Chapter 83: The Abandoned Son's Rise

After returning home, Suou Yumi kept hesitating about whether to have a talk with her daughter. Earlier in the car ride home, with Ayano and Yor present, she couldn't bring herself to speak.

Now, she felt it was necessary to ask her daughter about matters concerning Kuzeha.

Just then, the head of the Suou family, Suou Gensei, returned home.

"Father."

Suou Yumi gave a slight bow to Suou Gensei.

Immediately, she noticed the barely concealed joy on Suou Gensei's face and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Father, is there something worth celebrating today?"

"Haha, tonight's cooperation with the Kirishima family went exceptionally smoothly!"

"Completely different from a few days ago when they were strict and cautiously guarding against us at every turn - it's as if they've become entirely different people!"

Suou Gensei said with some amazement.

Hearing this, Suou Yumi recalled the attitude of Momobami Kirari from the Momobami clan toward Yuki at the banquet, and a thoughtful expression flashed across her face.

After a slight hesitation, she informed Suou Gensei about this matter.

"Yuki has a good relationship with Momobami Kirari from the Momobami clan?"

Suou Gensei raised an eyebrow, speaking with considerable surprise.

Even as Yuki's elder, he had to admit that although the two girls were peers, they were not on the same level in terms of status and ability.

To be able to sit as the head of a complex family like the Momobami clan with its numerous branches while still in high school - her abilities and methods must be absolutely terrifying!

"However, my granddaughter isn't bad either. She truly deserves to be the heir I've designated for the Suou family!"

Suou Gensei grinned and laughed heartily.

"It seems that even without that boy, Yuki can lead our Suou family to new heights!"

Suou Yumi looked at her father's happy expression, hesitation flashing in her eyes.

Actually, she suspected in her heart that Momobami Kirari favored Yuki so much because of Kuzeha.

However, this was just her vague speculation.

She didn't voice it directly.

Subsequently, she informed Suou Gensei about the potion that Lady Yukinoshita had announced at tonight's banquet.

Hearing this, an expression of incredible shock instantly appeared on Suou Gensei's aged face.

"Return to youth, extend lifespan?"

He looked at Suou Yumi, confirming again.

"That's how Lady Yukinoshita described it, and the effects we saw on site were indeed like that..."

"The first auction is scheduled for three days from now."

Hearing this, Suou Gensei immediately began pacing back and forth in the living room.

"This is tremendous news..."

As a former top diplomat, no one understood better than him the pursuit and obsession high officials and dignitaries had for longevity.

For the Yukinoshita Family to produce such a thing - barring any accidents, they were bound to reach the top!

"After tonight, many forces will start moving. The Yukinoshita Family is going to become highly sought after..."

"We can't be slow either. I've had a few encounters with Lady Yukinoshita before. It seems I'll need to personally visit the Yukinoshita Family tomorrow."

Suou Gensei analyzed the situation.

As a former diplomat, he clearly knew that timing was fortune!

As long as one grasped key opportunities, one could rise with the wind!

Obviously, in the coming years, the key opportunity lay with the Yukinoshita Family!

From the current perspective, establishing good relations with the Yukinoshita Family was the first choice!

As for how to establish good relations, having served as a top diplomat, he was deeply versed in this art!

"But isn't the Yukinoshita Family in real estate? How can they produce such an incredible potion?"

Suou Gensei asked with some puzzlement.

Hearing this, Suou Yumi bit her lip lightly and explained her speculation about the potion and matters concerning Kuzeha.

Subsequently.

An extremely colorful array of expressions appeared on Suou Gensei's slightly aged face.

"You're saying that the Yukinoshita family's potion is very likely something that boy Kuzeha produced?" He widened his eyes.

"Didn't he devote himself to writing books and supporting the orphanage?"

Suou Yumi's expression was also somewhat embarrassed.

She didn't even know what her own child was doing - she truly wasn't fit to be a mother.

Suou Gensei rubbed the thumb ring on his finger, his expression shifting constantly.

