She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

Old Chen was called to the factory manager's office halfway through his workday. He saw Yang Su talking about him hitting someone. Pointing to the two dark circles under his eyes, he argued, "I even caused her trouble. She's practically welding a green hat onto my head. Can't I even question her?"

The factory director gave another junior manager in the room a wink, and the man wisely closed the door.

The leaders just listened to this cuckoldry talk and let it go. Otherwise, if word got out that something like this happened to one of their technicians, even if it turned out to be a misunderstanding, the aftermath would be unclear.

The factory director still treated veteran clerks like Chen Weiguo with some preferential treatment.

"Old Chen, Old Chen, don't get agitated. You're both getting on in years, be more composed. You're saying that this Comrade Yang Su, as your wife, is involved with another man, is that right?"

In this office, only the factory director is qualified to ask Chen Weiguo questions. Chen Weiguo doesn't care about anyone else, but he still has to give the factory director face.

Old Chen gritted his teeth as he talked about it, "She was exchanging glances with an old man from the neighborhood office, and it even got back to me. How could I not be angry?"

"But she's already done things to wrong me, and she's still throwing a tantrum at home. Now she's even come to the factory to complain. Look what she did to my eyes! If she'd hit me any harder, I might have gone blind."

With his huge bruises on his eyes, Old Chen had been asked countless times by his colleagues in the same workshop. The more they asked, the angrier he got and the more embarrassed he felt.

But this old hag actually dared to come and complain, and even went to the front gate to cry and wail.

What's there for her to cry about? It's this old woman who cheated on her, not Chen Weiguo. He's the one who should be crying.

Factory Director: "Are you sure Comrade Yang Su has an improper relationship with another man? Have you investigated and confirmed it, or are you just listening to what others are saying?"

Old Chen's eyes held a hint of disdain: "I don't need to investigate to know that she used to seduce me in the same way. What's so strange about her seducing an ignorant old man now? It's her specialty."

Yang Su was furious. That old bastard Chen Weiguo, when he got together with her, he never called it seduction. Now she hadn't done anything, yet he made up these slanderous accusations as if he had witnessed it himself.

"Chen Weiguo, I've never met a man like you who loves to talk about being cuckolded. What, do you feel proud or honored that I cuckolded you?"

Going around spreading rumors that I cheated on you, do you think people will sympathize with you? Is being a cuckold more gratifying than receiving an award for outstanding worker? If you accuse me of infidelity, then give me a specific person, a specific time, and how exactly I cheated on you.”

Old Chen: "Heh, Yang Su, I'm being lenient by not mentioning your lover. Tell me, why would they charge you two cents more for a cardboard box than others? If you didn't seduce them, why would they give you two extra cents for no reason?"

Yang Su was amused by Old Chen's guess. "Why would they give me two more points? It's because these batches of cardboard boxes are a little more troublesome to stack than others. It's that simple."

Chen Weiguo, have you been living a good life for too long? Don't you know that the price for these kinds of odd jobs varies? Matchboxes are the cheapest, while larger cardboard boxes and slightly more complex ones are more expensive. You can easily find out this by asking around at the neighborhood office.

Now you're using this as an excuse to accuse me of cheating? Are you even a decent person? Why don't you think about why you became an eighth-grade worker? Did you cheat on someone to get that position? Are you having an affair with the factory manager?

The factory manager of the machinery plant, who was standing to the side, was caught off guard by being called out by name and almost choked on his own saliva. What on earth was going on?

"Old Chen, look at you, how could you so easily misunderstand Comrade Yang Su with such a simple reason? What she said is indeed true. Just like in our factory, products with complex processes are sold at a higher price. What's so strange about that?"

The factory manager tried to reason with him, but the old man Chen was making such a big deal out of such a small matter, and he was becoming more and more stubborn as he got older.

Old Chen still didn't believe it and said angrily, "When she was getting jobs at the neighborhood office, she was exchanging glances with the old man in the mailroom. She thought she wouldn't find out if I didn't go home, but she didn't know that after living here for so many years, someone would eventually tell me."

Yang Su: "Bullshit! I wouldn't even bother looking at trash like you, let alone an old man in the mailroom. You old geezers don't think you're some kind of hot commodity, do you? Do you think every widow would want you?"

"Pah! If it weren't for the little bit of money you get every month, who would bother with people like you? You're practically half-buried, and you're still so brainless!"

Yang Su cursed to himself to his heart's content, but failed to notice that the factory director was also a dead old man a few years younger than Old Chen.

He coughed awkwardly, "Uh... well... Comrade Yang Su, please calm down a bit. Let's discuss this calmly and rationally, and not attack people indiscriminately."

Before he could finish speaking, Yang Su saw that Old Chen's face had turned pale, and pressed her advantage, "You men are all cold-blooded. You pretend to be taciturn to make women misunderstand that you are honest, but what you do behind the scenes is the most wicked."

You drive a woman crazy, and then you criticize her for this and that, and then you tell others about her going crazy because of you, letting others judge her. Little do you know that you are the very source that drove her to lose her dignity and composure.

In the end, we were the ones who got scolded and laughed at. Everyone would say that it was because of the woman herself that no man could stand her.

But everyone forgot that before they married that man, they were gentle, radiant, and poised. Why then did the family begin to wither away, unable to do anything but argue about meaningless things every day?

It's all because of you disgusting, vile creatures who cling to women and suck all their goodness from them!

All the men present turned pale. No one could remain unmoved by being pointed at and cursed like that by a crazy woman. But now that things had come to this point, if they were to advise this woman to behave herself and calm down, they would truly become the despicable thing she was talking about.

The factory director swallowed hard and turned to look at the only female leader here—Director Qin, the women's director of the machinery factory.

Director Qin, his brow unfurrowed at some point, walked over and pulled the man to sit down in a chair, his tone gentle, "Comrade Yang, I understand your anger. Outsiders only hear rumors; only those at the center of the event know how disgusting it is."

Regarding your accounts, the rest of us don't understand the truth. Since we don't understand, let's investigate. We will absolutely not let you suffer an injustice. But, first, tell me your demands, okay?