Time Travel: The Queen's Coronation

I was happily chatting with Xu Jing in the ward when a knock on the door interrupted our conversation. I stood up to open the door, and the person in front of me surprised me. I quickly turned around to look at Xu Jing to confirm that she was indeed in the bed!

"Who is it?" Xu Jing asked.

Before I could recover from my shock, the woman in front of me introduced herself, "I'm Zhang Mu's ex-wife, Xiang Ling, and I want to talk to lawyer Xu Jing about something!"

"Come in!" Because the ward was very quiet, Xiang Ling deliberately raised her voice, so Xu Jing heard her and let her in.

I hadn't fully recovered from my shock when Xiang Ling walked past me, and when Xu Jing saw her, she was obviously shocked too. Because they looked alike! This Zhang Mu was really obsessed with Xu Jing, even looking for a wife who looked like her. Not only did they have similar faces, but also similar figures and similar fashion sense. If Xiang Ling hadn't said anything, I really couldn't tell if the woman in front of me was Xu Jing or Xiang Ling.

Xiang Ling looked at Xu Jing's surprised expression and said with a wry smile, "Lawyer Xu, we finally meet!"

"You are Zhang Mu's ex-wife?" Xu Jing asked slowly and in disbelief.

"Yes! Maybe you are surprised why I look so much like you. I can tell you frankly that I have had plastic surgery!" Xiang Ling's words shocked us even more.

"Plastic surgery? It doesn't look like it!" Xu Jing asked politely.

"Because I've undergone major and minor surgeries, it looks more natural!" Xiang Ling answered frankly.

"Did Zhang Mu ask you to have plastic surgery?" Xu Jing asked.

"That's right! Although I wasn't a great beauty before, I could look pretty good with a little bit of dressing up. After being with Zhang Mu, he always intentionally or unintentionally belittled me, which made me anxious about my appearance. In the end, I listened to him and went to Korea for plastic surgery."

"It seems that you have been PUA'd by him!" I suddenly realized.

Xiang Ling smiled helplessly and said, "I was very miserable after the divorce, but yesterday I saw the news about Zhang Mu's arrest and saw the photo of Lawyer Xu, and I woke up from my dream! It turns out that all the plastic surgery advice he gave me was fake! He said that my nose was a little flat and it would look better if it was raised. My chin was not sharp enough and my eyes were not big enough. These were all lies! To put it bluntly, he wanted to make my face like Xu Jing! He couldn't be with Xu Jing, so he had to make a replica! A substitute!" Xiang Ling said with tears of grievance streaming from her eyes. I stepped forward and handed her a tissue.

Xiang Ling took the tissue and wiped her tears, then continued, "Even my hairstyle, my makeup, and my clothes were all done according to his instructions! After I married him, I became a full-time wife. I didn't want to dress so professionally and smartly, I just wanted to dress intellectually and gently, but he kept brainwashing me into accepting it! Now it seems like I was so stupid! I lost myself for what I thought was love!"

"Then you should hate him! Instead of begging me to let him go!" Xu Jing said expressionlessly.

"How do you know I asked you to let him go?" Xiang Ling was very surprised that Xu Jing could see through her thoughts.

"You're crying here, aren't you just trying to play the emotional card? You want me to feel pity for you, to have pity on you because you've been my substitute for so many years."

"I'm not asking you to forgive Zhang Mu, but please be kind and let him go! I've been a full-time housewife for over a decade, and now that we're divorced, I can't do anything. Zhang Mu provides our livelihood. We still have two children who need to go to school, and Zhang Mu really can't go to jail! Otherwise, the three of us, mother and children, won't be able to survive!"

"You have your own hands and feet, what can't you do? Why do you have to rely on others? You are an independent person, not a parasite!" Xu Jing was very disappointed.

"What can I do! Zhang Mu has supported me for more than ten years and didn't let me do anything! He only asked me to provide emotions and this face, but I've been spoiled by him!" Xiang Ling said self-deprecatingly.

