The first time Gou Tian'an was tricked was during the summer after the college entrance exams.
A fashionable, beautiful woman arrived in the old, dreary town. She wore a gorgeous suit and, with a beckoning finger, lured Gou Tian'an right over to her.
Her happiness lasted only three months. As soon as university started, she was dumped.
The second time she was tricked was during her senior year.
The wicked woman found her school and said she wanted to be her classmate.
Before she knew it, Gou Tian'an had fallen for the wicked woman's tricks again.
But it was fine.
She had seen through the woman now. During the years she spent getting over the breakup, she'd studied all kinds of nasty ways to keep a lover in line. She figured she was pretty bad herself now, and could definitely toy with that wicked woman.
In fact, she'd already made a plan in advance!
Six months later, she was dumped again.
The third time she was tricked was in the second year after she graduated from graduate school.
She became an ordinary employee at a big tech company, spending every day adding, deleting, modifying, and querying things according to requirements, doing repetitive, boring mental labor like a factory worker tightening screws.
One stormy night, after working overtime until the early hours, she was so exhausted by the time she got home that she was barely lucid.
She saw a drenched woman crouching outside her front door.
Thinking it was a hallucination, she blinked hard. The woman was still crouching there.
She cursed herself for not having needed glasses when she was a student. It was all too easy to see the woman's face, pale with cold, her wet hair hanging in disarray, her eyes red-rimmed, and her gaze full of hurt and grievance, yet too timid to meet Gou Tian'an's.
What a pitiful beauty.
Gou Tian'an suddenly came to her senses
She'd nearly been fooled again!
She did her best to keep a straight face as she walked past the woman.
That wicked woman actually called her by her childhood nickname in a pitiful voice and said she'd ended up on the street with nowhere to go.
Gou Tian'an's heart softened, and she brought her inside.
Since she was already here, letting her take a bath and sleep shouldn't cause any problems.
Even if a chaste nap accidentally turned into a steamy one.
Even if she accidentally let the woman stay.
But it was fine!
The wicked woman had promised to be her servant and work like an ox or a horse to repay her kindness!
Now someone did the laundry, cooked, and washed the dishes every day. There was a steaming hot meal waiting when she got home at night, and she could even bring a delicious homemade lunch to work.
Her coworkers all said she was so lucky!
Besides, getting tricked last time had just been a mistake.
This time, her plan was more thorough. She absolutely wouldn't make the same mistake again!
And yet
One day, two months later, Gou Tian'an was forced to leave work early after a dispute with her moronic boss.
She had just stepped out of the company elevator when she heard that moronic boss up ahead, speaking with obsequious respect and repeatedly calling someone “President Ren.”
She looked up and saw a familiar figure from behind. The wicked woman was surrounded by a crowd, her expression cold and her manner serious. She seemed like a stranger.
Gou Tian'an doubted her eyes and wondered if this was the wicked woman's twin sister. Then, the very next second, an executive respectfully called out her full name.
“President Ren Huai, would you have time to join a meeting here?”
The wicked woman's name was Ren Huai.
The wicked woman she'd worked so hard to support was actually the capitalist exploiting her.
Gou Tian'an's heart shattered into glass shards.
She was so heartbroken that she was busy planning how to confront the woman, argue with her, and break up once they got home. She didn't hear the wicked woman's next words.
The wicked woman replied coldly, “No. I need to hurry home and make dinner. Let's talk tomorrow.”
Theme: Be a good person and strive to improve every day.
