Chapter 936: Gao Yang and Zhang Xue Officially Break Up

"Awesome! Let me head up and drop off my stuff first, then I'll head out to shop!"

Jiang Ran bounced his way into the elevator.

Manager Wu Wen watched him, and for some reason, found himself feeling a little envious.

...

This round's Lab Rat Number 5, Zhang Jing, still hadn't gotten out of bed, but she had been awake for a while, curled up in bed scrolling through her phone.

The city she originally lived in was extremely far from Nancheng City.

So, her coming to the Alice Apartment in Nancheng City for this week meant she had taken leave from her company, and she had lied to her boyfriend, telling him she needed to go on a business trip for a week.

Zhang Jing had just finished a video call with her boyfriend moments ago.

Now, she put down her phone and let out a long breath.

Zhang Jing's looks could barely be considered average.

She knew she wasn't a beauty, just slightly better than an ordinary person.

Because of this, she had been calculating and scheming since a very young age.

The thing she particularly enjoyed was using her brains to snatch things away from others.

Things snatched away always tasted exceptionally delicious.

When she was little, she envied other girls' toys and dresses, and she would always find various ways to get them, not limited to stealing.

And after trying various methods, if she still couldn't get her hands on them, she would adopt the mindset of "if I can't have it, no one can."

Of course, the biggest thing she had ever snatched in her life, the one she believed held the highest value, was her best friend's boyfriend.

Her best friend was plain-looking, a total bumpkin. According to the adults' assessment, she was honest and well-behaved.

But someone like that, who was worse than her in every possible way,

could actually land a handsome boyfriend that even made Zhang Jing green with envy.

Her best friend's boyfriend had the kind of delicate, refined good looks.

A handsome face, a slender figure, standing one meter eighty tall.

And he even had abs.

On top of that, her best friend's boyfriend was also a top student who graduated from a 211 university.

Of course, graduating from a 211 university might not qualify as a "top student" in some people's eyes.

But in the eyes of someone like her and her best friend, who only had college diplomas, he was absolutely a top student.

And his family background was good too.

Both his parents were civil servants.

After he graduated, he also became a civil servant.

A secure iron rice bowl job.

And a guy this outstanding actually managed to fall for her best friend!!!

It wasn't until she got close to him over time and successfully stole him to become her own boyfriend that she finally understood. This guy seemed to have a bit of a fetish for unattractive women.

He didn't like particularly beautiful or fairly pretty girls.

He preferred girls with ordinary looks, the innocent, clean-cut type.

Especially, it wasn't just about appearance. Their words, actions, and daily lifestyle all had to match too.

It wasn't that no pretty girls had taken the initiative to approach him, but he remained completely unmoved.

It was precisely because of his particular preference that her best friend fit the bill perfectly.

Unfortunately, everything changed that one night.

She tricked her best friend into going to a bar, got her drunk, drugged her with a sedative, and then had several men do things to her. They filmed videos and used her best friend's phone to send them to her boyfriend.

Her boyfriend flew into a violent rage.

Even if a person had the best temper and personality in the world, seeing a video like that of his own girlfriend and still managing to hold back his anger. That person definitely wouldn't be normal.

And when her best friend woke up, she was equally devastated.

So, in her complete breakdown, she woke up and saw the countless missed calls from her boyfriend.

She was like someone who couldn't swim, drowning in water, and her boyfriend was the lifebuoy.

She desperately tried to grab onto that lifebuoy.

She wanted to get strength and comfort from her boyfriend.

But unfortunately, after they met, her boyfriend showed her the video and asked her what happened, what the hell had happened!!!

Then her best friend explained to her boyfriend that she had accompanied Zhang Jing to the bar yesterday. She didn't know why she passed out, and then she encountered that kind of thing.

She was crying and sobbing the whole time.

Her boyfriend proposed a breakup on the spot, even though her best friend begged him to stay again and again.

But no matter how she pleaded, she couldn't win her boyfriend back.

After her best friend collapsed in utter despair, her family also found out what had happened to her.

So they dragged her to call the police and file a report.

Even with the police report, they managed to extract evidence like the semen of the several men who had raped her from her body.

Those men were also arrested.

But convicting them took a tremendous amount of effort.

Especially since the other side claimed that her best friend willingly played with them. Of course, those men also couldn't produce any evidence of her best friend's consent.

In any case, in the end, those men all received the punishment they deserved and went to prison to eat prison food.

But the whole process, the torment of being raped, and her boyfriend's resolute departure,

all of this caused Zhang Jing's best friend to have a complete emotional breakdown, directly developing severe depression.

Her life was completely destroyed.

She probably would never be able to get past it for the rest of her life.

And Zhang Jing became the biggest beneficiary of this whole affair.

She successfully snatched her best friend's boyfriend and turned him into her own boyfriend.

"Things snatched away really do taste the best, but why are there always people who love to stick their noses into other people's business?"

That person sticking their nose in was the one who forced her to come stay here for a week.

"So strange."

Zhang Jing looked around.

Just this apartment alone, and the decoration of this place, was several tiers above anywhere she had lived before.

So, what exactly did the person who used this dirt and the related evidence to force her to stay here for a week want to do?

...

Jiang Ran went out to shop. He needed to buy supplies for at least dozens of people, and that might even be an underestimation.

Besides that, he also had to buy multiple hot pot pots, alcohol fuel blocks, and various ingredients for hot pot:

For meats, there was beef, lamb, tripe, duck blood, goose intestines, pork brain, tendons, and so on.

For seafood, things like shrimp paste, clams, oysters, and so on.

Plus other soy products: exploding beef balls, fish balls, frozen tofu, tender tofu, and dried bean curd sticks.

Not to mention the noodles and vegetables.

With just his electric bike, there was no way he could bring back that much.

So, he went straight to the wholesale market, bought a huge pile all at once, and had the merchants arrange delivery.

He had to admit, spending money felt great, especially when it was reimbursable.

It all boiled down to just one word: buy! Buy! BUY!

Jiang Ran had never been this extravagant before. In the past, when he bought hot pot ingredients for himself, he would only take a little bit of each item.

But now, it was: I want it ALL!

In the afternoon, the various hot pot ingredients purchased at the wholesale market were all delivered to the Alice Apartment by the merchants' vehicles.

The two managers worked together to unload all the goods.

Next came setting up the venue and all that stuff.

Jiang Ran was helping with the setup. As the assistant manager, he couldn't slack off on this job.

The total cost of purchasing these hot pot supplies and ingredients this time came to over seven thousand.

They also bought drinks and alcohol. Of course, the alcohol was just ordinary liquor. If it were Moutai or Wuliangye, seven thousand wouldn't even buy that many bottles.

While Jiang Ran was setting up the venue, he received a phone call from Wang Qingzhao.

He stepped outside to take the call.

Wang Qingzhao said, "Jiang Ran, Zhang Xue and her boyfriend, things are all settled now."

Jiang Ran said, "So they still broke up, huh? Then how did they divide up their various assets?"

Wang Qingzhao said, "Isn't their biggest joint asset that account worth over two million?"

"Since Zhang Xue was the one appearing on camera, Gao Yang wouldn't have much use for it, so the account was given to Zhang Xue."

"But correspondingly, for the income generated by that account."

"Gao Yang took 70 percent, while Zhang Xue only got 30 percent."