20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3877 Dong Li
Previously, neither Liu Cui nor Zhao Chang'an were willing to compromise or give in, which led to her being 'forced' by her mother to go to France to study.

However, less than two or three months later, Su Ying's mentor, who had appreciated her work ability, was paralyzed and retired early.

She had been cared for and mentored by this talent scout since college, and had long been deeply marked by him. Without this gilding, Su Ying would suddenly become a plucked pheasant.

Unable to bear the huge difference, he immediately took a leave of absence without pay to reunite with his family in France.

Before leaving, Su Ying sold all her real estate. After arriving in Paris, she forcefully changed Liu Cui's phone number, strictly forbidding her from having any further contact with Zhao Chang'an.

At that time, Su Ying's thoughts were just as cold-blooded and realistic as Zhao Chang'an's; they were more like the same type of people.

People who achieve success in this way all share similar traits: aside from fate and opportunity, their plans for themselves are filled with comparisons and calculations of value.

In Su Ying's logic, Zhao Chang'an had too many women, and among those women with whom he had a deep connection, only a very few actually received the extra benefits.

Tang Shuang, Xia Wenzhuo, Jing Xiu, and Shan Qiang are the four who benefited the most. Tang Shuang and Shan Qiang have good family backgrounds, Xia Wenzhuo is outstanding, and he and Zhao Chang'an are clearly childhood sweethearts.

Jingxiu has taken over all of Zhao Chang'an's original songs, and in just over three years, she has become a near-top-tier pop star and a new generation goddess in China.

The key elements here are that these people are all very capable, and Jingxiu has a heavenly voice and is also very beautiful.

Of the other women Su Ying knew, Zeng Xiaoxiao and her own daughter Liu Cui were not known. However, given her understanding of her mentor's character, there were certainly many others.

Like his own daughter and Zeng Xiaoxiao, although they also received tens of millions of yuan, they were hidden away and kept as his secret lovers.

Su Ying felt that the profit margin was too low, and Zhao Chang'an had already given Liu Cui's share of the profit in advance, so the amount she would receive in the future would be limited.

The ten million from Jurassic Park, the 3% stake in Cretaceous Park, and the manor villa in Peach Blossom Manor—these are the three largest assets.

Therefore, in Su Ying's cold-blooded calculations, leaving Zhao Chang'an at this time, then having her daughter find a good job and a good son-in-law, would be a more cost-effective choice.

When Su Ying first arrived in Paris, she was full of confidence. She thought that as a former vice president and dean of the Faculty of Arts at a university, and fluent in English, finding a high-paying, respectable, and motivating job in Paris would be a piece of cake.

However, when she went out to look for a job, she discovered that the English she knew was the kind of English used for written exams in China's exam-oriented education system, not to mention French.

The claim that he had managed a college within a university was met with disdain by the recruiting companies. They simply couldn't imagine someone in that position giving up a prestigious job to move to France just to reunite with family.

Moreover, there's nothing here that requires her to use her literary skills. Besides, although she is the dean of the School of Literature, her literary level is nowhere near Liu Mingjie's. Liu Mingjie's literary level is only considered above average among the Chinese professors at the provincial normal university.

However, it wasn't that she couldn't find work. She could wash dishes and wait tables in Chinese restaurants, take a small flag and work as a tour guide at the Eiffel Tower, or do odd jobs in small factories run by Chinese people. There was always a job that suited her.

Su Ying certainly wouldn't stoop to doing that kind of work. She already had the money from selling her Jurassic shares, as well as the proceeds from selling her house and car, plus her existing savings, so she wasn't short of money. The family spent three or four months idly in France, then returned to China for the Lunar New Year, hoping to find work in Hong Kong, but they were still clueless.

It wasn't until Liu Mingxiong, Lang Ruping, and Mai Guixue invited Liu Cui to Zhengzhou to persuade Zhao Chang'an to sell his shares at a low price that Su Ying truly realized that without the platform, she was nothing.

Su Ying was glad that she realized her mistake early and turned back in time. What moved Liu Cui was that Zhao Chang'an was still there waiting for her without holding a grudge.

Besides, Liu Cui had already come to terms with it; since she truly loved Zhao Chang'an and couldn't live without him...

Since women like Tang Shuang, Xia Wenzhuo, and Jing Xiu can tolerate Zhao Chang'an having other female confidantes, what reason do I have to think that I can be special?
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Su Ying's frowning expression towards her daughter wasn't because she was unhappy about the long phone call; on the contrary, the longer the call went on, the happier she was.

The expression and tone she deliberately displayed were not a performance for her to secretly gloat or show off.

Just like today, she invited Dong Li over for dinner, letting her know that she is now the vice president of the cultural tourism group under OneNan, and that Dahe Daily and TV stations are vying to interview her.

Even when her former student, Mr. Li, invited her to dinner, it was all for the purpose of showing off in front of Dong Li.

She wasn't trying to tell Dong Li anything like "Don't underestimate a young man's potential." The two had always had a good relationship, and even after moving to Western Europe, they would occasionally call each other to chat.

She wanted Dong Li to help her promote her name after returning to school, so that even if Su Ying left the university, she could still thrive and get revenge for being forced to take a leave of absence without pay last year due to rumors.

"This Zhao Chang'an put up a big-character poster about Xia Wenyang before the college entrance exam. Afraid of retaliation, he went to my brother's house for protection. My sister-in-law didn't really like him; she thought this student was simply unreasonable. She wondered how big her house would have to be to accommodate so many students if everyone acted like him. But my brother agreed to his test application, and he got almost perfect scores in math, physics, chemistry, Chinese, and English. My brother was so happy that he even made room for him in his study until the end of the college entrance exam—"

Su Ying spoke casually, but the women present were all shrewd and knew that she was actually showing off.

The problem is that even if you know someone is showing off, you still have the right to do so.

Because the person she was talking about was Zhao Chang'an, the president of the company that was the richest man in China last year according to Forbes and is currently the president of the largest private enterprise investment in the province.

"This is also thanks to Principal Su's discerning eye," Liu Yunyun said with a smile, "and it's also a blessing from your two families and Zhao Chang'an. The kindness shown in helping someone in need is something that can never be compared to adding flowers to brocade."

Dong Li and Jiang Ji both nodded in agreement with envy in their eyes. They certainly understood the principle that everyone should help someone who is already in a good position.

"Later, the two children naturally became friends. After estimating their college entrance exam scores, I told the girl to apply to the Provincial Normal University, but she secretly applied to Mingzhu University of Finance and Economics instead, becoming neighbors with Zhao Chang'an. I was furious at the time."

The other three women at the card table exchanged glances. Dong Li smiled and praised, "Xiao Su, you're such a decisive girl, and you've chosen the right path. You should be happy. A finance-related major at a 211 university in Mingzhu is much better than the Provincial Normal University. Unlike my daughter, she was a complete slacker after the college entrance exam. It was all my and Lao Fang's fault for not filling out her college application every day. As a result, she failed to get into her desired university in her first year, and now she's a sophomore and still complains that we delayed her by a year."