My Wife is a Beautiful CEO - Chapter 936

Chapter 936: 936

Chapter 936

Painting

“Pojun, tell me, what do you think of this painting?” Yang Gongming asked .

Yang Pojun did not know where he was leading with this but inspected the painting regardless .

“The brush strokes are light giving it a certain style and attention to detail . Judging by the colours and the signature here, it was painted around the Song and Ming Dynasty . It’s a good painting . ” Yang Pojun analyzed and gave his opinion .

Yang Gongming smiled . “Good . You have studied well to be able to analyze so much . ”

“You wanted me to broaden my horizons,” Yang Pojun said with a solemn expression .

Yang Gongming nodded . “Yeah…you’ve always been an obedient child and I’m proud of that . ”

Yang Pojun thought his tone did not match the words that accompanied it but remained silent .

“Can you see the fisherman on the boat?” Yang Gongming asked again .

Yang Pojun looked at the fishermen . “This fisherman…is there a significance behind the fisherman?”

Yang Gongming probed again, ignoring his question . “Do you know who the fisherman is?”

Yang Pojun frowned and contemplated . He thought hard about it but came up blank . “Father, I’m afraid I can’t answer the question . ”

“It’s you,” Yang Gongming said nonchalantly .

“Me?”

Yang Pojun couldn’t believe what he was hearing .

Yang Gongming nodded and sighed . “Pojun, do you know that this is a fake painting? I had a friend replicate it for me many years ago . ”

Yang Pojun’s eyes widened . “But…just now you said…”

“I said your analysis was accurate . I never said it was right . ” Yang Gongming smiled .

Yang Pojun was shocked! Yang Gongming indeed did not confirm if it was genuine .

“Pojun, I said that I’m glad that you’re an obedient child . But I would have been happier if you weren’t . I longed for the day that you were disobedient but it never came . ” Yang Gongming patted his shoulder .

Yang Pojun was completely lost . “W…why?”

“A good son listens to his father . But he will never be an excellent son . Because if all he does is listen, he would have only lived his father’s path and not his own . The future of this clan does not need its history . It needs a new perspective . ”

Yang Gongming’s words were soft . “You were obedient since young and you were precocious . You always believed that you were the sole heir to the Yang Clan and held your self up high in public because of it . You had to be disciplined . You were strict to yourself and everyone around you…”

Yang Pojun lifted his head abruptly . “And why is that wrong?! Father, is my obedience the reason you refused to make me heir?!”

“No . ” Yang Gongming smiled . “The only thing wrong that held me back was your stubbornness to stick on a fixed path . ”

Yang Pojun’s face turned pale as he listened on .

“You’ve never thought of disobeying me and you never doubted my decisions . You even went so far as to give up your firstborn child without consulting me first . What made you think that the Yang Clan would reject its blessing?”

“Father!” Yang Pojun gritted his teeth . “If it were you, would you not have done the same?”

Yang Gongming smiled bitterly . “I would…I would have?”

“Then why…”

“But that doesn’t make it right!”

Yang Pojun was startled .

Yang Gongming sighed a long sigh . “I might have made the same choice but that does not mean that it was the right one to make . Did you know that for the last twenty years, I have woken up in cold sweat asking myself if things would have been different if we raised Yang Chen ourselves? If I had to sacrifice a baby for the sake of the clan, what kind of leader does that make me?!”

Yang Pojun stumbled a few steps back .

Yan Sanniang wiped her tears behind them .

Yang Gongming’s voice was hoarse but he tried to pull through with a smile . “Pojun, how I wished you were brave enough to tell me about Yang Chen . How I wished that he would appear in our family tree . Even if I would not have allowed it, I could pass the clan on to you with relief in my heart . Saving him would have shown that you had a different thought process, the one I was hoping for . Although it might have ended up the same way, at least you were trying to control the rules rather than let it control you . ”

“Father…I…” Yang Pojun was devastated . He did not know what to say .

Yang Gongming turned around to face the painting . “I said you were the fisherman because all you see is the river and the mountains by your side . You would never have known hat you were just a fake painting on canvas . I sent you to broaden your horizons for a reason . I did not want you to be trapped as the descendant of the Yang Clan with ideals that weren’t yours . But instead, you wasted your time learning about antiques and trivial matters…”

Yang Pojun tightened his fists .

“Father, what about Yang Chen? He does not care about all this . Why is he back?”

Yang Gongming explained . “Yang Chen is different from you and me…”

“How so…”

Yang Gongming laughed . “To him, there are no rules in the world . The world is his playground . He kills his enemies and keeps the ones he chooses by his side . He doesn’t care if this would affect his reputation or whether it is morally acceptable . He follows his heart and not the rules . ”

Having said so, Yang Gongming pointed to the fisherman . “You are the fisherman in this painting and Yang Chen is where you are right now, looking over the whole painting . I didn’t pass the clan to you but to Yang Chen because I knew that he could do something the both of us could not . ”

“He slaughters people! How could you speak so highly of him?!” Yang Pojun yelled out furiously .

Yang Gongming shook his head and chuckled . “We are soldiers . In our world, there are only friends and foes . There are no neutral standpoints . Politicians talk but we kill . The Yang clan doesn’t need a leader to protect the clan . We need someone who would fight for the clan…”

Yang Pojun stared at his father for some time .

Finally, he smiled bitterly and said . “Father, I just can’t let it go . I’m your son . Even if I failed to meet your expectations, it was only because you raised me this way . ”

“That was why I planned to never tell you this . ” Yang Gongming sounded as though he was in pain . “I did not want to hurt you knowing that it was also my fault . But since you were so eager to know, I felt that I owed you an honest answer . Pojun, although you’ll never be the leader, I never looked down on you or hated you . You didn’t disappoint your mother . I’m the one who disappointed both of you…”

“Mother?” Yang Pojun snorted . “I never recalled having a mother . Father, if this is your decision, I have nothing to say . I know I cannot oppose your decision but I will never accept it!”

Having said that, he left through the door he entered .

But just when he was about to step out of the door, he saw Guo Xuehua who was waiting outside . He locked eyes with her, feeling the longing in her eyes .

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