In the bustling city of Shanghai, Chen Shuzhen's story is like a miniature version of an urban legend. She is an 80-year-old lady whose life experience has witnessed the rise and fall of a family.
Chen Shuzhen has a prominent background, and her ancestors are all big entrepreneurs in Shanghai. Thanks to her innate flair for business, Chen Shuzhen has successfully continued the family's success. However, just when she thinks that her life has reached its peak, fate brings her cruel banter.
Chen Shuzhen's husband, a man she once trusted with all her heart, turned out to be empathetic. The blow was devastating for her. What is even more heartbreaking is that her husband not only abandoned her, but also moved overseas with their son Yao Renfu and his daughter-in-law's family, leaving Chen Shuzhen alone in Shanghai.
In the face of changes, Chen Shuzhen was not defeated, but devoted her energy to her career, making the family industry thriving. After years of hard work, her personal net worth has reached a staggering 1 billion.
The most notable of these riches are the Xing'anli hotel complex and the mansions located at the junction of Jianhua South Road and Fuyang Road in Xuhui District.
This mansion is not only the foundation of the Chen family, but also carries too many memories and emotions of Chen Shuzhen. In the dead of night, she would always look at the empty rooms and think about the past and future of her family.
She clearly knows that she will leave this world one day, and what to do with these riches has become her biggest concern in her later years.
However, Chen Shuzhen's inner trauma has not been completely remedied by the accumulation of wealth. In the urban emotional drama "Cheng Huan Ji", although she is a rich woman with a successful career on the surface, she still longs for the companionship of her family and the warmth of family affection.
As Mai Chenghuan said in the play: "It would be nice if I could exchange these for my grandmother." This sentence profoundly reflects that Chen Shuzhen gives her younger generations not only material wealth, but more importantly, the heavy love.
Chen Shuzhen's story is like a microcosm of the city of Shanghai, full of opportunities and challenges, full of glory and loss. However, how she properly arranges these wealth in her later years is not only related to the future of her family, but also another test of her life's wisdom.
The life trajectory of Chen Shuzhen's son Yao Renfu is full of fables that wake up the world. When he was in China, he was strictly controlled by his mother, and his life was quite peaceful. However, as his father took him to emigrate overseas and leave his mother's supervision, Yao Renfu seemed to have suddenly become a different person.
He indulged in a life of drunkenness and swept away all the money his father had taken abroad. Seeing her son fall into the abyss, Chen Shuzhen's heart was like a knife. She tried to reach out and pull him, but found that she couldn't.
Her ex-husband did not allow her to interfere, and Yao Renfu himself had long since turned a deaf ear to his mother's words.
In the end, Yao Renfu was charged and convicted and imprisoned for many complex reasons. The rich son who used to spend extravagantly eventually became a prisoner, which is undoubtedly a huge irony and blow to Chen Shuzhen.
She had to face the cruel reality that her son had become an "unbeatable, only child in prison".
In stark contrast, Yao Zhiming's life can be described as extremely miserable. As the son of Yao Renfu, he should have enjoyed a life of fine clothes and food, but because of his father's deficit and imprisonment, he was caught in the whirlpool of life.
In order to avoid debt collection, the young Yao Zhiming had to wander around with his mother and live a life of displacement.
Just when they were cornered, Chen Shuzhen reached out to help. She held an envelope full of dollars to pay off the foreign debts of Yao Zhiming's family, so that he could study with peace of mind. However, fate always seems to refuse to let Yao Zhiming go.
His mother died in a sudden car accident, leaving him alone, and since then, Yao Zhiming is like a stray cat, unable to find a home in this world.
At the same time, Chen Shuzhen's grandchild, Mai Chenghuan, although he has experienced countless dangers, but under the care and protection of his grandmother, he can always save the day. In the first nineteen episodes of "The Story of Cheng Huan", we see that although Mai Chenghuan has encountered more than a dozen tribulations, he can have nobles to help him in every crisis.
The biggest nobleman is obviously 80-year-old grandmother Chen Shuzhen.
Mai Chenghuan deeply understands that if it were not for her grandmother, the most noble person, she might have collapsed under the pressure of life. She once said to Mao Mao that it would be nice if she could exchange these wealth for her grandmother.
This sentence profoundly reflects that in Mai Chenghuan's heart, what he cherishes most is the incomparably heavy love given by his grandmother, rather than material wealth.
Chen Shuzhen looked at the very different fates of these two grandchildren, and her heart was full of contradictions and guilt. She began to think about whether she was to blame for Yao Renfu's depravity, and how to make up for her debt to Yao Zhiming.
These issues became the biggest knot in her later years, and they were also factors that she had to carefully consider when arranging her inheritance.
The fates of the two generations are very different, and the rise and fall of a family is vividly displayed. In the face of such a complex family relationship, Chen Shuzhen must find a balance between emotion and reason to make the best arrangements for the future of the family.
Chen Shuzhen faced a broken family and fell into deep self-blame. She began to reflect on whether she was too strict with Yao Renfu that caused him to be rebellious? Is it because of a moment of resentment, so he let his son fend for himself? This sense of guilt drove her to decide to take on the responsibility of educating Yao Zhiming.
Chen Shuzhen understands that she should not completely give up on her son because of a misunderstanding. She decided that in order to compensate for her mistakes, she took the initiative to take the responsibility of teaching Yao Zhiming, which was not only for her grandchildren, but also for her son.
