Chapter 505 Tough Luck for You

**Chapter 505 – Serves You Right**

With everything settled, Jiang Ting now had money and a job. She felt secure.

As she passed the southern building, she couldn’t help but stop.

“Jiang Yu.”

Jiang Yu looked up, her face hardening the moment she saw her.

“What’s your problem?”

Jiang Ting lifted her chin slightly. “Since you got me a job, I’ll forgive how terrible you were to me.”

Jiang Yu: “…”

Where does she get off?

“I already have a job now—at the packing floor in the flour mill, set up by the Fus.”

“Oh.”

Jiang Ting was unhappy with her attitude and couldn’t resist saying more.

“But Jiang Hao still doesn’t have work. If you give him this job, Mom and Dad will owe you one.”

She sighed. “A woman needs her family’s backing. Once I divorce Fu Xiangyang, I’ll move back home and look after Mom and Dad properly.”

Now that she had money, if she gave it to Wang Meili, they’d treat her well.

One big happy family—how nice.

“You finished?” Jiang Yu asked.

Jiang Ting blinked and nodded. “I’m done.”

“Then scram.”

Jiang Yu couldn’t waste breath on someone so out of touch.

Jiang Ting frowned. “What’s your deal?”

Jiang Yu: “The kind that’s done with you.”

Thinking back to how Jiang Yu had secretly gotten her the job, Jiang Ting figured she was just being stubborn and decided to let it go this time.

“Just remember—give the job to Jiang Hao, and Mom and Dad will forgive you.”

She wanted to say more, but seeing Jiang Yu’s expression darken further, she hurried away.

To Jiang Ting’s babbling nonsense, Jiang Yu had only one reply: “You’re nuts.”

With Jiang Yu reinstated, she wasn’t lounging around anymore.

Boss Zheng had pushed her several times to get back to the promotions office.

She dragged herself back to her post and dove into work.

Her first day back, everyone was glad—except Wei Nan.

"Frankly, he always thought that without you, the department head position was as good as his."

But he never expected Jiang Yu to actually come back.

Jiang Yu flicked Cai Xiaole's forehead. "Stop badmouthing him behind his back. You're making him seem important."

Cai Xiaole curled her lip. "I don't waste time on him. It's just that he's so unscrupulous."

Wei Nan wasn't picky—men, women, didn't matter. He loved flirting with everyone.

According to Cai Xiaole, it wouldn’t be long before he'd face-plant.

"What about you? What happened between you and Sixie?"

Jiang Yu only learned about the breakup between Cai Xiaole and Sixie after returning to Beicheng.

She asked Sixie directly, but he clammed up and refused to say anything.

Jiang Yu didn’t press further, and instead turned to ask Cai Xiaole.

Cai Xiaole’s face fell. "What else could it be? We just split up."

"Weren’t things fine before? Why break up now?"

"My mom didn’t approve," said Cai Xiaole.

Jiang Yu wasn’t buying that. "Her disapproval isn’t new. If you cared so much about her opinion, why didn’t you break up earlier?"

Cai Xiaole was annoyed by her being so sharp—why'd she have to see right through me?

"I secretly got set up with someone, and he saw me."

Jiang Yu went still, her expression turning complex. For a moment, she didn’t know what to say.

Cai Xiaole had messed up, and Jiang Yu couldn’t really take her side.

"The time he saw me wasn’t even the first time I’d been set up. There was another time when Qian Wei caught me, and she ran off and told him."

At first, Sixie didn’t believe it and even came to ask her about it.

Cai Xiaole closed her eyes.

She freaked out and lied.

Truth was, she knew Sixie never really believed her, but he chose to play dumb and let it slide.

"I know I was wrong, but I was backed into a corner, Jiang Yu."

Of all the family left, her mother was the only one she could rely on.

Her mom put her in a position where she had to choose, and naturally, Sixie was the one who got cut loose.

"Jiang Yu, if it were you, what would you do?"

Sixie wouldn’t compromise, and she didn’t want him to either.

If he did, he wouldn’t be her Sixie anymore.

Cai Xiaole was caught between a rock and a hard place. Neither of them was willing to give in, so she was the one left holding the bag.

However, after making her decision, she realized that no matter what she did, it was wrong.

"Back when we first started dating, we were really happy. I cherished this relationship and didn’t want us to end up resenting each other. But now, I think breaking up might actually be for the best."

Jiang Yu didn’t know what to say. Relationships were always complicated—tangled and inscrutable.

"As long as you’re sure about this, then fine. There’s no right or wrong in any of it."

Cai Xiaole gave a bitter smile.

"What about those people from the blind dates? Was there anyone suitable?"

Cai Xiaole shook her head and wiped the corner of her eye.

"I never intended to date any of them. I was just going through the motions for my mom. After a few rejections, she’d lay off for a while."

Jiang Yu stayed out of her family business.

After Cai Xiaole left, Wei Nan came in.

"Congratulations, Director Jiang."

Jiang Yu looked up. "Deputy Chief Wei, is that congratulations sincere?"

Wei Nan stiffened, masking his discomfort with a smile.

"Of course it is. I’m just a little curious. I heard the factory originally wanted to promote you."

Yet Jiang Yu chose to stay in the PR department, which puzzled everyone.

"Yeah, they even saved the deputy plant manager position at Plant No. 3 for me." Jiang Yu gave a frosty smile, meeting his gaze.

Wei Nan hesitated. "Then why…?"

"Obviously, it's for you, Deputy Chief Wei."

Wei Nan frowned. "I don’t understand."

Jiang Yu clicked her tongue, lightly furrowing her brow.

"If I leave, you get promoted. If I stay, you’ll always be a deputy. Get it now?"

Her smirk was downright taunting, smug and infuriating.

Wei Nan clenched his jaw, his mind blank for a moment before he finally got it and let out an angry laugh.

"I didn’t realize I mattered so much."

Jiang Yu shrugged. "It’s not that you matter—it’s that I can’t stand trash like you getting ahead. I don’t care how you weaseled your way into Plant No. 2 or what you’re plotting, but since you’re under my supervision, you’d better get your sister to transfer you somewhere else if you can."

She made it crystal clear she had it out for Wei Nan—I’m targeting you, what are you going to do about it?

This blatant flexing of authority only made Wei Nan feel more suffocated.

Wei Nan clenched his jaw. "Jiang Yu, you’ve got the wrong idea. I never meant anything against you. Just because of who I am, I deserve your hostility? I haven’t done anything, yet you treat me like an enemy. How does that make sense?"

Jiang Yu smirked. "Call it bad luck."