Regarding Kuzeha, this grandson who had shown talent far exceeding ordinary people since childhood, he had always held him in extremely high regard.

He even once believed that Kuzeha was the person sent by the gods to lead their Suou family to its peak!

But precisely because of such high regard, when Kuzeha chose not the Suou family but an orphanage, he saw it as an enormous humiliation!

Despite clearly possessing the ability to bring the Suou family to new heights, he abandoned his responsibility, degraded himself, and chose mediocrity!

That's right - in Suou Gensei's view, Kuzeha choosing to leave the Suou family platform was self-degradation!

Even if he became a so-called popular light novel author, so what?

In the face of power, it was nothing but a fragile shell!

But he hadn't expected this.

This guy could actually produce something as incredible as a potion for returning to youth and extending lifespan, becoming an honored guest of the Yukinoshita family...

If Kuzeha were still a child of the Suou family, then he would only need to lie back and take off.

Even if they hadn't severed their relationship, the Suou family could still extract enormous benefits from this and reach unprecedented heights. However, he had personally destroyed that hope years ago.

Now, they even needed to think of ways to socialize with the Yukinoshita family, eagerly offering resources, just hoping to obtain an opportunity.

Thinking of this, Suou Gensei's aged face alternated between green and red.

Seeing this, Suou Yumi sighed deeply in her heart and silently withdrew.

Things had come to this point. Given her understanding of her father's stubbornness, he would absolutely never admit his decision was a mistake.

"However, I have no face to blame father either..."

Suou Yumi pursed her lips.

After all, back then she had only blindly followed her father's decision.

Now, she could only try her best to make some remedies.

With this thought in mind, she walked to Suou Yuki's room door and knocked.

"Yuki, it's me."

"Mother, come in."

After hearing Suou Yuki's voice, Suou Yumi pushed open the door.

Suou Yuki's room was a standard noble family young lady's room.

Spacious, neat, and classical.

If there was one thing that seemed out of place in this classically elegant room, it would be the several brightly colored light novels placed on the bookshelf.

Suou Yumi knew those were Kuzeha's debut works.

Once, she had read these light novels.

However, having been instilled with traditional education since childhood, she found it somewhat difficult to accept this kind of incest-themed material.

Let alone Suou Gensei!

He strictly forbade Kuzeha's works from appearing in the Suou household!

But oddly, on this point, Yuki, who had always been obedient to the family, showed unprecedented rebellious resistance.

Suou Gensei had no choice but to reluctantly agree with one eye open and one eye closed.

At this moment.

Having just finished blow-drying her hair, Yuki was lazily leaning against the headboard, holding exactly that light novel in her hands.

"Perhaps it's because of this book that Yuki's relationship with that child has been able to continue until now."

Suou Yumi thought secretly in her heart.

Subsequently, she walked over and sat down by the bedside.

"Mother, do you want to ask me about things concerning big brother?"

Suou Yuki closed the book and looked up at Suou Yumi.

She knew without thinking that after her mother saw how Lady Yukinoshita treated her brother, she must be full of confusion!

She hadn't asked in the car earlier, but would definitely inquire after returning home.

After seeing Suou Yumi nod, she spoke softly.

"Is this grandfather's intention?"

Suou Yumi shook her head and slowly said.

"It's my own will. After all these years, my understanding of that child still remains from years ago..."

Hearing her mother's words, Suou Yuki dismissively lifted her pointed chin.

If the other party weren't her mother, she would definitely retort: What were you doing all this time?!

"Ask away."

Suou Yuki said calmly.

"Is the Yukinoshita Family's potion Kuzeha's achievement?"

Suou Yumi asked in a concentrated voice, her eyes fixed on her daughter.

"Of course. Otherwise, how could the Yukinoshita Family, a real estate company, be connected to such an extraordinary potion?"

Hearing her daughter's matter-of-fact words, Suou Yumi was stunned.

As expected, the facts were just as she had speculated.

