Training the Heavens

Chapter 2 If I don't leave you, I'll be a burden to you

Good news? Shen Lei couldn't react at all. I'm about to get a divorce, and you say this is a good thing?

"Yes, this is a good thing! It's awkward for two people who are obviously not suitable to be together! It's better for both of them to break up now!" Ma Yingjie said sincerely.

"What era is it now? Divorce is no big deal! Look at Lao Zhang and Sister Zhao from our unit. They're divorced, and their lives are obviously much better than before!"

"She and I have been together since our freshman year. We were together for seven years in college and got married right after graduation. It has been another five years now! Our life has been smooth and happy. How can we not be suitable for each other?" Shen Lei shouted with red eyes.

"Don't get excited, don't get excited! Drink some water and calm down first! What you need now is not to vent, but to seriously think about why she wants to divorce you! If they were really as harmonious and happy as you said, how could they have come to this point of divorce?"

"She thinks I'm a loser! I can't make money and can't buy a house!" Shen Lei covered his face in pain.

"That's totally wrong! You graduated with a master's degree from a 985 university and are about to be promoted to a full-time professor. If someone like you is still useless, then I really don't know what kind of person is considered great!"

"As for making money to buy a house, that's even more of an excuse! Didn't she know this when you were preparing to take the civil service exam? Don't even think about getting rich once you become a civil servant! Unless she wants you in! Sooner or later, you'll have a house. Our unit isn't going anywhere fast or slow. If we can hold on for another five or six years, we'll be able to buy the allocated housing!"

"If she complained that you couldn't make enough money and couldn't afford a house, she should have advised you to go to a private company or a state-owned enterprise like CICC when you graduated and were looking for a job!"

"She didn't say anything back then, but now she's complaining about it! There's only one possibility: she's changed! If there were some conflicts in life, it might still be possible to salvage the relationship, but once she's changed her mind, it's too late to say anything!"

"Change of heart?" Shen Lei's mind flashed with the image of Xie Meilan smiling happily in Lu Jie's car, and he couldn't help feeling sad. How long had it been since she had smiled like that in front of him?
"Yes, you haven't changed much since graduation. You're still the same as before, meticulous and conscientious at work, and not particularly materialistic. This also has something to do with our work environment. After all, we work in a central government agency, and no one would deliberately show off!"

"She's different. What kind of place is a financial company? To say they're obsessed with money is an understatement! Designer clothes, luxury bags, luxury cars and watches, huge bonuses—the temptations are everywhere. How many people can resist?"

"When you were still in college, you were easily satisfied. A good song or a heartwarming story could make you happy for a long time! You just felt that being together was the greatest happiness in the world!"

Shen Lei nodded involuntarily. That was indeed how they were back then.

"It's different once you enter society. The pressure of reality comes crashing down on you, enough to make you breathless! If you're content with a simple life like you, it's fine. Although the salary for our job isn't high, it's still not a problem to survive in Beijing!"

Shen Lei continued to nod. He also felt that this job was very good. He didn't need to be as aggressive as Na Jun, nor did he need to worry about as many messy things as Na Wei. For him, it was also good to deal with archives quietly for the rest of his life.

Moreover, this job does not put too much financial pressure. The salary is enough for daily expenses, and there is medical insurance to reimburse if you are sick. If you have children, you don’t have to worry about school. They can go directly to the corresponding public kindergartens, primary schools, and middle schools. There is no need to spend hundreds of millions to buy school district housing like other people. The teaching level is also good. As long as the children are not too bad, getting into a good university is not a problem at all!
If you hold on for a few more years, there will still be allocated housing available for purchase at prices far below the market price. For an ordinary person, isn’t this enough?

"If she is also content with an ordinary life, you two will definitely have a happy life. After you get through these few years and own a house, your life will be better! It's okay if she is not content with an ordinary life. It's easy to make money in the financial industry. As long as you have the ability, a monthly salary of 30,000 to 50,000 is not a problem. If you succeed in one or two projects, you can get a bonus of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions!" "Sister-in-law has been working in the financial industry for five years, right? What is your basic salary now? How much commission and bonus can you get a year?" Ma Hao asked deliberately.

"It's been over five years! His monthly salary is now 20,000, which is almost three times what I made! The bonuses and commissions aren't that much! I think it was 30,000 last year?"

"Only 20,000?!" Ma Hao was surprised. "20,000 a month, if it were in other industries, it would be really good! But in the financial industry, newcomers who have just been in the industry for one or two years can get it! She has been working for five years and is still getting a newcomer's salary!"

"A 30,000 yuan bonus? If I hadn't worked in the same office with you for five years, I wouldn't have believed it. How could a bonus in the financial industry be so meager? Unless you've achieved absolutely nothing all year long and just spent all that time!"

"Shen Lei, if you say so, then I must advise you to divorce quickly!"

"Whether one is content with being ordinary or not, there's nothing to criticize. But if someone is not content with being ordinary and has no skills, and can only force their husband to struggle, then isn't that a bit too much?"

"Besides, our job has nothing to do with making money. Does she want you to commit corruption or steal confidential files and sell them? So, divorce her as soon as possible, so she won't be a burden to you in the future!"

"Twelve years, she and I have been together for twelve years." Shen Lei hugged his head and sobbed.

Shen Lei knew the importance of money, but he also knew how painful the process of making a lot of money was.

How many people have been running around, working hard to make a living, working themselves to death, overdrawing their physical strength, and exhausting their mental state, but still can't make any money. To be able to make a lot of money is a rare talent, one in a million, and Shen Lei admits that he doesn't have it.

He knew that he didn't have it and could accept it calmly, so he lived a comfortable life before. But Xie Meilan didn't think so. He could neither change Xie Meilan nor make money, so he fell into great pain.

"Alas, no matter how beautiful those years were, they are all in the past! In other words, they have become sunk costs, and we have to let them go when the time comes!"

Ma Yingjie tried to persuade him for a while, but when he saw that Shen Lei still didn't wake up, he stopped.

He just gave a few words of advice out of sympathy. If Shen Lei still didn't change his mind, there was nothing he could do. He was not Shen Lei's parent, and the system had not issued any tasks, so he didn't need to worry about Shen Lei's life.

There is just one thing, although Shen Lei has his reasons, but Xie Meilan and Lu Jie have gone too far. If there is a suitable opportunity, Ma Yingjie doesn't mind causing them some trouble.

(End of this chapter)