Published at 22nd of November 2020 07:44:11 PM
Chapter 88
Translator: RandomAlex
Editor: Makoto
The speed of Cao Group’s bankruptcy was so fast that no one saw it coming. These days, it was true that some companies had banded together to do something, but Cao Group was, in the end, the city’s leading big brother. Even if it had weakened now, the bite of so many people, at most, would only wound them, how could it lead to bankruptcy?
Even Chief Cao himself felt that it was all a sham.
Cao Jing was going crazy, because her husband, Zhao Guang, had turned her from a rich noble daughter to a heavily indebted person.
No one thought that Zhao Guang, who had always been very obedient, would stab the Cao family so suddenly. Jabs from the outside wouldn’t pierce through, but the stab from deep inside was fatal.
He hasn’t been in the Cao Group for a long time, but because he was Cao Jing’s husband, he came into contact with many things that ordinary employees can’t come into contact with. Zhao Guang’s mind wasn’t simple from the beginning, and he certainly wouldn’t only concentrate on working for Cao Group.
He collected a lot of deadly evidence, both overtly and covertly.
During this period of time, the Cao Group was besieged by everyone, watching the stock market prices drop every day, with many investors selling them off in succession. The employees in the company also panicked. Chief Cao was forced to handle all kinds of emergencies with high blood pressure every day. Even with this situation however, Cao Jing didn’t forget to act with her own bossy temper.
Zhao Guang had been busy trying to salvage the company for the past few days, and it didn’t matter to him that she couldn’t do anything to help. Yet, despite her uselessness, she still poured cold water on her husband’s head when Zhao Guang came back from a night out drinking and falling asleep from a social gathering.
It was really cold water.
The reason was because she smelt perfume on Zhao Guang.
Zhao Guang insisted that there was no perfume, as he was following his father-in-law out. Even if Chief Cao had called over a woman to play in front of him, what could he do as the son-in-law?
Too bad it wouldn’t be Cao Jing if she listened to his explanation and believed it. In the middle of the night, after everything was done and over with, Zhao Guang was tired and weak, and his head was dizzy because of drinking. It was high time to have a rest. But the first thing that happened was him as he arrived home was getting splashed with cold water. He could barely explain to the woman, who wouldn’t listen and kept barking in a sharp, unpleasant voice.
Zhao Guang snapped.
He liked Qi Jingshu in the first place anyways. If it wasn’t for Cao Jing’s presence there to mess things up, it wouldn’t have been Wei Mingyan who captured the beauty. It would have been Zhao Guang.
For so many years, he had been tolerating Cao Jing’s temper for the sake of inheriting the company, and for the sake of the company, he had given many days and nights to endure humiliation and coax this ugly woman every day.
To this point, he worked to save the life and death of the company, and this woman?
He hauled his not-quite-drunken brain, and turned in the information he had accumulated, stabbing the entire Cao Group in the back.
Coupled with the help of other people, the speed of Cao Group’s downfall could be called lightning fast.
After Chief Cao got the news, he suffered from hypertension and was arrested. Cao Jing could do nothing but bashing and crying, as Zhao Guang disappeared without a trace after submitting the information, leaving the whole Cao Group in a mess.
Employees were clamoring for their own wages, partners were withdrawing funds, and chaos reigned.
At this time, Wei Mingyan began to distribute invitations.
He and Qi Jingshu’s wedding date was finally decided.
When the time came, Qi Jingshu put on her wedding dress, smiled sweetly and took her man’s hand.
The first half of her life may be full of difficulties and waves, but in the end, she finally found the right person for her.
There were many people coming to this wedding, most of whom were business leaders. Because invitations were needed to enter the hall, passers-by could only comment about the kinds of famous cars that were seen at the door.
“This car costs a lot of money. Look at this style.”
“A few million at minimum, right?”
“Ah, could possibly be tens of millions. I just saw that tycoon go in with my own eyes, what do you think this Wei’s position is? His marriage made waves with so many people.”
