Married to the Male Lead’s Hidden Rich Brother

Chapter 18

Zhou Qiaoqiao needed a job. After receiving the 500,000 yuan and various compensations from the male protagonist Yan Ye, she felt that she couldn’t be lazy anymore, or else she would end up with nothing. Besides, the problem mentioned by Yan Wei was not something that could be solved in a day or two, so it would be good to work and adjust her mood.

Therefore, Zhou Qiaoqiao opened the job search website and decided to find a job.

Zhou Qiaoqiao graduated from university with a degree in business accounting and was originally recommended for graduate school. However, after failing, she had to come out and find a job. It was unclear what kind of system Zhou Qiaoqiao was in, and she finally found a job only to have it taken away by someone else.

After that, she had trouble finding a job. Good companies didn’t want her as a novice accountant. Poor companies made Zhou Qiaoqiao hesitate. In the end, she could only work as a cashier at a small supermarket for a salary of only 2,500 yuan.

Zhou Qiaoqiao stared at the various job postings on the page, lost in thought. She had also looked for a job when she graduated, and for others, it was a simple matter. Why was it so difficult for her?

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However, there were still many people recruiting in Yiwu City, and Zhou Qiaoqiao quickly called many companies and made appointments for interviews.

However, the interviewers were never satisfied with her, always coming up with strange questions like:

“Hello, we have hired someone already.”

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Liang Jiamin sat in a fast-food restaurant eating, while talking to Zhou Qiaoqiao. “Why are you in such a hurry? Job interviews nowadays are not that simple. Some companies don’t like to hire women. If you’re not married, then won’t you have to take a honeymoon leave soon? And what about pregnancy leave? And after that, maternity leave? Some people even take menstrual leave! So companies have a lot of concerns.”

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Zhou Qiaoqiao sadly sniffled and said, “Is it a mistake that I was born a woman?”

“Yes,” Liang Jiamin put down her chopsticks and wiped her mouth. “In this world, it’s survival of the fittest. No matter how much we talk about fairness, it’s still too far away.”

Zhou Qiaoqiao angrily shouted, “If that’s the case, I’ll just get married now.”

After hanging up, Liang Jiamin furrowed her brows and asked the phone, “Who are you getting married to? Don’t you even have a boyfriend? Wait, could it be…”

Liang Jiamin covered her face and exclaimed, “She has a crush on me??? No way!!”

Zhou Qiaoqiao didn’t know that Liang Jiamin just performed a one-man show.

Meanwhile, Zhou Qiaoqiao, who was mistaken for a crazy person by others, had a new job interview today. It was an investment company that was expanding due to its recent IPO, and urgently needed to recruit several accountants.

Zhou Qiaoqiao had been searching online for a long time and found a company that offered a 9-5 work schedule, weekends off, and a monthly salary of 7,800 yuan. She thought it was perfect for her and eagerly applied for the job when she received an interview invitation.

However, if Zhou Qiaoqiao had known who would be interviewing her, she would never have gone.

When Zhou Qiaoqiao was in college, her professor had recommended her for graduate school. But later, the daughter of another professor took her spot because she didn’t get accepted into the program herself. This student was named Ruan Xiaojiao and was the only child of Professor Ruan of that university.

Ruan Xiaojiao and Zhou Qiaoqiao were the same age and both had been eligible for the graduate school recommendation. However, Xiaojiao chose to give up the opportunity to study on her own and failed the entrance exam. She didn’t want to wait another year, so her father took Zhou Qiaoqiao’s spot instead.

Zhou Qiaoqiao didn’t know about this until after she had applied, paid the fees, passed the exam, and was waiting for final approval. Suddenly, she was told that someone else was given the spot instead of her.

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Zhou Qiaoqiao was in a state of shock that time, after she inquired about it, she found out that she was replaced the last minute. The person who took her spot was Rian Xiaojiao, whom she had a very bad relationship with.

She was furious. She never caused trouble when she was in school so she didn’t know why somebody robbed her spot. Her three years of silence finally broke out and she went to Xiaojiao’s dormitory to confront her about it.

In an instant, the whole dormitory knew that Ruan Xiaoqiao had failed her post-graduate exams. Does she value her reputation that much? She humiliated Zhou Qiaoqiao in public, and Zhou Qiaoqiao couldn’t retaliate and was embarrassed. She angrily walked away while cursing Ruan Xiaoqiao and ended up falling down the stairs and breaking her hand.

Liang Jiamin was Zhou Qiaoqiao’s dorm mate, and when she heard that someone had broken their hand, she guessed it was Zhou Qiaoqiao and rushed to see her. It turned out to be her. This incident caused a rift between the two sides. Zhou Qiaoqiao even had her thesis held up by Ruan Xiaoqiao’s father and was only allowed to submit it on the last day.

Zhou Qiaoqiao was terrified! She had just broken her hand and was also running a high fever…

Ruan Xiaoqiao has been a spoiled child since she was young, and her personality isn’t good. When she took the postgraduate entrance exam, a girl in her dormitory said that she relied on connections and her own abilities were very poor.

Could Ruan Xiaoqiao bear it? She insisted on taking the exam instead of accepting the offer to be directly admitted. As a result, she failed. The list of those admitted by examination and those admitted directly was posted together without any special explanation.

