Forcing Me to Be Reborn?!-Chapter 206 - 177 The Counselors Mess of Troubles

Chapter 206: Chapter 177: The Counselor’s Mess of Troubles

Chapter 206: Chapter 177: The Counselor’s Mess of Troubles

In the living room, Chen Jieyu listened to her brother Chen Qi’s words, and the color seemed to drain from her face in an instant, leaving her noticeably paler.

“You say that again,” she said, her voice trembling slightly.

“What’s there to say? I already told you it was that idiot who wasn’t looking where he was going and bumped into me. How could that be my fault? I compensated him with over eight hundred dollars, and he was grinning from ear to ear! Hey, come on sis, can’t you just let it go if I promise to be more careful when riding my motorcycle in the future?”

“Coming home and cursing right away, such a small matter isn’t worth it.”

“Why are you acting like my old teachers now, always making a mountain out of a molehill?”

Chen Qi pushed his luggage to the corner and plopped onto the sofa.

But he quickly noticed something off about Chen Jieyu.

Her hands suddenly twitched uncontrollably.

She also looked terribly pale, as if something had been drained from her body. Even the eyes behind her gold-rimmed glasses started to look somewhat hollow.

“Sis!” Chen Qi couldn’t help but shout, “Don’t scare me, alright?”

At that moment, no matter what Chen Qi said to her, she didn’t make a sound.

Two minutes passed, and the sound of the door opening was heard. Mrs. Chen, who had gone to the small supermarket to buy groceries, had returned.

Upon seeing Chen Jieyu’s state, she first reacted with surprise and concern, but that quickly turned into panic.

Chen Jieyu, who had been silent, seemed to find an outlet upon seeing her.

“Why? Mom, why?!” Her voice suddenly surged in volume, filled with a cry that couldn’t be suppressed.

Chen Qi was scared stiff.

He rarely saw his sister like this, especially since she started working. She wouldn’t collapse like this.

Chen Jieyu was from Sichuan Province, which, in fact, wasn’t one of the places that practiced severe gender discrimination. In many families there, women tended to have a higher family status.

But in some small places, some small cities, it could be relatively worse.

In fact, it was in such environments that Chen Jieyu felt more desperate and a greater sense of disparity compared to other girls.

From childhood to adulthood, she had actually become accustomed to having a father like him, to having grandparents like them.

She had become numb.

But what she couldn’t accept was that after receiving his call asking for money, she had repeatedly said to let her mom take the call because she wanted to hear it from her mom.

Yet, what she got in return was deception.

Even to her, this was betrayal!

She regarded her as the closest person in the world.

You always said, “You are a piece of flesh that fell from my body.”

But why, oh why?

Why, when he got drunk, he would beat and curse you, yet in the end, you still helped him deceive me?

Many people wondered why they disliked Lu Xun during their school years, but as they grew older, they began to admire him.

Just the phrase “There is something hateful about a pitiable person” is a deeply insightful comment on life!

“Nannan, come to the room. Let’s talk inside,” Mrs. Chen tried to pull her, calling her by her nickname, but was shoved away.

“How much money did he give you to go out and play?” Chen Jieyu glanced sideways at Chen Qi.

“One… one thousand five hundred.” He was still clueless.

Chen Jieyu bit her lip, almost drawing blood.

“Is it the money he owes from playing cards?” she asked the woman.

“No, it’s not, Nannan, listen to mom, it’s really not like that.”

The woman started rambling, saying that this time the man truly devoted himself to the business, only to be cheated by a friend, ending up with a loss, and that now there were gaps that couldn’t be filled.

Chen Jieyu had nothing to say.

“So how much exactly is missing?” she looked at the woman.

The woman remained silent.

“Speak! Just say it!” Chen Jieyu’s tone even carried a hint of pleading.

“More than thirty thousand,” the woman said in a very soft voice.

The gap was more than thirty thousand, yet on the phone, he told me it was sixty thousand.

Did he think I wouldn’t say how much, and just give the total amount?

Or was there another reason?

For some reason, Chen Jieyu wasn’t surprised.

On her own person, she could always see a cleverness that went beyond his own abilities.

To think that this man didn’t even bother to “put on a show” for Chen Qi.

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He simply didn’t care whether she would find out the truth, didn’t care what she might think.

From childhood to adulthood, it was always like this, he just didn’t care.

Because he didn’t care, he would say those words, do those things.

Perhaps for him, having finally raised this ‘unprofitable’ daughter to the point where he could ask her for money, having to lie and come up with an excuse to do so, was already infuriating to him!

He might have even lost his temper at his wife over this matter and said some very unpleasant things.

“Nannan, let’s talk in the room.” The woman just kept repeating this one point.

But Chen Jieyu shook her head and then slowly stood up.

“I’m going back,” she began to pack her simple belongings into her suitcase.

The woman looked at her, stopping and starting several times.

Chen Jieyu hadn’t thought of waiting for the man to return from his card game and then confront him.

