Chapter 96
The woman, who had been slumped on the ground without moving or reacting, finally responded after the person in charge spoke.
“Manager, I am really being wronged. I really didn’t steal anything or anyone. My daughter is still in the hospital, and she is waiting for me to earn money to pay for her treatment. I really can’t lose this job, I beg you, manager, please don’t fire me.” The woman changed her sitting position to kneeling, continuously kowtowing to the manager, each bow more forceful than the last. The dull sound of her forehead hitting the marble floor seemed to knock on people’s hearts, causing many empathetic people in the crowd to turn away, unable to bear this heart-wrenching scene.
“Madam, I am wrong, madam, I beg you to spare me. I really didn’t mean it, my family only has Xiaoyi as a relative. She is now lonely in the hospital, and if I lose my job, no one will pay her hospital fees, and she will die. She is only sixteen this year, I beg you to give our family a way to survive, I will set up a tablet for you at home and pray for you every day, I beg you.”
After realizing that the manager had no intention of relenting, the woman turned her kowtowing direction towards the woman adorned with gold and silver, hoping she might show great mercy and forgive her.
Xu Ke and Lin Mengyao watched the woman going to such lengths for her daughter, both of them felt a pang of sadness in their hearts and wanted to help her.
“Sister, stop kowtowing, come work as a nanny for our family, we’ll hire you, and your monthly salary will be…”
“Eight thousand, including room and board.” Xu Ke added in a flat tone, finishing the unsaid words of Lin Mengyao, which made Lin Mengyao give him a smiling glance.
“Yes, we will pay you eight thousand.”
Lin Mengyao tightened her grip on Xu Ke’s hand, and although she didn’t say anything, Xu Ke’s attitude of helping others was very much appreciated by her.
“Who are you people? Didn’t you hear what I just said? Don’t you know I am the madam of the Sun family? By the looks of you two, you have probably just graduated not long ago, right? Is your job stable enough that you have time to meddle in other people’s business? Be careful, or I will make sure you can’t make it in Lou City.”
She had just threatened someone that they wouldn’t make it in Lou City, and these two came over and said this. Were they trying to provoke her or slap her in the face? But either way, she wasn’t happy with the result.
The woman kneeling on the ground, although she heard someone was willing to offer her a salary of eight thousand, was understandably overjoyed. But she hesitated when she considered the power of the Sun family and compared it with the clothes of the two people in front of her. She couldn’t risk hurting two kind-hearted young people for her selfish reasons.
Even though the woman was heartbroken over that high salary, she still refused. “No, no need, I know you two are good kids, but I can’t burden you.” The woman said as despairing and sorrowful tears began to fall.
“Auntie, don’t worry about her, it’s okay. Our family also needs a nanny, and I think you are quite suitable. Besides, doesn’t your daughter need to stay in the hospital? Coming to ours can help resolve your urgent needs, and the child’s illness can’t wait.” Lin Mengyao walked over to the woman’s side, helping her up while gently saying these words.
Meanwhile, Xu Ke faced the woman adorned with jewelry, his face holding a careless expression and his tone coldly said, “You? You don’t have what it takes.”
“What did you say?” The woman was initially waiting to see the two look panicked, but she didn’t expect them not to fear her. Instead, they didn’t regard her at all. Having lived so extravagantly for so many years, when had she ever suffered such an insult? Without thinking, her body moved quicker than her mind, and she swung her small handbag at Xu Ke’s head.
The bag, with its metal edges, was glinting brightly as it swung toward Xu Ke’s head. If it hit, even if it didn’t draw blood, it’d certainly leave a noticeable lump.
“Let go. Do you know how much my bag costs? Even if you sold yourself, you couldn’t afford it if it got scratched.” The woman screamed while pulling hard on the bag’s chain.
Xu Ke glanced indifferently at the bag in his hand, a mocking smirk appearing on his lips, “It’s just a fake, even if it were genuine, I could still afford it.” With the woman’s force, Xu Ke let go, leaving the unprepared woman to fall unexpectedly to the ground, adding a layer of humiliation to her already unremarkable face as pain shot through her tailbone.
“I will kill you and make sure you die miserably.” The woman’s face was twisted, gasping in pain as she uttered threats, but compared to her previous threats, this time she was obviously determined, the murderous intent in her eyes sharp and dazzling, yet it couldn’t even make Xu Ke’s brow furrow the slightest.
“I’ll wait for you on the top floor of Jiahe.” Xu Ke didn’t have the patience to entangle with a woman continuously; seeing that Lin Mengyao had already calmed the person down, he turned away, pulling Lin Mengyao along with the aunt and walked out of the crowd, leaving the gold-adorned woman behind.
The woman, who had been shouting nonstop at Xu Ke while sitting on the ground, was now silent like a hollow gourd, her face increasingly pale, her pupils shrinking with shock, even forgetting to stand up.
Jiahe top floor! That was not a place where just anyone could enter, being on the top floor meant being at the center of power, while her family’s company was only an insignificant little firm, yet they could easily make Sun family’s business suffer. How laughable that she was just threatening them; it was sheer ridiculousness.
Thinking of the possible retaliation her family might face, the woman didn’t even care about the pain in her tailbone, hurriedly getting up from the ground, and rushed home at the fastest speed she could manage, not looking back once. She wanted to pack up and leave Lou City, but couldn’t bear to leave her lover. Just as she packed her luggage and was about to call her lover to persuade him to leave with her, her supposedly working husband kicked open the door and stormed in.
Seeing the neatly packed luggage and open safe, there was no need to listen to her so-called explanations. Dragging her by the hair, he beat her fiercely. The things she went to great lengths to hide, falsely accusing the nanny of theft and infidelity, were unexpectedly exposed, leaving her too stunned to resist, and by the time she realized she wanted to escape, she no longer had the strength.
Meanwhile, Xu Ke and Lin Mengyao had signed the employment contract with Sister Zhou, the three of them working together to tidy up their new home.
As for Jiahe, which Xu Ke mentioned, Lin Mengyao had already had some suspicions in her heart; she also knew that even if she asked, Xu Ke wouldn’t tell her, so she didn’t inquire, merely focusing on the present with all her heart.