Lin Yixun leaned helplessly against the cold door, closing her eyes in pain. As she had anticipated, Ouyang Hao did not agree to her request.
She chuckled self-deprecatingly. Indeed, who was she to ask Ouyang Hao for help?
With no way out, it seemed she had only one option left.
She left the apartment building and found a secluded spot. Seeing that there was no one around, she took out her phone from her bag after hesitating for a long time, and finally dialed AXing’s number. AXing, with years of experience in Nightshade, had a lot of connections with influential figures. She thought AXing might be able to help her.
The phone was quickly answered, and AXing’s excited voice came through the line, "Yixun? What a surprise! I didn’t expect you to call me. How have you been? I heard you left Nightshade and joined a Fortune 500 company. Quite lucky, huh? How does it feel to be a city white-collar worker?"
"AXing, I’m not working at the company." Lin Yixun said softly, unsure who had spread the false rumor.
"Really? I heard it directly from the manager. Looks like the manager isn’t reliable anymore. So where are you working now?"
"I... I haven’t found a formal job yet." Lin Yixun paused before speaking with difficulty, "AXing, can you do me a favor... I’m really tight on money right now. Do you have any friends who need a female companion... can you help me..."
Lin Yixun couldn’t bring herself to say the rest, but AXing understood her meaning.
AXing spoke solemnly, "Yixun, as a friend, I advise you not to go down this path."
Gripping her phone tightly, she said softly, "AXing, you’re aware of my family’s situation. I have no other options."
"You should think carefully, this path is hard to walk and there is no turning back once you start."
"Yixun, there’s something I have to ask you... Are you a virgin? You should know, right? It makes a big difference in price. In this world, men have a common flaw: no matter how many women they’ve slept with, they hope the women have only been with them."
Lin Yixun fell silent and after a long time, she responded dryly, "Yes."
She couldn’t help but find it ironic; who would believe that a divorced woman was still a virgin?
He had really kept his word; apart from the wedding night, he had never visited her new room in the past year. Should she thank him now? If it weren’t for his indifference, she wouldn’t be able to sell herself at a high price!
Lin Yixun suddenly began to laugh, but as she laughed, tears streamed down her face. Lin Yixun, no matter how hard you try or struggle, you will ultimately have to walk this path.
She raised her hand to touch the scar on her cheek. If she had known it would come to this, why did she hold on so stubbornly back then?
Three days later, in Leng’s central conference room.
In front of the slides, a middle-aged man in a suit explained the content of the slides methodically, "... Judging by the total revenue from recent quarters, our company has a significant market share domestically, but there’s one area that needs our attention: the company’s revenue hasn’t been increasing, it’s basically stagnant, and that’s not a good sign."
Leng Yixiu’s slender fingers tapped lightly or heavily on the table, and his cold voice echoed in the conference room, "So, Manager Zhu, what do you propose?"