08 Your mother is my first love
After receiving my dad's first letter, I began to follow in his footsteps, skipping grades from junior high school to high school and entering college at the age of sixteen.
Although my mother was very opposed to me doing this, believing that I lacked the joy of childhood, I still insisted on doing it.
On the day I got my undergraduate diploma, a female lawyer named Zhou Chan came to me and said that she had my father's will to be handled.
It was the end of July, and the sun was unusually hot in the upper city, but I couldn't feel the heat.
Because of this will, I became the youngest director of the Mingwang Group, with the largest number of shares, and assumed the position of executive president.
Obviously, the top management did not consider me competent for this position.
However, this was my father's arrangement, and even though he had been dead for many years, no one dared to say anything.
He prepared a deputy for me, named Ouyang, twenty-five years old, graduated from a prestigious school, worked for a world-renowned financial company, and it is said that he was entrusted to Nalan Chen, the president of Suntak Group, to personally cultivate him.
My dad's tragedy taught me that everyone around me is not worthy of absolute trust, and the heart of defense is always the foundation of life.
As my eighteenth birthday approached, I rejected Uncle Chung's offer to hold a coming-of-age ceremony for me and decided to give myself a birthday gift to conquer Manaslu Peak.
I didn't dare tell my mom that if she knew about it, she would have discounted my legs, after all, it was the eight-thousand-meter peak with the fourth highest mortality rate, and my dad almost died there when he fell out of love, and I stole this from my dad's diary.
Later, the diary was locked in a safe by my mother, and the key was her personal belongings, and I couldn't go and peek at it again.
September was the window of climbing, and I went to Nepal.
I fell in love with mountaineering at the age of twelve, and I climbed two of them every year, because my dad said that people have a complex to meet the challenges of mountains, to go out and meet them, and the adventure journey gives us pure happiness, and happiness is the ultimate in life.
The climb was not smooth, I had a high fever in the middle, and vaguely saw a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old, she gave me a fever reducer, but unfortunately I was too confused with a fever, I didn't ask who she was, and it was two days after I woke up, and many people said they didn't know her.
But I'm sure it's not an illusion.
I came back from Nepal with regret and happened to receive a gift from Uncle Jiang and a letter from my dad.
It was the last letter he ever wrote to me, and I was almost reluctant to open it.
Dear Son,
First of all, I wish you a happy eighteenth birthday!
After today, you will be a real man, and you will have to shoulder the responsibility on your shoulders, whether it is for your studies, career or love.
You're an adult, so let's talk about love first.
I hope you don't follow my example and indulge too much in the relationship between the sexes. In fact, the simpler the emotional matter, the better.
I'm not afraid of your jokes, before I met your mother, I didn't talk about a serious relationship, because I think it's a waste of time to fall in love, I just want to make money, I just want to be successful, but I didn't think about what kind of person I want to share success with, until I met your mother, I didn't understand that she is the driving force behind my upward movement.
In a sense, your mother is my first love, hateful is hateful, this first love is really a little late.
When I started to approach her, the purpose was not pure, at that time, your mother was married, and I appeared as a third party, which was not honorable, so you should not have an opinion about your Uncle Zhong in your heart, this matter was not done by your father from the beginning.
As for the grievances and grievances between those adults, there is nothing to say, it has nothing to do with you, or talk about what happened after I fell in love with your mother.
In my opinion, your mother is actually a very simple person, without much scheming, and without so many twists and turns, she has no father since she was a child, but she has grandparents who love her, so her growth is also smooth sailing, just like all the flowers in the greenhouse.
A good upbringing makes her have a gentle personality and treat her kindly, except for the beauty of her love, she is more casual in everything, but she is too paranoid in her feelings, and she has to like someone, even if this person has hurt her deeply.
Therefore, others think that your mother is stupid and spineless, I only feel ashamed, if she hadn't fallen in love with someone like me, she wouldn't have lived like that.
I'm more worried that she won't like you Uncle Zhong after I'm gone, and if she doesn't like him, then she won't be able to be happy.
So I hope she likes him but I'm not very happy, this mood is very contradictory, maybe you will understand when you have someone you like.
After I fell in love with your mother, I often blamed myself, thinking that I was too bastard before, a basket of romantic debts, and unworthy of her, but fortunately, she didn't dislike me, and gave birth to you, so that I would not regret my departure to the end.
Why did I leave, Uncle Jiang should have told you the answer.
Therefore, people should not choose the wrong path, and those who choose the wrong one will hurt the people who love you in the end.
That's all for love, I hope you can also find someone who loves each other and fulfills each other.
Let's focus on career, this is the foundation of a man's life, and there is no love without a career.
I only have a son like you, so you can only be the master of Mingwang, carry it forward, and go longer and further.
I know you may not be willing to submit to my arrangement, and you want to do more other meaningful things.
