In a small restaurant in Shangjing, this place is a mixed bag and it is located in a remote area. The dark alley smells like a sewer, the ground is wet, and there are rats and cockroaches crawling around. The people who live and work here do not have local household registration or temporary residence permits.
I can only live here, and the jobs here are the kind that pay little but work hard.
A figure squatted in the kitchen, washing basins and dishes. Her face was full of fatigue and haggardness. The clothes she wore were patched and worn out. Her hands were swollen from being soaked in water and were in great pain, but she could only wash the dishes over and over again.
The customers of the restaurant gathered in twos and threes to drink. They liked to chat while drinking. They opened up and talked about the latest news.
"Have you heard that Zaochan Pharmaceutical Factory has developed a new product? Wow, as soon as it was put on the market, it was sold out. I wanted to buy one for my wife but she couldn't even buy one!" a man said.
"If you ask me, the person behind this Chuangzao Pharmaceutical Factory who is responsible for developing these products is really amazing. I remember she has appeared in public before. Her name is... Jiang Xia. She is very beautiful and young. She makes this much money every year from the research and development patents and sales commissions of this factory!" Another person gestured with his fingers, which immediately caused the others to gasp.
"Not only is she capable, her husband is also capable. She has been the group leader a few years ago, and I heard that she will be promoted soon. That's a huge status and power. Moreover, she is very capable and is famous for doting on her wife. I heard that..." Another person spoke up next, his voice full of envy.
As these people were talking, they suddenly heard a crackling sound, as if something had fallen. They looked over and found that it was a woman.
"It's fake, it's all fake, she's just lucky! She's a bitch! She shouldn't be alive, she should have died long ago!! She was never as good as me before!" After listening to these people discussing Jiang Xia, Jiang Hongjiao suppressed her irritation and spoke with red eyes.
This was not the first time she had heard news about Jiang Xia. She and Jiang Xia were obviously not much different before. They grew up together in the same family compound. But she couldn't understand why it had become like this. Now she didn't even have the qualifications to see Jiang Xia. She lived like a rat in a sewer.
She has been living a life of displacement over the years. Her father Jiang Weian had long been disappointed in her and left with his younger brother. Her mother Feng Changdi used to help her at the beginning, but later Feng Changdi could not give her money no matter how she scolded or made trouble. She told Feng Changdi to get out, and in the end Feng Changdi really got out and never came back.
The Yan family had gone bankrupt a long time ago, and they had sold the factory and were still burdened with a lot of debts. Her dream of becoming the deputy factory director's wife was shattered. The Yan family had always tied her down with marriage and refused to let her leave. She was almost exhausted from being tortured, so she had no choice but to run away. She ran to Shangjing, but she didn't expect to hear news about Jiang Xia in Shangjing.
"Are you sick? How could you possibly know such an important person?" The man who was eating was obviously frightened. He stood up and cursed.
"Tsk, you brag without thinking, what a character you have? Let's go, don't bother with this crazy woman, everyone can brag and dream." Another person looked at Jiang Hongjiao's red eyes, frowned, said something to the boss, and left.
When the boss saw Jiang Hongjiao driving his customer away and throwing plates and dishes all over the floor, he immediately fired Jiang Hongjiao and kicked her out, cursing and hurling bad words at her.
Jiang Hongjiao walked towards the house she rented like a wandering soul. When she reached the door, she saw her luggage thrown out. The landlord said that she had not paid the rent for two months and asked her to get out.
"You are a bunch of scoundrels who rely on the power of others! Bah! None of you are good!" Jiang Hongjiao looked at her luggage that was thrown out, and the dark and smelly sewers around her, and cried out.
She had a very real dream, but it was not like this in the dream.
In that beautiful dream, her parents had always been good to her and had not abandoned her or been disappointed in her. She had never had any contact with the Yan family. Jiang Xia and Lu Yuanting had always had a lukewarm relationship and had never lived together.
In that dream, she also hooked up with Shen Yicheng. Shen Yicheng did not break up with Jiang Xia. Instead, with the help of Jiang Xia, he rose to prominence and his career got better and better. Later, Jiang Xia's parents died, and Shen Yicheng conspired with her to kill Jiang Xia and took Jiang Xia's inheritance and compensation.
She married Shen Yicheng openly and had a child. Many people envied her, saying that she and Shen Yicheng were a loving couple, and envied her for being a wealthy wife with money and free time and an obedient child, while Jiang Xia had long since become a handful of dirt and was trampled under her feet.
Everything in it was so real, so real that she thought it was true.
But when she opened her eyes and saw what was in front of her, she collapsed.
Jiang Hongjiao got up tiredly, dragging her luggage, looking at her tight wallet, wondering where she would have her next meal, where she could stay, and whether she could find a new illegal job. The road ahead was bleak and uncertain.
The beautiful dream is over, and now is the cruel reality, her current life.
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