Moreover, Zong Weiding had always believed that Zong Ruoning was actually the son he had fathered with his mistress. Naturally, he was delighted to see him being groomed as the heir.
That way, even if he could not become the heir of the Zong family in this lifetime, his biological son could inherit the Zong family! If you inherited, then I inherited. Either way, it was an opportunity...
What difference was there from inheriting it himself?!
Why would he object?
Thus, for the past thirty years, whenever his wife, Grand Princess Tantai Jinyu, complained that Master Zong treated his elder brother's posthumous child too well, he would always sternly rebuke her. He said that he respected his elder brother and his father's decision, that the Zong family belonged to his elder brother, and that the Grand Princess should not act recklessly.
Over time, everyone throughout the Zong family came to know that the second son of the Second Branch of the Zong family's main line was an upright gentleman! His elder brother had died, his nephew was still an infant, and though he was in his prime, he had not the slightest intention of seizing the title.
Of course, Old Master Zong had not been fooled by his act.
Therefore, over the years, Old Master Zong had neither warmly favored nor openly slighted him. He had merely guarded against him in secret, keeping him away from the Zong family's core businesses.
Thinking back on it now, Zong Weiding must have looked like a clown to his father all these years!
Now that he realized that, even thirty years after his elder brother's death, he still could not compare to even one of his elder brother's fingers in his father's heart, humiliation and fury finally shattered his defenses.
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