I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 584: Backfired (Thanks to Rifle Bullet+5)

Chapter 584: Chapter 584: Backfired (Thanks to Rifle Bullet+5)

"What?! That girl, she actually likes Jingting?!"

Leaving the Lamb Soup shop, Auntie Liu learned the truth from Jiaojiao’s mouth, leaving her speechless.

"And yet you helped her, even gave her medicine? If your mother was here, she would definitely slap you."

Auntie Liu thought that Suizi and Chen Lijun were totally different. If it were Chen Lijun in this situation, forget about giving her medicine; not adding a few spoonfuls of chili pepper into the medicine would already be a kindness.

"Then just don’t tell her about it." Suizi knew her mom’s temperament well. Once she found out, she would surely start scolding her left and right.

"What can telling her do? My daughter-in-law has really stabbed her in the heart like a murder, far more damaging than just physically hurting someone. My mother-in-law only focuses on damaging the body, which seems harsh, but in reality, it’s useless."

Auntie Liu quickly shook her head; she hadn’t heard a thing!

If this reached Lijun’s ears, this kid would be done for!

"My daughter-in-law’s move is like dog piss moss growing on the golden throne. It does not look great, but it has made its existence noticeable in a prime location."

Suizi felt a sense of accomplishment at first, but upon hearing more, she began to feel that something was wrong.

"Are you comparing me to dog piss moss?!"

Dog piss moss is a toxic fungus that often grows in places where dogs have urinated. It’s far from being a good thing.

"It’s more or less the same meaning."

Suizi hummed in response. She hadn’t thought too much about it when she took action; she was simply annoyed by Shen’s father’s sexist attitude.

"I observed that woman doesn’t seem to be very thankful to you. With your kindness and consideration, she may not even appreciate it," Auntie Liu said sagely.

"I never do things for others’ gratitude. If everyone keeps score, I fear it would just lead to endless disappointment. Auntie Liu, compared to this, I’m actually more interested in knowing whether Mozart has ever eaten shit. Hey, Auntie Liu, don’t just walk away, tell me!"

...

Shen Liangyin took two days off and moved to the factory workers’ dormitory. She was always rather unpopular, so no one lent a hand.

The factory only covered one meal a day. She had to share the communal stove to cook her meals. Rumors had been circulating that the factory director’s wife had a feud with her, so the other female workers unintentionally isolated her, avoiding any contact.

Shen Liangyin had always been aloof, used to people fawning over her. She had never envisaged that she herself would fall from grace, bitten by her own power.

She’d always been pampered like a little missus at home, never having had to cook or worry about money.

Running away out of anger this time, she didn’t have much cash on her. She couldn’t eat out every day and had to cook for herself. She was clumsy at it. When she wasn’t knocking over bottles of oil, she was breaking soy sauce jars, and even ended up cutting her hand while chopping vegetables.

At dinner time, many people were also cooking, but not a single one of them stepped forward to help her. They were all wary, afraid that helping her would face resistance from the factory director.

Only now did Shen Liangyin fully understand the warmth and coldness of human nature.

When she was in the spotlight, she was surrounded by friends from different walks of life. She enjoyed all the privileges that she had and used her power to bully others, more than once.

She never thought that she would be bitten by her own power.

Only in tough times did she reflect on her actions. Shen Liangyin thought about how she had instigated her sister to entrap her fourth brother, about how she had arbitrarily concluded that the Yu family favored their son over their daughter, and about how she had used her father’s power to suppress Yu Jingting and his wife.

But as it turned out, all these retaliations rebounded on her.

Her father was trapped by a seductress, and the ones who favored the son over the daughter were not the Yu family, but her own father. Suizi was not a pitiable girl with no one to dote on. She had a powerful stepfather. She herself was the clown, always in the dark.

Looking at the world from a different perspective, Shen Liangyin realized how detestable her previous behavior had been. Pessimistically, she thought that perhaps her current predicament was self-inflicted.

While she was lost in thought, the oil in the wok grew too hot and caught fire. The flames leaped and scorched her hair. Shen Liangyin screamed in terror and hurriedly grabbed a ladle to splash on water.

It was the worst approach to put out a fire.

The fire burnt higher on the water. Shen Liangyin was so scared she didn’t know what to do. At that moment, a hand descended – literally out of nowhere – grabbed Shen Liangyin’s chopping board, dumped all the vegetables in it over the fire, and then put the lid on the wok.

The fire was extinguished.

Shen Liangyin, still shaken, turned around and saw Suizi holding a soup pot.

"It’s you...?"

"The density of oil is less than water. Using water to put out a pan fire is a mistake as the water sinks to the bottom and cannot isolate the oxygen and stop the combustion. Didn’t you learn this in high school? Or maybe you just forgot about it in the panic?"

"I can’t do anything right." Shen Liangyin was disheartened. Part of her hair was singed and she looked terribly unkempt.

The others were all watching this supposedly incompatible pair, and Suizi’s reaction was deemed critical.

"As long as you do your job well, you can get the hang of these small daily matters gradually. The vegetables are ruined and can’t be eaten anymore. Come, you can come with me. I’ve made some fish soup. Let’s enjoy it together."

Suizi dragged Shen Liangyin along. She had originally come to deliver soup to a sick, single-working colleague. It was the Factory Director’s wife, who in place of Yu Jingting was delivering the aid. Just in time, she spotted Shen Liangyin’s clumsy attempts at cooking.

After Suizi delivered the soup, she led Shen Liangyin away.

The moment those two left, the workers began to gossip.

"Didn’t they say that Director Chen and the Deputy Factory Director do not get along? Looks like they have a good relationship to me."

"Looks like it was all just rumor. I wonder who was so despicable as to spread such information..."

While everyone was deflecting the blame verbally, they internally resolved not to isolate the Deputy Factory Director any longer. The relationships among the higher-ups were not something they could figure out.

Once they left the factory, Shen Liangyin pushed Suizi away.

"No one’s here anymore. You don’t need to pretend to be nice to me. You’ve done a great job propagating this sweet image of yours."

"Alright, I was meddling too much. But now that you’re out, my sweet image is all but destroyed. Come back with me. Only I’m at home. My in-laws took my sister-in-law out for a meal. It’s quite dull eating alone anyway. Don’t worry, there isn’t any rat poison in my food. It won’t poison you to death."

"Heh, now that you’ve said that, I’ll go. I’ll eat you out of house and home." Shen Liangyin was on the verge of giving up, not pretending to be graceful any longer. She could even appear in public without makeup now, which showed just how badly she had been impacted.

Yu Jingting was out for a meeting. Being a factory director, there was a meeting almost every day. Even though nothing substantial ever got discussed, he could at least kill time and snag some conference takeaways.

Even the two little Luobos were taken away by her in-laws, leaving Suizi alone at home.

The food was prepared by Suizi in advance. She’d fried some carp and there was also a dish of peanuts.

"You invited someone to dinner with this sort of sincerity? This fish isn’t even as big as my little finger!" Shen Liangyin complained.

"Don’t just look at its size. It’s delicious, give it a try."

"What’s so delicious about the kind of food you peasants eat—... " Shen Liangyin didn’t plan on giving Suizi any face. Whatever Suizi said, she wanted to do the opposite. However, after taking a bite, she was surprised. This fish... it’s so crispy? It’s kind of delicious...

"You can eat the bones too. Chew them into small pieces, but be careful not to let them get stuck in your throat."

"Ah!"

Suizi’s warning came too late; a fishbone really did get stuck in Shen Liangyin’s throat.

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