"Miss Lu stayed despite the enormous pressure. Later, when the Japanese occupied Modu, they set their sights on the Lu family's vast holdings. They threatened and tempted her, stopping at nothing."
"But Miss Lu stood firm and refused them outright!"
"She held to three principles: she would not leave the country, move her factories, or surrender!"
"To protect the family's businesses, she even led people to stand guard at a factory gate and confront the Japanese. In the end, through sheer wit and her connections, she preserved the Lu family's core businesses and upheld her nation's dignity."
Bai Zhengling paused, his expression turning complicated yet full of respect.
"But just when everyone thought the Lu family would keep growing, your grandmother made a decision that shocked them all—she was getting married."
"She kept the wedding quiet and invited no outsiders. Very few people even knew who the groom was."
"Soon after the wedding, she sold half the Lu family's assets and used the proceeds as a dowry to support her husband's war effort."
"They said her husband was a soldier. The front lines were short of food and guns, so she turned the money into more than a dozen planes, hundreds of thousands of bullets, and vast quantities of food, then sent it all to the front."
"She didn't keep the other half of the assets for herself, either. She donated them to the country to build schools and hospitals."
"Later, she saw that people like us were poor but ambitious. She put up some money to help us start businesses and supported us until we became what are now called the Ten Great Financial Conglomerates."
"And this Blood Covenant..."
Bai Zhengling glanced at the torn scraps of paper on the floor and gave a bitter smile.
"Miss Lu never