My wife would go to the beauty hospital once every two weeks.
After each visit to the beauty hospital, her whole body skin would become fair and smooth.
Touching her delicate skin, I couldn’t help myself and always wanted to turn her over and get close to her. But she always refused me with a coquettish look, saying, “I’m so tired after just having beauty treatments. Maybe next time.”
Later, when she went to the beauty hospital for a full-body beauty treatment, it happened to be our wedding anniversary.
I got off work early to give her a surprise. When I walked hurriedly to the door, I heard my wife’s voice from inside, “Oh, ugh, can you be gentler~”
“Rest assured. I’m not interested in my husband anymore. I like you the most now.” Immediately after that, there was a man’s low laughter.
I stood at the door with roses in my arms, unable to move for a long time.
The front desk staff of the beauty hospital seemed to be new. She suddenly seemed to realize something and hurriedly ran to me, saying, “Sorry, Mr. Qu. Men are not allowed in here…”
Then she added, “The person inside isn’t your wife. Why don’t you wait in the lobby for a while? Your wife probably still has over an hour to finish the project.”
I clenched and unclenched my fist at my side, finally letting it drop helplessly.
My wife Du Ling and I had been together from dating to marriage for five whole years. I was quite sure that the female voice I heard at the door was Du Ling’s voice.
But now the front desk denied that it was her. Wasn’t this trying to cover up something?
I sat in the lobby of the beauty hospital with roses in my arms for nearly two hours. All the details of my years with Du Ling flashed through my mind over and over again. Finally, Du Ling came out. There was a flush on her face, and she looked energetic.
When she saw me, surprise showed on her face. “Husband, why are you here?” Du Ling called out loudly. I clearly saw a figure by the wall behind her quickly hide back after hearing this.
I forced a smile, “Wife, have you forgotten what day it is today?”
She glanced at the bouquet of roses in my hand, thought for a moment, and then threw herself into my arms with a charming smile, “Of course I remember, hubby~”
My whole body immediately became extremely stiff, and a sense of nausea lingered in my heart.
I almost subconsciously pushed Du Ling away and ran towards the place where that figure had been.
Du Ling anxiously shouted behind me, “Husband, what are you doing? You’re not allowed in there!”
I ignored her and searched through the open rooms one by one.
Finally, in the room that the front desk had taken me to earlier, I saw a very familiar person. He was bowing his head to clean up the mess.
In the trash can, there was a used condom that was particularly conspicuous. The meaning of this was self-evident.
The man seemed to sense something, stopped what he was doing, and looked towards the door. After seeing clearly that it was me, he showed an extremely provocative smile.
Du Ling hurriedly followed and when she saw me staring blankly at the things in the trash can in the room, a look of helplessness clearly showed on her face. She took my hand, “Husband, why did you come to this room? I just…”
I interrupted her, “Du Ling, I know you were just in this room.”
I threw the roses in my hand to the ground and trampled those delicate flowers to pieces.
“Let’s get a divorce.”
Later, I couldn’t quite remember clearly what happened in the beauty hospital.
I only remembered that after I exposed her affair face to face, Du Ling became angry and pointed at my nose, shouting, “Qu Lichuan, you’re such a loser!”
“I’ve been with you for five whole years, and you’re still just a small employee in the company. How can you compare to Chen Nan who has shares in the beauty hospital? Do you think you’ll find a better partner after divorcing me? Forget it! It’s your good fortune that I’m not divorcing you!”
After returning home, I bought bottles of alcohol and drank one after another.
Chen Nan, who Du Ling said was much better than me, was actually the plastic surgeon who had performed cosmetic surgeries on Du Ling back then.
Ironically, after Du Ling finished the project and thought the effect was good, she even asked me to buy many expensive gifts and a customized silk banner for Chen Nan.
And when I didn’t know, Chen Nan became Du Ling’s beauty doctor again and even got involved with her in bed.
Qu Lichuan and Du Ling were college classmates. When I saw her volunteering in the school’s Bluebird Club in our sophomore year, a ray of sunlight happened to fall on her. She was smiling gently while handing out water to classmates. That scene lingered in my mind.
She got married before graduating from college, and I lost touch with her.