So, Ruan Xiaoqiao simply asked her father for a spot, so that when the list was posted, no one knew that she had not passed the exam. Finally, after Zhou Qiaoqiao brought up the issue of the reserved spot, she exposed Ruan Xiaoqiao’s secret. Ruan Xiaoqiao hadn’t even had a chance to be proud before the girl in her dormitory started to mock her, and even her other roommates looked at her with disdain. Ruan Xiaoqiao had murder in her heart towards Zhou Qiaoqiao.

She didn’t even think she would ever see Zhou Qiaoqiao again. She heard that Zhou Qiaoqiao broke her hand and, after graduating, found a job as a cashier in a small shopping center. This was the first time Ruan Xiaoqiao had seen Zhou Qiaoqiao since that incident.

After finishing her graduate studies, she was introduced by her father to this Sino-Thai investment management company, where she did fairly well and earned a monthly salary of 13,000 yuan. She was quickly promoted to a junior manager by her boss.

This was her first time participating in an interview after joining the company, and as the interviewer, she felt quite proud, although more decision-making power was in the hands of several senior colleagues around her.

Zhou Qiaoqiao was the 32nd candidate to be interviewed. She wore a professional black suit and white shirt, with brown hair naturally hanging on her shoulders. Her light makeup, combined with her natural grace, made her look delicate and gentle, evoking sympathy from others under her white-collar attire.

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However, Ruan Xiaojiao didn’t see it that way. When they saw each other, their expressions instantly soured. But Zhou Qiaoqiao wasn’t so bad that she looked ugly, and Ruan Xiaojiao wasn’t so good that she felt proud.

The interview began, and Ruan Xiao Jiao didn’t dare to say anything. Zhou Qiaoqiao continued the interview with a cold expression.

Ruan Xiao Jiao’s colleague asked Zhou Qiaoqiao, “Where did you work before?”

Zhou Qiaoqiao replied stiffly, “I worked as an accountant at a small supermarket before.”

The interviewer frowned, seeming dissatisfied with Zhou Qiaoqiao’s response, and asked, “Do you have any understanding of our company?”

Although Liang Jiamin had already helped her do her research at the beginning, Zhou Qiaoqiao was so angry when she saw Ruan Xiaojiao that she forgot about it. After the incident with Ruan Xiaojiao, she went around school saying bad things about Zhou Qiaoqiao, even taking some of her personal photos and posting them on the school website. Ruan Xiaojiao’s actions added a brick to Zhou Qiaoqiao’s life, making it difficult for her to breathe.

What could Zhou Qiaoqiao do in her anger? She resisted a little, but Ruan Xiaojiao’s father blocked her thesis, so she didn’t dare to do anything.

Facing the interviewer’s simplest and most challenging question, Zhou Qiaoqiao waited for about a minute before saying, “I’m sorry.”

The senior sighed and said, “I think you did well in university, and I am quite satisfied with you. Ah…”

Zhou Qiaoqiao was stunned by what she heard, and her stiff expression disappeared, replaced by a look of shock. She looked at the senior for a while before suddenly smiling and saying, “Thank you!” That was enough.

Zhou Qiaoqiao turned to leave but forgot to open the door. Then she ran into the door and her nose started bleeding. Ruan Xiaojiao sneered and laughed. Then, with a pitying tone, she said, “Qiaoqiao, you are really so clumsy.”

The interviewer next to Ruan Xiaojiao was surprised and turned to ask her, “Do you know her?”

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Ruan Xiaojiao covered her mouth and laughed, saying, “She was in the same university as me, and she was quite famous in our school.”

Famous? Yes, she was quite famous in university. And it was all because of Ruan Xiaojiao!

“She never participated in school activities or interacted with others. Do you know? When she goes out, she brings boiled water in a mineral water bottle from her dormitory. And what’s more ridiculous is that she only buys plain rice in the cafeteria, and then she asks the auntie at the window for soup to pour over her rice,” Ruan Xiaojiao said with a smile.

Famous?

Zhou Qiaoqiao looked at the spinning ceiling and thought, “Yes, very famous! Famous for being stingy, famous for not fitting in, famous for being a top-notch person. She was the most hated bookworm by everyone, only knowing how to study and completely ignorant of social skills and human relationships.

Zhou Qiaoqiao felt a little dizzy and wanted to say, “I am stingy because I don’t have money, but I never owe anyone. I don’t fit in because I don’t have money and sometimes social skills and human relationships require money to support them. I can’t afford it, and I don’t affect you either.”

She only had 300 yuan a month, which was 100 yuan for 10 days or 10 yuan a day. For a meal, she could only pay 3 yuan, with white rice at 1 yuan and vegetables at 2 yuan per serving.

She worked three days a week and could save 1,000 yuan a month. In one semester, she could save 4,000 yuan, but her stepmother required her to save her own tuition for the next semester.

She just wanted to save a little, even if it was one yuan…

Was she wrong? Did she hurt anyone?


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3 Comments

  1. kitsune
    kitsune

    Darn, that evil university mate. She even took our Qiaoqiao’s well deserved place! 😡

  2. Rururururu

    Huh it’s so confusing is she out of the interview is that how they can talk so openly and how did she get nosebleed

    1. Rururururu

      Turns out j kept reading it wrong it’s not that she forgot to close the door, she forgot to open it 💀😭