sbdcsierra Chapter 227 A family of four living under the same roof
Chapter 227 A family of four living under the same roof
Li Ze sat alone on the very large sofa in the living room.
A variety show was playing on TV, with several hosts telling funny jokes.
However, although Li Ze's eyes were on the television screen, his mind was thinking about something completely different.
He thought of some of his friends in America.
In fact, this period of time has been since he returned to the Dragon Kingdom.
Most of his former friends in America have contacted him in various ways.
Some called, and some sent messages.
The first question they all asked was basically the same.
That is: Why did you suddenly go back to China?
When his friends learned that he was staying in China to win back his ex-wife from eighteen years ago...
They also learned that his children had never liked him from the beginning, and his ex-wife was unwilling to remarry him.
Most people react in the same way.
They all found it very incomprehensible.
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Several of them were the first to answer the phone and ask him:
"Why bother? With your current status and power, what kind of woman couldn't you find in this world? Just snap your fingers, and all the world's top female celebrities, models, and socialites would flock to your side."
Why bother pursuing your ex-wife whom you divorced over a decade ago?
"Besides, she's already ten years old."
In the eyes of his friends, a woman is at her least attractive when she reaches her twenties.
As you go on, you'll only get older and your value will only decrease.
They felt that Li Ze had absolutely no need to waste his time and energy on such a person.
Li Ze certainly knew what his friends meant.
He also knew that what they said, from a purely self-interested perspective, did indeed make sense.
However, Li Ze had his own ideas.
Of course he can spend money to find those very beautiful girls, even the most beautiful girls in the world.
With his current wealth, no matter what level of beauty she is, he only needs to say one word and she will appear in front of him.
During his years in America, he was never short of women.
But to be honest, those women were just fleeting moments to him.
They came and went, went and came again.
They changed batch after batch.
In the end, he couldn't even remember what their faces looked like anymore.
The reason those women approached him was entirely for his money.
No one genuinely liked him as a person.
When you have an endless supply of money, you will discover a very cruel truth.
That is, most of the people surrounding you are not there because of who you are.
They're all after the money in your pocket.
In this situation, how could you possibly believe in so-called "feelings" anymore?
But if it's different.
When you're with him, he has nothing.
He was a college student so poor that he couldn't even afford a meal of meat.
He had no money, no background, and no skills.
However, despite her family's objections, Ruoran insisted on marrying him.
At that time, Ruoran truly loved him as a person.
It's not because he's rich, it's not because he has status.
I simply like him as a person.
This thing is so precious.
It's so precious that even if he held the world's GDP for a year, he still couldn't buy a second one.
There are indeed many beautiful women in this world.
He can find it anytime he wants.
But that kind of mutual support in the past, that genuine affection that never left during the most difficult times, is something that no amount of money can buy.
Li Ze leaned back on the sofa, fully aware of the situation.
There are indeed many things in this world that money can't buy.
And that's exactly what he's pursuing now.
After all, once you have money, you can get all the things that money can buy.
Whether it's luxury cars, mansions, private jets, or the world's most expensive wines and restaurants.
He has all these things, and has had them for many years.
He's completely lost all interest in it.
Once a person can easily obtain everything that money can buy...
His heart will naturally begin to pursue things that money cannot buy.
For Li Ze, the thing that money can't buy is Ruoran.
It's that relationship they once had.
He knew his American friends didn't understand him.
This is also normal.
This kind of mentality and thinking is indeed difficult for ordinary people, and even most wealthy people, to understand.
This is also normal.
This kind of mentality and thinking is indeed difficult for ordinary people, and even most wealthy people, to understand.
Most people spend their entire lives busy in this world, pursuing only one thing from beginning to end.
That's money.
Moreover, this money was something they couldn't fully obtain even after a lifetime of hard work.
Therefore, in their eyes, money is the most precious and important thing in the world.
From a realistic perspective, this is indeed true.
In this society, you can't do anything without money.
Food costs money, housing costs money, medical care costs money, and tuition fees for children cost money.
Money is indeed the most important thing.
However, when a person truly possesses immense wealth...
When you have so much money that you could never spend it all in your lifetime.
He will understand something very quickly.
That is, money is not actually the most important thing in the world.
Because when you already have the most money.
Something else will inevitably emerge in your heart to replace money.
That thing will become your new pursuit, the thing you value most in your heart.
For Li Ze, the thing that replaced money was his family.
It is Ruoran, it is Mengli, it is Menghan.
It's just every ordinary moment I spend with them.
Li Ze looked away from the television screen.
He turned his head and glanced in the direction of the bedroom across the corridor.
The door to Ruoran's bedroom was closed, but a very faint light shone from inside.
She's probably lying in there scrolling through her phone or watching some TV series.
Li Ze looked at the door for two seconds, then turned his head away.
He glanced at Mengli and Menghan sitting on the other side of the sofa.
Mengli was looking down at her phone, tapping away at it, seemingly engrossed in something interesting.
She would chuckle softly from time to time.
Meng Han leaned against the armrest of the sofa, holding a phone in his hand. However, his expression was much more serious than his sister's, as if he was looking at something intently.
Li Ze looked at his two children.
These are his flesh and blood, these are his descendants.
The two of them sat quietly on the sofa next to him.
His ex-wife was sleeping in a bedroom not far away.
A family from the west lived under the same roof.
This is a very plain and ordinary scene.
It is absolutely impossible to buy it with money alone.