Young man over 20 years not knowing father is a "tycoon"

The son of a famous Chinese snack brand owner has admitted that he had no idea his family was rich until he graduated from university.

Mr. Truong Tu Long admits that being rich is still fun.

Mr. Truong Tu Long (24 years old) told the media that his millionaire father, Mr. Truong Duc Dong, lied about the family's true financial situation during the first 20 years of his life.

The goal is to make him diligent and successful. Mr. Zhang Yudong is the founder and chairman of the snack brand Mala Prince, with annual sales of 600 million yuan (2,080 billion VND). The company specializes in producing cashew nuts, a famous spicy snack stick originating from the Hunan region.

The brand was launched the same year Mr. Zhang was born. He said he grew up in an ordinary apartment in Pingjiang County (Hunan Province). He knew his father owned the famous brand, but his father told him that the family was in debt to keep the company running.

Zhang studied at one of the best high schools in Hunan province without any support from his family. After graduating from university, his dream is to find a stable job with a salary of 6,000 yuan (US$900) to help his family gradually pay off their debt.

However, his father told him that the family was actually very rich and they moved into a newly built villa worth 10 million yuan. He also started working in the e-commerce department of his father's company, where his colleagues treated him like a new employee.

He shared that neither he nor his father wanted him to live like a "fu er dai," a derisive idiom for the children of China's nouveau riche. However, he acknowledged that being rich is a well-deserved privilege.

“Being rich makes me happy,” he said in an interview in December 2023.

He said his dream now is to help the company go public and sell internationally. His father said he would only consider handing the company over to him if he achieved that.

Some netizens said the story sounded unrealistic, but others said they believed it after witnessing his simple lifestyle, including wearing cheap clothes.

(According to Thanh Nien, March 25)

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