Chapter 37 You've Been Accepted

"Everyone wants me to work in a factory near my home, so I can earn money and take care of my family at the same time. Even if I get married, I can only marry someone from the village, because they can come back to take care of me anytime."

"Why?!"

"I'm determined not to do what they want! I worked for two years, saved enough money, and then I ran away. I changed my name, got plastic surgery, studied music, participated in competitions, and made a lot of money!"

“After I made money, one day, while he was out visiting prostitutes again, I took my mother and sister away. I left them only with a bank card, with 500 yuan a month, as my responsibility to support him.”

"Yes, I'm not taking him! He wants to come with me and spend a fortune living in a mansion? Don't even think about it! Everyone in this family is suffering, except him. He's the one who started it all!"

At this point, Han Xiao looked at Zhang Mo with red eyes, exhaled a hot breath, and spoke with a kind of crazy self-abandonment, a resentment from the depths of her soul: "How about it? Do you think I'm a scumbag, too cruel to my own father?" Almost everyone on the internet said that about her.

Zhang Mo calmly shrugged: "I think it's alright. I was even planning to flush my father's ashes down the toilet."

Han Xiao was taken aback: "Really?"

Zhang Mo: "I might be a little luckier than you, except that he abandoned me at the gate of an orphanage when I was just born. If you think about it that way, I really have to thank him for not raising me."

Han Xiao stared blankly at Zhang Mo, momentarily at a loss for words.

“And I don’t think you did anything wrong.” Zhang Mo turned her phone screen over to show Han Xiao, her eyes calm and composed, as if her words were irrefutable truth. “I just looked up some information—Article 236 of the Criminal Law states that anyone who rapes a woman by violence, coercion, or other means shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than three years but not more than ten years. Because mentally ill women are unable to express their will normally due to their mental condition, having sexual relations with them, regardless of whether they show ‘consent,’ should be considered as violating the woman’s will, thus constituting the crime of rape. If one knowingly has sexual relations with a mentally ill person who cannot properly express their will, regardless of the means used or whether the other party ‘consents,’ it is considered rape.”

“That man should go to jail, and your mother should go to the hospital for treatment. You and your sister didn’t have to be born into a family like that. Or, if you had gone to the same orphanage as me after you were born, maybe we could have become good friends,” Zhang Mo said with a smile.

Han Xiao was stunned for a moment, her heart skipped a beat in her chest.

This is the first person in all these years to say she's right.

“Our Dean Zhang is a very good person. I’m so glad that I have her surname instead of my biological father’s.”

Han Xiao fantasized for a moment, then murmured, "If what you're saying is true, then should I be called 'Zhang Xiao' now?" She chuckled softly, her expression a mix of sigh and longing, "That name sounds just like your sister's."

"Speaking of which, I really want to complain. What kind of magical state of mind did you have back then to give yourself a name so closely related to 'smiling in the afterlife'?" Zhang Mo asked.

Han Xiao: "Well... it's probably the mentality of hoping that all these lousy people, lousy things, and this lousy world will disappear as soon as possible. And at that time, I was also practicing my signature, mainly because the character '消' (xiāo, meaning 'to disappear') didn't look as good as the character '潇' (xiāo, meaning 'Xiao') when I signed it."

Zhang Mo: "Okay. Speaking of which, you and your ex-husband, Han Xiao and Ouyang Yuanzhong, one is 'smiling in the afterlife,' and the other is 'a resentful child.' It's a pun couple, and I almost want to ship them."

Han Xiao said expressionlessly, "Taking all sorts of things will only poison you to death."

Zhang Mo laughed: "Okay, I'm not kidding you anymore. Now that you've finished talking about your terrible family background, come tell me about your terrible marriage."

When the topic of marriage came up, Han Xiao was no longer as agitated as before, her expression cold and indifferent: "This is relatively simple. To sum it up in one sentence, a stupid guy made empty promises before the wedding, saying that if he cheated on me, he would give me 3 billion. He thought he could move me to tears, but I actually went to a lawyer and drafted the documents. He was caught in a bind and signed them, transferring a bunch of random properties and shares to my name. As a result, he cheated on me just a few days into our marriage."

"He thought I would put up with it for the sake of my reputation and face. Ha, he's overthinking it."

After all, there are far too many female celebrities in the entertainment industry who, even knowing their husbands are cheating, still endure it for the sake of their reputation, or even cover it up.

"You will pay the price for lying to me."

"As a result, a bunch of idiots came over and scolded me, saying that if you marry a rich man, you should be prepared for him to cheat on you."

"Are these people kidding me? They're so used to kneeling, and now they're begging others?"

"It's normal for a man to cheat on his wife three days after getting married, but it's despicable for a woman to date someone half a month after getting divorced."

"He bribed my agent and gathered a bunch of manufacturers I had previously worked with to jointly sue me for violating public order and good morals and breaching contracts. And the stupid court actually listened to them and froze my money and property?!"

"Why?!"

This was the second time Zhang Mo heard Han Xiao say "Why should I?" during this conversation.

She is a very stubborn and principled woman who is fiercely independent and will never be disciplined by traditional morality.

The whole world is telling her to endure it.

She refused!

Zhang Mo admired it.

Zhang Mo: "My personal judgment is that they won't win this lawsuit, and the frozen money will be restored."

Han Xiao: "I know. He knows too. He's doing this just to disgust me. He wants to drag out the lawsuit for years, then I'll be penniless and jobless, and I'll have to go back to him begging. He's really dreaming."

Zhang Mo nodded thoughtfully, finally understanding why Han Xiao urgently needed a job.

There was a knock on the conference room door, and Jiang Mian cautiously pushed it open a crack: "President Zhang, is this the milk tea delivery you ordered?" Because the soundproofing in the conference room was so poor, Jiang Mian could vaguely hear someone crying inside, so she didn't dare to look in. She just stretched out her arm and brought in the insulated bag of the delivery.

Zhang Mo nodded and took the two cups of milk tea from the insulated bag, placing them between the two of them.

Zhang Mo: "You choose first." After all, it was someone else who placed the order.

Han Xiao calmed himself down and said calmly, "You're the boss, you choose first." This showed respect in terms of social etiquette.

Zhang Mo did not refuse, and casually picked up a cup of black pearl milk tea, shook it: "According to what you just said, what you did to your father and ex-husband is not a problem in terms of law, but it is not in line with the core values ​​of today in terms of morality."

Han Xiao took another cup of mulberry and grape juice: "So?"

Zhang Mo didn't answer directly, but changed the subject: "I heard that this store also adds black pearls to its mulberry and grape dishes."

Han Xiao glanced at it doubtfully: "Really?" The mulberries and black grapes had turned the fruit tea black, and she couldn't see it clearly.

Zhang Mo: "So, the logic is actually very simple. Black pearls themselves cannot be washed white. The only way is to make the surrounding area even blacker so that people can't see them."

Han Xiao: "You have a solution?"

Zhang Mo smiled and took a sip of milk tea: "One last question, is there anything else you need to clarify or add regarding all the dirt on you? Just a friendly reminder, anyone who lies to me will suffer a terrible fate."

Han Xiao also lowered her head and took a sip of mulberry grape, then pondered for a moment: "Yes."

Zhang Mo: "Speak."

Han Xiao said expressionlessly, "I did book the male model at the nightclub, and he really does have a nice butt."

Zhang Mo laughed appreciatively: "You've been accepted."