However, Chen Shuzhen is not an emotional person. She knows that she can't solve the problem with passion alone. She needs to find a balance between emotion and reason to make the best arrangements for the future of her family.
For Yao Zhiming, Chen Shuzhen is not only distressed, but also worried. This child has been displaced since he was a child, and now he is alone, if he does not have a stable backing, how will he stand in the future? This thought made Chen Shuzhen sleepless.
She hopes that through her own arrangements, she can provide Yao Zhiming with a foundation for his life.
Compared with Mai Chenghuan, Chen Shuzhen's love for her is more special. In "The Story of Cheng Huan", we can see that Chen Shu cherishes Mai Chenghuan as the biggest nobleman. She not only gave her meticulous support materially, but more importantly, her mountain-like love gave Mak Chenghuan endless strength.
However, Chen Shuzhen is well aware that excessive coddling can bring disaster. Therefore, she must find a balance between love and training, not only to make Mak Chenghuan feel warm, but also to let her learn to be independent and self-reliant.
Chen Shuzhen was extremely thoughtful when making the decision on the distribution of the estate. She understands that this is not only about the distribution of property, but also a plan for the future of the family.
She hopes that her decision will both protect Mak and give Yao a chance to start over, while also taking into account the possible impact of Yao's release from prison.
In this way, Chen Shuzhen felt deeply responsible for the family, and began to lay out carefully, hoping to pave the way for the future of her two grandchildren through her own arrangements. Every decision she made was poured into her wisdom and deep concern for her family.
This love not only makes up for the past, but also looks forward to the future.
As Chen Shuzhen sat at the law firm and prepared to write her will, many ideas came to her mind. She understands that this will is not only about the distribution of property, but also about the future development of the family.
According to a lawyer at Jin Cheng Law Firm, the fact that Chen Shuzhen revised her will for the last time on the morning of her death fully reflects her seriousness about this matter.
After careful consideration, Chen Shuzhen made a seemingly strange, but actually profound decision: to leave the Xing'anli hotel group to Mak Chenghuan, and to Yao Zhiming, a mansion worth 100 million yuan at the junction of Jianhua South Road and Fuyang Road in Xuhui District.
However, this decision may seem a little strange to the average person. After all, what Mai Chenghuan's family urgently needs now is not only money, but also a place to live. Why don't you just give the house to Mak Chenghuan?
There is an answer in the will. Chen Shuzhen specifically declares that the Xing'anli hotel group is her independent property right. This means that there may be some complexity in the ownership of that mansion in comparison.
Even strictly speaking, part of the property rights of the garden house belong to her unfilial son Yao Renfu.
Chen Shuzhen knew very well in her heart that her unfilial son Yao Renfu would be released from prison sooner or later. At that time, if the mansion falls into the hands of Mai Chenghuan, Yao Renfu is very likely to find a way to seize it.
As the article says: "It is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain" A villain like Yao Renfu, even if he can't win, can come up with a thousand ways to disgust people.
But if the mansion were handed over to Yao Zhiming, the situation would be very different. Yao Zhiming is Yao Renfu's biological son, and logically speaking, Yao Renfu cannot raise any objections. Moreover, when Yao Renfu was released from prison, he was homeless, so he naturally took refuge in his son.
In this way, father and son may get back together.
As for the Xing'anli hotel group, because it is the independent property right of Chen Shuzhen, Yao Renfu has no right to interfere. In this way, Mak Chenghuan's interests are protected to the greatest extent. Although the hotel complex cannot solve the housing problem immediately, the continuous income it brings will allow the Mak family to live with peace of mind.
Chen Shuzhen's arrangement can be described as a strategic strategy. She not only took into account the current needs of each person, but also foresaw what might happen in the future and made the best preparations.
This will shows Chen Shuzhen's wisdom as an elder and her far-reaching consideration for the future of the family.
In the last moments of her life, Chen Shuzhen used her ingenuity to present a profound final lesson to the shattered family. Her estate distribution is much more than just a succession, but a well-thought-out balancing strategy for the family.
For Yao, her mansion in Xuhui is a great gift, not only a valuable property, but also his home in Shanghai. The text also mentions that "if you run into trouble again, at least there is a safe haven."
This gift is not only a compensation for his past displaced, but also a guarantee for his future.
Compared with other methods, Mak Chenghuan prefers to choose the Xing'anli hotel group because it can provide her with more long-term protection. Although the hotel complex cannot solve the housing problem immediately, the continuous income it brings will allow the Mak family to live without worry.
More importantly, the independent property nature of the property protected Mak from possible family disputes.
When it comes to Yao Renfu, for Chen Shuzhen, Yao Renfu's negative behavior in prison is not only a punishment, but at the same time a kind of compassion. She did not completely exclude him from the family, but through Yao Zhiming, she gave him a chance to be a new person.
As stated in the article, "After Yao Renfu was released from prison, he had neither money nor a place to live, and ultimately had to rely on Yao Zhiming, who was his son, to help."
Chen Shuzhen used her inheritance to resolve the potential conflicts in the family, leaving room for everyone to turn around, this will is her last gift to her descendants, and it is also a testimony of her deep love for the family.
This good intentions are not only reflected in the distribution of wealth, but also in her far-reaching consideration for the future of her family.