May I Be Like a Star, You Like Dust

Others marry into wealthy families for love, but she married into one purely for money. The man she married didn't love her and kicked her out with nothing. Now, struggling to make ends meet, s...

Chapter 5 Finding a Job

Jian Mujin applied to several places, but they either rejected her because she lacked education or good looks.

But she wasn't discouraged at all.

Since she developed these scars, her schooling and job search have been affected.

Because of the ostracism from her classmates, she could only keep changing classes. She loved martial arts, but she couldn't apply to a martial arts school because of the scars on her neck and wrists. No matter how she explained, people assumed that she or her family had some kind of relationship with criminals and didn't want to accept her.

She had a righteous heart and loved to fight injustice, but from then on, she lost the right to become a great hero like her grandfather.

After wandering around for a day, she finally found a job: carrying cement at a place not far from the Renzi Street.

Although it's tough and tiring, the wages are paid daily. The more you move, the more money you get. If someone can move 100 tons a day, they can earn about 400 to 500 yuan.

However, based on Jian Mujin's abilities, she can carry about four to five bags at a time, and several hundred bags a day, earning about two to three hundred yuan.

Two or three hundred yuan a day was a huge sum for Jian Mujin, so she immediately joined in.

However, the boss inside was somewhat disgusted when he saw her because she was a woman, petite, and probably couldn't even carry a single bag. He thought that continuing like this might delay the process.

Jian Mujin knew her boss would dislike her, so she didn't explain and let the facts speak for themselves.

The result left the boss dumbfounded. The worker he hired was a man who could only carry two or three bags at a time, but Jian Mujin could do in half a day what he did in a whole day. How could he not be pleasantly surprised?

So the boss fired the man and hired Jian Mujin to replace her.

When she finished get off work that evening, her boss calculated her expenses and generously gave her 100 yuan. Jian Mujin found a place to tidy herself up and happily took the money to a bar.

Ci Er works as a waitress in this small bar. She has good features, and no matter how she dresses up, she can charm a lot of handsome guys.

Jian Mujin didn't come here for leisure; she mainly came here to get a part-time job—cleaning toilets—because of the harsh sound.

Actually, there was another small reason that Jian Mujin dared not say: she wanted to find a blind man who would take a liking to her and take her back to live her life.

The year she stopped going to school, her grandfather immediately found her a mentally challenged man to marry.

Grandpa said that although she was a bit simple-minded, she was honest and could live her life wholeheartedly. She wouldn't cheat on him with other women just because she got tired of Jian Mujin.

She was certain of this, but she still refused. It wasn't that Jian Mujin had high standards; it was just that the mentally challenged man's family was poor too. Even when he went out to work, he would get swindled, and all the tens of thousands of yuan he worked hard for a year would be cheated out of him.

She thought about going out to find a job and save some money. Of course, if she could find someone even better than the idiot, she would be willing to marry him. If she really couldn't find anyone, then she would just live with the idiot in her next life.

If it weren't for Ci Er's trip to the police station today, I wouldn't have known that Jian Mujin had such a powerful background.

She quickly pulled her aside, "Hey, why did you come over here? You have such a powerful backer as the Long family patriarch, why don't you go and ask him for some money so you can use it for a while?"

“I asked for it before, but the money was stolen. I can’t keep asking people for it, or they’ll think I’m too materialistic. It’s okay to ask for some money after a while!”

Jian Mujin was filled with grief and indignation. Thinking of the things that had been smashed, her heart shattered. Her money!

"Oh, I see. You're really careless. I've heard Xixi say a few times that you told her to keep an eye on a certain woman. You went to see her this morning, didn't you? Why did you have to pick a fight with that woman!"

Jian Mujin recalled Long Tingwei's threatening words and suddenly didn't know what to say.

"Sigh, I work as a maid in the Long family. That woman seems difficult to deal with. I just want to find some evidence of her being with other people so I can threaten her. If I can get some money from her, that would be even better!"

The truth is that Ling Yuexue came to the Long family several times, always acting arrogantly and bossy towards her. She accidentally saw Ling Yuexue with a man and wanted to take a picture to show Long Tingwei, so that he would know that he was blind to have fallen for such a promiscuous woman.

"So, that woman was also a servant of the Long family?"

"Hmm, I guess so!" Those who serve Long Tingwei are considered the highest-ranking servants.

"I never imagined you could work as a maid in the Long family. Sigh, how much do you earn a day? If you ever get the chance, introduce me to the job!"

She patted Jian Mujin on the shoulder with a stern, obsequious smile.

"Haha...sigh...that job is tough, you get yelled at. My good friend Xiao Wang can earn over ten thousand a month, but I can't. Sometimes even if I earn money, it gets deducted!"

Jian Mujin made up a lie to try and fool people.

Seeing her haggard appearance, Ci Er could only sigh. It seemed she was indeed not doing well in the Long family, otherwise she wouldn't be doing odd jobs here.

Their conversation was overheard by a slightly drunk man sitting in a corner.

He took out his phone and started making a call.

"Hey, when are you free to come over? That kid surnamed Long is back now. You'd better make time to come over, get pregnant with my child, and then go mess around with him, you hear me?"

The person making the call was Brother Hua, and the person answering the phone was Ling Yuexue, who looked both angry and cautious.

"Brother Hua, why are you calling me? Long Tingwei is here."

"Heh, I'm warning you, don't threaten me. If you don't get pregnant with my child before Long Tingwei finds me, I'll expose that whole thing. Also, give me another ten million. I'm broke!"

"Okay, I understand, that's all!" A voice came from the other end of the line, and Ling Yuexue, both serious and impatient, prepared to hang up.

Hua Ge smiled knowingly and added, "Let me tell you something else, that woman is cleaning toilets at Guanghua Bar!"

Hua hung up the phone after he finished speaking.

Ling Yuexue relaxed and then smiled slightly.

"Whose call is that?" Long Tingwei, having just showered and dressed in a white shirt and black suit pants, strode over with an air of nobility, sat directly on the sofa, and put his long arm around her waist.

The light and pleasant scent of the shower gel wafted into Ling Yuexue's nose. She looked up and met his deep, tender eyes. Looking at his flawless face, Ling Yuexue blushed and felt a surge of excitement.

"It's nothing, just a high school classmate. He has some urgent family matters and wants to borrow some money from me!"

Long Tingwei was afraid that she would lose face in front of her classmates, so he took a card out of his wallet on the table.

"Take this card. Use it as a favor or for your own use, but don't mistreat yourself. The password is your birthday!"

Long Tingwei was generous to her, and she was once satisfied. But ever since that woman interfered, her feelings for Long Tingwei became like a nest hanging high in the sky, teetering on the brink of collapse.