Chapter 221
"Meimei, if I tell you, you will never forgive me!"
Luo Chunyan covered her face and choked up silently.
Ji Wanmei stepped forward, patted her shoulder, and gently comforted her, "It's okay, you can say whatever you want, we're good friends."
Luo Chunyan shook her head and said, "Meimei, I don't want to do this anymore after the New Year. You...you should hire someone else."
"Why?" This caught Ji Wanmei off guard. She had thought that Luo Chunyan was in a bad mood because of A-Qiang's matter.
"I'm afraid that if I continue working here, I might do something that even I find terrifying," Luo Chunyan said with great distress.
If Luo Chunyan hadn't seen Aqiang return to the county town to build a new house, she might not have been so conflicted.
Luo Chunyan admitted that she was just an ordinary person.
An utterly ordinary person.
She loves money, wealth and status, and empty fame; she wants to live a good life.
She never hid her love for these things, but she also had her own pride.
She felt guilty spending money obtained through despicable means; but the fact that she could see it but couldn't have it tormented her.
She doesn't have such a strong heart, nor is she noble enough to remain completely unmoved when faced with the temptation of money.
However, she wasn't so shameless as to disregard friends and morality. Even when she wanted money, she still had a bottom line in her heart.
Luo Chunyan is actually just an ordinary person like any other ordinary person among the masses.
They were neither very bad nor very good.
The environment determines the choices they will make; it's all just the survival instinct of people striving for better things.
"Meimei, you have no idea what kind of torment I'm going through," Luo Chunyan said weakly.
She finally decided to confess to Ji Wanmei.
"Liu Yang proposed to me," Luo Chunyan said calmly.
Ji Wanmei was taken aback. Although she felt that Chunyan and he had only been dating for a few months, she thought that they had been husband and wife in their previous life, so she said, "If you also want to be with him, I will sincerely congratulate you and wish you all the best."
Luo Chunyan gave a self-deprecating laugh: "But I don't like him that much at all."
Ji Wanmei opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything: "..."
"I just thought that if I married him, I could move out of that house, that suffocating house." Luo Chunyan's eyes were fixed on the outside of the shop, watching the people coming and going on the street, her wandering gaze seemingly unfocused.
"So that's why you're planning to marry him," Ji Wanmei said in surprise.
Luo Chunyan nodded and said, "I made a condition to him: he had to buy a house as our wedding home."
Ji Wanmei waited quietly for her to continue, because she had a premonition that what Luo Chunyan was about to say would definitely not be so smooth and simple.
Luo Chunyan: "Although he works in a state-owned department store and his monthly salary is quite decent, he also has parents and young children at home. He spends money extravagantly and doesn't save much money at all. He doesn't have the money to buy a house for his wedding."
At this moment, Luo Chunyan turned her head, looked at Ji Wanmei, and gave a wry smile: "Guess what he said to me."
Ji Wanmei asked instinctively, "What did he say?"
Luo Chunyan said with a sneer, "He said he has connections in state-run department stores and can get goods from them so I can sell them in your store. The money from the sales will be used to buy a house and marry me."
He also said, "You won't know about this unless we tell you."
Ji Wanmei quietly looked at Luo Chunyan.
Luo Chunyan's eyes were red, and tears kept welling up in them: "But Meimei, I'm really just an ordinary person. I can't resist such a temptation of money. I have to admit that for a moment, I really wavered. I even thought about what the consequences would be if I didn't let you know. Could our friendship still last?"
This wavering was originally just a faint trace, which she quickly dismissed.
But when Luo Chunyan saw A-Qiang repairing the house and another young and beautiful girl appearing beside him, the regret and jealousy in her heart suddenly burst forth.
"Meimei, I'm scared. Look, it's almost Chinese New Year, and everyone's out buying New Year's goods in the twelfth lunar month. If I secretly take a batch of snow cream from Liu Yang and sell it, how much money could I make?"
Luo Chunyan spoke while tears streamed down her face.
Ji Wanmei raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her face, then leaned down and gently hugged her.
Luo Chunyan was hugged by Ji Wanmei and burst into tears: "Meimei, I really can't stay here anymore. I'm afraid, I'm afraid I won't be able to control my greed, I'll end up like that. But I don't want to lose you, my good friend. Please find someone else to help you watch the shop!"
Ji Wanmei never expected that Chunyan had so many things hidden in her heart.
No wonder, when she came back this time, she seemed to have aged considerably and didn't talk as much as before.
"Chunyan, it's good that you said it!" Ji Wanmei's eyes also reddened. She patted Chunyan's back forcefully to comfort her. "Being able to say it means you care about our friendship. You're not that kind of person. I believe you won't be misled by Liu Yang."
The fact that Luo Chunyan was able to tell her the truth shows that she is not a bad person and that she is a good girl.
However, her family placed too much burden on her, and she was under too much pressure.
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