His Genius Wife Is A Superstar novel Chapter 319

Chapter 319 - Team Up

Long Jian straightened to his full height. He was taller than either his father Long Tengfei or his older brother Long Hui. He walked to the living room and sat on the couch beside his mother.

Zhu Ning poured hot tea for her son.

"There is no need to remind me, Uncle Xiaopeng. I already received information from my business insiders that Father is planning on promoting me to work at the main company soon. Maybe within this year. When that happens, everyone will soon know that I’m more capable than Long Hui. I’ll make it into a situation that Father will have no choice but to appoint me as his successor because it will be for the company’s best interests to do so."

"That’s my son!"

Zhu Ning looked very proud. An almost maniacal ambition danced in her eyes. She couldn’t wait for the moment when her son succeeded as the next head of the Longs. Wouldn’t that make her the Long family’s Old Madam? She felt absolutely gleeful at the thought.

"Mother, I would like to talk with Uncle Xiaopeng alone," Long Jian told her.

"Fine, fine. I’ll leave the two of you with your manly talk, then." She chuckled. "It’s time for my beauty sleep anyway. Goodnight!"

The two men waited until she was gone before they began talking once again.

"I asked my mother to go because she has a tendency to become too caught up in her emotions whenever we talk about the Longs."

Long Xiaopeng nodded in agreement.

"Now tell me the real situation regarding Long Hui and the elders, Uncle Xiaopeng. You make it sound as if it’s so easy to influence the other branches and to decrease Long Hui’s influence within the family." Long Jian steepled his fingers together as he laid inquisitive eyes on the older man sitting across from him. "Although I very much believe that the elders are furious about Long Hui’s decision to reveal his son to everyone, I doubt that they’ll try to unseat him from his position of heir."

Long Xiaopeng cleared his throat, feeling uncomfortable by the younger man’s heavy gaze. He sighed. "You’re right. The elders’ way of thinking are too old-fashioned. You already know this. To them, only Young Master Hui is the one fit to succeed by virtue of him being the eldest legitimate son."

Despite hating the words "legitimate" and "illegitimate", Long Jian still nodded and encouraged the older man to continue talking. His steepled fingers, however, were now clasped together so hard that his hands shook a little and veins popped on the surface of his arms.

"Even if Young Master Hui isn’t in the picture, if given the choice between you, your other sister, and the Young Miss Xiulan, the elders will most likely choose Young Miss Xiulan over the two of you just because she’s a legitimate child and you are not. Even when they hate her guts, they’ll grudgingly let her succeed the head position. That’s just how backward the elders’ minds work."