Bai Xian: “Ahhh! Is this for me? Thank you, Director!”
After receiving the money, Bai Xian immediately took a screenshot and posted it to his social media:
Bai Xian: “I didn’t finish my work, yet the director still gave me a bonus and comforted me. What working stiff has it as good as I do? I’m definitely working for our director again in my next life!”
A group of elderly residents who were still awake immediately liked the post:
“What a warmhearted person! [Thumbs-up][Thumbs-up][Thumbs-up]”
“We definitely chose the right senior care center!”
“I never expected Director Yu to look so cold but actually be such a good person. I’m renewing my contract next year.”
Bai Xian took another screenshot and posted it:
Bai Xian: “Haha, everyone’s up so early.”
Yu Zhining saw the two posts Bai Xian had put up one after another.
So spending two thousand yuan could really generate such great publicity?
He suddenly understood why Yu Xiaxing had received a perfect score in the “public opinion” category.
Even if he lost this time, he didn’t seem to feel all that bad anymore.
…
After finishing with his messages, Yu Zheng looked up and saw that Yu Xiaxing seemed to be in a very good mood. Yu Zhining seemed to be in a very good mood too.
He began worrying for the two of them. “How can you two still smile? The deadline for the task is tomorrow night, and neither of you has completed it yet. The yellow card is going to go to one of you!”
Yu Xiaxing had been leisurely drinking tea.
But when she heard Yu Zheng say that, she couldn’t help becoming nervous.
That was right! Yu Zhining was competing with her for the yellow card!
When she had gone over to take a look just now, she had seen that Bai Xian had said there was only one person left: Mrs. Xu.
If she could find a way to help Yu Zhining convince Mrs. Xu, wouldn’t that guarantee that she would be the one to receive the yellow card?
It was time to show her competitor some warmth!
Yu Xiaxing immediately put down her teacup and put on a serious expression. “What kind of background does Mrs. Xu have? Tell us. Let’s discuss whether there’s any way to win her over in one day.”
Yu Zhining looked up at her and didn’t speak for a moment.
Yu Xiaxing felt that this was the most troublesome part.
Every time she wanted to help them win, she had to come up with a self-serving excuse. Otherwise, they would suspect that she had some ulterior motive.
There was nothing she could do. That was the reputation she had built by being rotten to the core since childhood.
She was still trying to come up with an excuse when Yu Zhining spoke first. “Thank you. I guess all the affection I showed you as a child wasn’t wasted.”
Yu Xiaxing narrowed her eyes. “You don’t suspect that I’m trying to harm you?”
Yu Zhining: “If you really wanted to harm me, you and Yu Zheng would have left right after finishing your own tasks last night. You had no reason to stay and help me fight.”
Yu Zheng laughed and patted him on the shoulder. “Not bad. You’re finally learning to understand people. Our risking our lives for you last night wasn’t in vain.”
Yu Zhining praised him right back. “You’re becoming more and more human too.”
Yu Xiaxing was exhausted and urged them, “Hurry up. Let’s finish this and go home to sleep.”
Just then, Bai Xian sent over detailed information about Mrs. Xu.
The information hadn’t been compiled by the senior care center. It was a file put together by Qin Mei’s group of scammers. Bai Xian had seen it in the break room and secretly taken pictures of it.
It was far more detailed than anything they had managed to find themselves!
Yu Zhining hadn’t even had time to look at it when Yu Xiaxing reached out and took it. “Let me see.”
She finished reading it quickly.
Yu Xiaxing clicked her tongue. “So Mrs. Xu is a victim of favoritism toward sons.”
Yu Zhining didn’t understand. According to the senior care center’s records, Mrs. Xu had two older sisters and no brothers.
She had only had one son, and that son had only had one child—a son.
How could any part of her life have anything to do with favoring boys over girls?
Yu Xiaxing turned to the pages after Mrs. Xu’s information and showed them the file.
It turned out that the issue involved her daughter-in-law, who had a younger brother.
Her daughter-in-law’s parents had left their house and savings to their son, then gone to live with their daughter and son-in-law, leaving all their care in old age to the daughter and son-in-law.
What was more, her daughter-in-law’s parents had no pension. Mrs. Xu was the only one with a pension.
Mrs. Xu’s son was an ungrateful wretch as well. He had helped his in-laws drive his own mother back to her hometown.
Before meeting Qin Mei’s scam ring, Mrs. Xu had handed over her entire pension to her son and daughter-in-law and barely spent anything on herself.
It was only after meeting the scammers, who encouraged her to live for herself and stop giving everything to her children, that she began keeping the money for herself. Even then, she had only managed to save it for four or five months.
The poison of favoring sons over daughters doesn’t only harm one girl in a family.
It travels along the networks of blood and marriage, hurting anyone who appears to have nothing to do with it.
The three of them finished reading the file.
Yu Xiaxing guessed, “Could Mrs. Xu be unable to swallow this insult and want to go back and drive her in-laws out?”
Yu Zhining: “If she were really capable of that, she wouldn’t have been driven back to her hometown last year.”
Yu Xiaxing asked again, “Then what if we help her drive her in-laws out?”
Yu Zheng: “That doesn’t make sense. Once her in-laws leave, she’ll have even less reason not to live at home. She still won’t come back to the senior care center.”
Yu Zhining thought for a moment before saying, “I think it’s worth a try. We have no other options anyway. We might as well help her solve the problem she actually wants solved. If she renews her contract, great. If not, at least we can part on good terms.”
Yu Xiaxing: “Exactly! Maybe she’ll even send us a thank-you banner!”
The two of us are competing for last place now, and satisfaction is one of the task’s scoring categories. The higher your satisfaction score, the greater the chance I’ll get the yellow card!
Since the two of them agreed, Yu Zheng agreed as well. “I know a girl who can help you deal with this. She’s handled every kind of dispute involving terrible relatives in the neighborhood—an unemployed nephew who moves in and refuses to leave, a niece who comes over every day to borrow money… She’s dealt with all of it. And she especially loves doing this sort of thing. She’s practically addicted.”
Yu Xiaxing asked, “What’s her name?”
Yu Zheng: “Chen Jiaxin.”
Yu Xiaxing nodded. She remembered her. She had dealt with her in her previous life.
In her previous life, in order to win, Yu Xiaxing had used plenty of conventional competitive tactics, including bribing her competitors’ trusted aides and trying to poach their most capable assistants.
She had spent money trying to recruit all of them: Yu Lingyi’s trusted aide, Lin Zhi; Yu Zhining’s trusted aide, Bai Xian; and Yu Zheng’s trusted aides, Chen Jiaxin and Cheng Li, among others.
Unexpectedly, every one of them was fiercely loyal.
Not only did they reject Yu Xiaxing’s offers during the competition, but after their bosses lost, they would rather leave the Yu Corporation than work for her.
There was only one person who had betrayed their own boss and joined Yu Xiaxing’s side.
But after the true heiress returned, that person betrayed Yu Xiaxing again and joined the true heiress.
If not for that person’s backstabbing, Yu Xiaxing wouldn’t have been driven out by the true heiress without the slightest preparation…
So, anyone who can betray my opponent today may betray me tomorrow.
As for the Chen Jiaxin Yu Zheng had mentioned, Yu Xiaxing had crossed paths with her in her previous life. She was the kind of girl who combined a street thug’s attitude with brute force.
Most girls who had just graduated from college were extremely timid. If they were bullied, they were always afraid that fighting back would provoke even harsher retaliation.
But Chen Jiaxin’s philosophy in life was: “I’ve got nothing to lose, so bring it on.”
She was afraid of nothing. And because of that, society ended up making room for her.
