305: Surrogate

Zhou Lin and Zhao Jiansheng were discussing things in the office, when the door of the office was pushed open from outside. Someone walked in, scaring the couple. If the things they were discussing were heard by others and reached their father’s ears, they would have to find a way to eat their words.

"Stinky boy, don't you know to knock on a door before entering?"

Zhou Lin immediately breathed a sigh of relief when she saw it was her son, and angrily scolded Zhao Chenlin, with lingering heart palpitations. They were now in the company, so the movement of even every blade of grass would be passed on to her father’s ears.

If this was in the past, Zhao Chenlin definitely would not have taken her seriously, and would let the words in one ear and out the other. Now, though, he was in a good mood and acquiesced, before collapsing on the sofa carelessly, wearing a big grin. Once Zhou Lin finished scolding him, she soon discovered the smile on the corners of his mouth that almost went to the back of his head.

"What happened today to make you so happy? Don't forget, you can’t stay in the company for too long. Your grandfather has not reinstated you to your position. If you let him see you hanging around doing nothing, it’ll be even longer before you can come back," Zhou Lin said.

Zhao Chenlin couldn't bear it anymore, and laughed loudly, "If he doesn’t reinstate me, he won’t reinstate me. I don't care about those lingering matters right now."

Zhou Lin and Zhao Jiansheng exchanged a glance, what could have stimulated him?

Zhou Lin hurriedly came to him, reached out and checked his forehead, before saying worriedly, "Son, don't scare your mother. Tell me what happened, did your grandfather do something again?"

Zhao Chenlin smiled and shook his head, "I was stimulated, but this time, the protagonist involved with my grandfather was not me."

"Say what you want to say, what are you speaking in circles for?" Zhou Lin became so angry that she hit him. She was worried to death; her son was her lifeblood. Although she would beat him and scold him at times, he was still her only son.

Zhao Chenlin finally stopped laughing, but a smug smile remained on his face. "Father, Mother, let me tell you the good news. From today onwards, you don't have to worry about Grandpa giving the Zhou Group to Zhou Cheng, because he kicked Zhou Cheng out of the Zhou family."

"What?" Zhou Lin, who had just sat down, immediately stood up.

"Chenlin, are you kidding me?" Zhao Jiansheng asked, surprised.

"Of course not, I saw this with my own eyes." Zhao Chenlin said proudly. He and Wei Wei were the ones behind sending the photos to his grandfather. In order to see the results as soon as possible, he personally waited outside the Zhou Mansion. He had arrived when Wang Cheng and Zheng Jengin arrived and left after Wang Cheng and the Zhou steward came outside. Zhao Chenlin could tell the plan was successful once he saw their expressions. He first shared the good news with Wei Wei, who agreed to go out and celebrate tonight. Then, he couldn't wait to run over and tell his parents the good news.

Zhou Lin grew anxious, and immediately asked him to tell the whole story.

Zhao Chenlin explained everything.

Zhou Lin clapped her hands. "So it turns out that Zhou Cheng and Eimer's president have that kind of relationship…No wonder the Eimer Group suddenly agreed to cooperate with the Zhou Group and your grandfather suddenly reappointed Zhou Cheng, it turned out that his relationship with Eimer let him be the middleman."

At first, Zhao Chenlin didn't know that the man was the president of Eimer. Later, after asking someone to secretly photograph them and realizing they were entering and leaving the Zhou Group together, he inquired about it. However, because the other party used the name Leon, he didn't know yet that he was Chu Yifeng from the Chu family.

"What reappointment? He has now been expelled from the Zhou family by my grandfather. My grandfather will never let a man who likes men inherit the Zhou family."

Zhao Chenlin had never been as proud as he was now. If not for Wei Wei, he wouldn’t have known what to do. Zhou Cheng was smarter than him, and had better abilities than him; everyone in the company said that Zhou Cheng would inherit the Zhou Group in the future, and hardly anyone looked down on him at all. Now that Zhou Cheng was kicked out of the Zhou family, who else was there besides him? What should be his, would forever be his.

Zhou Lin and Zhao Jiansheng were also very excited: this was really unexpected good news!

"Apart from you, Wei Wei, and the person who secretly photographed Zhou Cheng, no one else knows about this, right?" Zhou Lin asked after the excitement faded.

Zhao Chenlin nodded, "Yes, it's just us."

"This matter must be handled well. If your grandfather finds out that this was your doing, it will be equally detrimental to you as to Wang Cheng. Can you deal with that third person? He shouldn't be able to tell anyone of the matter, right?"

"I have already given him a sum of money, and Wei Wei assured me that the person will not tell a soul." Since Wei Wei was the one who told him that Wang Cheng was gay, Zhao Chenlin put some trust in him.

