Chapter 649: Heavy Hearted

Masayoshi Kishimoto said goodbye to Eisuke Iwasaki and drove back home alone. He silently went up to the small living room on the second floor, then poured half a glass of whiskey and held it in his hand.

Masayoshi Kishimoto drank all that was in the glass in one tilt of his head and poured another half glass of whiskey. He held the glass, his right index finger was subconsciously tapping the side of the whiskey glass lightly.

Sakai Rie, holding her own big belly, pushed the door and said, “Something on your mind?”

“Just before I went home, I went to meet with the chairman of the Mitsubishi Group, Eisuke Iwasaki.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said bluntly.

“You didn’t have a good talk?” Rie Sakai took a step closer to him and said seriously.

“A good talk.” Masayoshi Kishimoto said without joking at all.

“Then why are you still so preoccupied?” Sakai Rie had already felt strange seeing him come home so early in the morning, and hearing him say that made it even stranger, too.

“There is no love in this world without a reason, nor is there hate without a reason. The person who treats you well and doesn’t ask for anything in return, I’m afraid that even my own parents may not be able to do it. Let alone an outsider.

The better he treats you, the more he is bound to ask you to pay in return in the future. The medicine inside that Iwasaki Eisuke’s gourd is not good medicine.” Masayoshi Kishimoto did not hide anything.

Sakai Rie knew that even though she did not understand the matters involved and was not able to advise him, it was enough that she understood him.

In the current situation, what he needed most was a 100% trustworthy person to talk to. He himself happened to be such a trustworthy confidant.

“I originally thought that by removing the Iwasaki family, a factor that could restrain me, from Hard Gold Media, I would have a wide open sky, but I didn’t realize that Iwasaki Eisuke was very concerned about me.

The path before me is that not cooperating with him means hostility. The result of a direct war between the two sides was that I had no chance of winning at all.

To ask me to act as a surprise force for him to deal with the Mitsui Zaibatsu, isn’t that just asking me to serve as a pawn and front-runner for him? The Mitsui Zaibatsu, which is currently ranked number one amongst all the Zaibatsu in Japan, large and small, is not easy to deal with.

His ideal is to make the Mitsubishi Group the number one plutocrat in Japan again. Isn’t it my dream to become Japan’s No. 1 plutocrat? If a lion wants to fight a tiger, it has to bring in a wolf.

But what does it matter to me if the wolf only thinks about your fight? As of now, I am neither able to become the king of the beasts, nor do I have the strength to become the king of the beasts.

The most I can do is to think about whether or not I can profit from it, after all, it’s definitely not an easy thing to re-divide a cake that’s been divided.” Justice Kishimoto said thoughtfully.

“What is the relationship between Iwasaki Eisuke and that one woman called Iwasaki Maki?” Sakai Rie suddenly just coldly ventured out and said.

“Iwasaki Eisuke is Iwasaki Maki’s real father.” Masayoshi Kishimoto blurted out.

Sakai Rie instantly reacted to what an un-nutritious question she had asked him. She really had to confirm it out of his mouth if she was bored and uncomfortable.

Masayoshi Kishimoto looked sideways at the woman beside him and said, “You wouldn’t still suspect me of having an affair with Maki Iwasaki at this juncture, would you?”

“If you had married this golden lady instead of me, you wouldn’t have the troubles you have today!” Sakai Rie wasn’t being tongue-in-cheek, either.

“I’m afraid I would have had more troubles. If Iwasaki Eisuke really becomes my father-in-law, there will not only be a relationship of interest between me and him, but also a relationship of next of kin.

On the surface, this seems to be a strengthening of ties and mutual trust, one glory for all, one loss for all, but in reality, in my opinion, Iwasaki Eisuke can sacrifice anyone around him in order to return the Mitsubishi Group to the throne of Japan’s No. 1 Zaibatsu.

This also includes her own daughter, Iwasaki Maki. As for me, I am even less likely to be given much thought by him. There is a saying in China that ruthlessness is most common in imperial families.

For the sake of interests, things where fathers and sons turn against each other, and flesh and bone fight each other are aplenty above the history of various countries.” Justice Kishimoto hit the nail on the head.

Sakai Rie took the initiative to stretch out her hands to embrace his waist, and leaned her head on his shoulder, and said with an epiphany: “To this day, I truly understand that you actually have a better choice.

In order to choose me to be your wife, you have resisted a lot of external pressures. The biggest one of these would have been from the Iwasaki family!”

Masayoshi Kishimoto didn’t answer, but in his mind, he was thinking, yes and no. He didn’t want the person on his pillow to be a woman that he had to be wary of even when he slept.

The marriage contract that the Kishimoto family and the Sakai family had entered into in the early years also had a good side, that is, it could be used as a shield against the outside world.

Who would not be plainly persuaded to repent of their marriage, but to put their interests first? In that case, the one who persuaded that one would also be charged with being heartless and uncaring.

Even if there was no Iwasaki family, there were still some other families. In the course of the Hard Gold Group’s development and growth, there were quite a few people who had personally run to them to say they were in love.

This also included Takahashi Kazuya’s mother. The other party was also the daughter of the Suzuki family. She had arranged for a daughter of her own brother’s family to marry the Suzuki family and the Kishimoto family.

The reason why Masayoshi Kishimoto was repulsed by a famous young lady was not because he was inferior due to his own birth.

On the contrary, he knew in his heart that his own upbringing and environment were completely different from those of the famous young ladies.

Keeping a distance from each other is fine. The famous girls have not seen him such a man, so it will inevitably produce an unprecedented freshness in the heart.

This point from the Samsung Group Lee Jianxi’s two daughters will be able to see a spot and know the whole picture. In feudal society, living in the boudoir of the Western countries of the young ladies on the ranger is a special longing.

To put it bluntly, the ranger is also a kind of hooligan. The only difference with the orthodox hooligans is that the ranger is packaged a little better.

This has the story of chivalry, robbing the rich to help the poor and other gimmicks. In China, it is more often the image of the green man in the novel.

Once the two sides get close, the problem will be increasingly highlighted, after all, he still has a subtle rogue flavor, rather than gentlemanly.

Those men in Chinese history who were able to achieve great things were either originally powerful gatekeepers, such as Li Yuan, Zhu Di, etc., or rogues among the grassroots, such as Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang, etc. Even if he was reborn in the present day, he would still have a rogue’s air, not a gentleman’s air.

Even if he was reborn into today’s modern Japan, has not escaped the law of Chinese historical figures. It is his own body has a rogue breath, is able to let the whole pachinko industry in Japan inside the crowd have to like, accept, do not reject him.