Jiang Xiaoyan's voice was already trembling with tears as she looked at Zhang Fengxia and said, "Am I good enough for him? What do I do every day? Wash clothes, cook, clean? Aunt Liu can do all those things. After he got rich, I was scared. I was really scared. I felt like he was a giant standing in front of me."
“I told him more than once not to expand further. Am I being selfish? For a while, we didn’t even talk to each other. He was busy with the company, and I didn’t understand anything. In front of him, I felt like a fool. So I opened a cosmetics factory.”
"I feel like we're drifting further and further apart. He... he's a good person, really a good person. So good that I can bully him, pinch him, make a scene with him, and be unreasonable with him..."
“I admit I have low self-esteem and feel like I’m a useless person, but I can’t be at peace with being useless. I’m anxious every day, afraid of losing things, but I can’t find my direction in life. My only hope is to have a child.”
“I can tell myself that I am the child’s mother and he is the child’s father. That is our relationship. And I can also say to his parents, no matter how rich your son is, your grandson is my child.”
"Now that I've lost my child, I'm like a barren hen. What can I do but die? Wait to be humiliated? Talk about me behind my back? Or should I let him continue to give me handouts, like a beggar waiting for him to come home and say a word to me, hoping he'll love me a little more?"
As she spoke, Jiang Xiaoyan began to sob. No one knew how she had spent the past few years. She was just a simple woman whose greatest wish was to stay with her family and live a simple life. She never dreamed of what was happening today.
Zhang Fengxia had always thought that Jiang Xiaoyan was the happiest woman in the world, but she never expected that she had so much bitterness. She sighed and said, "You can't just kill yourself. Isn't that stupid? If you die, who knows who will benefit?"
Jiang Xiaoyan stopped talking. She dared not think about how to face Lu Feng, let alone how to face Lu Feng's parents. Even if her mother-in-law didn't say anything, her heart was already extremely fragile. A single glance from her mother-in-law could be a sharp sword to her.
The windows were sealed shut and the door was locked. Zhang Fengxia squeezed into the bed with her, whispering comforting words and repeatedly telling her not to be foolish. The two of them drifted off to sleep.
The next day was just another ordinary day. The sun rose in the east and set in the west as usual. It didn't care what joys and sorrows had happened to the creatures on Earth. It radiated heat, yet it was as cold as ice.
Huang Youwei reported the matter to higher authorities, and that very evening the province established an investigation team. This morning, they held a meeting to discuss the matter.
Inside the meeting room, there were seven or eight people. The one in the lead was probably in his sixties, wearing reading glasses, and flipping through the documents in front of him.
"The evidence is quite substantial. The sheer number of people involved in this project is enough to cause a major upheaval among local officials." He put down the documents in his hand and asked Huang Youwei, "Where did all this come from?"
“Someone left it at my office door,” Huang Youwei replied.
"With such comprehensive evidence, it must be an internal power struggle, with people reporting each other. Secretary Huang, we have two options now. One is to detain all the people involved, but doing so will create panic and leave many positions vacant. The province also wants to avoid a major upheaval. The second option is to first detain some key figures, such as Di Mingde and Ma Juntao, who are involved in bribery and other crimes, as well as Hao Zhihai, Hao Zhipeng, and Ba Ge. The city will then proceed with the rest."
"Okay, I agree!" Huang Youwei nodded in agreement. "Then these people will all be handed over to the province for processing?"
"It must be the provincial level. Such a big case should become a typical example this year. We had a meeting last night, and the provincial level's idea was to set a warning example by taking the person away during the meeting so that others could see it."
Huang Youwei nodded slightly and said, "Very good, very educational. The recent atmosphere is indeed not good. If I hand it over to the province, I won't have to bother anymore. This matter is also my dereliction of duty, and I will write a self-criticism later."
"Go look at the entire time span of the crime. It's not really your concern, but the local anti-corruption team will definitely have to take responsibility. Let's not talk about that for now. Tell people to call a meeting, and we'll go arrest them and conduct a surprise interrogation!"
Huang Youwei stood up, returned to his office, picked up the phone, and called Secretary Cui.
"Come to my office!"
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