“I heard it seems like he developed mobile phone chips? But I’ve heard that their company is mainly involved in research and development, and then they sold their findings to other companies that need this kind of technology. Otherwise, why would so many company CEOs be so supportive of it? There is high demand for it.”
“I don’t know how lucky a woman is to get married to this Chief Wei, but I hear he’s not even 30 years old. He is only a young man, but he already has so much money.”
“I know I know! The new bride’s neighbor is my Second Aunt! I heard my Second Aunt say, the new bride’s family is very ordinary. Later, after she got together with Chief Wei, the child in their family rode a special car to go to school.”
“Do you know that Cao Group? In the beginning, the Cao family offended the bride. Now, the Wei’s CEO forced them into bankruptcy!”
“Older Sister, that’s just a fantasy. Before the Cao family went bankrupt, it was the largest company in our city. I have accurate information here. The Cao’s went bankrupt because someone ratted them out, and that person was Chief Cao’s son-in-law! I really don’t know what he was thinking. The Cao’s owe a large debt now. I heard that Miss Cao’s debt, even if her husband’s report was considered meritorious to society, these debts are also joint debts between husband and wife, right? Isn’t it still necessary for him to pay?!”
“Huh? How come I don’t know, tell me about it.”
A rickety figure happened to walk past the two girls at that moment, his head bowed low, his back hunched deadly low, his overly long greasy bangs covering his eyes, making his face impossible to see.
After picking up on what they said, the man’s footsteps faltered. Then as if escaping, he stumbled away.
Zhao Guang was really drunk at that time. If he was given another chance, he would never have tattled on the Cao family.
It’s not that he felt sorry for his wife, but that he now also had to carry this heavy debt on his back.
Cao Jing had been pampered since she was a child. The luxury designer bags she owned could fill a whole room, and she even had several small businesses under her belt, with the company having several projects placed under her name. Despite that, Cao’s bankruptcy instantly riddled her with debt.
As Cao Jing’s husband, Zhao Guang also had to bear these responsibilities.
Even if he divorced her now, according to Chinese law, he will have to share half the debt.
Zhao Guang literally wanted to travel back in time to kill his younger self who took a fancy to the Cao family and proposed to Cao Jing back then.
He tried his best, but in the end, he put all of his possessions over the years on the line.
Now, in order to avoid this debt, he was homeless. He could only hide all day like a lost dog, and didn’t even dare to use a phone.
On the first evening, he slept under the overpass for the first time, a place where many homeless people already resided. As a newcomer, he was inevitably bullied.
Zhao Guang had always been a boy who couldn’t bear hardships since he was young. How could he beat them? After getting beaten up badly, he was thrown out.
He had left all his important documents at the Cao’s and didn’t dare go back for them now. Cao Jing hated him to the bone, especially since he was the one who caused the fall of the Cao Group. Also, according to his knowledge of that stupid woman, now that she was broke and in debt because of him, she’d hate him half to death.
Zhao Guang didn’t want to be buried with this crazy woman. He would rather be a bum than expose the slightest thing.
He was waiting, just waiting for the spotlight to pass, to change his ways, and to start living again.
But today, he had actually passed by here.
Is this actually the place where Qi Jingshu was going to get married?
Will she wear a wedding dress, put on nice makeup, and exchange rings with another man?
Zhao Guang remembered high school.
At that time, his favorite pastime was to glance at Qi Jingshu. She was always buried in her studies and never noticed that someone was looking at her secretly.
At that time, he didn’t have such cunning thoughts, only focusing on studying hard. It would be better if he could be with someone he liked.
Zhao Guang knew how popular he was at school. There were many girls who liked him, but he didn’t like any of them. What he liked was a smart and good-looking girl, someone like Qi Jingshu.
He felt that they were perfect for each other, so he wrote a love letter for the first time and put it under Qi Jingshu’s desk.
Then, he was rejected.
Zhao Guang wasn’t happy. He felt that no one could match Qi Jingshu except himself.
Then, at this time, the fake letter appeared.
Watching the girl’s woeful explanations, and the pleas for him to explain along with her, Zhao Guang saw the teacher’s stern gaze and chose to run away.
