After I Gave Up/Let Things Slide, I Became Famous Across The Entire Internet - Chapter 26

Yu Huimei sat on the cold chair, yet it felt as if she were on a chopping block, with a blade hanging high above her head, ready to drop at any moment. This left her nerves taut to the extreme. She gnawed at her fingernails the glossy manicure she had recently done was now chewed up and ragged.

She didn’t understand how she could be so unlucky to run into Sheng Gaoyang in this dreadful place. And how it could be such a coincidence that that woman, Fang Xiaochun, was still detained.

Before doing all this, she had consulted professionals and knew that Fang Xiaochun’s actions were a civil matter. As long as no one was killed, the most she’d face was a few days’ detention and a small fine. Besides, given Tang Shuxia’s personality, what kind of trouble could she cause? Yu Huimei thought Tang Shuxia would probably just have to accept her bad luck.

But the result was completely different from what she had expected.

Yu Huimei murmured nervously, “It’s over, it’s over. This time, it’s really over.”

The Sheng family is incredibly protective of their own. If Sheng Gaoyang found out about the things she had done in the past, he would definitely go after Tang Mingcheng. If he started making noise, everything she had done would be exposed.

Bang!

When Yu Huimei saw the gloomy-faced Tang Mingcheng walk in, she sprang up like a startled bird. “Why are you here?”

After just one day, Tang Mingcheng looked as if he had aged ten years, completely different from the man she had seen this morning. Tang Mingcheng looked at her coldly. “You still have the nerve to ask me why I’m here?”

Yu Huimei moved away fearfully. When she moved left, Tang Mingcheng blocked her way. When she moved right, Tang Mingcheng immediately moved to block the other side. He put both hands on the desk, his menacing demeanor causing the already guilty Yu Huimei to shiver with fright. She was Tang Mingcheng’s wife and knew her husband’s temper very well. Perhaps due to his age, Tang Mingcheng had become prone to anger and violence in recent years, often throwing things or resorting to physical force when things didn’t go his way. In the past, she secretly enjoyed watching Tang Shuxia suffer. “Old Tang, you know Sheng Gaoyang has never liked me. He hates any woman who replaced his sister. Please don’t believe anything he says.”

The spot where Sheng Gaoyang hit Tang Mingcheng still stung. If his assistant hadn’t taken photos of the safe and the police hadn’t obtained key witnesses and evidence, those considerable sums of money were clearly transferred from Yu Huimei’s account. Could Sheng Gaoyang have forced her to transfer them?

His ears were ringing with Sheng Gaoyang’s accusations and sarcastic ridicule. Yet, this woman in front of him was still trying to deceive him. He couldn’t help but roar, “You’re still trying to lie to me!!!”

Yu Huimei’s eyes were red. “I, I…”

The two circled the desk like an eagle chasing a chick.

Seeing his furious, man-eating expression and the veins popping out on his neck, Yu Huimei became distraught. “Old Tang, I admit I was vain, but what woman isn’t a little vain? What woman in the world doesn’t love beauty? We’ve been together for so long, have you ever given me any jewelry? Do you know how those wives mock me?”

They called her a country bumpkin, a wild chicken trying to be a phoenix, saying that even if she wore an emperor’s robe, she wouldn’t be a princess…

Those words felt like needles pricking her heart. She tried to fit into their circle, but those women always mocked, laughed at, and looked down on her, both openly and secretly.

Until one day, she opened the jewelry box left by Sheng Muxue, and the dazzling array of jewelry stung her eyes.

They were both women. Some women lived privileged lives, retaining their halo even after death. Other women, even after marrying into a wealthy family and becoming a wealthy wife, lived like a family nanny, raising the man’s children and serving the whole family like an old maid.

She was not reconciled.

Why did Sheng Muxue have all of that, and she had nothing?

Tang Mingcheng had thought that by cutting ties with the Sheng family and moving away from them, he could stand tall as Chairman Tang. However, the woman in front of him had forced him to bow again before Sheng Gaoyang, even making him unable to look up. The way people outside were looking at him overlapped with the looks of those who used to look down on him, fueling his hatred. “I didn’t buy you jewelry, but I gave you money. You could have anything you wanted. Wasn’t that enough?”

Yu Huimei shook her head and nodded at the same time. “But I did this to give you face, too. What did I do wrong?”

Tang Mingcheng was dizzy with anger. His vision blurred, and he had to brace himself against the table to keep from collapsing. “Are you saying I told you to touch the dowry Sheng Muxue left for Shuxia? Did I hold a knife to your throat and force you to forge those items? What were you planning to do with those fake photos? Make a few counterfeits to deceive the Sheng family, and deceive me? You have some nerve! You actually tried to replace the real items. Did you think we were all fools?”

