Chapter 833 - 250: [Tribulation?]
Chapter 250: [Calamity?]
Yang Jiaming no longer wants Lu Xiuting.
This outcome is both unexpected and can be considered inevitable.
Yang Jiaming was never the type of loyal, devoted good man. A scion of a wealthy family from Port City, not even the legitimate son of the first wife.
To be honest, in such families, the common practice is: legitimate sons and grandsons are trained with an elite model.
And those from second or third branches, they are kept like pigs.
There’s no lack of money, but they can forget about touching the core industries of the family.
Moreover, the education isn’t very diligent from the start—so that even when these offshoots grow up, they don’t have the strength to compete with the legitimate heirs and pose no threat.
So Yang Jiaming led a spoiled rich second-generation life all along—he is somewhat smart and capable, at least the family is willing to give him a branch company to run. He manages the company in Jinling Prefecture quite well.
But in his private life, even before marriage, he was a playboy.
However, Lu Xiuting used "unconventional" methods to change her Life Chart, using an unreasonable way to captivate Yang Jiaming, and then forcefully became pregnant with Lu Sisi.
With the confusion caused by the unconventional Life Chart, Yang Jiaming lost his usual rationality, utterly captivated by Lu Xiuting. Added to that, Lu Xiuting pressured her way in with pregnancy.
Under these two conditions, Lu Xiuting forced her way into this so-called "prestigious family"—for a woman from the bottom like her, the Yang Family was already considered a prestigious family.
Having forcefully maintained the position of Young Madam for twenty years, with the power of the Life Chart dissipated, the deal made with that voice in the jade stone has completely expired...
The twenty years of a wealthy life, almost "stolen," were over.
Yang Jiaming is now ostentatiously unfaithful, even indiscriminate!
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After a business trip, Yang Jiaming did something that made Lu Xiuting completely break down.
He brought his female assistant from the company home to confront Lu Xiuting directly.
"I really didn’t intend for this to happen, but she is pregnant," Yang Jiaming told Lu Xiuting.
Then he tossed over a divorce agreement.
Looking at the divorce agreement tossed over to her, it was like the sky was falling for Lu Xiuting.
In order to forcibly marry Yang Jiaming that year, she had signed a prenuptial agreement and a prenup that notarized the property ahead of marriage.
The Jinling branch company that Yang Jiaming is running now is part of the Yang Family’s assets, not personally owned by Yang Jiaming.
He serves as a general manager in the company—technically just a high-level employee—but he works for his own family.
His annual salary is not low, in the millions, combined with bonuses and all, totaling about two million annually.
But... daily expenses are also high.
Even their current large Binjiang flat is under the company’s name!
Yes, wealthy families in Port City are that cautious.
This family’s traditional way of doing things is, unless the elders pass away and it’s time to divide the inheritance, properties are not allocated to the descendants.
As long as the elders are alive, the descendants can spend the family’s money, but the assets remain outside the descendants’ personal names—not to mention that Yang Jiaming isn’t even the heir of the main branch, but a so-called offshoot.
The most valuable thing on Yang Jiaming is a trust fund set up by the Yang Family for their descendants.
According to the family trust, even as an offshoot, Yang Jiaming has a certain share and gets an annual sum of money in the future.
But... this family trust is meticulously crafted under the protection of intricate legal clauses to prevent the descendants from squandering and to ward off gold-diggers.
The family trust is considered premarital property through legal setup and notarization.
This means, legally, Yang Jiaming, this wealthy person in Jinling Prefecture, who manages a company and lives in a grand flat with a river view.
Actually, he owns no company, nor property in his name.
His so-called marital assets are just the earnings from his annual salary and bonuses from the company...
The company accounts with tens of millions of liquid funds, several subsidiary factories, land, plants, equipment, brands—all belong to the family and not to him personally.
From a legal standpoint, what Yang Jiaming can offer as marital property is the family’s four million in savings and investments.
After all, though he earns two million a year, maintaining a luxurious lifestyle requires significant expenses.
Yang Jiaming wrote in Lu Xiuting’s divorce agreement that she could keep all of the four million. Plus, she could keep a car in her name.
And a few years ago, the couple privately purchased a two-bedroom apartment in Jinling Prefecture as an investment, which could also be given to Lu Xiuting.
All jewelry, luxury goods bought for Lu Xiuting during the marriage years, she could keep all of it.
Nothing else.
And this nearly accounts for Yang Jiaming’s "clean exit" legally.
But Yang Jiaming demands that custody of the son will not be given to Lu Xiuting.
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Having one residence to live in. Four million in savings, even if not spent at all but deposited in the bank, could generate a low-risk conservative investment yield of about two percent annually, meaning the four million could earn more than a hundred thousand per year.
That equates to storing money in the bank and having a monthly interest income of ten thousand.
Having a house, a monthly income of over ten thousand.
For ordinary people, this is enough to live well—this, damn it, equals financial freedom for the average person.