CHAPTER 241: 241: WOMEN’S CAREERS

"I love designing, it makes me happy. I go to work not to earn money to support my family, just to be happy, so how could it be tiring?"

"I really don’t understand you. You could obviously be like our sister-in-law, occasionally shopping, going to the beauty salon, buying clothes, living a very leisurely life, but you insist on working. Our brother is busy all day, our sister-in-law has nothing to do, in our family, it’s only you who’s busy, while I’m idle at home with nothing to do... Do you ever regret marrying such a ’useless’ man?"

"What does ’useful man’ mean? Someone who earns a lot of money?"

"Isn’t there a saying ’when a husband is honored, a wife is noble’? Don’t you think, with our brother being so capable, our sister-in-law has a more glamorous life than you?"

Tong Yunyun laughed, "Everyone has their own life, we can’t live someone else’s life, what we need to do is live our lives well. Also, there’s nothing wrong with you, besides not working, you take care of the home, love your wife, spoil your kids, you do everything a man should. The Mu family can afford to take care of you, you working or not is not important, the dividends alone can sustain you for several lifetimes. As for me, I love designing, I love doing what I love, and you support me, become my strong backing, that’s the best for me."

"Actually, I’m still a good man?"

"Yes, you neither smoke nor drink, and don’t mess around outside. At most, you go out for tea, play golf, and when you’re free, you take your wife and kids out to play, willing to spend so much time and energy on the family, how can you not be a good man?"

Mu Mingyu felt a bit more confident, "So, with that said, I’m actually not worse than my brother, except for not working? He has to attend meetings and go on business trips every day, he doesn’t even spend as much time with his wife and kids as I do."

"Exactly, in some ways, you do better than your brother!"

Tong Yunyun truly wasn’t just flattering Mu Mingyu, she’s very satisfied with her husband, wealthy (so he doesn’t need to work), loyal, loves his wife and kids, and he’s handsome, simply a model husband.

So, she doesn’t feel her husband needs to feel inferior, nor does she agree that she’s married a ’useless’ husband.

The usefulness of a man isn’t really about how hard he works or the achievements he gets in his career. Of course, if Mu Mingyu didn’t have money and was idle all day, unable to support himself and refused to work, she wouldn’t be fond of that.

But Mu Mingyu’s situation is different, he has the means to live leisurely, so he doesn’t need to have a job. As long as he fulfills other roles, that’s OK. He doesn’t need to be as excellent as his brother, nor does he need to fight for a career like other men, some of whom work hard just to support themselves and their families.

Working is for supporting oneself and the family, a career is to achieve dreams and ambitions, Mu Mingyu doesn’t need the former to already support his family, and he doesn’t have career ambitions, his dream is to ’play’, so he doesn’t need and won’t work.

Tong Yunyun sees through Mu Mingyu as a person, and she’s always known what she wants, so when he’s at home idle every day, and when she’s busy with work while he’s playing golf, she has no complaints.

Career is her choice. She could not work, she could be idle just like him, be a wealthy lady.

But she doesn’t just want to be a woman who relies on others to survive, she is a rational woman, she needs a career, she needs more security.

He might not understand her feelings, but he never stops her. Although he sometimes gets jealous of her socializing, eating with male colleagues, he never stops trusting her because of that.

For a woman, he fulfills everything a man should do, that’s enough!

When it comes to Wang Yuan getting the Auntie’s secret formula, Tong Yunyun accepts it. In life, having enough money is good, she has her own career to focus on, there’s really no need to get involved further.

Moreover, recently seeing Grandpa Mu and my brother taking Mu Qing along when they go out handling matters, it seems they plan to groom him as the Mu family’s heir. In some sense, she doesn’t need to do anything to have already won.

How can Wang Yuan’s secret formula business compare to the whole Mu family?

Before, Tong Yunyun really didn’t dare to think about it, everyone has their own son, though he might seem a bit reckless, but as it’s our brother’s biological son, it’s only normal to groom him as the Mu family’s future heir.

In that time, though Grandpa Mu was disappointed in Murong, he never gave up on him.

Until this time, when Murong provoked the Yan Family’s Yan Shao, bringing considerable damage to the Mu family, that Grandpa finally gave up on him. He left him to the freshly emerged Auntie from who knows where.

From then on, Mu Qing officially stepped onto the Mu family’s stage, while Murong ’disappeared’.

Tong Yunyun saw the arrangements Grandpa and her brother made, and was worried again that sister-in-law wouldn’t agree, thinking Mu Qing took away her son’s things, making a big fuss. But strangely, days passed, everything was calm, nothing happened.

A sister-in-law who treats her children like her world, would be willing to give up on her son’s rightful interests?

Naturally not possible, the only possibility for sister-in-law’s silence—Auntie promised something better!

Tong Yunyun was sketching on scrap paper while thinking, and finally, all clues pointed to ’Auntie’, she was the real reason behind such a significant power change in the Mu family within days.

Her intuition was correct, this Auntie is not simple!

Tong Yunyun is indeed very practical, she always grasps what she can hold onto, and those she can’t, however tempting, she won’t even glance at. And this, she passed down to her son as well.

Otherwise, when Mu Qing hadn’t even graduated from college, he wouldn’t have already prepared himself for not inheriting the Mu family and started his own venture. Eldest son Mu Cheng, third son Mu Jie, and even fourth son Mu Rui all chose their paths for development, to avoid a tragic struggle for the family business.

Although the Mu family is good, with legitimate heirs from the first-born line, they cannot compete for it, instead of struggling for something uncertain, it’s better for them as Mu family’s grandchildren to enjoy all possible rights and best education, which gives them a much higher starting point than many others, and is something they can achieve.

As long as they have exceptional abilities, when they enter society, they can fully use the Mu family as a backing to win a much broader world.

The Mu family is like a cake, no matter how tempting, it’s just one, either one person monopolizes it, or several people divide it, and during the division, there might be bloodshed, and they may not even get much. But venturing out into a broader world, with the Mu family as a backing, why fear not getting a complete cake?

Of course, if someone placed the Mu family cake in front of her son, Tong Yunyun would still encourage her son to take it all.