But then when something happened to my parents and I received a large amount of insurance compensation and inheritance, Du Ling came to me pitifully and said, “Actually, I noticed you back in school too. Unfortunately, I married the wrong person and was abused for a year. Would you still accept me?”
The girl I had a crush on in my student days was standing in front of me, so I was naturally overjoyed.
Later, they fell in love and got married.
During these five years, although I didn’t start a business and didn’t make a lot of money, my income was stable and not low, and I also tried my best to give Du Ling the best.
Especially after she had a miscarriage, I was extremely distressed and arranged many maintenance or exercise programs for her.
But I never expected that she would betray me.
At this time, my phone received a message. It was from my boss. The boss asked, “How is it? Have you told your wife this great news? You’ve been working hard in the company for so many years. Consider it as our anniversary gift for you two.”
I turned off my phone screen. The gift from the boss was that I was promoted to deputy general manager of the company and became one of the shareholders.
Originally, I thought I could share this good news with the person I loved most on this good day. But now it seemed that there was no need.
Just then, the phone screen that had just been turned off suddenly lit up again. It was a message from a strange number. “Qu Lichuan, I’m Chen Nan. Ling said she agreed to divorce you. But Ling had a miscarriage for you and took good care of your daily life for so many years, so the property must be divided equally.”
I was almost amused by anger. Soon after, Chen Nan sent a photo. It was Du Ling lying in his arms, affectionately asking for a kiss from him.
Perhaps after being hit one after another, my heart was completely dead. I had a calm expression and saved the photo without hesitation.
I probably understood why Du Ling suddenly came to me to develop a relationship with me as soon as I received the inheritance and insurance compensation. From the beginning to the end, what she cared about most was my property.
But then again, not to mention that the inheritance and insurance compensation were my pre-marital property and couldn’t be considered as the couple’s joint property after marriage. Moreover, Du Ling had never paid attention to my work all these years, so she didn’t know that I had been promoted and got salary increases gradually in the past five years. She still thought that I was supporting her with my parents’ savings.
What’s more, Du Ling had cheated first. Since that was the case, I must prepare a “divided” property that would satisfy her.
When I brought a lawyer to the beauty hospital, Du Ling was chatting happily with the front desk.
And the front desk called her “Madam Boss” with a flattering look. Du Ling couldn’t close her mouth from happiness when she heard this.
But when she saw me, a strong look of disgust immediately appeared on her face. “You’ve finally come. You kept saying you wanted a divorce but never came to talk about it. I thought you were deliberately delaying and didn’t want to divorce me.”
After saying these words, she didn’t hide the contempt in her eyes and looked me up and down.
“It’s your good fortune to be with me for three years. Look at you. In terms of appearance or earning ability, which one can compare to Nan?”
I clenched my fists.
The next second, Chen Nan walked over gracefully in a white coat.
When he sat beside Du Ling, he deliberately looked at me provocatively and directly hugged Du Ling in his arms.
Du Ling even didn’t avoid me and said directly, “Husband~ After Qu Lichuan divides the family property equally with me, you can cancel the appointments with customers this month and travel around Europe with me, okay? I told you half a year ago that I wanted to travel to Europe. You must satisfy me this time!”
Chen Nan hugged her affectionately, “Okay, everything is up to you.”
Half a year ago, Du Ling hadn’t even gone for the cosmetic project yet. So it turned out that they had been together behind my back long before I knew.
The wife I had doted on for so long was just acting in front of me all the time, pretending to be affectionate, but had already had an affair with another man in secret.
Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered the situation when she had a miscarriage.
At that time, I had taken good care of her and even hired a nanny to look after her at home. I had checked the nanny’s resume several times and only dared to hire her after confirming that she was an honest person.
But then Du Ling had a miscarriage, saying that the nanny had mopped the floor too slippery and she had fallen. Could there be something else hidden back then?
A surge of anger burned brightly in my chest, and I almost gritted my teeth and said, “I’m still sitting in front of you two, and you’re already discussing how to divide my property. Du Ling, stop dreaming, okay?”
Du Ling’s face changed slightly.
But then, she slowly smiled again. “Qu Lichuan, you even brought a lawyer here today to put on airs, just trying to threaten us. I tell you, if it weren’t for the large amount of inheritance you got back then, do you think I would condescend to be with you?”
