Chapter 335: That’s what men are like!
"I wonder if there is someone behind Miss Shen who is giving her advice?"
Director Qu spoke again, and the meaning of his words became even more obvious.
For a young girl to be able to do this, there must be someone, or even a man, supporting her.
Chen Ci did not deny this. If he had to say that there was a master who helped him, that master would be God!
It was fate and God who gave her a chance to live freely and comfortably again.
She shook her head slightly: "Mr. Qu, you're joking. How could such a thing be instructed by others?"
"Eh? Nothing is absolute? Or is it that Miss Shen doesn't want to say it?" Director Qu's "fatherly" nature gradually emerged, and he immediately put on an "I know it all" look and looked at Shen Ci: "Many low-key and invisible bosses in the investment world are my friends. Maybe I also know the friends behind Miss Shen?"
"Really? There's no need for me to make something up, right?"
Shen Ci’s expression at this moment was just a little helpless.
The prejudice in people's minds is like a mountain, and men's prejudice against successful women is Mount Everest!
She has no power to prove anything, and she doesn't want to prove anything!
At this moment, the others at the table suddenly echoed: "Oh, if Miss Shen doesn't want to talk about it, then forget it. Why does Director Qu have to ask so much?"
"That's right, how can we talk about this openly?"
"Besides, even if Director Qu has a wide network of contacts, he may not know them all. Wouldn't it be awkward if Director Qu doesn't know them?"
Upon hearing this, Naqu Dong actually nodded with an expression that said "That makes sense".
With just a few words, a few men had inexplicably created a "behind-the-scenes nobleman" behind Shen Ci who did not exist at all!
Only Lu Jinzhao knew that the atmosphere was not right. He knew Miss Shen's temper and was afraid that she would get angry, so he quickly tried to smooth things over and said, "Miss Shen, Director Qu was just joking. Don't be angry."
It would have been fine if he hadn't said this, but once he did, Mr. Qu became more excited.
His mung bean-sized eyes widened and he raised his voice and said, "Angry? Not really, Miss Shen?"
The others also looked at Chen Ci with smiles, but those smiles were so frivolous that there was no respect for Chen Ci at all.
Shen Ci sat on the chair and just turned her head slightly to look at Lu Jinzhao when she heard the words. She said with an innocent expression: "I'm not angry, but it seems that Mr. Lu brought me to the wrong place?"
Lu Jinzhao was slightly stunned, as if he didn’t understand the meaning of Shen Ci’s words.
But the expression and smile on Shen Ci's face made him feel cold, because he knew that if Miss Shen smiled like that, something bad must be going to happen!
As expected, under the puzzled gazes of the crowd, Shen Ci said slowly: "You said it was an 'Internet cocktail party', but I think it's more like a charity gala."
"Charity gala?"
Lu Jinzhao didn't follow the trend and thought that there would be no auction today!
Then Shen Ci looked around at these "idiot men" at the table with his watery eyes and said, "Why else would you invite a bunch of deaf people?"
With just one sentence, he scolded everyone at the table except Lu Jinzhao.
But where does the word "deaf" come from?
The disgusting expression on Director Qu's face disappeared instantly, and was replaced by a slight anger that was too embarrassing to hold back: "What do you mean, Miss Shen?"
The others also had serious expressions on their faces. After all, being called a "deaf person" in front of a girl who was only in her early twenties was a huge humiliation for these men who had been floating in the clouds for a long time.
Looking at the expressions of these people, Chen Ci laughed out loud: "Oh, so you can hear what I say? I thought your ears were not very good because of your age. How come I said "no, no" so seriously just now, but you just couldn't hear it?"
When everyone heard this, their expressions were surprisingly consistent, and they all instantly became as cold as a pond.
“Miss Shen, this…”
Lu Jinzhao wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Shen Ci's light voice: "I really can't understand. Is a woman's success necessarily impure in your eyes? Do you have to give her success a reason that you think is reasonable and a method that is unknown to others?"
"And this method is often and most likely to be a man?"
"That's right. You men have always thought you are the center and masters of this world. Even though humans evolved from a matriarchal society since ancient times, you have long forgotten that."
"Throughout history, the success and achievements of most women have been erased, and as if that weren't enough, they've also been stigmatized."
Chen Ci looked at the faces in front of him, which were not good-looking to begin with but became even more disgusting because of the overblown daddy look, and sneered from the bottom of his heart.
"Do you know why Wu Zetian chose to erect a monument without words after her death?" Shen Ci suddenly asked a question halfway through his speech.
Director Qu frowned, completely confused, and only anger filled his heart.
Chen Ci didn't expect these men to come up with any original insights, so she spoke on her own: "Because the Martial Emperor knows that you dare not tell the truth in her life, nor can you make up any new words. Her achievements will not be recorded truthfully, and the only thing people can do to slander her is to fabricate some romantic stories, and she won't care at all!"
"The facts are just as she expected. Thousands of years later, people are still debating her inscriptionless stele, while the monuments of the male emperors next door have long been covered with moss."
"History, like a magic mirror, has always been full of double standards. Men are reflected with beauty filters, while women are reflected with funhouse mirrors. Li Shimin's murder of his brother at Xuanwu Gate was an imperial scheme, and Emperor Wu's dethronement of the crown prince was a dehumanizing act!"
"Li Longji's snatching of his daughter-in-law is considered a romantic tale by you men, and Empress Wu's raising of a few wolfhounds is considered a harem of debauchery! To discredit her, later generations even fabricated a story that she killed her own daughter. But if this were true, wouldn't King Luo Bin have scolded her a hundred and eighty times already?"
"After all, it all comes down to a woman marrying two husbands and murdering her relatives, but aren't these things the emperors did?"
"Emperor Wu ascended the throne by his own merit, trampling on male chauvinism. Confucian scholars slammed him as a hen crowing at dawn and predicting the end of the nation, but what was the result? Looking up, the legacy of the Zhenguan era is still alive, with peonies blooming all over Luoyang. The national population has skyrocketed from 3.8 million to over 6 million, GDP growth has surpassed the Zhenguan era, and the admission rate for disadvantaged students in the imperial examinations has reached a record high. The Tianshu (Heavenly Privy Council) of all nations, acclaimed by all, is stationed in the imperial city of Luoyang, commanding the harmony of all nations. The pinnacle of power and the center of the world are all under the command of Emperor Wu of the Tang Dynasty!"
"But in the end, the historian wrote with a flourish that the female emperor took the throne, turning yin and yang upside down. I imagine the Empress Wu must have known that future generations would erase most of her achievements, but I imagine she would just smile and say..."
Having said that, Chen Ci looked at the stunned crowd in front of him with contempt, and smiled slightly: "Men, that's how it is!"
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