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Distant memories
In 2021, 41-year-old Hou Zan stood on the stage of the sealing ceremony of Deyun Club, his eyes flashing with joy. With great gratitude, she sincerely expressed her gratitude to Guo Degang.
At this moment, the silhouette of the past involuntarily echoed in her mind.
Many years ago, how could she have thought that one day she would stand side by side with Guo Degang and be each other's family. At that time, Hou Zan had a heavy resentment towards her father Hou Yaowen, and for 14 years, she cut off all ties with this family.
Hou Zan has lacked father's care since he was a child, and his heart is often haunted by unspeakable jealousy and resentment. Her father Hou Yaowen is the most famous cross talk master of contemporary times, but unfortunately in her memory, her father is always in a hurry, busy with his career and rarely at home.
When she was a child, she could only watch her mother Liu Yan cry day and night, but she didn't know why.
It wasn't until he grew up that Hou Zan learned from his mother that his parents divorced because of Hou Yaowen's cheating. The moment he learned the truth, Hou Zhan's heart erupted with unprecedented anger.
She began to hate her father, who was the one who started it, and avoided him, turning a blind eye to him.
On the campus where he was studying, Hou Yaowen occasionally appeared quietly, wanting to see his daughter's face. But Hou Zhan turned a deaf ear to this and ignored it directly, his eyes were full of fierceness and stubbornness.
She hated this man who hurt her mother and abandoned her son and ran away, and she was determined to break off her relationship with him.
The beginning of a legacy dispute
The source of all the contradictions can be traced back to the stormy night of June 2007. The news of the death of the famous cross talk master Hou Yaowen spread like thunder in the capital.
That night, a piercing quarrel rang out in front of his mourning hall, where his eldest daughter Hou Zan and his second brother Hou Yaohua were furious.
It turned out that after 14 years of separation from the family, Hou Zan just decided to re-enter the family, but his father passed away unexpectedly. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to her, and what makes her even more angry is that within a few days of Hou Yaowen's death, Hou Yaohua actually had the idea of monopolizing the entire inheritance.
Hou Yaowen, a master of cross talk, owns a mansion in Beijing's top Rose Garden villa area, as well as hundreds of millions of assets and a number of expensive cars. The value of the entire estate is in the tens of millions.
However, without Hou Zhan's knowledge, Hou Yaohua entered the villa without authorization to count his wealth, took all the bank deposits, and took control of all relevant documents.
All this was inadvertently discovered by the kind and confused Hou Zhan. Seeing her father's hard-earned wealth being embezzled by her own brother, she was so angry that she cried bitterly.
At this juncture, Guo Degang, Hou Yaowen's beloved apprentice, intervened in this dispute. As a master and apprentice, he had a deep friendship with Hou Yaowen and watched the ins and outs of the entire inheritance dispute.
When he saw Hou Yaohua swallowing his own bag and refusing to bury his teacher's body, Guo Degang was heartbroken and did not hesitate to stand up for Hou Zan to defend his rights.
Legal proceedings
Seeing that his father's entire family business was occupied by his brother Hou Yaohua in this way, Hou Zan was furious, and finally sued him in court. However, this lawsuit is controversial, and after more than two years of disputes, it still has not been able to break the situation with ease.
In court, Hou Yaohua was full of quibbles about the accusations and flatly denied all the charges. He rightly declared: "How can I be afraid of losing anything since I have come to such a point? She has not been back to see the family for 14 years, how can she be filial to her? She and my brother have not had a good relationship, so this inheritance should have belonged to me."
Naturally, such a rogue argument could not convince the jury and the judge. Fortunately, Hou Zan provided the confessions of Niu Chengzhi and others as testimony, as well as a large number of ironclad physical evidence, so that Hou Yaohua's quibbles were useless, and he could only plan the plan.
And throughout the course of this lawsuit, the relationship between Guo Degang and Hou Yaohua, as a master and apprentice, was also completely broken.
Guo Degang bluntly condemned again and again, making the contradiction between the two public, and the tension fell to a freezing point. Many people were also influenced by his voice and joined the camp of onlookers to watch this legacy war.
Father and daughter rebuild old friendships
The turning point came when Hou Yaowen was seriously ill and hospitalized. Hou Zhan, who had not seen him for a long time, slowly walked into the hospital ward with a nervous mood.
