Chapter 2: She’s a Total Flirt!

One was Xu Fei, the factory director’s son who was Sanya’s man in her previous life; the other was Zeng Cheng, one of the better-off educated youths.

These two suckers—

One gave her money, the other gave her a job and connections, and together they helped Qian Sanya and her husband Zhou Wen reach the peak of their lives!

Of course, from the heroine’s perspective—

Neither of these men were good people. No matter how excessive her actions toward them were, it was simply what they owed her from the last life.

And because she hated Zhao Qianqian so deeply, Zhao Qianqian’s mother and two older brothers were dragged into her revenge as well—some died, some were maimed.

Naturally, from the heroine’s point of view—

Zhao Qianqian and her mother and brothers all deserved to die, since they were greedy scum.

As for how exactly they were scum?

Aside from some details about Zhao Qianqian and her mother, the two Zhao sons weren’t described specifically.

After all, whenever the heroine wanted to deal with them, she simply cast them as villains.

They were just walk-on roles—readers wouldn’t dig too deeply.

In this book, her man Zeng Cheng actually had quite a lot of scenes!

Though he was only the third male lead, he had money and power. If he hadn’t already slept with the heroine’s stepsister Zhao Qianqian and “gotten dirty,” he would likely have outshone everyone as the brightest male lead!

The male lead had many scenes because he was the heroine’s capture target.

As for the factory director’s son as the second male lead, he also got a lot of scenes, because he had wronged Qian Sanya in the previous life and kept getting slapped in the face and punished by her!

And Zhao Qianqian?

Her man Zeng Cheng was merely a supporting “wallet” for the heroine. Aside from showing up a lot early on, he only appeared later when useful to the heroine.

As for Zhao Qianqian, the vicious ex-wife of a supporting character—she had even fewer appearances.

In total, just a dozen or so chapters, all describing how she made trouble:

How she was lazy and greedy.

How she was a “极品” (the absolute worst).

How she was promiscuous.

Basically, she was so troublesome—falling for anyone she saw—that Zeng Cheng eventually got sick of her and divorced her!

But right now, the heroine had not yet been reborn.

Which meant Zhao Qianqian still had a chance to plan for herself!

Before Zeng Cheng could open his mouth to explain what happened among the three of them, Zhao Qianqian snatched the chance to speak first: “Uncle Qian, it was Zeng Cheng… His mother told me to bring him some food… It was Zeng Cheng who tried to… to force me. He dragged me into the room and then he…”

“Bullshit! You were the one who seduced me,” Zeng Cheng snapped, face flushing red with anger.

“If I forced you, I should’ve been the one pinning you under me… But when my stepsister walked in, it was clearly you who had me under you.” Zhao Qianqian was determined to dump the filth squarely on Zeng Cheng.

And speaking of Zeng Cheng, he wasn’t any good either!

Even though he already had a fiancée, he couldn’t resist the original Zhao Qianqian’s seduction, and fell at her feet with ease.

Later, after marrying Zhao Qianqian, he felt guilty toward Qian Sanya, catered to her every request, treated her better than his own wife, and even found himself somewhat attracted to the reborn Qian Sanya.

Tell me, with a husband like that—

Was the original Zhao Qianqian wronged for looking for other men?

Not wronged at all!

His sins were even greater than the original’s.

At least the original Zhao Qianqian seduced someone before marriage.

Isn’t there that specious excuse: “If you’re not married, everyone has the right to pursue their own happiness”?

Though it’s still immoral—she at least held onto the last shred of a bottom line.

But you, after marriage, still flirting around with other women—that’s the truly immoral one!

After all, once you’re married, you bear responsibility; in serious cases, you might even be breaking the law.

Like bigamy…

In any case—

Now that Zhao Qianqian had transmigrated, she would definitely stand with the original owner and her family.

Even if the original was in the wrong, she would still take the original’s side.

Her core principle: “As long as I have no bottom line, no one can pressure me!”

After all, from now on, that would be her and her family!

Even if it had been the original Zhao Qianqian who wanted to climb up the social ladder and threw herself at Zeng Cheng, he couldn’t escape blame either.

Who told Zeng Cheng to be fickle?

However—

Even knowing he wasn’t a good person, Zhao Qianqian would still marry him.

