For fifteen years, Lu Qinghe was seen as just a kept wife, living off the Fu family’s fortune. No one knew that Dingheng Pharmaceuticals was founded by her father, Lu Zhengheng, who had left her a 51% stake through a trust agreement before his death. Wanting to give her daughter Fu Nian’an a stable home, she let her husband Fu Tingzhou occupy the CEO position for all those years.
The breaking point came when her sixteen-year-old daughter, having scored first in her grade, rushed to the office to surprise her father—only to catch Fu Tingzhou in an intimate moment with his assistant, Lin Ruoyao. Enraged, Lin slapped the girl across the face, and Fu Tingzhou stood there in silence. The daughter ran home weeping, five finger marks swollen on her cheek. The string that had held Lu Qinghe together for fifteen years snapped. She called Fu Tingzhou: “Make Lin kneel and apologize within five minutes, or step down as president.” Fu thought she was throwing a tantrum. He got his mother to pressure her and even hung up,
