【003】90s cook 3

When their souls left their bodies, they saw the police and the emergency medical vehicles arrive; the corpses were taken straight to the autopsy room.

Unfortunately, due to prolonged soaking, the organs were no longer usable, and Zhang Liang's only hope was gone. He died a natural death, leaving his fortune to his wife and "son."

Who could have expected the story to end with a twist for the mother and daughter?

Without their spiritual state, how would they have known that the child was not Zhang Liang's son? His wife actually married him while pregnant with another man's child.

Because her family was wealthy, and she was an only daughter with a child, he was at the time one of the more promising employees in their company. They recruited him to be their live-in son-in-law, and to be accepted into the Gong Family as such, he had to acknowledge the child.

So all his bravado of using money to bully others, forcing her resignation, was just him living off a woman?

Ha, in the end, he was nothing more than a butler in his father-in-law's house.

He had a few good years thanks to the money and power of his wife's family, which was more than he deserved.

Perhaps he had struggled and tried hard in the past; otherwise, how could he have been seen as suitable?

But what of it? In the end, didn't he still meet retribution?

This outcome should be satisfying to everyone, as the villain ultimately got his comeuppance, but there's a deeper lesson to be learned.

Like those unscrupulous media outlets, for the sake of sensationalism, they disregard the lives of others. This ethical drama was full of twists and turns, quite the spectacle indeed!

To capture the public's attention, they disregarded the life and death of the mother and daughter, deliberately smeared their reputations, distorted the facts, until they drove people to death.

Furthermore, the death of the mother and daughter did not stop those ignorant of the truth from attacking them personally; some even said they committed suicide out of guilt.

Suicide out of guilt? Fuck that guilt-suicide. What crime did they commit that they should be described with those words?

Even worse, there were those who said they'd rather die than leave a kidney for their own father, which was inhumane!

Whether it was inhuman, I don't know, but those who said such things were definitely not human. If her daughter hadn't died, would they still have demanded she tear out a kidney to give to that scumbag?

Keyboard warriors will never understand the immense pressure faced by those they mock and insult.

If it weren't for the immense societal pressure, where no one would sell them groceries, and wherever they went people pointed at their noses and cursed them,

"Heartless."

"Neglect in the face of death."

"There are no bad parents, only ignorant children."

"No matter how wrong he was before, he is still their father."

"Even if their father has remarried, at least they still have a dad. If dad dies, then they truly won't have a father. Donate, after donating a kidney you can still live, don't live in regret."

…

Provoked by these bold and shameless words, the mother and daughter might never have reached that point!

But what Gong Mingxia couldn't endure wasn't just that; if it weren't for her soul wandering into the Gong Family, yes, the same Gong Family, her ex-husband's current wife also surnamed Gong, she would never have known that she actually didn't fail her college entrance exam. The real imposter was Gong Sifang, from that very family.

The reason they went to great lengths to denigrate the mother and daughter was nothing more than to prevent their own sins from being exposed. So, the moment they learned of her death, the entire family breathed a sigh of relief.

And Gong Mingxia, now in her soul state, was completely stunned. She got into a university?

And also quite a good university in Beijing?

What has she been enduring all these years? What exactly?

After facing one blow after another, Gong Mingxia was utterly enraged!

But there was nothing she could do because she was already in a soul state. How could she seek revenge and wash away her hatred?

It was probably because the main character of the story was so full of resentment that the heroine had this transmigration task.

When Tangyuan regained consciousness, it happened to be during the time when her original host's daughter was five years old, and they were working on a construction site in H province.

The reason she came to work in this Northern city, so far away from home, was due to fellow villagers introducing each other to the job and following together.

Her task at the construction site was to assist others, and when necessary, do things that went against her own wishes but could keep her daughter and herself alive.

Like—temporary marriage.

Dirty?

It was inevitably dirty, even though she had been with only one person. Over the years, a woman raising a child alone, with life's constant need for money and a child who frequently fell sick requiring care, it had become a common occurrence for her wages to be spent before the month was out. The last thing she wanted was to ask others for a loan.

Is money so easy to borrow?

What kind of place is a construction site?

It was already a place with an excess of men over women. If she relied purely on herself to get by, being bullied was a common occurrence.

These men at the very bottom of society plotted and schemed no less than Zhen Huan. If she relaxed for a moment, she might work a whole day for nothing.

To give her a hard time, or even deprive her of meals, the workers didn't need the foreman to lift a finger, just a collective effort, and she might go hungry.

With a life sustained purely by manual labor and living in a foreign place, how could she work without eating? And without working, how could she earn money?

Today this person comes looking for you, tomorrow that one harasses you. If you don't comply, they mock, ridicule, and even fabricate stories about you.

She had no choice, she told him in despair and breakdown that she really had no other options. To keep those people away, she had to get involved with the foreman who had pursued her.

The foreman, too, was from out of town, working here alone. He had desires, and she needed protection. So, Gong Mingxia just treated it as if she had married again, living with that man occasionally.

In fact, this sort of arrangement was nothing new among the migrant worker community. In future construction sites and factories, this was all too common.

As the saying goes, where there's demand, there will be a market. This was also a vulnerable display of a woman selling herself for the sake of her child.

This man was the only one on the entire construction site who could keep her safe. If she didn't comply, with her looks, she might not even manage to survive the days.

Then why didn't she look for other work?

She had sought jobs like office work or being a waitress.

Everything had initially been agreed upon understandingly, with the need to sometimes take leave to care for her child. The company had been very considerate and said it was no problem.

But once she started the job, she realized how foolish she had been. It was normal to deduct pay when taking leave, but the key thing that hadn't been communicated was after three absences, half the wages would be deducted. In the office, this was one thing, but working as a waitress was even tougher. If they wanted to deduct your wages, they had plenty of chances to pick on you. You couldn't even imagine to what depths of pettiness people could stoop…

Eventually, after going in circles, she ended up on the construction site.

Not long after arriving, her child developed pneumonia with a high fever. To scrounge up the medical expenses, the original host had no choice but to enter a temporary marriage. It didn't matter to her to suffer or to be cursed at, as long as her daughter was safe.

It was because Gong Mingxia was quite attractive, clean, and held what they considered a higher degree, along with the Southern people's characteristic fair skin and delicate petite figure. She was straightforward and vigorous in everything she did, and there were not a few who pursued her. But for her daughter's sake, ever since her divorce, she had not remarried.

To put it crudely, it was a temporary marriage, but to put it plainly, it was that the man wasn't willing to marry a twice-divorced woman, and she wasn't willing to remarry. It was essentially like a cohabitation stage in a relationship, not so unbearable. With an unmarried man and an unmarried woman, they touched no moral bottom line—of this self-awareness, she still had.