Chapter 877

Qin Ze sat on the hospital bed, utterly bewildered. When had he ever brought a man home? Seeing his grandfather raise his hand to strike again, Qin's mother swiftly stepped in front of her son. "Dad, if you want to hit someone, hit me instead. 'A child's faults reflect the father's failings.' Beat me, and I'll go home and take it out on his father. Every mistake is his father's fault—'a crooked stick will have a crooked shadow.' His dad set a terrible example." "..." Old Master Qin felt his daughter-in-law's words had just insulted him by extension. Qin Ze's father was the old man's most accomplished eldest son, whose achievements and status had long surpassed the patriarch's own. The old man basked in the prestige his son brought him—until it came to Qin Ze, the family's black sheep. The boy refused to follow the proper path, neither joining the military nor the family business, instead dabbling in appraisal centers, private investigation, law firms... And now this—insisting on marryi