Winner Takes All novel Chapter 87

The meeting place was arranged in a restaurant downstairs of DT real estate.

Jack Hughes rushed to the restaurant and was stunned for a moment when he saw Mr Ward.

Currently, Mr Ward was even older, and his face could not hide the look of exhaustion.

Brent, who was sitting beside Mr Ward, was looking pensive, so he should have known something in advance.

“Young master.”

Mr Ward got up and smiled kindly as usual.

“Have a seat.”

Jack helped Mr Ward sit down and asked directly, “Mr Ward, what happened when you were away?”

Mr Ward smiled bitterly, “Matters at home, the old master urgently recalled me.”

Jack took a sip of tea and waited quietly.

“Because of the case that the old master helped young master with YK Group.” Mr Ward’s tone was exhausted.

Jack raised his eyebrows and suddenly felt amused.

“He is the head of the family, and he can’t even decide on this matter?”

Mr Ward shook his head and looked profoundly at Jack, “If it was a normal day, of course, the old master could make the decision, but there is still an elder in the family today. The old master had helped you, the young master, with YK and alarmed Madam Hughes.”

Jack gazed, “My…grandmother?”

“No.”

Mr Ward denied, said slowly, “The Hughes family relations are intricate and complex, with many descendants. As a reclusive family in charge of the world’s power and wealth, the selection of the head of the family was also not like the ordinary family that the son inherited the father’s business, passing down from generation to generation.”

Jack listened quietly.

A family’s reproduction and prosperity, relying on one lineage’s efforts alone, couldn’t determine the future.

“Therefore, the Hughes family selects the head of the family who is talented. In a large number of young generations to determine the candidates, and then compete with each other. The person who does the best is the next head of the family.”

Mr Ward spoke slowly. He was explaining, but also telling Jack, some of the Hughes family’s situations.

“But even if you inherit the position of the head of the family. The Hughes family has an unwritten rule, that is, the head of the family, also have to treat the parents of the previous head of the family, as if they were the head’s parents.”

Hearing this, Jack suddenly laughed helplessly.

With such an unwritten rule, his father, whom he had never met, was destined not to be able to cause significant effects on his words and promises in the Hughes family.

It was confirmed that the head of the family would decide on major matters, but if Madam Hughes wanted to interfere in a particular case, even the head of the family could not resist.

However, he did hear another thing from Mr Ward’s words.

Rubbing his nose, Jack said, “Mr Ward, according to your words, my father should have been an excellent person back then, or else he wouldn’t have been able to defeat the other candidates and become the Hughes family’s head.”

“Indeed…” Mr Ward’s gaze became profound as he said retrospectively, “When the old master was young, his talent was the best in the world. At only 20 years old, he had already revealed his greatness and defeated all the Hughes family candidates. “

“Hiss~”

Jack could not help but changed his expression and was shocked.

At the age of 20, he was still working and studying at the university, living a precarious life.

But his father had already settled in the position of the head of the family!

Deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart, Jack slowly asked, “That’s strange. In that case, even if my father abandoned my mother and me and returned to the Hughes family back then, my mother and I shouldn’t be so poor. Not to mention much, my father should have left us a little foundation.”

Ever since he was a child, he had never experienced what it meant to live.

To Jack, the life he lived with his mother, it was all called survival.