Yu Huimei initially had no intention of selling the dowry. She didn’t have many nice pieces of jewelry, and choosing a dress and jewelry was always a challenge when accompanying Tang Mingcheng to events. She then thought of “borrowing” some of the dowry. She casually picked one or two pieces to wear and was immediately surrounded by those wealthy wives, who eagerly asked her questions. That feeling of being admired finally allowed her to stand tall, and she loved that feeling… until her brother drove against traffic, accidentally killed three people, and required a huge amount of compensation. Tang Mingcheng did give her a monthly allowance, but that money was not enough to compensate three families.

She was at a loss until Mrs. Sun, seeing her troubled face, suggested this idea.

The first time Yu Huimei did this, she was nervous for a while, deeply afraid Tang Mingcheng would notice the missing jewelry. But the man was so preoccupied with his career that he couldn’t even tell the difference between the jewelry she wore daily. After that, her courage grew.

Yu Huimei looked deeply wronged. “I didn’t mean to deceive you. You kept asking about it, and I was anxious, so I thought of getting some replicas first to deal with the situation.”

Who knew she would be so unlucky as to find a counterfeiter who turned out to be a swindler, audacious enough to manufacture counterfeit money?

If she had known things would turn out like this, she would never have chosen this path.

And the crucial point was that all her money was gone, too.

Tang Mingcheng used to find Yu Huimei’s submissive, feminine manner endearing, but now just one look made his temples throb. He slammed his hand on the table. “Where did you put those pieces of jewelry?”

Yu Huimei flinched. “I… I sold them.”

Tang Mingcheng didn’t need to ask to know that most of the jewels and jadeite were gone. Hearing it directly from Yu Huimei’s mouth, he finally felt that he had truly been blind to fall for such a short-sighted woman. He slumped onto the chair. “You have two choices. Either you find a way to get the items back, every single one, make up for this deficit, and beg the Sheng family for forgiveness, or you wait for the Sheng family to send you a lawyer’s letter and spend a few years, or maybe a dozen, behind bars.”

Yu Huimei’s legs gave out, and she quickly grabbed the edge of the table to hug Tang Mingcheng’s legs. “Old Tang, listen to me. I really tried to find a way to get those things back, but… but things that are sold can’t be recovered. What can I do? You must help me. We’ve been married for over ten years. Do you really have the heart to see me in jail?”

Tang Mingcheng thought of Sheng Gaoyang, willing to risk breaking their family relationship to seek justice for Tang Shuxia. He wearily waved his hand. “If you had just touched things you shouldn’t have, I could still find a way to compensate with money. But you actually targeted Shuxia. You, you’re really looking for death.”

Sheng Gaoyang was so angry simply because Tang Shuxia had been harmed. For a family like the Shengs, money and wealth were secondary; a person who had been wronged was unacceptable.

Tang Mingcheng was exhausted. He closed his eyes. “You sold the jewelry. Where is the money?”

Yu Huimei slumped to the floor.

Tang Mingcheng didn’t hear a sound, and when he looked down and saw her expression, his heart sank. He couldn’t believe it. “You used all the money to help your good for nothing brother? You know what kind of person he is, don’t you? Are you brainless?”

Yu Huimei finally realized that things were heading in an unpredictable direction and began to panic. Tears streamed down her face. “What choice did I have? Every time he had a problem, my mother always came to me first. Old Tang, please save me. I am Wen Jing’s mother, and a child can’t be without her mother. You don’t want everyone to know you have a wife in jail, either.”

Tang Mingcheng almost couldn’t catch his breath.

But he didn’t completely shut her down, only saying he would go and test the waters.

The next day, Tang Mingcheng went home, quickly tidied up, and then went straight to the company. The moment he stepped through the company doors, he felt like the employees were giving him strange looks. He was preoccupied and didn’t take it seriously. It wasn’t until his assistant brought him documents to review and tentatively asked, “Chairman Tang, with such a big incident at home, aren’t you going to take the day off?”

Tang Mingcheng: “!! What incident?”

The assistant realized Tang Mingcheng seemed unaware. She kindly pointed the way, took out her phone, opened Weibo, and clicked on a video, carefully explaining, “It’s about Mrs. Tang. It’s trending now. I saw everyone discussing it in the office this morning, and I’ve already prohibited it. I thought you… knew.”

On Weibo, an anonymous account posted a video with a title similar to what he had learned from the police yesterday.

The video was very clear. Police were seen arresting two people, a man and a woman. The woman was constantly shouting. When he clearly saw Yu Huimei in the video, Tang Mingcheng’s eyes widened.

#In this era, adulterer and adulteress hold hands to print counterfeit money, only to be caught in one sweep

WTF, how daring! Someone actually dares to print counterfeit money.

Sentence them to ten or eight years, let them rot in jail.

What does this woman see in this man? Short, ugly, and pitiful. Is she blind?

Thank goodness, I thought I was the only one who felt they didn’t match. The woman is dressed in expensive items, the man in cheap clothes. If these two can get together, it must be true love.

She’s wearing designer clothes, and wait, why does this woman look more and more like our Chairman’s wife?

!!! LS, speak clearly! Front row, eating melon.jpg