Reborn As Super Heiress

Chapter 103: Chapter 100 Wu Jingyi’s Resentment

Unfortunately, they overestimated that woman’s charm. Gu Xu noticed someone was about to bump into him from the corner of his eye, and coldly stepped back to avoid the collision. The woman, caught off guard, lost her footing and tumbled to the ground.

“Damn, she can even do that? How shameless!”

“Would it kill him to lend a hand? No sense of chivalry at all!”

“Serves him right for not having a girlfriend! A person like that should stay single for life!”

The three people behind watched this bizarre scene unfold and were immediately dumbfounded, cursing silently to themselves in the next breath.

Gu Xu’s face was as cold as ice; he didn’t even glance at the woman on the ground crying miserably, her face a picture of aggrieved sobbing. He simply walked around the woman and left the club without a second look.

...

The three of them hurriedly followed him, none of them giving a second glance to the woman in her sorry state on the ground.

“Jingyi! Oh my god, how did you end up on the ground? Are you alright?”

Just seconds after Ouyang Jun and his companions had left, a woman ran out from around the corner. Seeing the woman on the ground, she was taken aback and quickly stepped forward to help her up:

“I was wondering why it took you so long just to go to the restroom. Did you drink too much? You’re just too honest. When those people ask you to drink, you can’t really chug it down, that’s just silly! You should try to act a bit coquettish and be more cunning. Don’t get drunk and give people the opportunity to take advantage of you!”

“Sister Chen, I’m fine.” The woman on the ground got up expressionlessly and subtly pulled her arm away from the other’s grasp. She straightened her clothes and followed her back to the private room.

If Gu Xu had still been there, he would have been surprised. The woman’s eyes were now clear and her steps steady, completely unlike her previously drunken state.

Sister Chen also felt surprised; Wu Jingyi didn’t look like she was drunk at all. Why would she suddenly fall to the ground like that?

“As long as you’re okay. Boss Zhao and the others are waiting for you to have a drink with them, just do us a favor. Keep the alcohol flowing and be entertaining so you can keep them happy, and there will be something good in it for you,” she said.

“I got it.” Wu Jingyi lowered her eyelids, hiding the jealousy and frustration in her eyes, as a surge of anger welled up within her.

All she wanted was to chance upon a wealthy man with handsome features for an unexpected encounter, but why wouldn’t that man even help her up, or even spare her a glance?

Wu Jingyi was full of anger with nowhere to vent. When she returned to the private room and saw those corpulent, unattractive older men waiting for her, her stomach churned with disgust.

But for the tuition fees that were almost within reach, she had to endure it. She suppressed the feeling of nausea and forced a smile for the old men.

Her academic advisor had given her an ultimatum; if she couldn’t pay her tuition by the end of the month, the university would revoke her admission.

Thinking about it, Wu Jingyi felt overwhelmed by a sense of powerlessness. Before leaving for the Imperial Capital, she was convinced that the streets were paved with gold and that finding a job there would send her skyrocketing to a better life. But after arriving, she realized how naive her previous thoughts had been.

In the Imperial Capital, she faced rejection at every turn, struggling to find a stable part-time job. The jobs offered either paid too little or were too physically demanding. Although she came from an orphanage, she hadn’t really endured much hardship over the years. Suddenly faced with such intense workloads was more than she could handle, and she had been fired from several jobs because she wasn’t quick enough.

With no other choice, she had to look for other ways to make a living, and unexpectedly bumped into Sister Chen. This woman’s eyes lit up with greed the moment she saw her, and after hearing about her experiences and predicaments, she offered her a job as a hostess at a bar.

Such a job just required working at night, which wouldn’t interfere with her studies, and the pay was quite substantial.

Wu Jingyi felt some aversion to the title of hostess, but the lure of the substantial amount of money was too strong, and she accepted the offer.

Even more importantly, Sister Chen told her that the club where she would work was a famous gathering place for the wealthy in Forty-Nine City. Often frequented by celebrities, the children of rich families, and officials’ progeny, if she was lucky enough to catch the eye of one of the wealthy patrons, she might reel in a golden ticket and leave her days of suffering behind.

Wu Jingyi was fixated on the idea of marrying into a wealthy family, and Sister Chen’s words sounded like precious advice to her. She believed that with her looks and educational background, it wouldn’t take long to secure a few wealthy suitors.

Unfortunately, her full confidence shattered into pieces like glass when she arrived at the club. Indeed, the club was a den of soft seduction and a gold mine – but it was also abound with countless women sharing the same ambitions as her.

Only upon entering the club did Wu Jingyi realize how many women came there daily, hoping to snag a rich man, all holding onto Cinderella-like dreams, fantasizing about the day they would transform into a phoenix.

“Xiao Wu really is something, isn’t she? Great at holding her liquor and has a good temperament too. Sister Chen, where did you find such a gem? It almost makes me want to take her in as my goddaughter!” While drinking, the chubby-faced Boss Zhao began to make his moves, leaning in close to Wu Jingyi with a mouth reeking of alcohol and ogling her chest with a lustful gaze.

Another boss immediately started to make lewd jokes, “Old Zhao, stop pretending. Do you even lack for goddaughters? I think what you really want isn’t to take a goddaughter but to–” He dragged out the word with a lascivious emphasis, and everyone around them burst into laughter, including Sister Chen, while only Wu Jingyi turned red with shame, bowing her head, her eyes full of humiliation and discomfort.

“Xiao Wu, don’t listen to them talking nonsense, they’re all incorrigible!” Boss Zhao pretended to comfort her while his hands dishonestly snaked up under Wu Jingyi’s skirt.

Wu Jingyi, suppressing the urge to slap the man, let him insult her freely. At that moment, the face of Huo Sining, that foolish woman, unaccountably came to mind.

“I’m sorry, Jingyi, I have to break my promise. I can’t go to university with you anymore.”

Huo Sining’s words still echoed in her ears, but at that moment Wu Jingyi was at a loss.

Initially, she had insisted on studying in the Imperial Capital, believing that it was her true destiny. But had she really made the right choice?

That foolish woman, Huo Sining, was probably following her cousin to Guangcheng by now, wasn’t she?

An inexplicable resentment rose from the depths of Wu Jingyi’s heart at the thought.

She was tall and pretty, a university student at the prestigious Medical University, yet she had to stoop to working as a hostess just to pay her tuition.

Yet that wretched woman, Huo Sining, despite failing her college entrance exams, could get a job at a foreign company and become a shining white-collar worker, all thanks to her well-connected cousin.

Why do these vulgar, empty-hearted people, decked in finery and holding family fortunes, get to live so well?

Why do they all have better lives than hers?!