Pushing Down the Male God

Wang Zhicheng thought he had achieved his goal, so he didn’t pay much attention to Lin Mengmeng’s ignorant questioning and responded perfunctorily, “Of course, when you sell the house and raise the money for me. As long as I have this sum of money, I will certainly be able to get this spot. Although I’m not as famous as those popular idols, with my ability, it will definitely not be bad.”

He spoke with full confidence as if he could think of the day when his popularity would be on fire. In the end, he could hardly contain his excitement and his red eyes.

“Wife, this time, it’s up to you. This concerns the bright future for the two of us. You must not let me down.”

Lin Mengmeng watched as Wang Zhicheng weave up his lies, leaned back softly onto the back of the chair, and looked at him with a mocking expression.

“Heh, Wang Zhicheng, it turns out that you invited me to dinner today was not because you wanted to apologize to me on the behalf of your family. Why? Am I, Lin Mengmeng, so easy to deceive? It’s not enough for you to cheat a house out of me, and now you still think that I’ll be so foolish to do it again?”

“Wang Zhicheng, feel your conscience and tell me. Ever since I agreed to your pursuit until I married you for many years, how much I, Lin Mengmeng, have paid for you and your family? Not to mention that you haven’t given a single penny to your family in all these years. Rather, it’s me! It’s me, Lin Mengmeng, who breached into your household, not only has the forty million yuan savings been scraped clean by you! Even the house where my parents lived in their lifetime had been sold for you because of your so-called opportunity!”

“Additionally, your sister, Wang Jiaojiao, proudly and shamelessly hogged my clothing shop. I’ve been swallowing my anger for you. Every day, I’ve been ordered around at home like a dog, even more, being scolded and beaten!”

She took a leisurely sip of wine while Wang Zhicheng’s complexion was so ugly at this time that it was refreshing to her eyes.

“Now that I’ve figured it out, I won’t lose myself for a man again. I want to live the life I want, but what makes you so confident that I will still sacrifice myself selflessly and fearlessly for you? Who do you think you are? Without my Lin Mengmeng’s love, you are just a fenghuang man1 who relies on his wife to eat soft rice2! Che! It’s truly laughable.”

1white collar guy with a working-class background (more info at the end of chapter)
2to live off of a woman

The sentence of fenghuang man eating soft rice tenaciously stabbed at Wang Zhicheng’s sore spot. He gripped the goblet tightly in his hand, his strength was so strong that he almost broke the slim stem of the glass cup.

Lin Mengmeng stood up and looked down at Wang Zhicheng for the last time.

“Don’t come to me again, I also don’t want to see your forever phony, repulsive face when facing me!”

After she finished speaking, she smiled softly, stepped on her high heels, and left without any reluctance.

Wang Zhicheng never imagined that he had not returned home for only a month and his wife, who had originally been obedient to his words, had already withdrawn from the bottom and became completely foreign to him. The sentence just now, the mocking and disdainful eyes, the disgusted expression all made him extremely furious, but he was unable to say a single word against them. 

That same night, Wang Zhicheng returned home and had a fit. After he criticized the several troublemakers at home, he went back to his room and started smoking a cigarette. Then he answered his phone, picked up his jacket, and went out of the house in a good mood. He drove the car around the well-known high-end residential area in the city.

What he didn’t notice was that not far behind him, a black Volkswagen was entering the community,

T/N: So the literal translation for “fenghuangnan” is “phoenix man”. To be more precise, ‘feng’ refers to male phoenix while ‘huang’ refers to female. This term is a slang to refer to a guy who grew up in the countryside or from a low-class background, moved to the big city, and get together with a woman from the city. Sometimes there can be problems in such relationship because these kind of men may retain their simple life concepts and traditional beliefs from their background. So once they move to the urban city life, it can sometimes be easy for them to get into conflicts with their city partners in term of living habits and ideals.