Chapter 059: Life Is Truly Wonderful

Chapter 059: Life Is Truly Wonderful

“You’re giving me the house?” Wu Chen smiled—not surprised, not overwhelmed, just calm. “I helped you because of your sister. Not for a house. Not as repayment.”

“Come on, Brother-in-law.” Li Ruotai said. “We’re family, sure, but even real brothers keep their accounts straight. You know that.”

“If you hadn’t been there yesterday, I’d have lost hundreds of millions. And honestly, that’s not even the main thing—if not for your guidance, I’d still be walking around blind, and who knows, one day I might’ve just gotten dragged away.”

“Let’s set that aside for now. Just the casino alone—you didn’t only win back my principal, you took a hundred and thirty million off Shen Guangjun. This house is only worth a hundred million. If anything, I’m still shortchanging you.”

“And.” Li Ruotai’s tone shifted. “Honestly, I’m thinking about your future too, Brother-in-law.”

“My future?” Wu Chen asked.

“That’s right.” Li Ruotai nodded. “Think about it—you two aren’t married yet, but my sister’s already pregnant. Marriage is only a matter of time. And you’re still living in that old family house of yours, aren’t you?”

“I know you, Brother-in-law. Always low-key. Plenty of ability, none of the flash.”

He flattered Wu Chen a bit more before continuing. “But once my sister marries you, she can’t exactly move into that old house, can she? Imagine what people would say. It’d make you look bad, Brother-in-law—and if you moved into her place instead, people would talk even worse. I know you don’t care what outsiders think, but… it still wouldn’t sit right.”

Li Ruotai, when he got worked up, truly didn’t think about consequences.

But most of the time, he was sharp, and he knew exactly how to talk. He made people feel good.

“So you need a proper house of your own, Brother-in-law. At least one.” Li Ruotai went on. “This isn’t just for you—it’s for my sister too. Call it… an early wedding gift from this younger brother-in-law of yours.”

Li Ruotai knew perfectly well that Li Ruobing had sworn never to marry.

Even if she settled on a man, marriage might never happen—she’d probably stay in the relationship without ever making it official.

Which meant everything he’d just said was simply him building a solid enough excuse to hand the house over.

He’d thought this through carefully.

He’d already mentioned it to Li Ruobing yesterday—Wu Chen had helped him, had practically saved him, and that deserved something in return.

He knew there was something off about Wu Chen, sure, but that was a separate matter entirely. The man had saved his life.

Afterward he’d gone back and forth on whether to just hand over cash.

Cash felt crude. And for an amount that large, Li Ruotai knew his own situation well enough—Wu Chen was his sister’s man, and if he himself ran into trouble down the road and investigators found a massive transfer between the two of them, it would cause real problems.

Drag Wu Chen in, and his sister might get dragged in too.

Cash would also feel wrong in another way—as if Wu Chen had only helped him for his sister’s sake, and he, the younger brother-in-law, hadn’t treated him as one of his own in return.

After turning it over from every angle, Li Ruotai settled on giving Wu Chen this villa sitting idle in Donghai.

The reasoning practically wrote itself.

The best thing about a house was that it was a fixed asset. Give Wu Chen cash, and if some of that cash later found its way to his sister, a paper trail would form.

A house left no such trail.

Just Li Ruotai, giving something away of his own accord.

And this villa happened to be the finest property he owned in the city—courtyards front and back, over ten million sunk into the renovation alone. He could afford to be this generous precisely because he no longer planned to move in.

The original plan had been to settle here by the end of the year.

But Wu Chen’s arrival in his life had made him fully aware of the danger closing in around him.

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