??Chapter 925: Chapter 926: I Don’t Even Mind
Chapter 925: Chapter 926: I Don’t Even Mind
He couldn’t believe it when he first heard the news, Chiang Xiao? A painter? And she joined the Painters Association? The very sa girl who used to hide by Naless Creek and doodle with sticks?
Those people must have lost their minds!
How could they choose soone like Chiang Xiao, a girl from a poor mountain village no less?
But he had checked, and it was true.
Now, his only hope was Chiang Xiao.
Director Ding and Ding ifen had given up on him, and it was only after he had approached them several tis that he realized what Ding ifen had planned from the start.
The father of Ding ifen’s child held a higher status than Director Ding, and they couldn’t confront him, so they had no choice but to swallow the loss in silence. But Director Ding had another plan in mind, insisting Ding ifen not to abort the pregnancy, hoping if it turned out to be a baby boy, they could claim his real father’s property after raising him.
So, they needed to find a man to take over the child.
But no single man was willing to take on the responsibility, and those who were either ca from families as poor as church mice or had so issues of their own.
Ding ifen was not willing to lower herself to settle for such n.
After much consideration, the father-daughter duo devised a plan: look for a man with decent prospects, a bit of smarts, and soone dissatisfied with his current situation, then lure him with promises of employnt and an escape from poverty. Once they had him securely in their grasp, they could sweet-talk him into divorcing his wife.
After so selection, they ended up choosing Chiang Baoguo.
However, they didn’t expect that Song Xiyun would discover their sche before they had a firm grip on the situation, resulting in Chiang Baoguo losing his job because of her ruckus.
Ding ifen had actually developed so feelings for Chiang Baoguo. At first, she had said that if he divorced Song Xiyun imdiately, they could get married and she would find him a new job so they could start over.
But Song Xiyun, shalessly, made a scene, saying that if Chiang Baoguo dared to divorce, she would accuse him of hooliganism! Then she would cause trouble for Director Ding at his job as well.
Director Ding felt the trade-off wasn’t worth it. This level of chaos for the sake of Chiang Baoguo was not sothing he desired. It was better to find another man for Ding ifen elsewhere, so he too gave Chiang Baoguo a good scolding and refused to see him again.
It just so happened that during this period, the cri of hooliganism was considered very serious – getting caught could an facing the firing squad. Chiang Baoguo truly couldn’t dare to entangle with Ding ifen anymore and resigned himself to staying at ho.
But he couldn’t do farm work, was hopeless at household chores, and whenever he went outside, he felt like everyone was laughing at him, too ashad to et people. So, he could only sulk at ho all day, listening to his father’s sighs and his mother’s increasingly bad-tempered scolding, feeling so suffocated he was almost driven mad.
Now, facing Chiang Xiao, he saw this as his last chance.
“Chiang Xiao, let
join that association! I’ll do anything! You guys surely need people to do work, right? Registration? Bookkeeping? Finances? Warehouse managent? Or maybe greeting the leaders? Or even selling paintings; I don’t mind!” Chiang Baoguo whispered, still feeling humiliated to be asking Chiang Xiao for a job, “My demands aren’t high, just give
fifty or sixty a month, with als and lodging included, and that’ll be enough!”
“Pfft.” Chiang Xiao couldn’t hold back, bursting into laughter despite the pouring rain.
“What’s so funny?” Chiang Baoguo glared at her angrily, “I was doing well in my job, why did I lose it? Isn’t it all because of you! Don’t you think you owe
that responsibility? I know my qualifications deserve much more than a salary of fifty or sixty, I’m lowering my standards here, what more do you want?”
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