When she saw her father lying on the hospital bed, the whole person seemed to be frozen in place. Hou Zhan looked sadly at his father's tired body and pale face, the once heroic and upright master in front of him was now in shape, and Docj was declining at age.
This situation made Hou Zan have mixed feelings, and his heart was suddenly overwhelmed with unprecedented regret and remorse. The past is projecting in her mind like a marquee: she has had too many incomprehensions and mistakes about her father since she was a child, and always feels that he is a bastard who has been abandoned from the beginning to the end, so that she has missed too much time for family affection and filial piety.
It turned out that Hou Zhan's prejudice and anger towards his father started with his parents' divorce. In my memory, my mother Liu Yan burst into tears all year round, but never explained the reason for the separation.
When he grew up, Hou Zan realized that his father had cheated when he was young, which led to the breakup of the family.
Once he knew the truth, Hou Zan began to have an unprecedented hatred for Hou Yaowen. She felt that the father who hurt her mother and betrayed the family was unforgivable, and she was determined to draw a line with him, turning a blind eye to him and avoiding it.
But at this moment, when she looked at her dying father, all the resentment and prejudice suddenly burst in her heart, and she was finally relieved. Hou Zan realized that she had been too proud and paranoid over the years, and she was too harsh and ruthless to her father, but this amiable and respectable old man had never forgotten her existence.
Case settlement out of court
In order to repay his father Hou Yaowen's mortgage debt of more than 700,000 yuan during his lifetime, Hou Zan had to sell his residence in Rose Garden, Beijing's top villa area. However, due to the fact that the property has been involved in the whirlpool of inheritance lawsuits, coupled with the fact that there have been fatal cases in it, its sales have been blocked and cannot be moved.
Just when Hou Zan was in an urgent situation, Guo Degang once again lent a helping hand. After learning of Hou Zhan's predicament, the old artist who spoke up without saying a word, directly took over the Rose Garden Villa at a price of 30 million yuan far higher than the market price.
In this way, Hou Zan finally paid off his father's high debts during his lifetime and temporarily solved his urgent needs. What's more, she now has enough funds to properly place her father's body in accordance with his wishes.
Years of strife can finally come to an end temporarily, but Hou Zan is secretly glad in his heart, but also feels a little disappointed by the outcome of the inheritance lawsuit. It turned out that after several years of legal proceedings, the case was finally settled out of court, but Hou Zan only received a small share of the inheritance, and did not completely recover all the property as he wished.
This result is really regrettable and disappointing for many people. After all, in everyone's opinion, Hou Zan is Hou Yaowen's biological daughter, and it is only natural that she should inherit all the inheritance, instead of sharing it with Hou Yaohua's family.
Many onlookers expressed regret for this, believing that Hou Zan compromised first in this lawsuit and did not stick to the end.
But what the truth is, I'm afraid only the parties themselves know best. Perhaps Hou Zan had to make concessions out of some considerations; Or maybe she secretly made other plans, so she took it upon herself to give up more of her share of the property.
A new chapter in life begins
In this way, the lawsuit that has been entangled for many years has finally settled. After experiencing this huge turning point in his life, Hou Zan can finally be relieved to welcome a new chapter of life.
She married the man she liked and entered the palace of marriage. Soon after, a lovely daughter was born, adding more joy and peace to the family.
Hou Chan laughed heartily, hugged the angelic child tightly in his arms, and secretly prayed in his heart that her daughter could be happy forever and be free from the pain and trauma she had back then.
In the past years, Hou Zan was alone with heavy debts and family conflicts, fighting alone and unable to sleep at night. And now, she can finally let go of the obsession in her heart, relax in this warm little home, and breathe the happy air to her heart's content.
As for why Hou Zan chose to make concessions and compromise first in the estate lawsuit, others naturally have different speculations. But it seems that more people are inclined to give her blessings, hoping that this woman who has been through hardships will be able to live a life where all her wishes come true in the future.
On the other hand, Hou Zan herself, she is secretly glad that she has made the right choice and is no longer entangled in the contradictions and grievances of the past. Life is a long road, and she hopes that she and her daughter can relax their minds, be happy and healthy for a long time, and write to their heart's content.