Just before my son proposed, my little niece knocked the ring away and shouted: “Stop! This isn’t real!”

I never imagined that my niece, a quiet nine-year-old girl, would cause such a scandal at my son’s engagement party. But when she knocked over the ring and screamed those words, I knew something serious was going on.

Some say that children sense truths adults prefer to ignore. That evening, Lina proved to me that those words weren’t just a saying… and maybe, she saved me from the worst decision of my life.

I’m a man who built himself from the ground up. Step by step, business after business, I turned a garage dream into a real empire. Nothing was handed to me. I earned it all with hard work and grit.

And I expected my son to at least try to follow a similar path.

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