"How much is your monthly salary?"
Lin Haitang was startled.
She had thought ng Lang was going to ask about sothing else, but it turned out to be about the salary?
"Um... The base salary is ten thousand, and with the company’s bonuses and benefits, it amounts to about thirty thousand a month. What do you need to know that for?" Lin Haitang didn’t hide anything.
"Thir... thirty thousand?" ng Lang couldn’t help but be astounded.
If it hadn’t been for his prophetic foresight earning him a sum, such a salary would be sothing utterly unattainable for soone with a monthly inco of three thousand like him.
"With such a high salary, why do you still go to bars to sing and tire yourself out?"
So this was what he wanted to ask.
Lin Haitang’s expression dimd slightly. She glanced at ng Lang before finally speaking slowly.
"My father’s business failed and he accumulated a lot of debt. If I want to keep Xiao Yu’s custody, I have to send him money every month.
There’s also my mother’s pension, Xiao Yu’s education fees, our living expenses... thirty thousand isn’t all that much for us."
ng Lang fell silent upon hearing this.
At the sa ti, he felt a twinge of disgust for that man he had never t.
Not only had he failed to fulfill his duties as a father, but he was also demanding money using custody as leverage? What kind of scum was that?
After so thought, he couldn’t help but speak out.
"Under normal circumstances, siblings are raised by their parents and don’t have any rights or obligations towards each other.
But under specific conditions, elder brothers or sisters can have conditional nurturing obligations towards their younger siblings.
An elder brother or sister with the capacity to do so has a duty to support younger siblings who are minors and cannot be supported by their parents, and it’s also possible to seek custody."
Lin Haitang glanced at him, gave a faint smile, but didn’t speak.
After saying his piece, ng Lang realized he was being a bit naive.
The things even an amateur like himself knew – wouldn’t Lin Haitang be aware of them?
If she really wanted to fight for custody, why wouldn’t she have a way? All she needed was to harden her heart and sue her own father.
But winning the lawsuit wasn’t the hard part; the difficulty lay in convincing herself to sever that last strand of familial bond...
He couldn’t help but sigh in his heart.
Indeed, those who can hurt you are often the ones you once loved.
"I’m sorry, I assud too much."
"It’s okay, let’s talk about you." Lin Haitang didn’t want to linger on the subject, so she changed the topic.
"Even though your side business is sowhat unique, do you really plan to keep working as an insurance salesman forever? Don’t you have any career plans?"
Career plans? ng Lang couldn’t help but let out a wry smile.
"Of course, I have a very long career plan. Perhaps, you could call it a career ’turtle plan’."
"What’s the difference?" Lin Haitang naturally couldn’t catch the pun.
"My career plan is like that of a turtle, unhurried and steady, slowly and calmly moving forward until death.
Simply put, just to keep living!"
"Pfft!" Lin Haitang couldn’t help but laugh. "Who makes career plans like that?"
But she didn’t know that ng Lang was truly speaking from his heart.
To live a longer life, for him... and many other "ng Langs," it was a form of victory!
"Why not? You’re not seeing the forest for the trees. Ordinary people’s career plans are nothing but short-term plans of ten or twenty years. I believe that a true career plan should be like that of Emperor Qin Shi Huang!"
"Emperor Qin Shi Huang? What does he have to do with this?" Lin Haitang was puzzled.
"What do you think was the original driving force behind Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s desire to unify the six kingdoms and beco that eternal emperor?" asked ng Lang.
After thinking for a bit, Lin Haitang answered, "It’s the desire for power! The one who craves power the most is the one most likely to gain it!"
"Mm! From Russell’s ’Power Theory,’ very incisive," ng Lang smiled.
"Power, at its core, is about manpower, financial strength, and resources. The pursuit of power can also be seen as the pursuit of resources. After unifying the six kingdoms, at the end of his life, what did he do?"
Lin Haitang thought hard for a mont. "Uh... pursue longevity?"
"Exactly!" ng Lang laughed heartily.
"You see, this eternal emperor spent the last part of his life pursuing longevity.
If we view his life as one comprehensive career plan, then wouldn’t you say that the unification of the six kingdoms was just a re five-year plan?