“Every night sharing the bed with you made me feel sick.”
After saying these, she rummaged through her bag and finally took out a cloth bag that was starting to turn slightly yellow at the edges.
My pupils shrank suddenly. This was something that belonged to my grandma.
Grandma had a hard life when she was alive, but she always had a reverent heart towards the gods. So when she was young, she went through mountains and rivers to a temple to get this amulet.
After my parents passed away, she fell ill and couldn’t get up.
I took Du Ling to visit her on purpose, and grandma gave this amulet to Du Ling, saying that it would keep her safe all her life.
Not long after that day, she passed away. This was the only thing grandma left in this world.
My eyes were slightly red. Just as I was about to reach out to take the amulet, Du Ling quickly took scissors and cut the amulet to pieces.
She threw it viciously at my feet and sneered, “And this thing that old hag gave me, it’s really fucking unlucky. If it weren’t for your property, I wouldn’t bother to act with you for so long.”
Chen Nan laughed softly beside her.
“Such an old thing dares to give it away. Qu Lichuan, your family is really generous.”
I stared at the broken pieces of the cloth bag at my feet for a long time.
Finally, I calmed down my mood, looked up at them, “Du Ling, why do you think you can get half of my property? I’ve already consulted Lawyer Li beside me. You have no right to interfere with my pre-marital property.”
Du Ling raised her eyebrows, “Why? I’ve worked hard in these years of marriage. Don’t you forget that I had a miscarriage for you? Believe it or not, I’ll sue you in court…”
“Go ahead,” I said calmly.
I took out my phone and played the whole surveillance video of me catching Du Ling cheating in the beauty hospital that day. In the video, Du Ling had already broken down and admitted the fact that she had cheated.
Their faces immediately became very ugly.
I smiled, “Du Ling, I have evidence of your cheating. Guess if I sue you with this evidence, will you end up leaving the house empty-handed or get some so-called compensation for the miscarriage?”
“If you don’t want to make a big fuss, I can accept splitting our joint property equally over the years. Hurry up and sign the divorce agreement.”
Du Ling gritted her teeth. Obviously, she hadn’t expected that I would have the surveillance video of the beauty hospital.
She first gave Chen Nan a reproachful look.
Then, she looked at me with hatred all over her face, and I fearlessly met her gaze.
Finally, the two of them whispered for a while. It seemed that they had no other way even after racking their brains and had to sign their names on the agreement dejectedly.
When I left, Du Ling cursed behind me, “Qu Lichuan, you deserve to die a bad death!”
I smiled slightly and didn’t look back. The good show was yet to come.
After dealing with the divorce matters with Du Ling, I quickly got busy with my work.
Since being promoted to deputy general manager of the company, the work areas I was involved in had expanded a lot. To avoid chaos, I had to put in a lot of effort.
Although I didn’t pay attention to them anymore, as I expected, Du Ling would send me several unsightly cursing messages from time to time.
“Qu Lichuan, how dare you trick me!”
“Why should our joint property be split equally and I even have to pay you? You shameless piece of shit! You deserve to die a bad death!”
I smiled slightly.
The more I saw her breaking down and cursing with such ugly words, the happier I felt inside.
Although Du Ling didn’t have a stable job, she had been in charge of collecting rent from the properties bought with the inheritance I got. Roughly calculated, she could earn seven or eight thousand yuan a month.
Since that was the case, I wouldn’t let her get this money easily.
When I first started working in the company, my monthly salary was indeed only five thousand yuan. Even after getting promoted and having salary increases later, Du Ling didn’t care about my work, so she didn’t know about it.
I deliberately told my boss about the situation I was facing, and the boss was willing to help me issue salary slips for these years according to the initial salary.
I put all these contents into the divorce agreement.
Unfortunately, Du Ling was so angry that she fainted when she learned that she couldn’t split my property equally and didn’t read the contents of the agreement carefully.
Since she had already signed it, the contract had already taken effect. It would be useless even if she sued me.
So I sent her a message, “Why are you so angry but don’t sue me? Aren’t you afraid that you’ll have to return all the rent money to me in the end?”
Soon after, Du Ling replied, “You only earn five thousand a month. You’re such a loser! Useless thing!”
