Wei Yumeng's gaze towards Bai Qing was involuntarily laced with disdain.
If before, her dissatisfaction with Bai Qing was merely her bothering her husband, now she had gained the label of being ungrateful, naturally becoming someone to be scorned.
Bai Qing still attempted to struggle, walking over to Jing Yan and trying to grab his hand. "Listen to my explanation, things are not as he said."
"Not as he said?" Jing Yan dodged her outstretched hand. "If it's not like he said, then give me a new version. I'll listen with great interest."
Of course, Bai Qing couldn't come up with another version. She looked at Jing Yan, unsure of what to do next.
Meanwhile, Bai Yan watched her triumphantly. "You still want to swindle people by impersonating my sister? I don't have a sister like you. Let me tell you, today I've exposed your true colors. You'll never return to my home again. I have nothing more to do with you."
Hearing these words, Bai Qing finally erupted.
"Do you think I want to be associated with you? I'd rather starve to death outside than ask you for help!"
The two had completely fallen out, and Bai Qing had alienated everyone in the room.
Seeing her stubbornness, Bai Yan sneered, "Since that's the case, I'll wait and see what kind of mess you get yourself into."
She then looked at Jing Yan. This time, Jing Yan wouldn't side with her.
"I've always known you were restless. Mo Han is my brother, yet your intentions towards him became known to everyone. What kind of position do you put me in? Furthermore, you've been lying to me from the very beginning. You were already a wife bought by someone else, yet you still lied to me, making me pour my heart out to you. Bai Qing, I've already been more than generous by not demanding compensation from you."
Jing Yan's feelings for her were genuine, making it difficult for him to accept such a truth.
Bai Qing had nothing to say, no grounds to refute. Fortunately, she still had her job, and her salary was enough to support herself here.
But Zhan Mohan, as if possessing telepathic abilities, immediately shattered her hope.
"Tomorrow morning, you will receive a dismissal letter from Zhan Corporation."
"Why?" she exclaimed in shock. "I haven't done anything that violates company interests. Even your boss can't fire an employee arbitrarily."
She still wanted to fight for herself, but that would require Zhan Mohan to offer her some charity. However, now, Zhan Mohan clearly was unwilling.
"No reason. It's because I have the final say in the entire Zhan Corporation."
Bai Qing wanted to say something more, but she opened her mouth and then closed it.
She knew that Zhan Yichen held absolute power, and she had no ability to resist. Her dream of clinging to Zhan Mohan was finally about to awaken; Zhan Mohan had never given her a chance.
She left the apartment in a daze. If she hadn't saved some money, she might have ended up sleeping on the streets tonight.
She found a hotel to stay in, tiredly contemplating where to find a way out for herself in the future.
Tomorrow, she would be unemployed. Ever since she started working at Zhan Corporation, she had never anticipated tomorrow arriving any slower than she did now.
After much thought, from dusk till dawn, she couldn't figure out a way out for herself. In the vast Pengcheng, who else could she possibly know?
When it was time for work, she dragged her weary body, forcing herself to maintain composure, and went to the company for her final clock-in.
The dismissal letter Zhan Mohan had mentioned arrived quickly, almost at the same time she reached the company. She didn't even have a chance to sit at her workstation before being informed that she had been dismissed and had two hours to pack her belongings and leave the company, making space for the next person to occupy her position.
What's more, Zhan Mohan sent Fang Xun to personally supervise her departure, stating that she was not allowed to take anything belonging to the company, only her personal items.
Upon hearing this, Bai Qing gave a wry smile. "What do you think Mr. Zhan takes me for? A thief who steals company property? No matter how poor I am, I wouldn't stoop to this level!"
Hearing her defend herself, Fang Xun put on a professional smile. "That's not what I meant. We're just preventing you from making a momentary mistake. It's not worth it to be convicted of theft over some worthless item. This is for your own good."
Fang Xun's words struck Bai Qing like a heavy slap, as if telling her she had indeed become that despicable.
She couldn't stay in this place for another second. After hastily packing her belongings, she walked out of the Zhan Corporation building, carrying her box.
Having handed in her access card and work ID, she could only stand beneath the towering building and gaze up at it. She had once even dreamt of becoming the mistress of this place, but reality had delivered a resounding slap, telling her what it meant to live in a fool's paradise.
She vividly remembered the grandeur with which she joined. In just over a month, she was expelled. It was as if she had lived a beautiful dream during this month, and now the dream had to end.
Yes, the dream had ended. Looking at the building before her, her heart was filled with unwillingness. No, it wasn't that she had no way out. She was a graduate who had studied abroad; she had a high-level education and wouldn't be reduced to not being able to eat.
Remembering this, she felt that life was not so hopeless. Holding her belongings, she turned around.
Zhan Corporation, even though I'm leaving today, I will return in the future. By then, I will be a completely different person.
She walked with ambition, but every couple of steps, her path was blocked by a car. She recognized the car; Jing Yan had come to witness her embarrassment.
"What, are you satisfied seeing me in such a sorry state?"
Jing Yan was disappointed by her reaction.
"Don't tell me you still think that others are to blame for your current predicament?"
What Jing Yan said was true. Bai Qing's thought was precisely that. If it weren't for Bai Yan's wild accusations, how would her most unwanted identity have been exposed?
"If it weren't for Bai Yan, I would still be your girlfriend, an employee of Zhan Corporation. It's all him, he ruined me!"
Seeing Bai Qing's hysterical state, Jing Yan didn't know what he had liked about this woman. Did he like her feigned elegance?
Unknowingly, Bai Qing had deceived him so much. He didn't actually like Bai Qing at all; he liked the golden packaging that Bai Qing had meticulously created for herself to climb the ladder to a prominent family's son.
Now that the outer packaging was gone, her true self was fully exposed, and it was so ugly.
Perhaps one likes a person because of a single action, and similarly, one can stop liking someone in an instant.