80 village women marry military officers; it was supposed to be a fake marriage.

Lin Yue felt that the factory director was quite reasonable, and her hope for her future life in the factory was rekindled. She happily returned to her dormitory.

Li Mingyue stared at her retreating figure with resentment, so angry she almost gritted her teeth. "Uncle, is this all there is to it? I can't swallow this."

Zhou Long also looked unwilling. "You have to swallow it whether you like it or not. Those letters were all accusing me and you. Didn't you understand what the factory director meant? If you're going to fire someone, you have to fire them both."

It's not worth losing your job for a brat. Anyway, she's staying at the factory, and we'll find plenty of ways to teach her a lesson later.

You better behave yourself these days and don't cause any trouble. We'll talk about it after this storm passes.

No matter how unwilling Li Mingyue was, she couldn't go against Zhou Long's wishes. After all, the factory job was easy and paid well, and she couldn't bear to give it up.

She could only grit her teeth and bear it. Next time she saw Lin Mei, she would have to have a good talk with her. Her sister was nothing like what she said.

After everyone left the office, the workshop foreman asked the factory manager curiously, "Is that all?"

The factory manager nodded thoughtfully. "Hmm, keep an eye on Lin Yue, make sure nothing else happens to her. From now on, report everything concerning her, big or small, to me."

The workshop foreman guessed that it was related to that phone call, but he didn't dare to ask any further. He would just do whatever the factory manager told him to do, and that was the right thing to do.

Wang Yiming watched from afar as Lin Yue happily returned to her dormitory. "Judging from the girl's expression, she probably wasn't expelled."

Wu Changyong chimed in, "That's rare! Zhou Long getting humiliated by a little girl? I've never heard of such a thing before."

Huo Qingyan gave Lin Yue a deep look, a slight smile playing on his lips, before quickly returning to normal, so fast that no one noticed.

"Alright, alright, these clothes are going to fade from washing. Let's get them ready and go see a movie."

After Lin Yue returned to the dormitory, the other three girls in the room looked at each other and no one said anything.

Seeing Lin Yue looking at the broken basin with heartache, he thought she had really been fired. He wanted to go up and comfort her, but he was afraid of offending Li Mingyue and having no good days ahead.

Lin Yue didn't talk to them. She packed her small bag and prepared to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some daily necessities.

After greeting the security guard, Lin Yue walked towards the gate. She looked around to see where she was going and saw Zhuo Yifan pushing his bicycle, standing at the gate and smiling at her.

She was stunned for a moment, thinking that Zhuo Yifan had come to talk to her about divorce, and she couldn't take the step she had raised.

Seeing that she was standing still, Zhuo Yifan pushed his bicycle toward her.

Lin Yue thought to herself: What's meant to happen will happen; there's no escaping it.

Lin Yue hung her head, lowered her eyes, and bit her lip. "Why are you here?"

"I've come to take you home." Chang Jingxiang pulled her in front of him and gently ruffled her hair.

"Go home?" Lin Yue looked up at Chang Jingxiang expectantly, and Chang Jingxiang deliberately lowered his head to show her the gauze.

When Lin Yue saw that he was injured, she put everything else aside and gently touched the gauze with her soft little hands. "How did you get hurt? Is it serious?"

Her voice was already a little hoarse, but her question warmed Chang Jingxiang's heart.

Seeing that Lin Yue was so nervous that she was about to cry, Chang Jingxiang smiled and hugged her. "I lost a lot of blood and I'm still dizzy. Let me lean on you for a bit."

Lin Yue was embraced tightly by him, but she didn't suspect anything. She carefully examined the situation under the gauze and asked cautiously, "Did you go to the clinic? Did you get stitches?"

Hearing the whispers around her, Lin Yue realized that they were outside, at the entrance of a clothing factory. She blushed instantly and hurriedly pushed him away.

"There are so many people watching, you can't just hug me like that."

Chang Jingxiang didn't think there was anything wrong with it; it's his own wife, and he could hug her as he pleased—it wasn't illegal.

But seeing Lin Yue's blushing and shy appearance, she knew her wife was easily embarrassed, so she quickly coaxed her, "It's my fault. I will definitely pay attention in the future and keep my distance from you in public."

After hearing what he said, Lin Yue became sad again. They were getting a divorce. Was there any future for them?

Seeing his wife's increasingly aggrieved expression, with tears welling up in her eyes, Chang Jingxiang realized he had gone too far. Girls are easily embarrassed and can't stand gossip.

"Then you walk in front, and I'll follow behind, keeping a one-meter distance."

Lin Yue was amused by his words and burst out laughing, "This isn't a feudal society anymore."

Chang Jingxiang smiled and got on his bicycle. "Then get on, I'll take you."

Lin Yue obediently got into the car, her hand naturally wrapping around Chang Jingxiang's waist, which made Chang Jingxiang smile happily.

After they had walked a distance, Huo Qingyan and his group came out from the main gate, looking in the direction they had left.

"Isn't that Lin Yue, the one who was fighting earlier? Who is that man? The two of them look very close, their relationship must be special."

"Tsk tsk tsk, did you see that? That man just hugged her. And he did that in public."

"So what? Young girls these days are very open-minded; they'll kiss their boyfriends all the time."

"Tch, a daughter from a good family wouldn't do that, pulling and tugging in public."

"She even got on that man's bicycle. No wonder she was so arrogant; it turns out she has powerful connections."

Huo Qingyan felt extremely irritated and angrily shouted, "Stop talking nonsense, are we going to watch the movie or not?"

She found Lin Yue's shy demeanor in front of the man very irritating. Wasn't she so impressive just now?

It seems I misjudged the situation.

Lin Yue was unaware of the gossip surrounding her. Sitting in the back seat of the car, she looked at the office building that was passing by, which seemed to be a government-owned enterprise.

Are we going to the town to go through divorce proceedings?

The little bit of sweetness that had just risen in her heart was shattered again. Lin Yue silently withdrew her hand, only gently tugging at Chang Jingxiang's clothes.

The bicycle was parked in front of the town's cultural bureau. Lin Yue looked at the big characters and wondered, "Is divorce now handled at the cultural bureau?"

Before she could react, Chang Jingxiang had already greeted the gatekeeper, pushed his bicycle with one hand, and pulled her into the yard with the other.

Behind the office building is a large iron gate, which separates another courtyard, which is the staff housing for the Bureau of Culture.

It has two floors and three rows in front and back, housing about a dozen families, all of whom are employees and their families of the Cultural Bureau.

Chang Jingxiang parked the bicycle, took her hand, and led her to the rightmost room on the second floor. It was a room with an inner and outer room, a kitchen, a toilet, and a shower.

Lin Yue looked around curiously. It was the first time she had ever seen a building like this before; she had only ever seen them from afar.