"That's good, but you still have to be careful," Zhou Lin said. "You leave first, and I'll go with your dad to inquire if Zhou Cheng was really expelled by your grandfather."

After Zhao Chenlin left, Zhou Lin went upstairs to inquire about the recent events, under the guise of official business. However, she wasn’t able to get any useful information. Feng Yifan didn't respond to her probes at all, as if he truly didn't know anything about it. Zhou Lin felt puzzled for a moment, and then changed her mind once she thought about it again.

It wouldn’t be good for the company to leak information of Zhou Cheng's homosexuality. Although her father kicked Wang Cheng out of the house and company, he was still his grandson in the end - her father may still have a trace of compassion in his heart. Zhou Lin thought of this and felt that they should light another fire*, immediately thinking of a good plan.

[T/N: *make things more exciting]

At this time, Mother Zheng also learned about these events.

After Wang Cheng told him the truth, Zheng Jingen felt that there was no need to hide the matter from Mother Zheng. He asked Wang Cheng to find their mother and tell her about it.

Mother Zheng's first reaction after seeing the photo was to swing a fist towards Wang Cheng's head. "Didn’t your mother warn you already? Now is a very important time, so when you are with Chu Yifeng, especially in public, be a little more restrained. Now someone has filmed such a deadly thing and sent it to your grandfather!"

"Mother, I followed your words. But this photo is PSed." Wang Cheng covered his head. He never knew that Mother Zheng held such power behind her punch, it almost gave him vertigo.

"What ‘pissed’? It's been caught on tape." Mother Zheng didn’t surf the Internet very often, so she didn’t understand such online terminology.

Wang Cheng silently wiped away his cold sweat, "PS means that it was photoshopped and modified with computer software. It's not real. I think the only guy who would do such a foolish thing is Zhao Chenlin - it has to be him."

Mother Zheng glared at him, "But that fool used this photo to pull you off your high horse today. What are you so proud of? Your grandfather is no fool, shouldn’t he be able to tell whether it's true or not? You must have taken the opportunity to whitewash your affair with Chu Yifeng, right?"

Wang Cheng felt guilty.

Mother Zheng knew the answer just by looking at his expression. She couldn't help but grind her teeth, wanting to scold him. However, this matter already reached its foregone conclusion, no amount of scolding could change that.

"Now tell your mother, how did your grandfather handle it? Did he tell you not to go back to the Zhou house?"

"No, Grandfather just said that he would find someone to replace my position in the company."

"That's good, at least your grandfather still has some expectations for you, and left room for you to change your mind. If I’m guessing correctly, your grandfather is waiting on you even now. As long as you agree to break up with Chu Yifeng from now on, he will still treat you as his grandson, and the Zhou Group will still be yours. Now this all depends on what you do," Mother Zheng sensibly analyzed.

Wang Cheng scratched his head. Wasn’t this putting pressure on him? "Mother, I don't want to break up with Chu Yifeng."

"I knew you would say that." Mother Zheng already knew this son of hers very well. She couldn't bear to see his disheveled expression. "In fact, this matter is not irreversible. What big storm has your grandfather not seen? Only a handful of people are comparable in experience to him. He will definitely be able to guess who sent the photo to him, so you don't have to worry about that too much."

"Mother, what if Grandfather doesn't let this go?" Wang Cheng asked. The older someone got, the more stubborn they got. Wang Cheng felt that his grandfather’s temper had become really stubborn, and might soon be like Old Man Chu’s.

Mother Zheng was also a little unsure of how to answer his question. In the end, it was still a question of bloodline. "If your grandfather doesn't let this go, then you and Chu Yifeng could go to find a surrogate."

Surrogacy...

Wang Cheng wondered whether or not he should be relieved that Mother Zheng was the only one who didn't tell him to 'just have the baby yourself'. He knew about surrogacy, it meant that there would be a female stranger’s blood among theirs in their future child. Whether the biological father of the child was him or Chu Yifeng, they would still be one step short of true happiness, resulting in an inerasable pimple that might turn into a crack.

"Mother..."

"You don't have to say it, your mother knows what you want to say," Mother Zheng interrupted him. She was just informing him. In fact, she knew that it was impossible for her son to do such a thing. If there was some technology that could let two men have a child that belonged to them, this problem could be solved. The thing was, Mother Zheng didn’t know that this technology existed.

As they prepared to wait and see what would happen, the news that Wang Cheng liked men leaked onto the Internet.

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[T/N: Creative liberties were taken, like Mother Zheng interpreting 'PSed' as 'pissed'. It was originally something else that was lost in translation. Also, was the smile reaching the back of his head sentence kinda creepy, or was that just me?] 

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