I laughed a few times, didn’t bother to explain to her anymore, told her to transfer the money to my bank card quickly, and then blocked her account directly.
I was happily continuing to deal with the things at hand when the boss came into my office at this time.
The boss said, “Recently, we received an order. Originally, I wanted to assign you to negotiate cooperation with their company, but then I thought it wasn’t a good idea.”
I frowned slightly, “What order?”
The boss looked at me.
“It’s Yimei Beauty Hospital. They contacted our company and wanted to do some advertising and marketing promotion. Lichuan, couldn’t your ex-wife even know that you work in our company?”
I smiled. Maybe she really didn’t.
After all, Du Ling didn’t care about what I was doing at work. She only cared about whether I was a small employee or a manager, and how much money I could earn a month.
The boss was a bit hesitant, “Originally, I wanted to give this cooperation to you. But since this is your ex-wife and her lover’s beauty hospital, if you don’t want to go, I’ll assign someone else.”
I shook my head, “It’s okay, boss. I won’t let these things affect my work.”
“And this is just what I want.”
The day before negotiating cooperation with Yimei Beauty Hospital happened to be the university class reunion.
When I arrived at the entrance, I happened to meet Du Ling and Chen Nan.
My steps paused for a moment when I got out of the car.
Almost forgot that Du Ling and I were university classmates. Originally, when I received the invitation from the class monitor, I thought I could also make some connections and might even encounter a cooperation opportunity.
However, Xiao Ya, who had a good relationship with Du Ling in university, spotted me with sharp eyes. “Oh my, isn’t this Qu Lichuan? The last time I saw you was at your wedding banquet with Ling. Why do you look so much older after just a few years?”
“Oh, almost forgot that you’ve been earning only five thousand a month for five years and even tricked your ex-wife. It’s normal to look older.” She sneered.
Most of the classmates around knew about my marriage with Du Ling back then. Now seeing Du Ling with someone else and hearing Xiao Ya’s words that distorted the truth, they looked at me with contempt in their eyes.
I looked at Du Ling. Could it be that she forgot that I still had that surveillance video in my hand?
Now she was blatantly smearing me in public like this. Wasn’t she afraid that I would expose the fact that she had cheated and was materialistic?
After all, I had also recorded audio when I brought the lawyer that day.
However, the next second, my phone suddenly received a message from Chen Nan’s number.
I looked up and saw that it was Du Ling holding Chen Nan’s phone.
“We beauty hospital will soon reach a cooperation with your company and has always had a good relationship with your company’s leaders. If you don’t want to lose this stable job, just keep your mouth shut.”
I was a bit speechless and amused.
I was clearly in charge of this project. How come I didn’t know that I had a good relationship with them?
But unexpectedly, it turned out that Du Ling knew that I worked in this company.
Du Ling observed my expression after seeing the message several times. Seeing that I didn’t say anything, she relaxed a lot and began to become even more complacent.
A male classmate who had a fairly good relationship with me in university couldn’t bear to see everyone looking down on me like this. He looked at the car behind me and said, “Lichuan’s car is worth four or five hundred thousand yuan. How does it look like he has been earning only five thousand a month and living off a woman? You can’t just spread rumors casually.”
I looked at him with some gratitude.
However, the next second, Xiao Ya, who was standing beside Du Ling, burst out laughing after hearing these words. She even laughed until she had tears in her eyes. Looking at the male classmate who spoke for me, she said with a laugh, “I’m not kidding. You’re really out of touch with the news.”
“Who among us doesn’t know that Qu Lichuan has no real skills at all? The reason why he can afford a nice car and live in a nice house is all because his parents died at the right time. He’s an absolute professional freeloader.”
As soon as these words came out, everyone present started talking about it.
Because we were still at the entrance and hadn’t gone in yet, many strangers on the street and even the staff of the restaurant listened to our conversation to watch the drama.
Now, they all looked at me with strong disgust in their eyes.
“Oh my god, is he living off the inheritance left by his parents and using it to marry a wife?”
“That’s right. And because his parents died unexpectedly, there was also a huge amount of insurance compensation. Qu Lichuan has nothing else but is definitely a professional parasite.”
“He’s so useless. No wonder Du Ling wants to divorce him. Who can stand him?”
