Siheyuan: At the beginning, I can integrate everything!

That scarlet gaze, like the forked tongue of a viper, made Yu Li feel extremely uncomfortable.

She turned her head and met Yan Jiecheng, who was squatting on the curb.

She used to be that spineless man who followed his father in the compound, calculating every penny, and who could argue with her endlessly over a few pounds of cornmeal.

At this moment, it looks like a stray dog.

His dirty undershirt reeked of months of not being washed, and his hair was matted and his beard was unkempt.

Where is even a trace of the sullen arrogance he once had in the courtyard house, when he called himself "the son of a cultured family"?

"Oh dear, Lily!"

When Yan Jiecheng saw Yu Li looking over, he became incredibly excited, as if he had been injected with adrenaline.

He threw away the half-smoked cigarette butt he had picked up and wiped his face haphazardly with his dirty sleeve.

He pulled out a handful of wilted wild chrysanthemums from under his buttocks, which he didn't know he had picked from some flower bed.

It wagged its tail and came over, wagging like a lapdog.

"Wife! I've finally found you!"

Yan Jiecheng called her "wife" in such an intimate way, which, combined with his ugly appearance, was simply nauseating.

He walked up to Yu Li's bright red Santana, staring greedily at the reflective paint, wishing he could pounce on it and lick it.

"This...this is the car your company provides? It's really impressive!"

Yan Jiecheng swallowed hard, his turbid eyes gleaming with undisguised fanaticism and greed.

"I heard from the old ladies at the alley entrance that you're now the CEO of Future Technology Group!"

"Annual salary of one million! Plus bonuses!"

He became more and more agitated as he spoke, even reaching out his dark hands to pull at Yu Li's well-tailored, expensive high-end business suit.

"Lily, I was a bastard before. I was blinded by greed and listened to my dead father's schemes."

Yan Jiecheng, shameless as ever, squeezed out two crocodile tears.

"We're a married couple! Even a day as husband and wife is worth a hundred days of kindness."

"Now that you're successful, don't forget about me!"

"Let's remarry! I promise I'll listen to you completely from now on and treat you like royalty!"

Remarriage?

Yu Li stood by the car door, looking at the shameless man, without feeling a ripple in her heart.

There was only one kind of extreme disgust, like looking at maggots crawling out of a garbage dump.

During the time that Future Technology has been with Zhang Huaimin, her perspective has long since broadened beyond what it was when she was a young wife confined to a courtyard house.

She has witnessed the scheming and intrigue among international oligarchs and has personally fought off commercial blockades by those multinational giants.

In her eyes, the man's ridiculous schemes were less than those of a rat in the sewer.

"Yan Jiecheng, are you sick in the head?"

Yu Li's voice was icy cold, devoid of any warmth, and she didn't even take a step back to avoid his outstretched hand.

Because she knew that someone would take care of this kind of trash for her.

"We've been divorced for a long time. Whether you live or die is none of my business."

"Get out of the way, don't dirty my car."

Yan Jiecheng was scolded, but instead of getting angry, he became even more excited.

He thought Yu Li was just putting on airs; after all, women are easy to coax.

Moreover, now that he has seen that mountain of gold, how could he easily give in?

"Oh, Lily, don't be like this. I know you still have feelings for me."

Yan Jiecheng decided to act shamelessly and brazenly moved forward.

"Look, you're the president of such a big company now. How can you manage without a man you know well to keep an eye on things?"

His eyes darted around, and the abacus beads clicked rapidly in his mind.

"Just assign me some vice president or something in the company, dangdang."

"I'm not picky, I just need to handle procurement or logistics."

"My husband and I work together from the inside out. This company is so big; if even a little bit of profit leaks out, our family will be living like royalty!"

Good guy!

This plan was so convincing that even the passersby watching the spectacle shook their heads.

It's one thing for him to come to his ex-wife's company begging to get back together.

They haven't even stepped inside yet, and they're already plotting how to embezzle money using their positions!

The Yan family truly has the word "scheming" etched into their very bones.

However, this scheme was misplaced and targeted the wrong person.

Yu Li listened to Yan Jiecheng's shameless words and a mocking sneer curled at the corner of her mouth.

