Cao Ruomei whined when she saw how annoyed her mother was over her possible succession. "And why can't I not become your successor? Are you saying that you plan on leaving everything you have built these years with somebody else when you die? All of this?!"
Cao Xiurong honestly didn't mind giving everything she had to somebody else if it meant that her daughter would be safe in the end but she understood what her daughter was saying. "Of course not, the legal businesses will be transferred to you while all the shady ones would go to the next possible successor."
Ruomei scowled seeing how calm and unperturbed her mother was at the prospect of naming another person as her only heir. Besides she needed that position to protect herself now. She had learnt the hard way that she couldn't and shouldn't be the one running away from her enemies.
It should be the other way around.