Seeing that everyone’s discussion about me was getting more and more intense, Du Ling pretended to be embarrassed and stood out at this time, saying to everyone, “Okay, everyone, stop talking. Lichuan also has his pride.”
“Besides, Lichuan is actually a nice person. There are other reasons for my divorce with him. Everyone, don’t guess anymore.”
After she said these words, everyone looked at her with admiration.
In everyone’s hearts, she was a magnanimous and considerate woman, while I became the most evil, freeloading and failure of a loser.
I sneered in my heart.
She was really good at distorting the truth.
I mercilessly exposed her, “There are indeed other reasons. I think the person with bad morals should be clear to some people.”
Hearing my words, everyone was slightly stunned and their expressions became different.
And Du Ling’s face immediately darkened. She stared at me with a warning and fierce look.
However, the next second, the peacemaker class monitor came out and greeted everyone, “Why are you all gathered at the entrance? One of the hot dishes has already been served. Come in quickly, don’t stand outside in the cold wind!”
After sitting in the private room, everyone didn’t enjoy the meal very much.
The atmosphere was strange.
Many people’s eyes kept scanning back and forth between me and Du Ling. Obviously, they were very curious about what I said just now.
Everyone was guessing what the real reason for our divorce was.
The class monitor was a peacemaker in university. Now, seeing the atmosphere in the room was so awkward, in order to ease the atmosphere, he took the initiative to ask me, “Lichuan, where are you working now? It seems that you’re quite busy every day.”
I smiled, “It’s okay. I’m currently working as the deputy manager in an advertising company.”
As soon as I finished speaking, Du Ling and her best friend Xiao Ya burst out laughing.
Chen Nan, who was putting food in Du Ling’s bowl, looked at me with a sympathetic look and said, “Brother, I don’t mean to criticize you, but why don’t you go to see a psychologist? You’re just a small employee with a monthly salary of five thousand yuan. How can you still dream of being a deputy manager?”
The classmates all burst out laughing.
Du Ling tried hard to hold back her laughter and said, “Since we’ve talked about this topic, let me introduce to you all. My boyfriend Chen Nan is the deputy dean of Yimei Beauty Hospital and will soon cooperate with Chuanqi Advertising. If any of you have female relatives or friends who have beauty needs, please introduce them to us.”
As soon as she said this, everyone immediately poured wine and flattered her by toasting her.
“Xiaoling is so amazing. She was kind-hearted and beautiful when she was in school. No wonder she could meet such an excellent partner after graduation.”
“My wife is also in the beauty industry. Mr. Chen, please give her more help!”
“I have a relative who is recently consulting about plastic surgery. I’ll introduce them to you.”
Du Ling was enjoying the feeling of being the center of attention very much. Looking at me, there was endless pride in her eyes.
I put down my chopsticks and stood up.
“Since the client company has no sincerity at all and casually insults and slurs a member of the cooperating company, I don’t think it’s necessary to talk about the cooperation tomorrow.”
Chen Nan and Du Ling’s expressions changed slightly.
Obviously, they didn’t understand how I, a small employee, knew the time of their cooperation negotiation.
But Du Ling still managed to keep her composure and sneered, “At this point, Qu Lichuan, do you still need to pretend like this? It’s true that we’re going to cooperate with your company, but when did it become your turn to interfere as a small employee?”
I ignored him and just called the boss.
After Mr. Li answered the phone and started talking, Du Ling and Chen Nan immediately came over.
They were familiar with Mr. Li’s voice since they had met him before.
I ignored their gazes and just said on my own, “Mr. Li, I had dinner with the deputy dean of Yimei Beauty Hospital and his female companion today. They showed no respect for our cooperation. Let’s cancel the cooperation negotiation schedule for tomorrow.”
Chen Nan snatched my phone away.
When he spoke, there was a flattering smile on his face, “Mr. Li, sorry to bother you. Our Yimei has never said such things. It’s all slander from Mr. Qu Lichuan. We’ve long admired the great reputation of Chuanqi Advertising and are looking forward to our cooperation…”
However, before he could finish speaking, Mr. Li said calmly on the other end of the phone, “This project was originally in charge of Deputy General Manager Qu. Since Deputy General Manager Qu said so, it seems that there’s really no need for us to cooperate.”