He struggled most of his life, and the goal was just to amass the manpower, financial resources, and so on needed to pursue longevity.
His ultimate goal in life... was actually to keep living!
So you see, if we summarize his life’s career plan, shouldn’t it be called a career ’turtle plan’?"
Lin Haitang couldn’t help but be amused, "Who explains things like you do?
Besides, you’re obviously shifting the concept here. Even if Emperor Qin Shi Huang was pursuing longevity in his later years, he at least had the ambition to unify the six states, right? He wasn’t like you say, slow and steady like a turtle, calm and tranquil."
Upon hearing this, ng Lang sighed to himself inwardly.
You just haven’t experienced a life where your lifespan fluctuates wildly between 3 days and 21 years.
Otherwise, you’d definitely understand what it ans to live happy in the simple ordinary life...
He shook his head.
"How can you compare things from over two thousand years ago to now?
You want to gather a large group of alchemists to concoct pills for you, want to send Xu Fu and three thousand boys and girls to search for the fairy mountain, how can you do it without a strong backing of manpower and financial resources?
And in the era of cold weapons, the fastest way to gather these things... was to seize them!
By plundering the other six states until there was nothing left, wouldn’t that be the sa as unifying them?
But it’s different now. There are no six states, but there are five big bullies, each with a stash of nuclear weapons at ho.
Anyone who wants to unify Earth by force had better be prepared to risk everything being destroyed in a careless mont.
So in this era, everyone has lost the chance to forcibly integrate resources through military power, and the only ways to plunder resources are two: wealth and technology!
And these two are interdependent, capable of converting into each other.
And whether it’s wealth or technology, you can’t obtain it through extre ans, you need to do it legally and lawfully, competing within the established frawork. Isn’t the ideal scenario to be stable and secure?
If Emperor Qin Shi Huang transmigrated to this era, instead of thinking about how to unite the five big bullies, it would be more realistic for him to think about how to make money and improve the biological technology level of Earth..."
"Uh! Why are you looking at like that?"
As ng Lang was speaking, he suddenly noticed that Lin Haitang’s gaze was becoming increasingly odd.
"So... That’s why you want Changqing Biological? Your organization behind you... wants immortality?"
Uh...
ng Lang was stunned for a mont.
I was just using Emperor Qin Shi Huang as an analogy, for explanatory purposes!
Your imagination is really sothing...
emm...
The next mont, ng Lang found himself deep in thought.
Yes! Miss Haitang, you’ve opened up a great train of thought, and I’m taken by surprise!
Immortality? If you ask if I don’t want it, which short-lived ghost doesn’t? But if you ask if I do, well, that’s indeed just what I’ve started to think about...
It’s as if suddenly, an epiphany about "the union’s manifesto" poured into his mind!
Right! Does curing diseases and saving lives conflict with the pursuit of immortality?
Not at all!
Relatively speaking, curing diseases and saving lives is a re five-year plan, while pursuing immortality is a thousand-year grand plan!
If I truly attained immortality, wouldn’t I be able to fulfill the grand ambition of ’A Thousand Years of Waiting’?
Forget the hundred thousand strong army, I’ll walk to ’The End of the Universe’ solo if I have to!
Listen, the Assassin Alliance was founded to protect humanity, the Xiao Organization to ensure world peace, and the Avengers Alliance to save the universe—each of them boasts an impressive cause.
But as for my ’All Things Return to One Union,’ oh, was it established to treat Alzheir’s?
Saying that could probably kill off a bunch of enemies with laughter!
Isn’t that just devaluing us?
ng Lang had an "I’ve realized the truth" expression, leaving Lin Haitang utterly confused.
I’m sure I just asked a question, not a statent.
Is this question really that thought-provoking?
"What’s the matter with you?" Lin Haitang waved her hand in front of ng Lang’s eyes.
"Ah? Oh! Nothing, by the way, what did you just ask ?"
"It’s okay if you can’t tell , after all, such secrets are not of much concern to ..."
"No! You care, please ask again!" ng Lang insisted earnestly.
"Uh... I was asking about the purpose of your organization..."
"That’s right! Our organization was founded with the initial purpose of ’Death Defiance’!"
Lin Haitang: "..."
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