Because Zeng Cheng had money.

And not just money—his family was extremely powerful!

Don’t be fooled by the fact that he’d been sent down to the countryside. That was only because his maternal grandfather had been a capitalist whose property was confiscated not long ago, after which he was sent to a cowshed.

Six months before the trouble with Zeng Cheng’s grandfather, Zeng’s father had sensed danger. He divorced Zeng’s mother and left with nothing.

Logically speaking, this shouldn’t have had much impact on Zeng Cheng.

But he had still inherited part of his maternal family’s assets—several houses, as well as some gold bars and savings.

Since Zeng’s father held a high position, he arranged for Zeng Cheng to be sent down to avoid gossip and reduce the risk of trouble.

That way, if anyone did try to pursue the matter, sending Zeng Cheng down would count as his punishment.

And even if they traced the assets, at worst they would recover a few houses.

As for the gold bars, they were hard to trace and easy to hide, with no transfer records.

All the savings that had records were withdrawn by Zeng’s father. Most of that money was distributed to the families of martyrs and to wounded soldiers; a small portion was given to Zeng Cheng to take with him to the countryside. Trying to trace those funds would offend a large group of military men—consequences that even the higher-ups behind them would fear.

In truth, Zeng’s father was overthinking it.

Setting aside the fact that he had already divorced and thus couldn’t implicate Zeng Cheng—

Even if he hadn’t divorced and Zeng Cheng were implicated, with Zeng’s father’s high position, the Revolutionary Committee members wouldn’t dare provoke them lightly!

Zhao Qianqian felt that her previous life had been quite bitter—working overtime to death, quite literally dying of overwork.

In this life, she only wanted to be a carefree rice worm.

As for men?

Heh.

Zhao Qianqian figured as long as she had a steady stream of money, that was enough.

Coming from modern times, her thinking was very “advanced.”

If Zeng Cheng could keep women on the side, she could keep herself a little boy toy.

Heehee.

No one loses!

In any case, one thing was certain—

She was going to latch on to Zeng Cheng for life.

Who told him to be rich in the early days, and then—after his maternal family was rehabilitated in the later days—to be part of the top aristocracy? His father held high office, and he himself made a name for himself in the army: rich and powerful!

With conditions like his, Zhao Qianqian—who had lived in the modern world—wouldn’t even dare to dream of such a match. She wouldn’t have had a chance even to mingle with people of that class.

But now it was different.

A man this rich and powerful had actually gotten entangled with her romantically.

So of course Zhao Qianqian had to cling tightly to this golden thigh!

On the other side—

Hearing Zhao Qianqian smear him like this, Zeng Cheng naturally wasn’t having it.

He might have been a little at fault—he hadn’t been able to resist and had accepted her seduction.

But he had never once taken the initiative.

He had actually rejected her—openly and implicitly—several times before.

Besides, he was at an age of raging hormones.

Unable to withstand temptation—wasn’t that normal?

So Zeng Cheng started tearing into Zhao Qianqian: “Zhao Qianqian, if you had honestly admitted it, I might’ve considered changing my fiancée. But since you’re being this shameless, don’t blame me.”

With that, Zeng Cheng laid out all the details of how Zhao Qianqian had seduced him.

He especially emphasized that after he built three rooms of blue-brick, red-tile houses here, she became even more enthusiastic.

He was one step away from saying, “You threw yourself at me because you had your eye on my house.”

When Zeng Cheng finished speaking—

Qian Sanya, who had been sobbing all along, immediately backed him up: “Yes, she seduced him first. I saw her throw herself into Zeng Cheng’s arms.”

With her chiming in, the standoff between Zhao Qianqian and Zeng Cheng instantly tilted against Zhao Qianqian.

The engaged couple had teamed up to fight the “home-wrecking vixen”!

Seeing her daughter get the short end of the stick, Zhao’s mother—who had been wiping away tears and trying to be invisible—finally spoke up: “Old Qian, ever since I married into the Qian family, I didn’t ask for a house or any property. I’ve taken care of the stepchildren as if they were my own, all in the hope that you’d treat my children better. But who knew Sanya would treat me and Qianqian like this… Why don’t we just divorce?”