But for the heirs of the family lineage, it is precisely the most important thing to maintain the necessary subservience and patience.
I have endured much in the past, and I have received much through my patience.
I started my business at the age of 20 and worked with an overseas Chinese named Zhao Chengdu, who had a lot of money in his hands, while I only had one hand.
Because he wanted to do more and didn't have enough funds, Zhao Chengdu invited his friend Fei Yimin to join him.
I am in favor of this, Fei Yimin is a rich man, and his joining means that we can do what we want to do, what we have the ability to do, and what we can do.
However, to my surprise, Zhao Chengdu brought a wallet and gave me a humiliation at the same time, he wanted to change the name of Mingdu Company to Yidu Company, and the reason why they erased my name was extremely ridiculous: Fei Yimin was born in a famous family, and his name is a golden signboard.
This is a reason to stab my dignity greatly!
I'm furious! The same partner, can he be deprived of the title I deserve by being a nobleman?
But I endured, I told myself to endure and keep a calm mind, this is just the beginning, there is still a long way to go.
I pretended to be calm and pretended to be casual and told Zhao Chengdu: "I support your decision. ”
In fact, I'm lying, imagine how a person who has suffered injustice and whose self-esteem is hurting can be so forgiving.
Patience is not blind tolerance, you need to calmly consider the situation and know whether your decisions will deviate or harm your goals.
Being unhappy with Zhao Chengdu is not only undignified, but also creates a rift in our cooperation, and even causes him to kick me out, while unity can form a joint force, make the cause bigger and bigger, and my personal strength and interests will also grow.
I knew where I was going, and I wanted to go higher.
After that, I continued to work tirelessly as always, and in only three years, I successfully invited the arrogant boss Fei out of the company and let the Mingdu brand be erected again!
That's when people started calling me Mr. and I knew that I had earned my place in the city.
In my eyes, patience is not swallowing, nor is it groveling, it is strategy, but also a tempering of character, and it breeds competitiveness.
This is what I learned from working with Zhao Chengdu.
I have always advocated equality and hated giving orders condescendingly, but Zhao Chengdu always had to put on a swaggering posture in front of me, and I was disgusted.
He didn't take me seriously, thinking that he could replace me by finding someone knowledgeable from a prestigious school, which was a blatant provocation, but I pretended to turn a deaf ear.
I know that respecting myself is more important than anything else, and I tell myself over and over again: your strength is the best humiliation to him, the loudest slap in the face.
As you can see, two years later, Mingdu will forever become history, and in its place is Mingwang.
That year, at the age of 26, I moved the headquarters of Mingwang from Singapore to Uptown, and since then I have been riding the billionaire express train.
Only by being able to endure what others can't endure can we do what others can't.
At all times, impulsiveness is our worst enemy.
Here I would like to mention my second partner, Mr. Tang Qi.
He is a doer, but he lacks business acumen and self-righteousness, lacks ambition and has evil prejudices, and it is inevitable that such a person will come into conflict with me.
The conflict that led to our parting of ways was due to the company's shareholder dividends.
That year, the company performed well and made a lot of money, and the shareholders were all smiling, but I didn't want to divide all the money I earned, and I hoped that half of the income could be reinvested in the operation.
But Tang Qi was adamantly opposed, he wanted to divide the money in full, and even threatened me that I didn't want to continue working in the company.
I couldn't stand any idea of getting in the way of the company's growth and asked him to make an offer for his shares.
He said one billion, I didn't say a word, and immediately bought it.
As soon as the money arrived, Tang Qi was very excited, thinking that he had handed over good luck, and thought that the stock he held was not worth the price at all.
Unexpectedly, I soon made more money as soon as I changed hands, and when the news reached him, he began to scold me for being despicable and hiring the media to publish reports indiscriminately.
I didn't want to get a vile reputation for this money, and I told him that he could get it back at the original price, but he refused my kindness.
In fact, what he rejected was a chance to become a wealthy man, and if he could keep the stock to this day, he would be a businessman at the top of the pyramid, and he would have lost an opportunity that he could not grasp for the rest of his life in order to gamble for a while.
Son, there are too many people and things in this world that require our patience, and there are too many people and things that tempt us to be emotional.
Therefore, you need to cultivate your ability to manage your emotions and control your feelings, not to be swayed by your emotions when making decisions, to make decisions according to your needs, and to always know what you want.
You also need to know that in the world of opportunity, there are not many opportunities to fight for, and if you really want to succeed, you must grasp and protect your own opportunities, and even more so, try to snatch the opportunities of others.
Remember, take patience with you, and it will bring you happiness, opportunity, success, and, of course, love.
God knows how much patience I had to chase after your mother......
After reading the letter, I smiled.
I thought I should have shown this letter to my mother, but when I thought of Uncle Zhong, I had to forget it.
The people are gone, but the living people should make them happier.
Dad, I will not let you down and become a real man.