"You should have been to college, right?"

"I have attended school, but I have forgotten all the professional knowledge I learned over the past ten years! Now I only know how to eat, drink, defecate and urinate, and I don't know anything else!" Xiang Ling said in despair.

"You can't, or you don't want to?" Xu Jing's question left Xiang Ling speechless. "It's not that Zhang Mu has ruined you! It's that you enjoy a life of having everything provided for you! You only want to enjoy, not put in the effort!"

"I don't want this to happen either! But it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality! I've gotten used to my current life! I really can't live without Zhang Mu!"

"You can make a living with your own hands! If you want, I can arrange a simple clerical job for you so that you can support yourself without any problem."

"That's too tiring!" Xiang Ling said what was in her heart.

"Hmph!" Xu Jing sneered, "Then whether you're tired or not has nothing to do with me! Zhang Mu hurt me and did something wrong, so he must be punished!"

"Lawyer Xu! You come from a good family! You've lived a comfortable life since childhood, but do you understand the feelings of someone like me who came from the bottom and finally managed to live a good life? Because of your willfulness, I'm going to be brought back to my original state. You are quite lacking in empathy!" Xiang Ling started to blame Xu Jing after her plea failed.

"Do you rely on yourself to live a good life? You rely on men! I finally understand that you are not being PUAed by Zhang Mu, but you are afraid that he will cut off your source of income if you don't listen to him!" Xu Jing retorted sharply.

"For someone like me with ordinary abilities, ordinary looks and ordinary family background, it's already great that I can marry Zhang Mu! I have younger brothers and sisters to support at home, and Zhang Mu can also send money to my family. What have I done wrong? People like you are so high and mighty that they never care about us people at the bottom! It is obvious that Zhang Mu could have been spared from imprisonment if you had only signed the letter of apology, but you insisted on taking revenge on him for your own selfish desires, causing him to lose his job and face, and putting the lives of the three of us, mother and son, as well as my younger brothers and sisters, into despair!" Xiang Ling was still blaming Xu Jing, and I couldn't stand it anymore.

"None of what you said has anything to do with me! I only know that Zhang Mu hurt me and he has to pay the price. I don't want to care about the rest! And I want to say that you rely on men for your life and have turned yourself into a man's pet. It's really embarrassing for us women!"

"What's wrong with pets? Is it wrong for me to just want a better life? How can a rich lady like you empathize with someone like me who lives at the bottom of society?"

"Wei Qing's family background is also very ordinary, but does she rely on men? You are lazy and indolent, so don't blame your background!"

"Just accuse me! You people are always cold-blooded!"

Xiang Ling continued to rail against Xu Jing, attempting to morally blackmail her. However, Xu Jing had experienced many ups and downs, and her years of experience as a lawyer had made her exceptionally calm and rational, so she listened to Xiang Ling's accusations with a blank expression.

"Are you done? If you're done, you can leave now!" Xu Jing began to order us to leave, and I cooperated and opened the door.

Xiang Ling talked until her mouth was dry and Xu Jing remained indifferent. Finally, she left the ward in dissatisfaction.

"This woman is really amazing! She comes to beg you for that little bit of money!" I sighed after Xiang Ling left.

"I feel sorry for her misfortune and angry at her for not fighting for it! She has healthy hands and feet, but she wants to rely on men!" Xu Jing sighed.

"Zhang Mu really loves you to the core! He wants to find a wife who is a one-to-one replica of your appearance! If she doesn't speak, I really can't tell the two of you apart!" I said to Xu Jing with a smile.

"Don't laugh at me! Look at her face, it's covered in technology, it doesn't match at all! Mine is a native! I recognized it right away!"

"Yes! Our lawyer Xu is beautiful and has great qualities! That woman is only similar in appearance, how can she compare to her!" I answered with a smile.

"That's more like it!" Xu Jing said proudly.