As soon as Mr. Li’s words fell, everyone in the private room immediately fell silent.
The whole private room was so quiet that the sound of chopsticks hitting the dishes became extremely harsh.
Chen Nan looked at me in disbelief and said, “Mr. Li, what, what did you say?”
Mr. Li’s tone was a bit impatient, “I said that Deputy General Manager Qu was originally in charge of the cooperation with you. Since Deputy General Manager Qu thinks this cooperation won’t work, there’s no need to sit down and talk about it tomorrow.”
After saying these words, Mr. Li hung up the phone. All that was left for them, who were already petrified on the spot, was the busy tone of the phone.
I was even more grateful to Mr. Li in my heart. Fortunately, Mr. Li understood me.
Actually, after setting the date for the cooperation negotiation earlier, I had done a deeper investigation on Yimei Beauty Hospital and unexpectedly found that they had hundreds of lawsuits under their name.
The company’s scale was not large, but there were quite a lot of lawsuits in a year.
From this, I speculated that the cooperation risk of their company was relatively high. If they had problems after we did advertising and marketing for them, it would also affect our company’s reputation in the industry.
So I had already discussed with Mr. Li to cancel the cooperation early.
Chen Nan and Du Ling’s expressions suddenly became extremely ugly.
However, Du Ling reacted quickly. She immediately grasped the key point, squeezed out a few tears with effort, and accused, “You’ve been promoted to deputy general manager. Why did you still lie to me that you only earned five thousand a month? If you just didn’t want to spend money on me after marriage, you could have told me the truth. I’m not that unreasonable.”
“After the divorce, the property was divided equally. Because I earned more than five thousand a month, I even had to pay you tens of thousands of yuan back. Were you doing it on purpose?”
Hearing what she said, everyone looked at me with even more contempt in their eyes.
After all, in their eyes, I had become a stingy person who could earn money but didn’t want to spend it on his wife.
I sneered.
“You cheated on me many times during our marriage. Your stable monthly income was just from collecting rent, and all the properties are under my name. So why should I give you that money?”
As soon as I said this, everyone was shocked and started whispering to each other.
Du Ling’s face turned red with anger and she looked extremely aggrieved, “What are you talking about! Chen Nan and I are not what you think. We only got together after our divorce. I know you hate me, but how can you spread rumors like this…”
“Stop pretending,” I interrupted her coldly.
“To tell you the truth, because I often spent a lot of money on you in Yimei Beauty Hospital, I had already added the dean as a friend long ago. That surveillance video was also obtained by me from him.”
“If you don’t mind losing face, I can play that surveillance video and the recording from when I brought the lawyer that day for everyone to see right now, and let everyone see how you used the excuse of beauty treatments to frequently go to Yimei and finally got caught cheating in bed by me.”
“Shut up! Shut up! Don’t say any more!”
Everyone’s whispering became louder and louder.
Especially, everyone had an expression of watching the drama on their faces.
Du Ling had always attached great importance to her appearance. At the same time, she also cared a lot about her image in others’ eyes. Now that I exposed her in public like this, she naturally couldn’t accept it.
She stood up and even wanted to rush to me to cover my mouth.
I took a step back to avoid her. Then I threw the evidence of Du Ling’s miscarriage and hotel stays that I had collected during this period at her face without mercy.
The papers fell to the ground and everyone curiously gathered around to look at them.
I smiled, “You always said that you had a miscarriage for me, so I must treat you well. Well, did I hold a knife to your neck and force you to go to hotels and have miscarriages?”
There was a strong look of disgust on my face.
“I wonder whose surname this child should have, Du Ling. I’m afraid you don’t even know it yourself, right?”
After saying these words, I didn’t hesitate and turned around and left directly.
At the moment when I stepped out of the private room, I heard Du Ling’s desperate scream and the classmates’ undisguised ridicule behind me.
After the turmoil of that class reunion ended, many classmates came to me for cooperation.
I naturally wouldn’t refuse the cooperation opportunities that came to me.
At the same time, the male classmate who was the only one who spoke for me at the entrance also started his own business. I didn’t hesitate to invest in him and also set the advertising projects for the future.
He was an honest and hardworking person. I believed that he would achieve great things.
Because I had invested in his company, I would also go to his company to have a look during my free time at work.
