Experience It Properly

"Yeah, I also don't think my son should be the one doing the dirty work and offending people." Han Yanhu stood up as well. Why should her son solve their problems for them? Disgusting.

Huo Xi looked at Shen Can standing in front of him and his mother, who had risen to speak up for him. "Can Can, go sit down. Mom, you sit too."

He truly hadn't expected Shen Can to suddenly step forward and speak for him. After all, no one would think someone like him needed help.

Most of the time, they simply followed his arrangements and believed he could solve anything, so there was no need to worry.

Today, Shen Can had been the first to step forward and speak for him, and then even his mother had been unable to hold back from saying something.

Although Huo Zhenyun's words really couldn't trap him, it felt rather nice to have someone consider things for him, stand before him, and speak up on his behalf.

He had also realized that Shen Can was truly bold. No one else had dared to speak, yet he, a junior, had dared to come out and confront Huo Zhenyun like this.

The Shen Household hadn't expected Shen Can to suddenly rush out either. They all kept an eye on the situation. If Huo Zhenyun dared say anything unpleasant to Can Can, the Shen Household was not to be trifled with.

"You want to acknowledge them yourself, yet you won't allow others to do the same. I won't make that decision." Huo Xi looked at Huo Zhenyun.

Huo Zhenyun was furious. No one could stop him from acknowledging them, but now that he had started it, he could no longer stop others from doing the same.

"We understand what you mean, but Grandfather is different from everyone else. How much has Grandfather contributed to the Huo Household? And what about them? I'm afraid they can only live off everything the Huo Household provides every day."

"Is it really appropriate for people like that to acknowledge all their sons and grandsons? I think you understand." Zhou Jingxuan smiled confidently after saying that.

He refused to believe that, after this, those people would still keep clinging to them. If they did, they would only embarrass themselves. If they continued making trouble, then they could decide whether they were allowed back based on their contributions.

Shen Can nearly laughed out loud when he heard that. Holy crap, the male lead actually dared say that. It would've been one thing to think it, but he said it out loud. How many people is he going to offend?

And maybe these people themselves haven't contributed much, but their elders definitely have. Otherwise, the Huo Household isn't stupid. Besides, something like this can't possibly be sorted out clearly.

A century-old noble family is great, imposing, and prestigious, but its waters run deep too. You should experience it properly this time. Old Master Huo won't be able to smooth the road for you this time.

If you hadn't hidden things so well in the Original Plot, then taken advantage of Huo Xi being trapped in Africa, at risk of infection from a new virus, and out of contact, allowing Old Master Huo to naturally take over as family head again, returning to the Huo Household wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

Huo Zhenyun's second cousin was the first to curse. "Is there any place for you to speak, you little bastard? You want to look at contributions? Huo Zhenyun, my father died for your father, didn't he? Without my father, you wouldn't even have had the chance to be born. Contributions my ass."

"Your mother was an illegitimate daughter, and you're an outsider. What right do you have to judge whether we've contributed anything? Do you even deserve to? My father met with an accident abroad while following Huo Zhenyun. My mother met with an accident because of the Huo Household's business in a lawless region."

"That Huo Household XX branch was founded by my grandfather. The family didn't support him much at the time, and he paid two-thirds of the money himself. Everyone knows how much income he brought the family. If he made no contribution, then have the family spit out the share that belongs to us. Better yet, stop altogether. No one gets anything anymore."

"When my grandmother was young, she bought a mine for the Huo Household at auction with her own spending money. Our family did receive the largest share from it, but if you think my grandmother made no contribution, then spit it all out too."

Everyone started naming their own contributions, and by the end, they discovered that they themselves had even been running small businesses. They weren't merely living off the Huo Household as they had imagined. Huo Zhenyun had never expected that these juniors, who had once been good for nothing, had actually gone into business.

Those people continued cursing until a final bang on the table rang out, and only then did they stop. The sound had come from the table of the Huo Household's oldest elders, and they didn't dare keep going.

