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The System's Golden Standard

Lee Minho, a bright but impoverished college student, stumbles upon a mysterious system. The system offers him unlimited wealth by drawing, but with a peculiar condition: he must constantly flaunt his newfound riches. Initially hesitant, Minho accepts the offer out of desperation, hoping to secure a better future for himself. As Minho's life transforms into a whirlwind of luxury, he grapples with the moral implications of his newfound wealth. He must navigate the challenges of maintaining his lavish lifestyle while trying to remain grounded and true to himself. Along the way, he encounters both envy and admiration, forming complex relationships with his peers and family. The system's demands push Minho to the brink, forcing him to question the true meaning of happiness and success. As he becomes increasingly entangled in the system's web, Minho must decide whether the pursuit of wealth is worth sacrificing his integrity and the relationships he holds dear.

BiosVonAsgard · Fantasy
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119 Chs

Chapter 16: Misunderstandings

After Choi Jaywon and others left Lee Minho's villa, they immediately went directly

to the townhouse where Kang Taehyun live.

Coincidentally, when they went to Kang Taehyun's house. Taehyun's father was also there.

Kang Hongtao is the head of the Kang family of the Kang family collateral branch.

As soon as Kang Taehyun and the others entered the living room, they saw Kang Hongtao drinking tea and reading a newspaper.

When Kang Taehyun came back with Choi Jaywon and the others, Kang Hongtao immediately put down the newspaper and said while frowning.

"You brat, and you didn't go to work? Why can't you be like your brother and be promising?"

"I can't be compare with my brother." Kang Taehyun shrugged, and sat down beside Kang Hongtao.

"Dad, I remember that the Qin family lived in

villa No.1 before?"

Kang Hongtao said to Choi Jaywon and the others. "You guys should sit down too."

Then after hearing Kang Taehyun's words, he said, "It's the Qin family, why did you suddenly ask this?"

Kang Taehyun said: "Dad, the Qin family has moved out, and the person who lives there now is a young man in his twenties who just moved in today."

"Young man?" Kang Hongtao raised his eyebrows. "Impossible, the Qin family lives well, why would they move away? Who is that young man?"

"It's a man named Lee Minho. We checked his background. It's very simple. It's so simple that it's impossible to afford Villa No.1."

Kang Taehyun thought his father knew about it, but he didn't expect that his father didn't know it either.

"What else?" Kang Hongtao said in surprise. "The Qin family has always been domineering. They live well in villa No.1, so it is impossible to move away. Either something happened to the Qin family and they sold the villa."

Kang Hongtao said in serious tone. "Or, that young man should be related to the Qin family, that's why the villa was transferred to his name."

At this time, Choi Jaywon couldn't help but interjected, "Uncle Hongtao, we suspect that the man named Lee Minho is probably the illegitimate son of the Qin family."

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Kang Hongtao asked.

Choi Jaywon the said. "When we met Lee Minho yesterday, he opened a supreme box in Autumn Winds Pavilion to eat by himself."

He paused a bit but continued. "We went to have a meal."

"Autumn Winds Pavilion Supreme Box?" Kang Hongtao knew very well that there's several prominent and powerful big families in Kyoto who are involved behind Autumn Winds Pavilion.

The Supreme Box there is prepared for those families. People from other families

can only use other boxes. This is already an unspoken rule in the big families in Kyoto.

Therefore, the only people who can go to the supreme box of Autumn Winds Paviion to eat are those members of those big families and he is an important figure in the family.

The fact that the young man named Lee Minho was able to eat in the supreme box by himself is enough to show that he is a member of a big family.

And Lee Minho has a very high status in that family.

Kang Hongtao knew very well the people in several big families in the capital, and none of the important figures in those big families was named Lee Minho.

Except for the Qin family.

Some time ago, the heir of the only direct line of the Qin family had a car accident. He had been asleep in the hospital for more than a week and hadn't woken up yet.

Therefore, in order to stabilize the Qin family, the head of the Qin family took the illegitimate son back to the Qin family.

Once the heir of the Qin family's direct line really can't wake up, that illegitimate son will become the legitimate heir of the Qin family.

Until now, the direct heir of the Qin family has not woken up, so the illegitimate son is basically regarded as the heir on the surface.

If that young man named Lee Minho is really the illegitimate son of the Qin family, then everything seems to make sense.

Adopted son, Supreme Box, No.1 Villa. All of this points the young man named Lee Minho to the illegitimate son of the Qin family.

Kang Hongtao pondered for a moment, then asked Kang Taehyun.

"Taehyun, how is your relationship with that young man named Lee Minho?"

For big families, illegitimate children are very common. As long as he can become the heir of the Qin family, the status of an illegitimate child is nothing at all.

Their Kang family is only a collateral branch of the Kang family in Kyoto, and there is a long distance from the real Kang family.

The Qin family and the Kang family are big families side by side. It would of course be the best if he could establish a good relationship with that illegitimate child.

Kang Taehyun rubbed his head and said. "We just met this one, so it's not really a good relationship."

He then added on. "But tomorrow night, Jaywon will held a birthday party and invited him, and he agreed."

Kang Hongtao nodded, "It's fine if he agrees. If he agrees, it proves that he intends to associate with you."

He paused for a moment but decided to continue. "I will ask someone to check the background of that young man."

Kang Hongtao, Choi Jaywon's father, and Yoon Jungsu's father are all good friends, so Kang Taehyun and others can play together.

Several families in Kyoto maintained a balance line.

People from those families have always looked down on their collaterals.

Even the head of the Kang family has always paid little attention to collateral children like Kang Hongtao.

In fact, the wealth and power that the Kang family has possessed over the years were all created by Kang Hongtao himself.

Not only did the head of the Kang family did not help, but they were even afraid that Kang Hongtao, a collateral branch, would be too powerful, so they secretly suppressed it.

Especially in recent years, after the Kang family replaced a new patriarch, the power and wealth in the hands of Kang Hongtao's and the other collateral were even more eager to take the seat of the master's family.

Therefore, the relationship between Kang Hongtao and the head of the Kang family has become very rigid.

However, the Kang family's direct branch is relatively powerful. It is simply impossible for Kang Hongtao to fight against it.

That's why Kang Hongtao united with new families like Choi family and Yoon family to make a connection.

In this way, those Patriarch of the Kang family would not dare to attack them easily.