บท 24: Chapter 24

Fu Mei's cheek was red due to how hard Wu Rong hit her. She looks at him and saw him pleasing Meixiu.

She crawl towards Meixiu and held her feet.

"Meixiu! We are classmates back in college! Spare me!"

Meixiu looks at her feet before sneering and kicking Mei away from her. Rong pushes Mei away from Meixiu using his feet.

"Get away from Young Master! You are lucky to be with her back in college but you can't use it to carry favor!"

"Mei, you aren't good to me even if you are the president of our class! You should be treating everyone fairly but you are not with me!"

Mei sobs harder.

"I'm sorry, I should have done better!"

"Snide! You should treat everyone the same! Whether they are poor or not! You are fired! Don't ever come to my hotel!"

Mei's face paled and she quickly crawl to Rong. She kowtows to him until her forehead touches the ground.

"Mr. Wu! Please spare me! My family needed this job!"

Fu Mei is from a middle-class family, just like Xiaohui. But Mei has been pressured to find a wealthy man to marry and to get rich.

Xiaohui was never pressured because Grandpa Zheng just let her study. He believes that Xiaohui can handle the company well because she's intelligent.

He never cared about Qiang and Mingxia because he believes those two won't give him a rise in his company.

But as Meixiu and Xiaohui got married, he thought Xiaohui suddenly became dumb. Marrying someone from the orphanage just because her father told her so.

With that decision, which the Zheng family thought is a dumb decision, Xiaohui is ignored.

Even her mother but Xiaowen has been kicked out ever since she marries Xiaoli.

"Continue begging and I will tell everyone not to accept you!"

After saying that, Wu Rong picks out his phone to dial his secretary. Fu Mei's whole world shutters and she quickly bowed her head hard on the floor.

"Mr. Wu! Please! Don't do it!"

Mei's forehead starts to bleed as she continues to kowtow. Meixiu put her hand on Rong's shoulder, making the man look at her.

She shakes her head as the man nods and puts down his phone.

"Be thankful the Young Master stops me. If not, you will never find any job!"

Wu Rong smiles and guides Meixiu toward the hotel.

"Young Master, this is the way. We can talk to my office."

The news scattered like a wildfire when Emerald Hotel releases that in 2 weeks, the Jade Garden will be unavailable.

This shocks the entire Jiangqiao. The Jade Garden has been established every since the Ren family made the Emerald Hotel.

It grabs the attention of every wealthy people that wants to at least book the whole garden for themselves.

But Jade Garden wanted to open it for every wealthy family. The Emerald Hotel announces it early in the morning.

Meixiu is already at the market upon hearing the news. Every time she passed by a store, it was the new talk of the town.

Everyone is curious about who is the booker. They think it's from a wealthy family that came from Xuyang.

A handsome, loving, and caring husband surprised his clueless wife. They think it's romantic.

There are a lot of men who are embarrassed when they heard this news. Many of them wanted to book the whole Jade Garden but strictly said it couldn't happen.

There are a lot of envious women and one of them is Mingxia. She's jealous of the girl who will celebrate her wedding anniversary.

And at the same time, she can mock Xiaohui for celebrating the same wedding anniversary as the mysterious couple.

"Look who we have here, are you jealous at the mysterious celebrate?"

Xiaohui furrows her eyebrows before shaking her head and fixing the paper that she had just finished reading.

"Why would I? Meixiu already fixes our wedding anniversary and I'm happy about that."

"Don't you get it? The Jade Garden is the best place to celebrate your wedding anniversary!"

Xiaohui just shakes her head and gives the document to Mingxia.

"I know but I want a simple and inexpensive wedding anniversary."

This is the reason why Grandpa Zheng wanted Xiaohui to handle the whole company. She knows how to handle the whole money game.

Picking a simple and inexpensive wedding anniversary is still like the one in Jade Garden. You two will still eat, dance, and celebrate.

There's no need to spend money to have an extravagant wedding anniversary.

"Just say you're jealous."

"If you want we can both see who are the couple. I booked a hotel that can view the Jade Garden. I wanted to see the mysterious man and maybe seduce him."

Mingxia directly said with a smirk.

"The person has a wife."

"Still, I can be a concubine of his! The one that will be better than his wife!"

After saying it, Mingxia left to give the documents to her brother. Xiaohui just sighs and shakes her head.

On the other side, Qing is jealous of Xiaohui. Upon hearing the news, the only one who can do it is the Young Master of the Ren family.

As Jade Garden is on top of Emerald Hotel, Meixiu can book the whole garden. The owner of the restaurant would be delighted if ever that happens.

"I need to get her attention but how am I going to do it without being obvious?" Qing mumbled to herself.

Qing has been wanting to be rich in life. She came from a middle-class family like Xiaohui and got herself, multiple men, to be her partner.

But everyone just seems a copy of the other. They also came from a middle-class family who have a dream of becoming rich someday.

In this generation, it's hard to become poor because you will always face insults and disgusted glances every time. Everyone is ambitious to become rich and get high respect from everyone.

Until she met Duyi, the son of one of the lawyers of the Ren family who is based here. She made sure she was single before approaching him. Duyi is her only escape from being in a middle-class family to becoming one of the wealthy families.

Duyi made her see that she can still be richer than she is. And because of Duyi, she met the heir of the Ren family. Because of being spoiled by her boyfriend, she bumped into Meixiu.

Now, her goal is to become Meixiu's concubine. Or much better, Meixiu's wife.

"Meixiu! Good to see you're alive!"

Mingzhu said in a surprised tone. Meixiu just scoffed at her before pushing her inside the Song Villa.

"She didn't kill me but my ear! They were red when she stopped pinching it."

Mingzhu nodded her head and snorted, causing Meixiu to glare at her. She raised both of her hands and put a defeated face.

"I'm sorry! You were like one of the best martial artists in the whole mafia clan yet you can be defeated just because of your wife?"

"I can't help it, she's just, there's something I can't explain when I am with her."

Mingzhu smiles widely and waggles her eyebrows.

"You're in love!"

"What are you saying? Maybe I'm just thankful to her father that's why I am like that to her."

"The key word is "maybe", so you better tell her that you love her before it's too late!"

"Do you think I'll believe you? I'm not in love with her!"

"Yes! Yes, you are!"

"I'm not!

But she knew she is in love. Meixiu has been in love with Xiaohui ever since she laid her eyes on her. Xiaohui never insults her, she treats her like a normal person, and she never glances at Meixiu like she was disgusted.

And because of her action, Meixiu falls for her. At first, she likes Xiaohui because of her looks. Xiaohui's beauty stands out among the crowd. She looks more beautiful than those celebrities that act on television.

But as time progresses, Meixiu learns that Xiaohui is not like others who want to get respected and richer. Xiaohui just wants a normal life.

Her reason?

She feels like being rich can turn you into a toxic person.

She said her mother is someone like that. And Xiaohui is embarrassed by Xiaowen's action. She said her mother looks desperate by always pushing her even when she already has a wife.

But Xiaohui knew she wouldn't be able to stop her. At least until she gets married to someone that'll give her the future she needed.