The money couldn’t be taken back, and in the end, all she’d get would be a couple of slaps and watch him roaring at her.

This was her fate, and she had to accept it!

Even if you want to struggle, you have to do it out there, not attempt it in this house.

This is why she insisted on staying in Hang City.

To her, the pain brought on by this incident was just beginning.

Because no matter what, she owed Cheng Zhu money, and she had to pay it back!

Meaning that, after knowing the cruel truth, she had to live a miserable and tight life for a few more months.

Every time she scrimped and saved for money, the burden on her mind and spirit wasn’t just the pain brought by poverty.

Even each month when salary day came, every time she transferred those 4000 dollars to Cheng Zhu, the whole incident would sting her once more in that instant, like a knife wound.

Chen Jieyu had seen a news story before, about a man who borrowed money to buy his girlfriend a cellphone, only to discover he had been cheated.

After breaking up, he still had to slowly repay the money for the cellphone.

Ridiculous!

The pain brought by this fifty thousand dollars was just beginning today.

Yet for her, it seemed like it had already become a norm in her life.

A few minutes later, Chen Jieyu was pushing her suitcase, leaving behind what she called her old home.

She hadn’t prepared at all, hadn’t even bought a ticket back to Hang City.

She just rode a taxi to the train station and numbly bought a ticket for the nearest departure.

She didn’t care how long she’d have to wait at the station.

Chen Jieyu just wanted to leave.

This return trip, her total breakdown was mostly because of her mother.

To her, this woman represented the last bit of warmth from her family elders.

The feeling was complicated because she knew her mother’s life wasn’t easy either.

But still.

Still!

After everything came together, she was left with one feeling.

“It’s like… I have no home anymore?”

This woman, who always presented herself carefully with gold-rimmed glasses, looked out of the window.

Outside, a light rain had started.

Though she was seated inside, she felt oddly like a cat or dog drenched by the rain.

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On the other side, in Hang City.

Cheng Zhu sat in front of his desk, opening his laptop.

Today, “Persistent Visit” wasn’t just temporarily claiming the first-place throne; it was fiercely contending with the top-selling store in its category.

One moment “Persistent Visit” was at the top, and the next, this shop called “Midnight Charm” was on top.

Speaking of which, this shop that had dominated the QQ lingerie category for a year and a half was spending significantly more on operations in the past two months, with various promotions inside the shop.

But even so, it couldn’t withstand the momentum of “Persistent Visit.”

In fact, from the current perspective, the outcome was already clear.

This “Midnight Charm” shop was only struggling in vain.

As for the store that was once second and now pushed to third place, “Graceful Flagship Store,” they had completely given up.

Compete? With what do we compete now?

We spent a fortune on “Direct Traffic” to snatch “Keywords” and even tried to sabotage his shop with negative reviews, all for nothing!

I was hoping to suppress him to avoid having him as a future rival.

Now great, I’m not fit to be his opponent at all, isn’t that interesting?

Honestly, the fashion industry has plenty of internet-famous shops, but very few stay popular for long.

Their attitude was: Watch him build a high building, watch him entertain guests, and watch his building collapse.

This flash-in-the-pan won’t last long, right!

But what the hell is “Persistent Visit” doing?

Watch him build a high building, watch him add another layer, and watch him keep building up!

For godsake, this opponent is way too much to handle!

A mere new shop, in just a few months, has become an industry trendsetter.

Everyone now follows his lead.

It’s like dimensional warfare within the industry!

By innovating time and again, and with miraculous marketing campaigns, the shop has become an industry textbook.

Without saying anything else, just take those online… benefits… ambassadors, for example.

We maintain a purely transactional relationship with these ordinary customers.

But it’s different for them; dammit, they’ve started to exchange traffic, acting like they’re intimate business partners.

If this relationship remains stable, the moment he releases a new product, they will immediately place orders, each becoming a human billboard for “Persistent Visit.”

Go look at his shop’s “Buyer Show”, it’s spectacular!

So good-looking, the buyer show in his shop is just amazing!

They’re all like goddesses!

No matter how hard we try to invest and promote our buyer show section, we can’t achieve the same effect as his shop.

Cheng Zhu’s “Persistent Visit” is indeed the most interesting shop with “Buyer Show” among all shops.

The moment you click in, you might not even come out for quite some time.

Interestingly, didn’t “Persistent Visit” get famous from “Quit Lust Bar” before?

Now, its “Buyer Show” has become one of the top ten forbidden places listed by the “Quit Lust Bar!”

Honestly, would Cheng Zhu be satisfied with just this?

Not at all.

“What I want isn’t just to be the first in the same category.”

“What I want is to be the undisputed first!”

That’s his goal.

Honestly, he has never really seen the other shops as competition.

After browsing the backend data, Cheng Zhu began to handle another matter.

“The National Day holiday is almost over.”

“It’s time to start looking for a successor for ‘Youu Come to Play’.”