Tycoon: From Rags to Riches

Chapter 86: Chapter 86: Outburst

Evening. The Zhongxing Mercedes-Benz 4S Store.

Having officially completed her resignation, Jiang Ruan breathed a quiet sigh of relief.

After handing her work ID back to the woman in HR, she turned and walked toward the main entrance without a trace of nostalgia in her eyes.

On her way, she saw the manager, Guo Ziming, standing near the entrance with two male salespeople.

Jiang Ruan caught sight of them from the corner of her eye, but her pace didn’t falter in the slightest as she continued straight for the exit.

"TSK TSK..."

"See that?"

"Things are different once you’ve latched onto a sugar daddy."

"Quitting just like that. Looks like that rich young master is paying her plenty."

"I used to think she was some innocent, good girl. Turns out she’s just as materialistic and shallow as the rest of them. She acts all high and mighty, but behind the scenes, who knows how she’s been sucking up to that young master."

Jiang Ruan had originally thought that since she had already resigned and they would never cross paths again, all past grievances could be water under the bridge.

But she hadn’t even made it out the door before those grating voices she despised so much started up again in her ear.

"So young, yet instead of doing honest work, all she thinks about is taking shortcuts."

"Just you watch."

"Those rich kids are all playboys. They’re just in it for the novelty. He’ll probably get tired of her in a couple of days. When that happens, she might even come crawling back here for a job."

The jarring laughter made Jiang Ruan involuntarily slow down. Finally, just a meter from the door, she stopped.

Ever since the day Gu Heng came to the 4S store to pick her up and Guo Ziming saw them, he had been spreading rumors around the dealership, claiming she had schemed her way into hooking a rich young master. In every conversation, he painted her as a materialistic, shallow, and naive woman.

Jiang Ruan had silently endured it all.

She was already planning to resign, so she felt it was pointless to waste her breath on people like them.

But she never expected that even after she had left, Guo Ziming would still be at it, like a ghost that refused to leave her alone. The rage that had been building inside her for the past half-month could no longer be suppressed.

She had been in a terrible mood for the last two weeks anyway.

After that rainy night, Gu Heng had never once contacted her again.

During that time, she had tried to contact him, hoping to ask him to go swimming, but he had rejected her each time with a rather cold attitude.

Jiang Ruan had never understood how a woman could spend her days and nights pining for a man, tossing and turning in bed. But after that rainy night, she suddenly understood the feeling all too well.

’Confusion, turmoil, grievance, hesitation, heartache...’

’She had felt it all.’

’Gu Heng was just too exceptional!’

’Even though she’d had countless admirers in college, she had never met a man of such top-tier quality.’

’So young, yet he was already the chairman of the Zhen Cui Group, a restaurant giant in Ji Province.’

’He commanded assets worth hundreds of millions and lived alone in a mansion worth tens of millions.’

’On top of all that, he was incredibly handsome.’

’Even for someone like her, who had high standards for looks, he was definitely in the handsome category.’

’He had money, looks, and status, and he was single and unmarried.’

’Jiang Ruan felt she would be lucky to ever meet another top-tier man with such exceptional qualities in her entire life.’

’But not only had she met one, they had also gotten along incredibly well for a while. Their relationship had even become faintly ambiguous.’

’And then, after that rainy night...’

’Everything came to a screeching halt.’

’How could she accept that?’

’How could she just let it go?’

If it had been any other man, Jiang Ruan wouldn’t be torturing herself over it.

Whether he was playing hard to get or had truly given up, she could have remained completely unbothered. She had always been keenly aware of her own beauty.

If she wanted to, she could find another man of the same caliber in minutes.

But Gu Heng was different. In his eyes, her beauty wasn’t an irreplaceable, scarce resource. To her, however, he absolutely was.

Their positions were unequal, so the psychological pressure they each felt was naturally different.

Given the circumstances, it was easy to imagine Jiang Ruan’s state of mind over the past two weeks.

A couple of days ago, she didn’t even feel happy when she received her job offer from Xiamen Airlines.

Now, the grating voice of Guo Ziming was like a spark, instantly detonating all the negative emotions pent up inside her.

She stopped, and spun around.

Jiang Ruan glared coldly at Guo Ziming and strode toward him.

"Guo Ziming!"

"If I care about looks, you call me naive and shallow!"

"If I care about a bank account, you call me materialistic and calculating!"

"So let me ask you, what am I supposed to care about?"

"Your dad? Your mom?"

"Or maybe the flowers on your family’s ancestral graves?"

At that moment, Jiang Ruan was like an enraged leopardess. Her exquisite, fair-skinned face was flushed red with anger, and she made no effort to lower her voice.

In an instant, every employee in the showroom, along with the customers looking at cars, turned their heads toward the sound.

"A grown-ass man, and all you do all day is spread rumors and gossip behind people’s backs!"

"I was just trying to be the bigger person before, but it looks like I was too nice to you! It actually made you think you were a decent human being!"

Faced with Jiang Ruan’s sudden torrent of abuse, Guo Ziming was completely stunned.

It took him several long seconds to process what was happening.

"Jiang Ruan!"

"How dare you curse me to my face!"

Guo Ziming was trembling with rage.

"Curse you to your face?"

"If you can’t hear me clearly, I can have a craftsman carve it on your tombstone!"

"You old bastard!"

"You’ve barely got any hair left on your head, but you’re still trying to rob the cradle. You should take a good look in the mirror and see what a pathetic sight you are!"

New grudges and old, Jiang Ruan unleashed them all at once.

Her combat prowess today was all thanks to her college roommate, who was known as the "king of trash talk."

Whether it was a toxic trash-talker in a game or a cringey guy in real life, none of them stood a chance against her roommate. Jiang Ruan had only learned a fraction of her roommate’s skills, but it was more than enough to leave Guo Ziming speechless.

"Jiang Ruan, you fucking..."

When had Guo Ziming ever been cursed out like this, especially in front of all his employees?

His pride completely shattered, he subconsciously raised his hand to slap her.

"Go on! Do it!"

"Hit me! Hit me!"

"The second you touch me, I’m calling the cops!"

"And then we’ll call your wife over, and I’ll have a nice long chat with her about all the dirty little things you’ve been up to over the years!"

Seeing his reaction, Jiang Ruan didn’t back down. Instead, she took another step forward.

"You..."

Hearing her words, Guo Ziming’s raised hand froze in mid-air.

"Hmph!"

"You bully the weak and fear the strong!"

"Pathetic!"

Seeing that Guo Ziming didn’t dare to move, Jiang Ruan snorted coldly, her gaze sweeping over the two male salespeople beside him.

When they saw her looking, they quickly plastered on apologetic smiles.

...

Stepping out of the main entrance, Jiang Ruan felt most of the frustration in her heart dissipate.

She stood by the door for a moment, taking a few deep breaths of fresh air.

Once her mood had gradually calmed, she took out her phone to call a ride-share home.

However, just as she unlocked her phone and her finger was about to swipe the screen, her right hand suddenly froze in mid-air.

There on the screen was a WhatsApp message from Gu Heng:

"Let’s have dinner together tonight..."

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