She had lost all interest in arguing with him.

"The vice president, huh? Trying to skim some profits, huh?"

Yu Li didn't look at Yan Jiecheng, but turned her head to look at the group security guards at the entrance of the Future Technology Building, who had been eyeing the commotion for a long time.

These security guards are no ordinary gatekeepers.

Those were all elites personally selected by Chen Bing from among the veterans, specifically responsible for the building's security!

"security guard."

Yu Li's voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable air of authority befitting a female CEO.

"There's a mentally ill person here who's trying to harass company executives and even attempting to damage company property."

She extended her gloved fingers and gently pointed at Yan Jiecheng, who was still dreaming of becoming the vice president.

"Throw him away from me."

"Don't let this stench reach our company's main entrance."

"Yes, Mr. Yu!"

With Yu Li's command.

Four burly security guards in crisp black uniforms rushed out of the lobby like wolves.

"Hey? What are you doing? I'm your CEO Yu's husband! How dare you touch me..."

Upon seeing this, Yan Jiecheng was so frightened that he retreated backward, still trying to intimidate others with his status.

But his strength was nothing compared to that of these veterans.

Two security guards stepped forward, each grabbing one of his arms and locking him tightly like iron clamps.

They lifted Yan Jiecheng off the ground.

"Let me go! Lily, you can't be so heartless! I'm your man!"

Yan Jie kicked his legs wildly, and the wild chrysanthemum in his hand fell to the ground, where it was trampled to pieces by the security guard.

His pig-like screams echoed through the streets.

"Shut your stinking mouth!"

The head of security snorted and slapped Yan Jiecheng on the back of the head with his large palm, making him see stars.

"You dare to act wildly in front of President Yu? You're asking for trouble!"

Amidst the pointing fingers and mocking glances of passersby.

Four burly security guards dragged him around like a dead dog.

Yan Jiecheng was dragged more than 100 meters away.

At the end of the street.

There was a stinking ditch there, filled with swill and sludge from restaurants on both sides, after it had rained the day before.

"Get out of here!"

The security captain gave a cold shout.

The four security guards exerted force simultaneously, like throwing a tattered sack full of garbage.

"thump!"

A muffled thud.

Water splashed everywhere.

Yan Jiecheng's emaciated body traced an extremely awkward arc in mid-air.

He landed face down, crashing directly into that foul-smelling, muddy ditch!

"Ugh—! Help! It stinks!"

Yan Jiecheng thrashed about frantically in the stinking ditch, his face, already obscured by mud, covered in filth.

He opened his mouth and gulped down several mouthfuls of sour, foul-smelling swill, so disgusting that he lay down by the ditch and vomited uncontrollably.

Like a toad that has just crawled out of a cesspool, both comical and pathetic.

Yu Li stood by the car door, watching this scene from afar.

There was not a trace of pity in his eyes, only the exhilarating feeling of severing all ties with the past.

She gracefully opened the car door and got into the red Santana that belonged to the powerful women of her time.

The engine roared.

They sped away, leaving not even a taillight behind the good-for-nothing lying in the stinking ditch.

At this time.

A few kilometers away, in Nanluoguxiang, is the Hongxing Courtyard.

Inside the main room of the Yan family's house in the front yard.

Yan Bugui was wearing his reading glasses and carefully wiping his prized "future color TV".

Suddenly, the door was pushed open.

The three women came running in, panting and with flushed faces.

"Old man! Something terrible has happened!"

The three women's voices were trembling.

"Someone saw us at the alley entrance just now, our Jie Cheng... went to the Future Building to find Yu Li..."

"As a result, Yu Li called security guards, who beat him black and blue and threw him into a stinking ditch!"

"What?!"

Yan Bugui's hand trembled, and he almost shattered the TV screen.

He turned around abruptly, his shrewd old eyes widening like copper bells, his face filled with disbelief.

"That bitch Yu Li... how dare she hit my son?!"

He grabbed the old abacus on the table, which had been used for decades, and trembled with anger.

"Snap!"

With a crisp sound, the abacus that had been scheming against everyone in the hospital for half its life was gone.

He actually managed to break it in two right there and then!