company's top management and you won't get any benefits! And you say it so righteously!"

“Is it wrong for a father to fight for his son’s interests?”

"When there's profit involved, you only think about your son. So what were you doing before Li Zhanwen entered Zhongding? You were flirting with that girl! And Jiashu and Jiache asked you to accompany them to the amusement park on the weekend, but you broke the promise because you had to be with your girlfriend! Every time they called you, you hung up hastily because you had to take care of her! And I also heard that a rich girl once fell in love with you, but you actually lied and said you were single and childless! You even disowned your son in order to get close to him! And you still have the nerve to say it was for your son!"

"How do you know this?" Rong Zixuan felt guilty.

"When you categorically denied that the two children were not your sons, they were standing right next to you! They are already six years old! They have memories and their own cognition! When you denied that they were your sons in front of others, have you ever thought about how heartbroken they were? And you have been perfunctory to them for the sake of your girlfriend, and they are very heartbroken. Jiashu has told me many times that he doesn't want to take your last name! He also doesn't want to have a father like you!"

"No! Jiache already has your last name, Jiashu must have mine!"

"Now that Jiashu sees his two younger brothers have the same last name as their mother, he feels like he's not part of the family! And as their father, you've been absent from their lives for so long! He feels abandoned!"

"How could that be? Dad still loves him very much! I will go see them when I have time."

"Free? When will you be free? It's been a month since I fired you, and you haven't looked for a job in that month. You should be free, but have you visited them? Do we live far away from you? In the final analysis, you don't love them! They are just tools for you to gain benefits! When Jiashu is older, I will have a good discussion with him about the surname issue. If he wants to change it, I will let him take my surname."

"Why should my son take your surname? Jiache already has your surname, and you even don't let Jiashu go. You are too domineering!" Rong Zixuan was very excited.

"I didn't say to let him change it now. Let him choose when he grows up. It's up to him to decide whether to choose the surname Rong or Wei."

"He'll definitely choose your last name when he grows up! That's not fair to me!"

"It was the child who chose it himself. I didn't force him. How is it unfair to you?" I mocked him sarcastically.

"Men always weigh the pros and cons. When he grows up, he will definitely choose your wealthy mother's surname instead of inheriting my poor father's! He knows that choosing the surname Wei will bring him glory and wealth, while the surname Rong will bring him nothing!"

"Then this has nothing to do with me! It was the child's own choice! Your poverty has nothing to do with me! You could have been my equal, who told you to get yourself killed?"

"Don't keep bringing up old things!" Rong Zixuan said angrily.

"When you were playing the emotional card, you brought up the past and feigned remorse to gain my sympathy, and now you won't allow me to bring it up again? How can you be so hypocritical!"

"Double standards are the essence of human nature! As a human being, I can't fight my own genes! And taking the father's surname is a tradition that has lasted for thousands of years. I'm already being open-minded by letting my other son take your last name. You shouldn't push it any further!"

"Alright, alright, alright! I'm too lazy to talk to you anymore! Whoever takes their last name will inherit their wealth! Let them make their own choice when they grow up!"

"You're forcing him to choose the last name Wei! You know I'm not as rich as you, and you still humiliate me!"

"You can work hard to earn money! It's still a while before he grows up, so you still have time to work hard now! And you're planning on having a new child, so you have to work even harder! In Hegang, where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, I wonder if you can give your new child a home?"

"You...are unreasonable!"

"I have to remind you that you can have a relationship, but once you have a child, you have to take responsibility!"

"I don't need you to remind me! Why do you have the right to have children as you please? I have a child and you come to mock me, as if I can't afford to raise it!"

"Can you really afford it? Your girlfriend is unemployed, and you're unemployed too. Are you three going to starve?"

"Why should you be able to have a child whenever you want? What if my child turns out to be a genius?"

"First, I'm rich! Second, the child's father is rich! Our children are born to inherit wealth and enjoy happiness, so why not have children? I also advise you not to think about having too many children, thinking that if you give birth to a genius who will bring glory to the family, you can also benefit from it."

"You...poor people also have the right to reproduce!"

"I just hope you are truly capable of raising this child, rather than regretting bringing him into this world later, and then blaming him for all the misfortunes in life, letting him grow up in an environment full of complaints and accusations and become a child with an unhealthy personality."

Seeing he couldn't win the argument, Rong Zixuan dejectedly got out of the car, and I quickly stepped on the accelerator and drove away. I don't know why he's become more and more unfamiliar, or if it's like Xu Jing said, he's always been that kind of person, but I just didn't realize it before.

I returned home exhausted and found Li Zhanwen playing football with three children. I sat nearby and watched them play for a while before Li Zhanwen came over and sat with me.

"What's wrong? You look like you're worried about something." Li Zhanwen asked while drinking water.

"Do you men care so much about whether your children have your last name?"

"Well, how should I put it? Because men don't carry a child for ten months like women do, their feelings for their children aren't as deep. Giving a child a man's surname gives him a sense of belonging and inspires a sense of responsibility. Furthermore, since it's been a tradition since ancient times to give a child the father's surname, men take it for granted. If they give the mother's surname, they might be ridiculed as a son-in-law living off the mother."

"Would you care?"

"I don't care! Because I love you! So I love our child too. It doesn't matter to me whose last name he has. What matters is that he is your child and mine!"

Li Zhanwen's eyes were extremely firm when he said this, which made me even more certain that I had not misjudged him.