The people around them stared eagerly at Li Hongmei and Hu Ziqiang. It was actually quite interesting to listen to them talk; they sounded so cultured. Truly befitting of educated youth sent down from the city.

Hu Ziqiang was oblivious to the crowd’s thoughts. He and Li Hongmei looked at each other, both wondering how on earth they could reject the other person.

Li Hongmei was also thinking about how to make Hu Ziqiang give up for good.

As they stared at each other’s faces, a wave of nausea washed over them. Simultaneously, they pressed their lips together and turned away to suppress their disgust.

The crowd: ...

They were still waiting for the rest!

Why had they suddenly gone quiet?

Had the play turned into a mime show?

And come to think of it, their movements were perfectly identical. The crowd couldn’t help but wonder if the two actually liked each other.

The accountant’s wife took a closer look and thought the two of them really looked like a married couple.

One had a flat nose, a large, round face, and dark skin. The crucial part was that despite being ugly, she was incredibly confident.

The other wasn’t tall and had swarthy skin, with a pair of small, squinty eyes that you’d think were closed if you didn’t look carefully. He was also ugly, and just as confident.

Even their expressions of mutual disgust were identical. ’Maybe I could play matchmaker for them,’ she thought.

The accountant’s wife used to be a matchmaker, but she’d given it up as she got older.

But now, seeing such a fated pair, she couldn’t help but feel tempted.

Yun Hao saw Li Hongmei look his way and shuffled to the side.

’He was so sick of this woman.’ He had never known someone could be so utterly shameless.

When Gu Jiaojiao used to pester him, she would also get close on her own initiative. But Gu Jiaojiao was beautiful, had a pleasant voice, and while her pouting was a little theatrical, it was still nice to watch.

Li Hongmei was different. It wasn’t just that she was ugly; she constantly put on a shy, coy act. From a distance, she looked like a wriggling worm, and it made Yun Hao sick to his stomach.

And he hadn’t forgotten about the kick she’d given him before, either.

He was never the type to let things slide with a woman. On the contrary, his upbringing had forced him to wear a gentle mask, but deep down, he was the type to seek revenge for the smallest slight.

He had put up with Li Hongmei until now only because she was a woman and he was reluctant to resort to violence.

Now, Li Hongmei’s relentless pestering had finally ignited his anger.

’It was simple to deal with a woman, especially a despicable one.’

A vicious glint flashed in Yun Hao’s eyes before he reverted to his modest and polite expression.

Gu Jiaojiao, leaning against the windowsill, watched the farce outside.

Her gaze fell upon Yun Hao, and she happened to catch the vicious glint that flashed through his eyes.

She had always known Yun Hao wasn’t a good-tempered person. Though he appeared gentle and kind to everyone on the surface, his methods were actually ruthless. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

’In the book, wasn’t the original owner’s fate the biggest warning of all?’

Yun Hao knew full well that the original owner’s greatest dream was to leave Qingshan Team and return to the city.

So he used his resources to completely cut off her chances of returning to the city, forcing her to stay in Qingshan Team for the rest of her life.

And before that, he had even guided the original owner to ruin her own reputation, step by step.

He deliberately asked the original owner out, arranging it so everyone would "happen" to see her obsessive infatuation with him.

He deliberately acted ambiguously with Xu Wenwan, arranging it so everyone would "happen" to see the original owner’s crazed and savage side.

The original owner even went so far as to strip down to seduce him, which, again, "happened" to be seen by the villagers.

All of these "coincidences" were, in fact, deliberately orchestrated by Yun Hao.

He was the one who had sent the original owner signals, making her believe he had feelings for her. That’s why she became so infatuated, even willing to sacrifice her reputation to have him.

In reality, it was all just a scheme Yun Hao had devised to punish the original owner.

After her reputation was in tatters and she had become a byword for depravity.