Chapter 16: A World Where Only Shen Jiayun Gets Hurt

Liu Qingqing hated Liu Yue, hated her to the extreme.

Even though Liu Qingqing knew she had no right to hate, whenever she thought about how Liu Yue was beautiful, well-born, a top student, super capable at work, filthy rich, perfect in every way, Liu Qingqing couldn't help being consumed by jealousy.

On what basis? Just because you had a better reincarnation lottery?

Especially when Liu Qingqing compared herself to Liu Yue, she grew even angrier.

Liu Yue was the cool goddess, everyone's white moonlight; she, Liu Qingqing, was the scheming vixen in others' mouths, the big-chested girl who got bullied in middle school.

Liu Yue was the legitimate daughter; she, Liu Qingqing, was the illegitimate one.

Liu Yue's mother was a scientist; her, Liu Qingqing's, mother was a pretty face who lived off being a mistress.

Liu Yue's maternal grandfather's family was wealthy landlords; her, Liu Qingqing's, maternal grandfather's family was a gambling-addicted grandpa, a vanished grandma, and a broken mom.

Liu Yue was super capable at work—in the years she was president, she paid out over twenty billion in dividends to the Liu Corporation shareholders; she, Liu Qingqing, had struggled in the entertainment circle for years, only to get cyberbullied into fame because she couldn't keep her mouth shut and was too sexy.

Counting up her twenty-four years of life, Liu Qingqing had only ever beaten Liu Yue in one thing: Shen Jiayun.

But Shen Jiayun was a scumbag. The moment Liu Qingqing flirted with him, he took the bait, and then that scumbag tried to get it for free.

In Liu Qingqing's eyes, that wasn't a thorough victory.

Carrying her jealousy of Liu Yue, Liu Qingqing fell asleep.

Early in the morning, Shen Mo and Liu Yue had just gotten up when Qin Hao dragged them into the yard, and then Qin Hao performed a hand-chopping-brick trick.

"Young people, you must be able to take a beating." Liu Yue headed toward the dining room.

Shen Mo's body stiffened on the spot.

【Threat, this is a naked threat.】

Liu Yue covered her mouth and snickered, she was so happy.

【But threatening me is useless. I'm the type who's all about loyalty in marriage, loving my wife dearly. Starting now, step one of spoiling my wife into uselessness.】

Liu Yue grew curious—what was this first step?

In the dining room, Liu Yue stared in shock at the spoon Shen Mo held up to her mouth. Eat, or not eat?

【Grandma said, as long as you spoil a woman into a baby, she'll never be able to leave you.】

Your grandma is definitely a genius, Liu Yue thought, caught between tears and laughter.

In the end, Liu Yue ate it with a red face.

"Oh my god, you young people play like this now? Feeding each other?" Mrs. Qin Hao saw Liu Yue eat the food Shen Mo fed her, felt mortified, and couldn't help complaining: "Can you be a little more mindful of the impression you're making?"

Grandpa and Grandma watched with smiles, finding it utterly delightful.

Ms. Wenya said with a grin: "This reminds me of a book I once wrote."

Over the course of one breakfast, Liu Yue was fed her entire meal under Shen Mo's eager, pleading gaze.

Looking back on it after the meal, Liu Yue felt like He Shen in the TV drama Prime Minister Liu Luoguo—someone to feed her when she eats, someone to dress her, all that was missing was the everything-else-on-automatic part.

Embarrassing as it was, it was actually kind of nice, so much so that Liu Yue wanted to know what Shen Mo planned to do next to spoil her.

While Shen Mo was washing dishes, Qin Hao leaned against the door and couldn't help asking: "Why do you serve Liu Yue like this? Doesn't it feel awful?"

Anyway, Qin Hao found it pretty hard to swallow. She hoped Liu Yue and Shen Mo were in love, supporting each other—not this one-sided groveling to the bone.

Shen Mo said proudly: "Not at all. You simply don't understand the joy of serving a beauty."

"Besides, you gave me ten million in dating funds. If I didn't serve her like this, I'd be letting that money down."

Qin Hao rolled her eyes. She could understand the pleasure of serving a beauty, because she and Wenya, when no one was around, also played some fun games—roleplay was nothing new, like Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er, Princess Baixue and the Stepmother.

But it never got to Shen Mo's level—feeding her right at the dining table.

Shen Mo repeated what his grandma had told him: if you don't want to divorce a woman, you must spoil her into a baby, make her unable to leave you.

It left Qin Hao not knowing how to respond, so she could only leave speechlessly.

When she saw Liu Yue in the living room—watching TV, sipping milk tea, eating fruit salad cut into tiny little pieces—Qin Hao rolled her eyes and said, exasperated: "You'd better make sure you can keep earning money. Otherwise, I'm afraid one day you'll run out, and he won't be able to support you."

Liu Yue said with a grin: "Mommy, don't you think this is kind of fun?"

"But don't worry, I'll definitely make sure I can earn a lot, a lot of money. Then I'll handle the outside, Shen Mo handles the inside—how fun is that?"

Qin Hao couldn't comprehend the sudden change in Liu Yue and Shen Mo.

Right now she just wanted to shout: family, anyone get this? I wake up and my daughter, who could pry open a skull, has turned into a delicate wife who needs someone to feed her meals. My son-in-law, a one-meter-eighty, one-hundred-forty-kilo hunk, has turned into a husband who spoils his wife. I ask them why, they say it's love, and they want to keep it up. But what I want to say is—isn't this perverted? Unlike the joy of Shen Mo, Liu Yue, and the others, the Shen Family villa in Jinghai City was already in an uproar early in the morning.

