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Chapter 1156

Chapter 1156

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After conducting this in-depth investigation, He Wenjie completely dismissed his initial thought that Lin Junwen was just putting on a show. Guan Hailin's biological father was unknown, and he had spent his first twenty years living with his mother in Manila as an utterly ordinary fisherman. But suddenly, one day, his mother brought him on a fishing boat to Chaoshan, only for the boat to suffer an accident along the way, leaving him as the sole survivor. Immediately after, as if possessed by the protagonist of a novel, and without any background or special skills, he joined the Lin family, and within just a few short years, climbed to the position of general manager at the Lin Group. During all these years that Guan Hailin spent at the Lin Group, Lin Junwen, the young master of the group, had simply been studying step-by-step. Even when he dropped out of State University and returned to China ten years ago, he was only given a very insignificant position in the company—one that fell far short of both his status and his educational background. What made it even more interesting was that He Wenjie accidentally discovered that Lin Junwen's father, Lin Weiren, was not originally surnamed Lin; he had taken the Lin surname only after marrying into the family as a matrilocal husband. Lin Junwen's maternal grandfather had three daughters, and since the Chaoshan region historically favored sons over daughters, the grandfather took in three sons-in-law, declaring that whoever produce…

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