Moreover, from Yuki's matter-of-fact tone, it seemed Kuzeha had come into contact with, or possessed, extraordinary abilities.

Even producing such an incredible potion seemed to be a routine operation?

Suou Yumi fell silent.

"So, Kuzeha chose the Yukinoshita family's future..."

She murmured unconsciously.

Hearing this, Suou Yuki looked at her mother with surprise.

"Mother, what do you mean big brother chose the Yukinoshita family's future?"

Suou Yumi looked up in confusion at her daughter.

"Otherwise, why would Lady Yukinoshita value Kuzeha so highly?"

Suou Yuki laughed lightly.

"Mother, you're wrong about this too!"

Under Suou Yumi's confused gaze.

Suou Yuki raised one finger and looked seriously at her mother.

"It's not that big brother chose the Yukinoshita family's future, but that the Yukinoshita family chose to become big brother's vassals. That's why they can have today's potion!"

"So, it's not that Lady Yukinoshita values big brother - she's merely serving big brother as her master!"

"The current master of the Yukinoshita family is named Kuzeha!"

The girl's casual words stuffed Suou Yumi with massive and extremely explosive information.

To the point that she was directly stunned in place.

It wasn't that Lady Yukinoshita valued Kuzeha... but that Kuzeha was now the master of the Yukinoshita family?

Suou Yumi's crashed brain gradually recalled scenes from today!

The friendliness from Momobami Kirari, the respect from Yukinoshita Haruno, Lady Yukinoshita's treatment of Kuzeha...

Recalling all this and combining it with Suou Yuki's words, everything seemed to make sense.

However, this fact spoken from Suou Yuki's mouth directly shattered her understanding to pieces.

That child abandoned by the Suou family had now directly become the master of a behemoth like the Yukinoshita Family...

Suou Yumi didn't dare imagine how complex her father's feelings would be if he knew about this situation.

Suou Yuki looked at her mother's extremely complex and shocked expression, the corners of her mouth slightly curving up.

This was exactly what she wanted to see!

"Hmph, you severed relations with big brother back then. Regretting it now..."

Morning.

Kuzeha leisurely woke up in the hotel's large bed.

A jade arm and a fair, slender leg were both draped over his body.

As Kuzeha's waking movements stirred, the girl also gradually awakened.

Opening her eyes and sensing her posture, a blush immediately appeared on Yukinoshita Haruno's pretty face.

"Good morning, Haruno!"

Kuzeha's voice entered her ears, and warmth appeared in Yukinoshita Haruno's beautiful eyes.

"Good morning, Lord Kuzeha!"

Yukinoshita Haruno's slightly deep, mature voice carried some hoarseness at this moment.

Adding a lazy and mature, charming quality.

In fact, she had indeed taken the important step from maiden to young woman.

During this period, Kuzeha's existence had undoubtedly occupied all of her life!

As the saying goes, heroes find it hard to pass the beauty barrier, but don't beauties also love heroes?

Kuzeha, who had saved her sister and led the Yukinoshita Family to its current position, was undoubtedly her hero.

At this moment, hearing her words, Kuzeha looked at Yukinoshita Haruno with a half-smile, his fingers pinching her chin.

"Why are you calling me Lord Kuzeha again? What did you call me last night?"

Yukinoshita Haruno's beautiful face instantly flushed red.

She bit her lip lightly, then parted her lips.

"Master, good morning..."

The hoarse, charming voice carried shyness - it was simply the most beautiful sound!

Kuzeha nodded with satisfaction.

"From now on, when it's just the two of us, you're not allowed to call me Lord Kuzeha anymore!"

Hearing Kuzeha's words, Yukinoshita Haruno obediently yet helplessly nodded.

"After all, he is the master of the Yukinoshita family..."

She thought secretly in her heart.

However, recalling her volume from last night, shyness appeared on Yukinoshita Haruno's face.

"Mother is staying next door. I wonder if she heard..."

For the first time in her life, Yukinoshita Haruno felt concerned about the soundproofing quality of her own hotel.

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