Chapter 2 If I don't leave you, I'll be a burden to you

Good thing? Shen Lei couldn't react at all. I'm about to get a divorce, and you say this is a good thing?

"Yes, this is a good thing! It would be awkward for two people who are obviously not suitable to be together! It's better for both of them to break up now!" Ma Yingjie said sincerely.

"What era is it now? Divorce is no big deal! Look at our colleagues, Mr. Zhang and Ms. Zhao. They are divorced and their lives are obviously much better than before!"

"She and I have been together since our freshman year. We spent seven years in college and got married right after graduation. It has been five years now! Our relationship has been smooth and happy. How come we are not suitable for each other?" Shen Lei shouted with red eyes.

"Don't get excited, don't get excited! Drink some water and calm down first! What you need now is not to vent, but to think seriously about why she wants to divorce you! If they were really as harmonious and happy as you said, how could they have come to the point of divorce?"

"She thinks I'm a loser! I can't make money and can't buy a house!" Shen Lei covered his face in pain.

"That's not right! You graduated with a master's degree from a 985 university and are about to be promoted to a full professor. If someone like you is still a loser, then I really don't know what kind of person is considered great!"

"As for making money to buy a house, that's even more of an excuse! Didn't she know this when you were preparing to take the civil service exam? Don't even think about getting rich once you become a civil servant! Unless she wants you in! Sooner or later, you'll have a house. Our unit is neither fast nor slow. If we can hold on for another five or six years, we'll be able to buy a house!"

"If she thinks you can't make enough money and buy a house, she should have advised you to go to a private company or a state-owned enterprise like CICC when you graduated and were looking for a job!"

"She didn't say anything at the beginning, but now she's complaining about it! There's only one possibility, that is, she has changed! If there are some conflicts in life, it's still possible to save the relationship, but once she changes her heart, it's too late to say anything!"

"Change of heart?" Shen Lei's mind flashed back to Xie Meilan's smiling face in Lu Jie's car, and he couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness. How long had it been since she showed such a smile in front of him? "Yes, since graduation, you haven't changed much. You are still the same as before, working meticulously and conscientiously, and not very materialistic. This is also related to our working environment. After all, we work in the central government agencies, and no one will deliberately show off!"

"She is different. What kind of place is a financial company? To say that they are obsessed with money is an understatement! Brand-name clothing, luxury bags, luxury cars and watches, huge bonuses. Temptations are everywhere. How many people can resist?"

"When you were still in college, you were easily satisfied. A nice song or a heartwarming story could make you happy for a long time! You just felt that being together was the greatest happiness in the world!"

Shen Lei nodded involuntarily. This was indeed what they did back then.

"It's different once you enter society. The pressure of reality comes crashing down on you, enough to make you breathless! If you're content with being ordinary like you, it's fine. Although the salary for our job is not high, it's still not a problem to survive in Beijing!"

Shen Lei continued to nod. He also felt that this job was very good. He didn't need to be as aggressive as Na Jun, nor did he need to worry about so many messy things like Na Wei. For him, it was also good to deal with archives quietly for the rest of his life.

Moreover, this job does not put too much financial pressure on you. The salary is enough for daily expenses. If you are sick, you will have medical insurance to reimburse you. If you have children, you don’t have to worry about school. They can go to the corresponding public kindergartens, primary schools, and middle schools directly. You don’t need to spend hundreds of millions of yuan to buy school district housing like other people. The teaching level is also good. As long as the children are not too bad, it is not a problem for them to get into a good university! If you wait for a few more years, you can buy allocated housing at a price far below the market price. For an ordinary person, isn’t this enough?

"If she is also content with a simple life, you two will definitely have a happy life. After these few years, you will have a house and your life will be better! If she is not content with a simple life, it's okay. It's easy to make money in the financial industry. As long as you have the ability, a monthly salary of 30,000 or 50,000 is not a problem. If you succeed in one or two projects, you can get a bonus of tens of millions!"

"Your sister-in-law has been working in the financial industry for five years, right? What is your basic salary now? How much commission and bonus can you get a year?" Ma Hao asked deliberately.

"It's been more than five years! My monthly salary is now 20,000, which is almost three times what I got! The bonus and commission are not much! I think it was 30,000 last year?"

"Only 20,000?!" Ma Hao was surprised. "20,000 a month, if it were in other industries, it would be really good! But in the financial industry, newcomers who have just been in the industry for one or two years can get it! She has been working for five years and is still getting a newcomer's salary!"

"A bonus of 30,000 yuan? If I hadn't worked in the same office with you for five years, I wouldn't have believed it. How could the bonuses in the financial industry be so shabby? Unless you didn't achieve any results throughout the year and just wasted time!"

"Shen Lei, if you say so, then I must advise you to divorce quickly!"

"Whether one is content with being ordinary or not, there is nothing to criticize. But if a person is not content with being ordinary and has no ability, and can only force her husband to struggle, isn't that a bit too much?"

"Besides, our job has nothing to do with making money. Does she want you to be corrupt or steal confidential files and sell them? So, divorce her as soon as possible, so that she won't drag you down in the future!"

"Twelve years, she and I have been together for twelve years." Shen Lei held his head and cried.

Shen Lei knew the importance of money, but he also knew how painful the process of making big money was.

How many people run around, work hard, work themselves to death, overdraw their physical strength, and exhaust themselves mentally, but still cannot make any money. To be able to make a lot of money is a rare talent, one in a million, and Shen Lei admits that he does not have it.

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He knew that he didn't have it and could accept it calmly, so he lived a comfortable life before. But Xie Meilan didn't think so. He could neither change Xie Meilan nor make money, so he fell into great pain.

"Alas, no matter how beautiful those years were, they are all in the past! In other words, they have become sunk costs, and we have to give them up when it's time to give them up!"

Ma Yingjie tried to persuade Shen Lei for a while, but when he saw that Shen Lei still didn't wake up, he stopped.

He just gave a few words of advice out of sympathy. If Shen Lei still didn't come to his senses, there was nothing he could do. He was not Shen Lei's parent, and the system had not issued any tasks, so he didn't need to worry about Shen Lei's life.

There is just one thing. Although Shen Lei has his reasons, Xie Meilan and Lu Jie have gone too far. If there is a suitable opportunity, Ma Yingjie doesn't mind causing some trouble for them.

(End of this chapter)