"Sister Gu!"

Gu Chun turned her head and saw a young girl looking at her.

She looked very fashionable in a trendy dress and curly hair.

Gu Chun looked at her for a while before recognizing her: "Yu Meili?"

Yu Meili smiled and nodded: "It's me."

Gu Chun still remembers that the last time he met Yu Meili was when she was "catching a mistress" on the street.

At that time, she was hysterical, disheveled, and looked as haggard as if she were in her thirties even though she was in her early twenties.

He looks much younger now than he did then.

One can tell at a glance that she is only twenty-five or twenty-six years old.

Yu Meili wanted to chat with Gu Chun. Gu Chun had nothing to do and planned to go home early, so he went to a nearby coffee shop with her to sit for a while.

(PS: In the 1980s, two songs sparked interest in coffee among Chinese people, who were accustomed to drinking tea. One was "Wine and Coffee" sung by Teresa Teng, and the other was "Walking Through the Coffee Shop" sung by Chien Bai Hui.)

Gu Chun didn't like coffee very much, but he followed the crowd and ordered a cup.

Yu Meili sighed, "This stuff is expensive and hard to drink. It smells like Chinese medicine. I don't know why so many people like it."

Gu Chun smiled. He thought she was so fashionable now, but it turned out that she was also following the trend.

"So you don't like it either."

Yu Meili had bought instant coffee before and didn’t like the taste, but she thought that as a big boss like Gu Chun, he would definitely go to a coffee shop to sit down, which would be more stylish.

It turns out that both of them thought they were accommodating each other.

With this little episode, the estrangement between Gu Chun and Yu Meili was mostly dissipated.

Yu Meili took the initiative to tell her about her recent situation.

Three years ago, after being reminded by Gu Chun, she went home and observed her husband, only then did she discover that there was really something wrong with him.

He doesn't like to get close to women and is quite distant towards his female colleagues. As for the woman whom he regards as his mistress, they are actually not familiar with each other at all.

But his attitude towards men is quite different. Yu Meili has seen the way he looks at a male colleague.

It gave her goosebumps.

"If you hadn't reminded me, I really wouldn't have thought there were such people in the world."

Gu Chun sighed. In fact, this has happened in every era, from ancient times to the present.

As long as they don't cheat on their marriage, there is no need to discriminate.

But Yu Meili’s husband insisted on getting married!

He didn't settle down after getting married and even treated his wife like a firebrand.

It's really not what a good person would do.

In this era, there was a bit of discrimination against divorced people, unlike in later generations, where people would divorce if they were not suitable for each other, and the divorce rate was particularly high.

People's words are scary.

So Gu Chun had already thought about it. If Yu Meili didn't divorce, she would understand.

Unexpectedly, her next sentence was: "I'm divorced."

Gu Chun was indeed a little surprised. She thought people of this generation would be very conservative, but she didn't expect that she was the one who was conservative?

It is a good thing to cut losses in time and get a divorce early. Gu Chun said to Meili sincerely: "Congratulations!"

Yu Meili smiled brightly: "I knew you would agree with me. Those people heard that I was getting divorced, no matter what the reason was, they all blamed me and said I was wrong."

After the divorce, Yu Meili returned to her parents' home and suffered a lot of contempt and ridicule.

But she didn't care.

The moment she got the divorce certificate, she felt the whole world was beautiful.

The sky is blue and the grass is green.

Her world suddenly transitioned from black and white to colorful.

Gu Chun comforted her, saying, "People in the world are ignorant and always put moral shackles on women, but we women ourselves should know how to make our lives better."

Yu Meili nodded: "Well, that family was afraid that I would go out and talk about the divorce, so they asked me to promise to keep it a secret, and I asked for some money."

Yu Meili has never been a soft-hearted person. She just had a wrong idea in the past and listened to her mother and married such a person.

Once she regains her composure, no one can let her suffer any loss.

In the end, she left her ex-husband's house with some money, and when she returned to her parents' home, she did not tell anyone about the existence of the money.

“Only when you are down and out can you see clearly whether the people around you are human or ghosts.”

Her brother was very dissatisfied with her when he saw that she was divorced and came back with only a few clothes.

Even her mother kept blaming her for her impulsive divorce.

Even her room had long been used as a room for her brother's children.

No one remembers that she worked in a clothing store when she was a teenager, and all the money she earned during that time was used to build these three houses for her family.

No one remembers that she didn't get a penny of the high bride price when she got married.

Yu Meili only stayed at home for half a month before deciding to move out.

Only then did her mother realize that she still had money and started to use tears to attack her.

But Yu Meili was already disappointed.

"Didn't she say that once I'm married, I'm like spilled water? Didn't she say that I'm just eating and drinking for free at home? Then I'll leave. Anyway, I have money, so it's not a problem for me to support myself."

Gu Chun also felt sad, wondering why there are always parents in this world who favor sons over daughters.

Isn’t the daughter their biological child?

But it's not a good thing to say to Meili, as it would be like rubbing salt into her wounds.

So Gu Chun just asked: "Where do you live now? What do you do for a living?"

Yu Meili is in good condition and seems to have a good living condition, which she probably couldn't do with just the money from the divorce.

Yu Meili told Gu Chun that she opened a shoe store.

After moving out, Yu Meili lived in a large courtyard. By chance, she learned that one of her neighbors in the courtyard worked in a shoe factory.

They have a batch of shoes that were rejected by customers and are now sitting in the warehouse.

Workers in shoe factories have always considered themselves to have an "iron rice bowl" and would never do the work of an "individual business owner".

No one is willing to sell it.

The neighbor was in charge of the warehouse and felt that those things took up a lot of space.

I also bought two pairs from the factory for my family to wear.

Yu Meili had seen the pair of shoes. They were half-heeled sandals with a relatively ordinary style, but they were sufficient for everyday wear.

It was summer then, perfect for wearing shoes like this.

Yu Meili thought about it all night and finally decided to go to the shoe factory to get the goods and set up a stall.

The shoe factory was of course very happy that someone could help solve the inventory backlog.

So he sold all those shoes to Yu Meili at a very low price.

They had a lot of inventory, so even though the price was low, Yu Meili put almost all her savings into this batch of goods.

She felt that she was already crazy at that time, like a gambler who put all her chips on the line.

She sets up a stall every day, changing her clothes and setting up her stall in front of different factories.

The experience she had previously learned in Gu Chun's store was of great help to her. She had a warm attitude and a unique perspective on dressing, and she quickly won over a large number of customers.

In two months of summer, she sold all her shoes and her money doubled in an instant.

After tasting the sweetness, Yu Meili continued to sell shoes. When she heard that the leather shoes in Wenzhou in the south were good, she went to Wenzhou to get the goods.

"It was incredibly brave at the time."