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"Don't mind, it's great. The New Year is coming soon, and I was thinking of buying a pair of earrings to match my new down jacket. This pair is just right."

Zhang Wenling tried to smooth things over with a smile, but this caused the other female classmates to become envious.

"Hey, Wenling, your company has done pretty well this year. You're willing to buy a down jacket. The year-end bonus must be very generous, right?"

Zhang Wenling smiled modestly: "It's OK, only a few thousand yuan."

Hearing this number, everyone at the table became even more envious.

"Wow, that's three months' salary!"

Zhang Wenling modestly said: "My salary is not much, it's not as much as the people in the marketing department, the most they get is 4,000 to 5,000 yuan!"

"Oh my god, Wenling, your company's treatment is too good, I might as well go to work there. Our small company is so stingy, the year-end bonus is only a 50-yuan red envelope, plus a barrel of oil and a bag of rice."

"You guys at least have something. Our stingy boss not only doesn't give us a penny, but he also delays paying us wages. I haven't received my salary for last month yet. Who can I complain to?"

Everyone was complaining heatedly.

Mai Qiu was like an outsider who couldn't get a word in. She was the only unemployed young person present.

After sitting there for a while, she got up and left, using the excuse of going to the bathroom.

As soon as she left, the atmosphere at the table suddenly changed and several people winked at each other.

"What's wrong with her? It's been so long, and she still can't find a job?"

"He has high expectations but low skills. He used to be the assistant to the general manager and earned hundreds of dollars a month. How could he look down on ordinary jobs like ours?"

"That may not be the case. She applied for the position of administrative specialist at Wenling Company last month, but she was not hired."

"Wen Ling, why didn't your company hire Mai Qiu? With her qualifications and abilities, she should be more than qualified to work in administration, right?"

Zhang Wenling said meaningfully: "She can't find a job, but it's not because of her lack of ability."

Hearing the hidden meaning in Zhang Wenling's words, everyone at the table suddenly became eager to gossip.

"Why is that?"

"I heard that she was fired by her former boss. I don't know how she offended him. Is this related?"

After arousing everyone's curiosity, Zhang Wenling continued calmly:
"She will never be able to find a job in Fengcheng in her lifetime."

"Bah!"

The door of the private room behind him was kicked open.

Mai Qiu stood at the door, glaring at the people at the table with anger on his face.

"Zhang Wenling, is it really that bad of you? Just because the gift I gave you was not big enough, you cursed me behind my back, and you guys..."

Mai Qiu pointed at the other people at the table one by one, "Have you forgotten how hard it was for you to find a job? I helped half of you find your jobs! And you all look down on me. If you have the guts, quit your jobs and find new ones!"

Everyone looked unhappy when they heard Mai Qiu bringing up old matters.

"It was Wenling who said that. Why are you so angry at us?"

"Everyone is concerned about you and worried about you. Didn't we notify you first when our company was short of people? It was you who didn't get the interview, so you can't blame me, right?"

This is true.

Mai Qiu interviewed in all the companies of his old classmates, but unfortunately he was not hired.

What bothered her most was Zhang Wenling’s words, “You’ll never find a job in your life.”

For someone who has been unemployed for three months and has been rejected for countless job openings, this is SSS level of hurt and insult.

She glared at Zhang Wenling angrily, "How did I provoke you? You are so jealous of me that you curse me to never find a job?!"

Zhang Wenling looked at her and said, "I'm not cursing you. You have good abilities and a good resume, but you can't even get an interview for an ordinary office clerk position. Haven't you ever thought about the reason?" Mai Qiu wanted to say that she was unlucky, but her woman's intuition made her guess something.

"Please make your words clear."

Zhang Wenling said, "I don't know if you are pretending to be stupid or if you are really stupid. You should know what you did secretly."

"What did I do to you?"

Although he appeared tough on the surface, his tone revealed a hint of guilt.

Seeing that she was still pretending, Zhang Wenling mocked her directly, "Although I don't know the real reason why you were fired by your old employer, they at least gave you half a year's compensation, which is already quite generous. But you turned around and reported your old employer. Do you think any boss would dare to hire an employee like you?"

As Zhang Wenling finished her words, everyone at the table looked at Mai Qiu in unison, their eyes filled with disbelief and contempt.

You are a person who is ungrateful and grateful. You took someone's money and then stabbed him in the back. Aren't you a complete ungrateful person?

Mai Qiu's face turned red, and he looked embarrassed and flustered as if he had been caught doing something bad.

"You, you are talking nonsense, I have never done such a thing!"

Zhang Wenling sneered: "You don't think that people won't find out about you doing this, do you? Whether it's writing a letter or making a phone call, there are traces that can be evaded. With such a large factory, how could they not have such means and ability?"

Mai Qiu was very nervous.

She did report the food factory and Du Juan's factory.

In order to confuse the public, she used two different methods.

She reported the food factory's tax evasion by making a phone call, and reported Du Juan's factory's substandard building materials by writing a letter, which also included a purchase list of some of the substandard building materials.

Because she handled all these things personally when she was Du Juan's assistant, she knew everything about it.

Reporting Du Juan's factory is a sign of resentment towards Du Juan for ungratefully betraying her.

The purpose of reporting the food factory was to put the blame on Du Juan.

Her original plan was that it would be best if Du Juan's factory could not start operation. If it started smoothly, she would secretly "inform" Shen Mingzhu and use Shen Mingzhu's ability to retaliate against Du Juan.

But she never expected that Zhang Wenling knew about her reporting on the food factory and Du Juan.

Not only Zhang Wenling, but several old classmates in the box also knew about it.

There were also those positions that rejected her. No wonder the interviewers looked at her with disgust during the interview.

She thought the interviewers were too arrogant, but she never thought...

"The things you did have spread throughout the HR circle. It's almost impossible for any regular company to hire you."

Zhang Wenling’s words made Mai Qiu’s eyes go dark, and despair overwhelmed her like a tide.

She didn't even know how she left the hotel.

When she regained consciousness, she was already back in the rental house.

It was the middle of winter, and the tube-shaped building without heating was as cold as a cellar.

This area is full of old buildings waiting to be demolished and rebuilt. Not many people live here anymore. The only advantage is that the rent is cheap.

She usually relies on a coal stove for heating. In order to save money, she covers the stove before going out.

He opened the lid of the coal stove tremblingly. When he was adding coal into the stove with tongs, his stiff hands caused him to accidentally touch the coal cake to the stove wall.

Looking at the coal slag scattered all over the ground, she realized that it was her life that was ruined by her own hands.

She ruined her own path with her own hands.
She couldn't help but burst into tears due to her deep regret. (End of this chapter)