Today, when I went there, he angrily told me, “Lichuan, do you know? Recently, Yimei Beauty Hospital has become extremely popular on the Internet. And I checked it. The legal representative of Yimei has become Chen Nan, and Du Ling is the only shareholder.”
“They don’t know what means they used to drive the original boss away.”
I opened the social media app and took a look. Sure enough, the latest promotional video of Yimei had hundreds of thousands of likes and had been viewed by tens of millions of people at least.
However, there was a link below their video.
Surprisingly, some of the previously expensive beauty projects in the link were even as cheap as three-digit numbers.
No wonder it became so popular.
It attracted many women who didn’t have much spare money but had beauty needs, and even college students.
The old classmate gritted his teeth and said, “Whenever I think of their smug faces last time, I feel sick. If it weren’t for you proving yourself back then, they could have made black look white. It’s really disgusting.”
“I’m so angry when I see them making money like this.”
I just smiled and didn’t say anything.
All businesses that try to build their reputation by relying on price differences with their competitors will not end well in the end.
Not to mention whether competitors will unite to fight against them. With such low prices, their costs won’t be too high. They will cut corners here and there, and the product quality will definitely have problems.
Then everyone will turn against them when they are in trouble.
I didn’t originally want to get involved too much in this matter. After all, I had no more intersections with them.
However, one day, the boss suddenly came to me.
He looked at me with some embarrassment, “Recently, one of our long-term good client companies suddenly wants to break the contract with us. After I asked clearly about the reason, they said it was because Yimei Beauty Hospital told them something about you.”
“They think our company is not trustworthy. Besides, they need the support of Yimei for some of their projects and want to please Yimei, so they chose to terminate the contract with us.”
“The one who tied the bell to the tiger must untie it. You have to solve this matter.”
I nodded, sneering in my heart.
I didn’t expect that after such a long time, they still didn’t want me to have an easy life and wanted to suppress me from the work aspect.
Since that was the case, then I wouldn’t leave them any dignity either.
I paid a personal visit to that client company.
However, they wouldn’t be easily convinced by me.
But after seeing all the documents I had prepared, the client’s face changed greatly.
I smiled, “Mr. Yang, please think it over carefully. During our cooperation period, your company’s net profit has increased by at least 30%. What’s more, Yimei is a time bomb. It may become notorious within this month. Are you sure you still want to continue cooperating with them?”
Mr. Yang’s eyes flickered slightly.
I wasn’t in a hurry for his reply and just went back to the company directly.
After all, I had more important things to do.
During this period, I tried hard to search for any clues on the Internet. Since Yimei’s prices were so low, there must be problems with their product quality.
I firmly believed that cheap things usually don’t have good quality.
Sure enough, after a series of searches, I found nearly a dozen people who had posted similar articles saying that Yimei was a rip-off.
Among them, besides saying that the product quality was poor, some even said that the discounted group purchases were just a trick. After arriving at the beauty hospital, the beauticians would directly raise the prices on the spot and it was really a rip-off.
I spent a lot of energy gathering these people together and also invested a large amount of money to promote their videos.
Finally, Yimei became famous on the Internet.
Famously notorious.
At the same time, the boss brought me good news, “Xiao Qu, you’ve done a great job. They canceled the cooperation with Yimei and came back to us for advertising. Moreover, because of this incident, we’ve increased the advertising fees for them quite a lot. This achievement will be counted on you.”
I smiled, “Thank you, Mr. Li.”
The incident of Yimei caused a big stir on the Internet. Because I just threw out a lead, more people would post their own personal experiences to expose them.
Among them, someone even exposed that the doctors who performed projects for them didn’t have relevant certificates at all.
I took a look at the photo posted by this person. Even though the “doctor” was wearing a mask, I still recognized that it was Du Ling.
I was full of sarcasm in my heart.
Didn’t she say that Chen Nan was so capable and nice to her?
Why did she, who didn’t have a qualification certificate at all, have to perform these real beauty surgeries?
Soon, netizens checked the relevant information of Chen Nan and Du Ling through enterprise inquiry software and condemned them as extremely evil capitalists who made money by sacrificing their conscience.
I guessed that at this moment, their mobile phones should be full of unbearable curses.