Their school was very strict. If the teacher knew that he once confessed to Qi Jingshu, there was absolutely no good ending.
Even more, if word got out that he confessed but was rejected, how would he still mingle in school?
Eventually, things were sorted out.
It was Qi Jingshu who unilaterally liked Zhao Guang and wrote him a confession letter.
In view of the very deplorable content of the letter, a major demerit was recorded.
After that, Zhao Guang deliberately avoided all news about Qi Jingshu, only vaguely knowing that she was targeted by Cao Jing. He really didn’t know that Cao Jing was such a snake. In the end, she forced Qi Jingshu to drop out of school.
Over the years, Zhao Guang had been thinking about her.
He found out from his former classmates that Qi Jingshu was admitted to a key university after transferring to another school, and he was also happy for her.
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She was such an excellent person. If only she had been… Maybe they would have been together now.
Zhao Guang was apparently gentle with Cao Jing, but in his heart, he loathed her. He was thinking that as soon as his father-in-law died and Cao Jing had no protection, he would gobble up Cao Jing and become head of the family.
At that time, he may be able to renew his fate with Qi Jingshu, who he had missed in the past.
He thought things through, figuring out the beginning, but not thorough enough for his plans to carry out to the end.
Today, the weather was just right, neither hot nor cold. It is an auspicious day for a wedding. Zhao Guang leaned raggedly against the corner of the wall and watched as person after person in sharp suits entered. Finally, an expensive car pulled up in front of the venue.
He didn’t eat all day today, and though his stomach ached with hunger, his eyes still stared dead on at the door.
If he didn’t sit idly by and deny that he had written a love letter, would that be himself now? Wearing an expensive suit and driving a luxury car?
Regret, like bitter water, completely drowned him.
Zhao Guang coughed, barely got up and intended to find something to eat, but then heard a familiar sharp female voice resounding behind him, one full of profound hatred, “Zhao! Guang!”
He trembled in fear, and he ran forward without looking back, but was caught like a chicken.
Two or three tall men surrounded him, their faces full of bad intentions, as Cao Jing stood aside with hatred, looking so vicious as if she wanted to bite a piece of flesh off him.
“Beat him up, in the face and stomach, and I’ll finish him off!”
The woman’s arrogant voice sounded, and Zhao Guang hurriedly and nervously protected his head as he continuously begged for mercy. “Ah Jing, Ah Jing, don’t hit me, I love you …”
“Love me?”
Cao Jing sneered, “You guys, do it now!”
Zhao Guang shrank into a ball with fear.
The pain he imagined didn’t befall on his body. The leading man stepped on Zhao Guang, and turned to face Cao Jing. “Miss Cao, the money you gave us was only enough to catch this man. To beat him, it will cost extra money.”
Cao Jing gritted her teeth. She had used up all the money she had on her to catch Zhao Guang before, but now she was penniless. However, if she let Zhao Guang go now, how can she accept it!?
“What about my body!” She directly took off her coat and threw it on the ground. “If you beat him until he can’t make a sound, I’ll let you have it!”
The leader’s eyes subtly looked up and down the woman standing opposite him. She had ordinary facial features and poor skin, but her figure was okay.
“Miss Cao, aren’t you too confident with your looks? For the likes of you, I can find a whole bunch of them for a hundred yuan, unless…”
He was taking Cao Jing up and down with bad intentions. “Unless you are willing to let our brothers play at the same time, that would be worth something.”
Cao Jing almost agreed without hesitation, “Okay!”
Zhao Guang struggled to raise his head, “Cao Jing! How dare you!?”
“Why wouldn’t I dare?”
Cao Jing looked at her husband, who was pressed to the ground and struggling like a worm, and raised her chin. “To tell you the truth, I’ve kept no less than three men, and I’ve had men since before I got married. When you work overtime in the company every day, I call people to play with them in our bed.”
“You bit*h!!”
Zhao Guang couldn’t believe it at first, then desperately tried to raise his head to charge at her.
Any man who came to know that his wife was having an affair with several men at the same time wouldn’t be able to calm down.
