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Chapter 1472 Xie Meilan, trembling with anger!
"Who are you? What does this have to do with you?"

Xie Meilan glared at He Chen.

"When you see injustice, you should speak out! When it's time to act, you should act!" He Chen retorted, "If there's injustice, someone will right it; if there's wrongdoing, someone will take care of it! I just can't understand how you've treated a good Chinese son-in-law like this before!"

If your mother in heaven knew how you treated her filial son-in-law who had been caring for her for so long, aren't you afraid she'd come looking for you at night?

Xie Meilan swayed, feeling dizzy and trembling with anger. She subconsciously glanced around at the neighbors and noticed that many cameras were watching them. The way they looked... she felt like killing He Chen and her husband Shen Lei.

The reason she unusually and publicly and undignifiedly berated her husband was not only because his abnormal reaction made her subconsciously suppress him, but also because she wanted to maintain a decent or even positive image!

She wanted her neighbors to "know the truth"—that it wasn't her who was disturbing the peace, but her husband's undignified behavior that was causing the disturbance, and that he wouldn't listen to her repeated advice.

She is a good, decent person!

Why care so much about this image?

Shouldn't people in big cities not know each other even if they live right next door?
Not to mention the neighbors!

This involves her regular job.

She was just an ordinary employee at a financial company, working in investment. She was easily involved in large financing and IPO projects. Even though she wasn't qualified to lead them yet, she certainly knew how they worked.

Market sentiment is crucial!

If a scandal breaks out before a company raises funds and goes public, it could fall from heaven to hell.

Now, she is a major project that is about to raise funds and go public!
The investor was her domineering CEO who fell in love with her as she was about to get divorced and have an abortion at an advanced age.

Although the domineering CEO falls in love without any reason, she still wanted to maintain some dignity and image deep down.

This subconscious belief is similar to how wealthy people, after becoming rich overnight, always believe in gods and Buddhas and superstitions. They know that their success is purely due to luck, and they need the superstitious belief in gods and Buddhas to comfort and give themselves confidence.

Now Xie Meilan wants to transfer to the home of a domineering CEO, restructure the company, raise funds for a listing, achieve great results, and enjoy great wealth. She wants to do every little detail to the extreme.

Why?

Because she herself actually has some self-awareness.

The older, divorced woman who had an abortion—of course, she hadn't had the abortion yet, but she definitely was going to—the domineering CEO loved her and didn't care that she would give birth to a child that wasn't his (Pan Yun from the Beijing-Shanghai-Guangzhou drama "Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou Don't Believe in Tears but Believe in Boundless Love," in the original story, was pregnant with her husband Zhao Xiaoliang's child, and the domineering CEO boss said he didn't mind being the child's father, even turning against the mother who opposed it). Domineering CEOs are all like this, how could they not be overjoyed?

But even if the domineering CEOs are willing, it's just a way of showing their love for them.

But it still has to be eliminated.

Firstly, how could an incompetent husband be worthy of bearing her children?
Secondly, there are risks involved if the child isn't the CEO's biological child.

If he ever comes to his senses and brings up old grievances, that would be a real problem. So all they need is for the domineering CEO to say is that the child must be aborted.

Pan Yun, who believes in love but not tears in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, was initially determined to have an abortion, even after her domineering boss went to such lengths. However, in the end, in order to force the abortion, she didn't have one.

Now that this "Ordinary Man's Song" has completely dropped the pretense, Xie Meilan naturally has to make the most pragmatic choice: Fight!
Must fight!
Even after doing such a thing, she still maintained a facade of civility, and after the divorce, she didn't want to make things too ugly.

In He Chen's view, this was not a case of the two people being nice, parting amicably, or simply not loving each other anymore, and neither of them doing anything wrong.

This is all complete bullshit!
It's all thanks to the contrast with its competitors!

Because so many of her peers are inhumane, she stands out by being slightly less so, which makes her seem like a decent person, or even that she's not wrong?

But if the genders were reversed, and she were a man, then Shen Lei would be a truly terrible wife, and a terrible wife who was devoted to her parents-in-law and handled their funerals almost single-handedly. Not to mention in ancient times, even in modern TV dramas like "Lurking," according to the male lead Yu Zecheng, divorcing such a wife would be a sin against heaven and earth!

So if Xie Meilan were a man, or if gender equality were truly the norm, then her actions would be the most heinous and despicable thing imaginable!

Just because she didn't become a heartless man like Chen Shimei and didn't go to extremes to kill everyone doesn't mean she's a decent person.

She doesn't want any husband or anything, she just wants a decent divorce, an immediate and amicable separation, and she's willing to do that?
That's a joke!

Shen Lei used all his savings to treat his mother's illness and is still in debt. He has nothing, including a house and a car. She just wants a share, but what can she get?
Debt?
Her uncle's debt of 100,000 yuan, plus the 400,000 yuan debt she herself borrowed unilaterally from the domineering CEO without consulting her husband.

A debt of 50!

She did say she would take responsibility herself, but she didn't realize that the money was originally for her mother's medical treatment. The people who lent it to her were her uncle and a domineering CEO who had been flirting with her but ultimately tore up the IOU.

As long as she hooks up with a domineering CEO, all these debts will be wiped clean and won't be a problem at all.

Therefore, in the original plot, her calmness, which made Shen Lei seem impotent and furious, was actually just a facade that couldn't be examined closely.

Did she not want to exploit her colleagues like they did?
She doesn't have that chance!
Moreover, she was planning for the long term, aiming to restructure her business and raise funds for a listing, which is why she remained calm and made a dignified attempt.

Otherwise, even if the domineering CEO falls in love with her for a while and thinks that whatever she does is good, or even finds it exciting and satisfying that she humiliates her husband Shen Lei and sucks his marrow.

But the other party isn't stupid either.

If Xie Meilan can treat her first love husband, whom she loved so much back then, this way, won't she treat him, the domineering CEO, the same way in the future?
Even if the domineering CEO lost his mind and didn't put himself in her shoes, Xie Meilan would absolutely not be willing to lose her dignity and take such a risk for Shen Lei, who has no money.

When companies restructure their shells for financing and listing, they first have to spend money to buy the shell company, and then spend a lot on public relations. If there is any negative public opinion, they will not hesitate to spend money to suppress the trending topics.

She was only doing this for the sake of image, to catch big fish, to restructure her business, raise funds, and go public, not to mention to her husband Shen Lei, who now has no savings, exploiting him to the bone, squeezing out the meager profits she didn't even care about.

How can you say that's not good enough?
All of this was originally hidden beneath her seemingly composed and indifferent face, but now He Chen suddenly exposed it in public, catching her completely off guard.

What angered and chilled her even more was that the reason she chose to relist the company was to use her deceased mother as a pretext, and to use the fact that her mother died while her husband did not do his best to cover up the truth.

But what did He Chen do?
He actually copied her, holding up a more useful sign of the dead, using her deceased mother to label her husband, whom she had labeled as "incompetent husband who neither lived well nor died peacefully," as a "good son-in-law of China."

Not only did he forcefully dismantle her labels and excuses, but He Chen even dared to use her mother to insult her!

(End of this chapter)