Chapter 1540 - 1529: Scumbag’s Redemption

Chapter 1540: Chapter 1529: Scumbag’s Redemption

Name: Ye Qiu

Merit Points: 2,680,000

Inherited credits exchanged: Hacker God, Cooking God’s Light Level 10, Level 8 Body Refining Technique, Ten Times of Luck Bonus (remaining four times), Emperor System (achievements include Skin like Jello, Flirtatious Eyes, Aroma, Voice Like a Pearl, Slender Legs), Poisonous Scripture, Soul Power Technique, Mystical Technique

"Mission accomplished, would you like to enter the next world?"

"Yes."

After organizing his memories, he opened his eyes and found himself in an office. The office was lavish, indicating that the original person was very wealthy.

Actually, the original person wasn’t particularly rich. He started from scratch in recent years and slowly became affluent. Compared to truly rich people, his money was insignificant, but compared to his peers, he could be considered a successful individual.

After all, in this first-tier city, he started a not-too-big nor too-small company, bought a house, bought a car, and married a beautiful wife. By young people’s standards, his office shouldn’t be decorated so ostentatiously, but he had a flamboyant mother.

Ye Qiu grew up in the countryside, and his mother Jiang Xiuqing was naturally a genuine rural woman. The family was poor when he was young, and Jiang Xiuqing did everything she could to ensure her only son could go to school, just wanting those who looked down on them in the past to regret it.

So now, with a successful career, Jiang Xiuqing couldn’t wait to flaunt one yuan as if it were one hundred yuan. Influenced by his mother, the original person, who was once despised, although well-educated, also wanted the people back home to see how much he achieved.

Those inexperienced rural folks didn’t understand taste; they just thought that lavish decorations meant wealth. So Ye Qiu ignored his wife’s opposition, and even the company’s and home’s decorations were kitschy.

Because of this taste issue, the couple had several conflicts, but in the end, the original person’s wife compromised.

The original person and his wife were college classmates. Compared to Ye Qiu being penniless, his wife Mei Ya came from a moderately wealthy family, considered middle-class, born in a big city. In this first-tier city, she owned two properties and a stable job, vastly better off than Ye Qiu who was once broke.

However, the original person, though poor, had brains and looks which easily attracted Mei Ya’s attention, choosing him among many suitors.

Initially, both were in love, and even Mei’s family was satisfied with the son-in-law, providing significant help to Ye Qiu’s entrepreneurial endeavors. But one is a city girl, the other is a rustic lad; the conflicts absent during dating slowly emerged post-marriage.

The first issue was taste; the original person didn’t seem like a college graduate with tastes terribly hard to tolerate.

Secondly, lifestyle habits started being a problem; initially, when the couple lived alone it was fine, but after Mei Ya’s pregnancy and Ye Qiu’s mom came from the countryside to care for them, conflicts escalated uncontrollably.

Mei Ya’s family conditions were good; they’d cook once and eat once, discard any leftovers. But Jiang Xiuqing, having lived through tough times, would never discard leftover food. Reheating and eating next time is perfectly fine, why be so picky?

Initially, Mei Ya raised the issue a few times, but seeing her mother-in-law’s reluctance and having her husband think she’s fussy, she gradually stopped mentioning it. As long as she didn’t eat, it wasn’t too problematic.

However, Jiang Xiuqing didn’t just have the habit of eating reheated food once; if some dishes remained after being reheated twice and still weren’t consumed, she’d add new dishes and mix them together. After mixing once, twice, every meal consisted of leftovers. For her baby’s health, Mei Ya didn’t dare eat them, and when she couldn’t tolerate it anymore, she’d cook herself or order takeout.

Jiang Xiuqing, unsurprisingly, got angry, feeling her daughter-in-law was belittling her, preferring takeout junk food over the food she cooked.

That was the first time the couple had such an intense argument since marriage; it only ceased when Mei Ya’s stomach felt uncomfortable, and she was taken to the hospital. Yet Jiang Xiuqing complained that her daughter-in-law ate takeout and caused her stomach ailment.

Seeing his wife lying on the hospital bed in pain, the original person realized the seriousness, gathering information about how overeating could harm the body for Jiang Xiuqing to see. Although she complained that she had eaten those foods for years without any issues, for her son and grandson’s health, she began cooking deliberately, preparing just a little bit each meal. Even if there were leftovers, she’d eat them herself, not giving them to her son or pregnant daughter-in-law.

Mei Ya let go of her resentment, understanding her mother-in-law and husband experienced hard times and expressed empathy, then safely delivered their daughter.

Seeing it wasn’t a grandson, Jiang Xiuqing felt a hint of disappointment, but after all, it was her daughter’s blood, and the granddaughter was very cute. So she let go of that regret, thinking about the nation’s newly relaxed two-child policy, then felt hopeful for the future!

If life could just continue calmly like this, it would be great. But at this time, as the original person’s company began to prosper, the original person became conceited, giving other women the opportunity.

The original person didn’t want to divorce Mei Ya, but upon discovering his infidelity, Mei Ya naturally couldn’t tolerate it. After consulting a lawyer, considering she was a housewife for years without a job, it was possible the child wouldn’t be awarded to her, and since the original person started with Mei family’s funding, she wasn’t willing to lose her money to another woman.

Following the lawyer and friends’ advice, Mei Ya temporarily didn’t confront Ye Qiu but gathered evidence of his infidelity step by step, while reigniting her own career. Ultimately, with the support of family and friends, she caught the original person off guard.

In the end, the original person faced estrangement from his daughter, property division, lack of Mei Ya’s supportive help, compounded by his mother’s inadvertent sabotage and the mistress’s manipulations, making his life chaotic.

In contrast, Mei Ya was thriving, not only in terms of career success, but her daughter was close to her, and she found a new love, a bona fide rich second generation with far more assets than Ye Qiu. He was one of Mei Ya’s pursuers from back then, once married but now divorced, reunited with Mei Ya years later. Learning about her intent to divorce, he spared no effort in supporting her, and even after Mei Ya successfully divided assets, he unabashedly suppressed Ye Qiu’s company.

The original person became like a joke, losing his family, wealth, unable to even find a good job, and too embarrassed to return to his hometown. After all, he was a successful individual; if people knew he was broke, who knows how they’d mock those he once returned to show off.