Although he doesn’t like, or even hated Cao Jing, this woman had always been infatuated with him. In the eyes of Zhao Guang, Cao Jing was his possession.
Even if he thought about Qi Jingshu, Cao Jing couldn’t betray him!
(TNote: wow… they are perfect for each other.)
“How laughable! You eat from my family, you use things from my family… If it wasn’t for me, how would you be in such a high position right out of school?”
Cao Jing looked around and saw that there was no one around, and simply lifted her clothes down a little bit and leaned on the man, “Today I’ll show you, what it looks like to have your own wife getting laid right in front of your eyes!”
“Cao Jing! You b*tch! You deserve to be f*ck*d by thousands of people!!!”
After an hour.
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In the deserted alley, Cao Jing coughed, wiped the white muck off her face, and stood up weakly on her legs, looking at Zhao Guang who was glaring at her with a pair of blood-red eyes. There was satisfaction in her eyes at the success of her revenge.
“You’ve had enough fun, you can beat him up now, right?”
The few men who had just let off steam were in a very good mood. They responded by casually picking up a stick from the side and hitting Zhao Guang hard on the head.
The alley then became full of miserable cries and curses. In a hotel not far away, Qi Jingshu held her husband’s hand and made a toast with a smile on her face.
“Congratulations! An early birth and a hundred years of good fortune for you.”
“Thank you, Mr. Zhang.”
After offering a toast, Wei Mingyan quietly put his lips close to Qi Jingshu’s ear and whispered with a smile, “Everyone’s telling us to have children early, should we make an effort?”
“Shut it, so indecent at a wedding!”
At the banquet, Qi Jingye actually met her boss and hurriedly made a respectful toast. Since she was promoted last time, she felt really grateful to her boss.
This kind of gratitude and respect was from the heart, not fake in any way. Her boss was a crafty person. After realizing the situation, he had more than a little appreciation for Qi Jingye, secretly calculating that he could be promoted again at the end of the year, and drank this glass of wine.
Looking at the new couple who were whispering intimately from afar, the boss envied them and said, “Xiao Wei and Jingshu are really affectionate.”
If only his daughter could have such good luck as the Qi’s daughter. This Wei Mingyan wasn’t a simple man.
Qi Jingye didn’t recognize his envy, but nodded respectfully and agreed, “Yes, their feelings towards each other have been very good this whole time.”
After saying that, he looked at his sister.
He didn’t know what Mingyan said, but she smiled and looked at her husband with sparkling eyes, looking like a happy little woman who was being spoiled by her most precious person.
The stoic man’s cold hard face couldn’t help but smile in relief.
His sister will surely live a happy life in the future.
In Qi Jiayu’s opinion, her Aunt was undoubtedly soaked in a honey pot, and the person holding this honey pot is of course her uncle.
(TNote: soaked in a honey pot = spoiled.)
Once she turned 18, Qi Jiayu enrolled in a university far from home. Although she was a little homesick, she was excited to be in a new and unfamiliar place for the first time, and she couldn’t sleep.
Apparently, so were the girls in her dorm room.
They chatted about all sorts of things, and about the mischievous and dangerous things they had experienced as children.
Someone said she climbed a tree when she was young, and they wondered how she managed to climb 3 meters high. Her mother was scared to death seeing her from ground level, but she didn’t dare to scare her down. The mother could only coax her down with a gentle voice. Thinking about it now, it would have been very dangerous if she fell.
Another said she and a group secretly went swimming in high school. At that time, the pool was closed and no one was allowed to go there, but they snuck in anyway to swim. As she swam, her feet cramped and she almost drowned, but luckily her cousin and her own little brothers came over just in time to pull her out of the water.
Another told of her story when she was one year old, she was in a car accident with her mother, or falling down the steps at her Aunt’s house while sitting on a bench…
When Qi Jiayu’s turn came around, she told the story of how she was kidnapped as a child and her Uncle desperately tried to save her.
