Surrounded by the Billionaire's Deep Doting-Chapter 701 - 537: Retreat to Advance

"More than three years... this place seems unchanged. What a pity... things remain, but people are different."

Su Xiaomeng murmured, feeling a sense of emotion in her heart.

She walked to the wall, picked a small leaf, and played with it in her hand...

When she looked down at the leaf, she still looked like a young girl yet to mature.

With her head lowered, she murmured,

"Compared to me, you, Ming Lang, and Meng Meng grew up here. You must be feeling bad about this now, right?"

Shan Mingxu’s expression was exuberant, his words firm,

"Growing up here is true, but without people, it’s just a house. A place with people is home. As long as there are people, there’s home. What’s there to feel bad about?"

Su Xiaomeng raised her head and looked at Shan Mingxu...

Mingxu’s eyes are very similar to Yin Shixiu’s; they are truly a pair of eyes that belong to a real man!

With a lovely nose standing tall, pink lips curved up,

"Yes, there’s nothing to feel bad about."

Su Xiaomeng took a deep breath, her eyes firm, just like the words she spoke,

"One day we will come back. Even if this is just an empty mansion, it can’t always be occupied by beasts."

Shan Mingxu heard these words, without any doubt about Su Xiaomeng’s determination, he stood tall and stepped out with the stride of a soldier—

"Understood!"

.............

After Su Xiaomeng and Shan Mingxu left the main mansion, Yin Shiqing and Shi Haiyan sat in the empty hall.

The two sat in silence for a long time.

Yin Shiqing didn’t speak, and Shi Haiyan dared not speak rashly at this moment either.

A middle-aged couple had already suffered enough in front of a young girl.

No one expected Su Xiaomeng to play such a hand, nor did anyone expect the few stubborn old folks of the Yin family would agree to let Su Xiaomeng do it!

An empty mansion, all the Yin Family members had left.

Yin Shiqing thought this mansion was of significant importance to all Yin Family members, and yet it was abandoned so easily.

Family Head...

What does Family Head mean...

What is Family Head...

Yin Shiqing trembled all over, realizing that no matter how harsh the family rules were, they couldn’t dictate people’s hearts; no matter how strict the family laws were, they couldn’t punish those who hadn’t made mistakes.

What Family Head of the Yin family?

"Ah—!"

Yin Shiqing, in a fury, stood up and picked up the ivory rod beside him, starting to fiercely bang on the ceramic tea table in front of him.

He didn’t believe he couldn’t break this ivory rod!

He even drove out all the Yin Family members from the mansion!

He killed Yin Shixiu! He couldn’t subdue a young, inexperienced girl?

Seeing Yin Shiqing become unprecedentedly violent, Shi Haiyan noticed his madness in thrashing the ivory rod, the constant clashing sounds sent chills down her spine.

Finally, the ivory rod broke.

Yin Shiqing stood there, gasping for breath, still tightly clutching the broken ivory rod.

His deep eyes, with the fire of anger slowly dimming.

"Do you think that leaving this mansion means it’s all over?"

"Today you abandon a mansion, tomorrow you lose Yin Shixiu’s company. Let’s see what else Su Xiaomeng can do! Aside from her sharp tongue, what else can she stir up?"

Yin Shiqing flung his hand, throwing the remaining half of the ivory rod heavily onto the ground.

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Three days ago, Su Xiaomeng was in Yin Shaohui and Zhou Mengqin’s room, explaining her thoughts to the two elders,

"If Yin Shiqing wants it, let him have it."

"..."

The two elders were shocked, hard to conceal their inner unrest.

Zhou Mengqin had mentioned letting Su Xiaomeng decide on the issue of the Family Head succession, which was indeed the last bit of persistence and willfulness of this old gray-haired lady.

But she never imagined that Su Xiaomeng’s decision would be to let Yin Shiqing ascend to the position of Family Head, and that they would have to move out of the Yin Mansion...

"The family foundation accumulating over time, generations of effort together created the current Yin family."

"Xiaomeng, if so, Shaohui and I would be dead and ashamed to face our ancestors in the afterlife..."

"Mom, listen to me."

Su Xiaomeng already anticipated the reaction from the two elders before expressing her thoughts.

But even so, she spoke.

"The heavy legacy of the Yin family, passed down from one generation to the next... what exactly is passed down?"

Su Xiaomeng looked at Zhou Mengqin earnestly,

"Meeting Shixiu was accidental, but the acquaintance and mutual understanding led to marriage, through daily interactions, Shixiu made me feel not the arrogance and blindness of a wealthy offspring..."

"Not the pompous pride of a successful entrepreneur."

"I know countless people say he’s arrogant, but I have seen him personally help an elderly with mobility issues on the road."

"I know he has cleanliness habits, perhaps needing two to three servants at home for cleaning, but I have seen him, unafraid of grime and exhaustion, visit workers at construction sites."

When speaking of Yin Shixiu, Su Xiaomeng’s face always shines with involuntary pride and joy,

"Mom, from Shixiu, I saw what the descendants of a historically noble family are supposed to be like."

"..."

"Is it demonstrated by this grand mansion? Is it shown by the name Yin Family?"

"..."

"No, all the excellent qualities in the blood of the Yin Family are given by you, inherited from your ancestors, and then passed down to the descendants."

"If Yin Shiqing wants to become the Family Head of the Yin family, let him be."

"The Yin family has countless family rules and traditions, it is these that guide the descendants, not this mansion, not the title of Family Head."

"Shixiu never had any thoughts about the Family Head position before, yet everyone in the Yin family respected and admired him."

"Even if Yin Shiqing is older, even if Yin Shiqing is much older, even if Shixiu is only in his thirties."

"There isn’t a rule in the Yin family saying that Yin family members must live in the Yin Mansion, right?"

"Regardless if he inherits the Family Head position, what’s the big deal if I call him Family Head? What’s the big deal if everyone calls him Yin Family Head?"

"It’s just a title, just a house."

Su Xiaomeng said a lot, but to Zhou Mengqin and Yin Shaohui, putting down the Yin Mansion so easily was ultimately not that simple.

They remained silent...

Su Xiaomeng wasn’t in a hurry, just waited.

After a while, Yin Shaohui, lying in bed still receiving nutrition fluids, spoke with a hushed voice,

"Do as Meng Meng... says..."

Zhou Mengqin looked surprised, took a deep breath, and then slowly exhaled,

"This house is still decided by the old man, since he says to do as you say, then do as you say."

Su Xiaomeng tightly held Zhou Mengqin’s hand,

"We are not yielding, mom, we are advancing by retreating."

"..."

"Without Shixiu, many unexpected events will bombard us; temporarily we don’t have the time or energy to argue with Yin Shiqing. There are far more things more important than Yin Shiqing."

"..."

"Appropriate retreat is beneficial to us in every way."