Li Siyun's short story
"Hurry up! Stop dawdling on doing some work! I'm leaving now and won't be back tonight."
The man sat on the chair, lowered his head and looked impatiently at the woman who was polishing his shoes in front of him, his face full of disgust.
Seeing that his leather shoes were polished, he stood up, turned around and left, completely ignoring the ugly expression of the woman next to him.
With a bang, the door was closed.
Li Siyun put down the rag in her hand and sat on the bench where the man had just sat with a calm expression.
Since she separated from Jiang You, her family quickly found her a wealthy family.
Originally, people like her were not qualified to be part of a wealthy family.
After all, the Li family’s circle is like this, and they don’t know any big shots at all.
But Li Siyun was still quite capable. With her charming appearance and versatile personality, she successfully found a powerful old man.
He is not really old, just a dozen years older than her and has a teenage son.
He has no worries about food and clothing and lives a rich life, but he gets no respect.
Li Siyun, who served this family, also gained a lot of benefits for her mother's family by relying on their status.
To be honest, Li Siyun himself didn't think there was anything to complain about.
After all, even this kind of life is enough to make others envious.
Until she once again saw the national outstanding entrepreneur Jiang You in the report.
It's been a long time since I heard from my old friend.
After marrying into this family, her husband was not very happy about her parents' low status, so she often went back to her parents' home.
Fortunately, I have enough food and clothing and I don’t have to worry about money. If something really happens, the other party will take care of it.
There is nothing wrong with this wife except that she is a bit chauvinistic.
But for some reason, Li Siyun always thinks of that handsome man in her dreams at midnight.
In fact, she has always known that the other party is very outstanding.
Although others looked down on him earlier, he was considered a gangster in the eyes of serious people.
But Li Siyun never thought so.
Jiang You has his own path and his own ambition.
Facts proved that she was right about him, and Jiang You indeed became the country's leading entrepreneur.
Even her divorced husband who works in the system would occasionally express his feelings about the country's richest man.
Whenever Li Siyun heard this, he felt not only regret and melancholy, but also sadness.
It's just that she hid it very well, and her current husband never knew about her past.
Like every ordinary couple, she raised children in this family and worked hard without complaint.
I don't know why I ended up sitting on a stool today.
Li Siyun recalled the past.
She still remembered that the man was actually quite caring.
When she was young, people said she was a vixen who seduced people and was not a good person to live with.
But Jiang You never thought there was anything wrong with what he did.
He would seriously praise his own beauty and intelligence.
Occasionally, he would bring some good things that I had never seen before and secretly send them to me.
During the three years of famine, the whole family could not get enough to eat. Li Siyun, the daughter, could only live comfortably with the help from Jiang You.
The two had originally imagined many futures.
I want to travel all over the country, I want to make money and live a good life together, I want to be together forever.
But for some reason, when I think about it now, none of them have come true.
Thinking of the appearance of his old friend, Li Siyun smiled bitterly, and then felt relieved.
Why think about that? She's doing well now.
But if I had followed Jiang You, I'm afraid the situation would have been completely different.
I heard that he loves his wife very much. His wife gave birth to a daughter for him, and he donated several million to celebrate his daughter's birthday.
What a generous deal.
Regret? She couldn't help but regret.
Because her destiny was never her own.
The reason I stayed at home instead of going to the countryside was because I agreed to those harsh dowry conditions.
Isn't it just to let the whole family know their own value, so that they can stay here peacefully and not be sent to the countryside?
Those beautiful women were sent to remote and poor areas and could not come back for eight or ten years. No one knows what they would become of them in the end.
The smart ones would marry a local who can protect themselves.
Those with a stronger personality will have to face the fate of never getting married, as they may be harassed by countless hooligans and bad guys in the village.
If you encounter poor mountains and bad waters with inconvenient transportation, you may die without anyone knowing where you are.
Li Siyun knew from the beginning that there would be a price to pay for not going to the countryside.
So when the two were about to get married, their family asked for a betrothal gift of 500 yuan, and Li Siyun did not refuse.
Because she couldn't refuse the new era, new ideas, new society and new concepts.
Isn't it the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words? Isn't it the feudal remnant that women have no rights?
She knew that Jiang You was angry.
But she also knew that the other party could come up with so much money.
Jiang You has traveled all over the country in recent years and actually has quite a bit of savings privately.
Li Siyun originally thought that as long as the other party agreed to let him go, he would repay him even if it meant working like a slave.
But he didn't want to.
That’s right.
He didn't like himself in the first place. Jiang You had an unspeakable lover.
That was an unspoken secret between him and me.
He could spend this money on her, but he would never give it to his family.
Li Siyun's eyes turned red with grievance, but he smiled the next moment and patted the dust off his trouser legs.
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