"Arguing, arguing, arguing! Are you all trying to turn the heavens upside down? You people who produced all these illegitimate sons and daughters, are you proud of yourselves? And Huo Zhenyun, did you inform anyone before acknowledging relatives? Do you take us old people as if we don't exist?"

The one who spoke was the Huo Household's oldest elder, already over ninety. "Have you all forgotten the Huo family rules? You're clearly one family, yet you're calculating contributions here? With so many guests present, do you have no regard for the family's dignity at all?"

"Which of your families hasn't benefited from other members of the Huo Household? Which of your elders, you, or your children wasn't raised on the Huo Household's money?"

After saying that, he looked at Huo Xi. "Xi'er, what do you think?" Huo Xi walked over to support him before saying, "Since they all have contributions and blood ties, then acknowledge them all."

"Those with poor character and temperament, or who have done things that harmed the Huo Household's reputation and interests, can be driven out as before."

"Likewise, those who insist on acknowledging them must take responsibility. They made the Huo Household lose face today. They cannot be allowed to damage the Huo Household's reputation or other interests again afterward."

"So, whoever insists on bringing them back and then causes trouble for us will be expelled from the Huo Household along with them."

The Huo Household elders all nodded. Huo Xi's solution was good. They didn't like the Huo Household being such a mess either. Only today had they learned that the Huo Household had so many illegitimate children outside.

It was so absurd that they didn't even know what to say. But they couldn't exactly manage everyone's lower halves for them. If it weren't for the fact that they truly carried Huo blood, and that children couldn't choose their own birth, they wouldn't acknowledge them at all.

In any case, they had better not cause any trouble. When the Huo Household said expulsion, it meant real expulsion. Those people had better behave themselves.

After Huo Xi finished speaking, Huo Zhenyun still hadn't stepped down. The elder Huo Xi was supporting glared at him. "What, do you still have a problem? Isn't acknowledging all the children enough for you?"

Ordinarily, since Huo Zhenyun had once been family head and had made contributions, these elders shouldn't have treated him coldly. But this time, Huo Zhenyun had truly gone too far.

"Ru Yan and I are already married. From now on, she is the wife of me, Huo Zhenyun." Huo Zhenyun took Shi Ruyan's hand, said this, and stepped down from the stage.

Huo Zhang was furious, and the White Household's expressions were unpleasant as well. Remarrying after being widowed was perfectly normal, but Huo Zhenyun had brought his mistress home as his wife. How could they tolerate that?

"I'll seek justice for Grandmother. I'll make him pay the price." Only after Huo Xi said this did Huo Zhang restrain himself.

Otherwise, wouldn't that be letting Huo Zhenyun off too easily? Since he had someone he loved, then he shouldn't have accepted the family-arranged marriage. The Huo Household did not forbid people from pursuing true love.

It was nothing more than the young Huo Zhenyun being unwilling to give up power and status. But since he had married, he should have lived properly with his wife. Instead, he insisted on cheating during the marriage and even having a child.

Although the White Household was no longer as powerful as before, that hadn't been the case decades ago. Huo Zhenyun had won the position of family head precisely because of his marriage to his grandmother and the close cooperation between both sides afterward.

Yet he had insisted on betraying his grandmother, cheating on her when she was seven or eight months pregnant, and fooling around with someone else in another city for three months.

He had continued thinking about that woman and that child, while never showing any care for his grandmother or his own son.

Even though he considered himself rather indifferent toward family affection, he still couldn't understand how Huo Zhenyun could do such things. Was it really true that shameless people were invincible?

This banquet was destined to be a failure. Even though the matter had passed, the atmosphere remained unbearably awkward.

This was nothing like the homecoming Zhou Jingxuan and Shen Keke had imagined. They had imagined the entire hall congratulating them, everyone currying favor with them, yet it had turned out like this. Still, they could only endure it.