Sure enough, Chen Nan’s number, which I hadn’t blocked all the time, sent me a message again at this time.
“I know it’s you who did this, right?”
“You did all these just to make Chen Nan uncomfortable. To be honest, I felt suffocated during the time with him. If you still have feelings for me, let’s remarry, okay?”
I sneered, turned off my phone and directly blocked his number.
Today, when I went to work in the company, I met Du Ling.
I wasn’t surprised.
After all, she knew my workplace, and plus I didn’t agree to her request for reconciliation last time.
However, what surprised me was that compared to before, she looked much haggard. When she was my wife, she loved beauty to an almost pathological degree. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have gone for plastic surgeries and those medical beauty treatments.
But now, her hair ends were withered and yellow, her face was sallow, and she even went out without makeup. For her, going out without makeup was almost an impossible thing before.
As soon as she saw me, she couldn’t wait to hold my hand.
“Lichuan, I really know I was wrong during this time. Actually, I’ve always loved you all along. It was Chen Nan. He lured me and deceived me. I was so bewitched that I believed him for a while…”
As she was talking, she started sobbing.
“He doesn’t really love me. Since the end of the class reunion last time, in order to make money in Yimei, he even asked me to sleep with the dean to get evidence and make the dean give up and transfer Yimei to him…”
I was a bit shocked.
But then I thought that Chen Nan, who knew clearly that Du Ling was a married woman but still deliberately approached her and did such despicable things, was not a good person at all.
It wasn’t strange that he could make Du Ling do such things.
Du Ling cried bitterly, “I didn’t agree, and he tried every means to torture me. He said that all this was for our future and that after making money, he would definitely take me to travel in Europe. I believed him again.”
“But later, he didn’t treat me like a human being at all. He just regarded me as a tool to make money, squeezing me dry. Not only did he let me work in the beauty hospital without a certificate, but also asked me to accompany the bosses of those cooperation companies to sleep…”
“It was you who posted those things on the Internet and saved me, Lichuan. You still love me, don’t you?”
I looked at her.
There was an eager plea in her eyes, which was a bit similar to five years ago, but also different.
Thinking of the extremely mean words she said to me before and how she mercilessly cut my grandma’s amulet into pieces and threw it at my feet, I suddenly felt that she had always been the same.
Hypocritical and selfish.
Now she came to me just because she saw that I was promoted and had money again.
So I sneered, “Du Ling, do you think I’m the kind of person who would take back someone like you?”
Her face suddenly turned pale.
I didn’t originally want to say such mean words, but unexpectedly, after she reacted, she started cursing again, “Qu Lichuan, why do you think I’m like that! Do you think you’re so great? You’re just living on your parents’ pensions and got promoted by chance. Do you think you’re so amazing? Go to hell…”
When Du Ling was taken away by the security guards, my old classmate happened to call me.
He said, “Major shareholder, how about coming to the company for a small meeting tonight?”
She looked at me in disbelief.
When she was taken away, there was still a strong look of regret and unwillingness on her face.
She had never really understood me.
If I was just a loser, how could I stand out from hundreds of employees and take the position of deputy general manager?
Every time I came home exhausted, all she cared about was whether I had spent money randomly and whether I had bought her the things she liked.
She never paid attention to what I was doing all day long.
This was probably the manifestation of not loving someone.
But now, all the things related to her had nothing to do with me.
I said leisurely to the other end of the phone, “Okay, see you tonight.”
I was promoted to the position of general manager in the advertising company.
At the same time, my old classmate’s company was also developing better and better, and I would get a considerable dividend every year.
My life was getting better and better.
Today, after getting off work, I was lying in my newly decorated home that had been ventilated for more than half a year, looking at my phone when I suddenly saw a very eye-catching news on the city headline.
“Shocking! A thirty-year-old woman turned love into hatred and didn’t turn off the gas, trying to die with her husband!”
The picture released with the news showed that there was a very conspicuous bell tattoo on the woman’s arm.
This name had been buried in my memory for a long time. If I hadn’t seen this news today, I might not even be able to remember this name.
I calmly exited the news.
Turning my head to look, outside the glass window, skyscrapers stood in rows. At this time, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, making people feel extremely open and bright in their hearts.
From now on, whether I’ll have a new partner or be alone, I’ll have a bright future.