“My Mom told me that my Uncle was covered in blood at the time, as that car went against traffic and collided with another. At that time, the car flipped a few times, and the kidnapper’s head was smashed in. I, on the other hand, was protected by my Uncle, and I wasn’t hurt at all. My Uncle thought, was covered in blood, and my mother told me that before the car overturned, my Uncle hanged onto the car and picked on the car door to get in as the kidnapper was hitting him with something while driving. He didn’t let go of the car, even with blood all over his head.”
“Wow!!”
Several of the young girls’ eyes lit up as they listened, “Your Uncle is so good to you?! Then, what happened to him later?”
“Then …”
Qi Jiayu scrunched up her face, “You won’t believe me even if I tell you, but before I was kidnapped, my Uncle bought a lottery ticket. He woke up after falling unconscious from the accident just as the lottery draw was happening, and won the first prize. Later, he used the money to start a company.”
“Wow!!!”
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The incident developed like a magical movie, leaving her roommates stunned. “Seriously? TV shows wouldn’t even be written that way!”
“It’s real. Then, my Aunt and my Uncle got married, and he treats my Aunt so well that every time she gets a vacation, he takes her everywhere with him. Once, he even brought me along, literally blinding me.”
Qi Jiayu focuses on describing what kind of man her Uncle is.
In her eyes, her Uncle is handsome, had a good figure, always smiled, had a good temper, especially doted on his wife, and single handedly developed his company until it grew very large.
The more she talked, the more the girls couldn’t believe it. How could there be such a good man in the world?
When asked about the company, Qi Jiayu said to keep it a secret.
By the end of the day, the consensus was that she really did have a great Uncle, but she most definitely exaggerated.
Qi Jiayu didn’t realize that her roommates didn’t believe her. The next day, the four girls went out shopping together.
Her home was in the south, and here was the north. All kinds of delicious food were definitely different. Qi Jiayu quickly ate happily.
The four girls strolled into downtown, where there was a building downtown that was a branch of the Wei Group.
One of the girls began to gossip when she was eating roast sausage. “I’m telling you, this Wei is literally dominating. In just a few years, the company branches opened up all over the world, and more importantly!! The Boss! Super! Handsome!”
“Yes, yes, I saw it too, I never read finance and economics, but ever since I saw that handsome face of President Wei’s, I’ve enjoyed reading it.”
“And also, let me tell you, his voice is super nice!”
The girls chattered, and Qi Jiayu wanted to laugh but didn’t dare, chewing into the grilled sausage in her mouth to secretly hide her grin.
It was because her Uncle was now almost famous all over the world that she didn’t dare to say who her Uncle was at school. Otherwise, those people wouldn’t stop approaching her to ask more about him.
When she heard these people praise her Uncle, she was of course flattered.
“Jiayu!!”
A gentle surprised female voice sounded and Qi Jiayu turned around. It was the elegantly dressed Qi Jingshu standing behind her as she saw her.
“Aunt!!”
Qi Jiayu had always had a good relationship with her Aunt since she was a child, and when she saw her now, she immediately ran over like a child.
Wei Mingyan came out with a bag and saw her too.
“Jiayu, don’t just greet your Aunt.”
Qi Jiayu’s pleasant surprise added another layer and even called out sweetly, “Uncle!”
“Uncle, what are you doing here?”
“Something happened at the branch, so your aunt and I came to see. We also wanted to see you too while we’re here. Isn’t this why we bought you a present too? We were going to your school.”
The handsome man spoiled her with a smile, and handed over the bag in his hand.
“Ahhh thank you Uncle!!”
Qi Jiayu thanked him. Suddenly, she remembered something and turned to look behind her, and saw that all her roommates sat still.
She just said it!
Her uncle really is the best man in the world!
Qi Jiayu had always believed this. After the death of her Aunt and Uncle, she had become an elderly woman as well, she still believed so, when she polished the two gravestones that were next to each other.
He doted on her all his life and made people envy her all her life.
Wei Mingyan and Qi Jingshu then lived together for a lifetime, and grew old together, til death did them apart.
Waking up again, he was in a narrow hospital room.
This time, Wei Mingyan was a rich second generation.
A pretentious one…