Twenty-eight-year-old Shen Jiayun showed no sign of approaching thirty, yelling at the dining table: "Dad, Mom, I've lost all face."

"Look at the news—they're all calling me a scumbag."

Shen Jiayun was about to lose it. The moment he woke up, his little affair with Liu Yue was trending, with his cheating on her with Liu Qingqing spliced in the middle.

Liu Qingqing's reputation had long been trashed beyond repair, she didn't care, but he did.

The internet was now mocking him as an idiot—abandoning his vegetative girlfriend, cheating on her with a minor celebrity, and in the end getting picked up by his half-brother who wasn't favored by their father, successfully becoming the domineering female CEO's kept husband, and scoring ten million on his first meeting with the mother-in-law.

Ten million—even Shen Jiayun himself didn't have that. His dad and mom only gave him two hundred thousand a month in pocket money. When he was with Liu Yue, he always needed Liu Yue to support him.

"Weren't you always a scumbag to begin with?" Zhu Kailan went straight for the mockery.

She'd seen the trending topic first thing in the morning and didn't feel much about it. After all, her son being useless wasn't something that started yesterday.

Shen Jiayun was choked speechless, and looked pitifully at Shen Yilong, who only said coolly: "Take a guess who put that trending topic up."

Shen Jiayun was stunned. Was now the time to talk about this?

Still, Shen Jiayun thought for a moment, then said with conviction: "It's Shen Mo and Liu Yue. They want to step on me to climb up."

The thought of that viral short video of Shen Mo living off his wife, and that account gaining two million followers overnight, made Shen Jiayun grit his teeth. How outrageous—beating him up wasn't enough, they still had to step on him to climb up.

Zhu Kailan and Shen Yilong exchanged a glance. Useless as expected—even this he guessed wrong.

Beside them, Shen Jiajia sneered: "My foolish brother, that trending topic was obviously put up by your little girlfriend. I bet your little girlfriend has already broken up with you, right?"

Shen Jiayun's eyes went wide. He said, incredulous: "Impossible. Even though Qingqing broke up with me and called me a scumbag, she wouldn't drag herself down just to get back at me."

"The internet is saying she's shameless, knowingly being the other woman."

With a disdainful smile, Shen Jiajia didn't pick up the thread.

Zhu Kailan and Shen Yilong put down their chopsticks and left directly; with their pathological hatred of stupidity, they couldn't stand being around Shen Jiayun for even a second.

Liu Qingqing breaking up with you, calling you a scumbag, and putting you on the trending searches—all for a very simple purpose: to highlight how short a time Shen Mo and Liu Yue were together, that it wasn't true love, hoping to attract those who dislike shipping CP and hate seeing others blow up overnight and live well to come denounce Shen Mo and Liu Yue.

As for being dragged into it herself and getting cursed out, Liu Qingqing is probably used to it by now—after all, she's been in the industry for four years and cursed at for four years, and now she's a thick-skinned existence who survives by running an internet troll studio and bragging for rich wives.

Of course, Zhu Kailan and Shen Yilong still think quite highly of Liu Qingqing. In their eyes, Liu Qingqing's ability to take abuse on one hand while licking rich wives' boots on the other and making a living off them is itself a kind of competence.

As the saying goes, a real man knows when to bow and when to stand tall.

This is also why Zhu Kailan allowed Shen Jiayun to marry Liu Qingqing.

A smart and capable girl—who wouldn't like her? Besides, most of the dirt on Liu Qingqing is fabricated.

As for how Zhu Kailan knows this—of course it's because Shen Jiayun complains every day that Liu Qingqing is just as fake and prissy as Liu Yue, and won't let him touch her.

If he weren't her own biological son, Zhu Kailan would really want to smash his dog-head in.

As for the trending searches online, Zhu Kailan and Shen Yilong didn't care. When netizens traced it to the Shen Group, Zhu Kailan had the PR department directly record a video of her and Shen Yilong.

"Dear customers, hello, we are the founders of the Shen Group. Regarding the rotten things our unlucky son has done, we will only say one thing in explanation: from beginning to end, he has never been the heir of the Shen Group. His actions have absolutely nothing to do with the Shen Group. You can say that we as parents don't know how to raise a child, but you cannot say that our Shen Group's products are bad."

"Regarding Shen Jiayun's affairs, we can only say one thing: if he weren't our biological son, we'd personally smash his dog-head in ourselves."

"One last addition—please everyone stop cursing Ms. Liu Qingqing. She dated our stupid son for several months and never even let Shen Jiayun touch her; the young lady is completely clean."

"And it was Shen Jiayun who chased her, not the young lady who came between anyone. So please don't only curse the woman and let the man vanish perfectly into the background."

The moment this video dropped, the entire internet exploded. Family, can you even imagine—waking up to see the chairman and CEO couple of a hundred-billion conglomerate holding up their ID cards recording a video calling their own son an idiot.

Especially that last line, which won the hearts of countless women—don't let the man vanish perfectly into the background, well said.

Shen Jiayun saw the video and fainted on the spot.

Shen Jiajia disdainfully called in people to send Shen Jiayun to the hospital.

Liu Qingqing's eyes reddened after watching the last segment where the Shen couple cleared her name—there are still good people in this world.

In the end, the Shen Group went viral because the couple sold out their own son, Liu Qingqing's reputation was successfully whitewashed a bit, the noble ladies who had bought trending searches and marketing accounts from her looked at Liu Qingqing with new respect because of the Shen couple's public stance, Liu Yue's account gained a flood of followers, and only Shen Jiayun became the sole sacrifice.

In Erbin, Liu Yue and Shen Mo followed Wen Ya to the Hao Ya Media company, because Liu Yue wanted to learn a bit about how a media company operates here.

(End of chapter)