If not for their fear that, after a divorce, they would have to split the family fortune in half—and neither Chairman Lu nor Madam Lu was willing to hand over such enormous wealth to the other—this bitter couple might well have divorced long ago.
Even so, the two of them still tried every possible way to transfer their assets. The family of three could no longer maintain the dignity they had once displayed.
And this undignified atmosphere gradually affected the relationship between Madam Lu and Lu Chengxuan as mother and son.
As mentioned earlier, Chairman Lu had seized upon the fact that Madam Lu had been swindled out of more than a billion by her kept young lover. Every time they met, he would mock her coldly and jab at her sore spot. Madam Lu, who had suppressed Chairman Lu for so many years of marriage, found it deeply uncomfortable. Whenever she failed to win an argument, she felt both humiliated and wronged. After it happened often enough, she could not help taking it out on Lu Chengxuan.
In Madam Lu's eyes, the main reason she had been tricked by her kept young lover into investing in P2P was her fear that Lu Chengxuan would amount to nothing. After founding New Lu Company, Lu Chengxuan's entrepreneurial journey had not gone smoothly. Madam Lu feared that the Lu Family would eventually live off its dwindling reserves, so she had thought of making more money for Lu Chengxuan to use in starting a company. It was precisely because she had been so desperate to make money that the young lover found an opening and lured her into investing in that P2P scheme.
That young lover had painted a dazzling picture and even invited Madam Lu to inspect the platform. When Madam Lu