After a blind date, a wealthy heir asked me to marry him.

Just as Zeng Ruijie was about to speak, he heard someone call out from the doorway: "Lu Shuyao".

Lu Shuyao immediately turned her head to look over, then turned back to Zeng Ruijie and said, "I'm actually the first one."

The tension she had just eased instantly doubled.

Lu Shuyao straightened her clothes, turned and walked towards the door, patting her chest as she went, muttering, "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, it's just an interview, it's no big deal."

But in reality, she knew best how much she longed to pass the interview.

Halfway there, she turned back to Zeng Ruijie and said, "Wait until I come out and tell you how the interview went."

He had helped me, so I shared my interview experience with him, such as the interview process and the questions asked, as a way of thanking him.

After Lu Shuyao went inside, her heart was pounding uncontrollably.

Sitting opposite her were four interviewers with unusually serious expressions.

Two men and two women.

It was a bit strange, though, that there was an empty seat right in the middle of the four interviewers.

Lu Shuyao really didn't expect that there would be five interviewers in one interview.

Just as she was marveling at the moment, the fifth interviewer walked in.

When she looked over following the greetings of the interviewers, she was immediately stunned.

“Once…once…???”

Lu Shuyao finally came to her senses when Zeng Ruijie was actually sitting in the middle of the seat.

I'm just more nervous than before.

She gave an awkward laugh, and then one of the interviewers in front of her said, "Lu Shuyao, right? Please briefly introduce yourself."

"Hello everyone, my name is Lu Shuyao..."

……

Clearly, with this kind of start, she no longer has the option of packaging herself or showing her true self. Now, she has directly exposed her worst side to the interviewers.

As a result, her entire interview was almost over in just over ten minutes.

At the end, Zeng Ruijie spoke the first words of the entire interview session.

"Your biggest problem isn't a lack of experience or professional knowledge, but a lack of self-confidence. I hope we'll have the opportunity to work together again in the future."

Upon hearing this, Lu Shuyao knew that she had no chance at all.

Her mood plummeted instantly, but she still managed to force a smile.

"Thank you."

Then he got up and quickly fled the interview scene.

More than feeling embarrassed or ashamed, she is now upset about failing the interview.

Zeng Ruijie, sitting in the interviewer's seat, glanced at Lu Shuyao's dejected figure as she fled, then turned to look at the resume of the next candidate.

For him, even if she was an acquaintance or a friend, he would never give her any special treatment, let alone a complete stranger he had only met once.

However, considering that she had just treated him as a candidate and even wanted to share her interview experience with him, he found it quite interesting.

At this moment, Lu Shuyao had already dragged her heavy steps out of the Ruifeng Group building.

Frustrated and defeated, she could barely walk two steps before collapsing weakly to sit on a flower bed in front of the building.

Tears welled up in her eyes, gradually blurring her vision.

The failed interview, despite her careful preparation, made her feel like a completely useless person detached from society.

Lu Shuyao took out her phone from her pocket, but after hesitating for a moment, she put it back.

Her husband is practically irrelevant; it's as if she doesn't have one at all.

No, having it is more unbearable than not having it.

Looking at the office workers coming and going at the main entrance of the building, Lu Shuyao felt both envious and sentimental.

Perhaps they all went through a lot of hardship and effort to get the decent jobs they have today.

Having escaped the brutally competitive society after graduation, is it a bit unrealistic to think that you can land the job you crave in just two weeks of sudden, intense effort?

Human suffering arises because desires exceed one's current capabilities, and the greater the excess, the greater the suffering...

She felt a little better after forcing herself to drink a bowl of toxic chicken soup.

But I stayed on the flower bed enjoying the cool breeze until almost noon before getting up to take the bus back.

When he arrived home, his mother-in-law had just finished cooking and was waiting for her son to come home for dinner.

Seeing Lu Shuyao enter the room looking dejected, she immediately curled her lip and made sarcastic remarks, "What did I say before? An interview is not the same as going to work. In the end, it's just a waste of time..."

Lu Shuyao didn't even lift her eyelids, and went straight to her room after changing her shoes.

Behind me was my mother-in-law's voice again, "Since you're inside, you don't need to come out to eat. Anyway, I didn't cook for you, and you're too ashamed to eat this meal."

No sooner had she finished speaking than Lu Shuyao slammed her bedroom door shut with a bang.

Mrs. Li stared at the door for a while before muttering something and sitting back on the sofa.

Thinking to himself, even if Hao Kai had married someone like Lu Shiyi, she would have been better than his sister. Her temper was so strong that it could drive you crazy, and you couldn't even get into a good scolding session.

In short, Li's mother now finds her daughter-in-law displeasing in every way.

After entering the room, Lu Shuyao sat down in a chair, took out her phone, and started ordering takeout.

She originally had no appetite, but after hearing what her mother-in-law said, she suddenly wanted to eat, and even wanted to order a lavish meal to eat in front of them.

Lu Shuyao's husband returned home just as she was ordering takeout.

Then I heard my mother-in-law complaining, "That ancestor came back with a long face, and she stayed in her room and wouldn't come out. She didn't do well in the interview, so who is she going to show her face to?"

She only heard her husband reply, "Mom, don't pay any attention to her. If she doesn't come out, let her go hungry. Let's eat."

Lu Shuyao's heart turned ice-cold in an instant.

She laughed at herself for still clinging to a tiny bit of hope that he would come in and comfort her.

Thinking back on all the sweet moments they shared, she couldn't understand how people's hearts could change so quickly, how they could stop loving each other so easily.

After ordering takeout, she put her phone aside and spaced out.

Suddenly, a ringing bell interrupted her thoughts.

Lu Shuyao turned her head and saw that it was her sister calling.

She choked up instantly.

She tried to calm herself down and answered the phone when she felt she could speak normally.

The first thing Lu Shiyi said when the call connected wasn't to ask about her sister's interview results, but directly, "Yaoyao, Tangtang and I are planning to go to karaoke this afternoon, do you want to come along?"

Lu Shiyi knew that her younger sister had an interview in the morning. Knowing her sister well, she knew that if she did well, Yao Yao would definitely call her after the interview.

But even now...

So even though Yao Yao didn't say it, she had already guessed the result.

It just so happens that her best friend Tang Tang is also at the study hall today, so she thought the three of them could go to karaoke together.

Yao Yao has been feeling really stressed lately, and she needs to find an outlet to let it all out.

Upon hearing this, Lu Shuyao gave a heavy "hmm" and said, "It just so happens that I haven't been to karaoke in a long time either."

…………

In the afternoon, while Lu Shiyi, her sister, and her best friend were belting out songs at the top of their lungs in a karaoke bar, Fu Cheng was having a simple gathering and chatting with Zeng Ruijie and his great-grandfather in his own restaurant.

As they sang and became more and more excited, the conversation on the other side grew increasingly heavy...