The male supporting character was actually myself.

Do you want to? Yes! Which girl hasn't dreamed of walking down the aisle with her sweetheart, having children, living a happy, simple, and warm life together, a lifetime of being one and only?

Do you dare?

Whether online or in real life, there are countless similar examples – men don't earn enough to support their families, so women have to work to earn money and share the burden of the family. However, most men are not yet aware enough to share the family burden equally.

In particular, the long-standing patriarchal social environment in this region has led almost everyone to accept that men only need to go to work and then lie down when they get home, while women still have to shoulder family responsibilities after get off work.

This has led to the formation of "widowed-style" marriages.

Not to mention conflicts between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, gender discrimination in the workplace, and countless cases of women being disliked for their deformed bodies, aged appearance, and unattractiveness due to pregnancy and childbirth.

Ye Ruoyi also dreamed of finding a like-minded lover and growing old together.

However, in today's fast-paced life, the traditional model of men being responsible for external affairs and women for internal affairs is no longer applicable. Before they had children, their married life must have been blissful, but when she thought about the lives of her friends and colleagues who had children, she felt scared.

Working mothers who don’t give up their jobs not only face discrimination, but also have to take care of their children after a busy day at work, and are ultimately criticized by their husbands for not caring about their families and children and not being fit to be mothers.

If you give up your job to become a full-time mom, you have to take on all the responsibilities of family and childcare, and then ask for living expenses.

There were no parties, no entertainment, and even makeup and manicures had to be given up because of taking care of the children.

She didn't want to lower herself to the dust just to raise their child, transforming from a confident and beautiful young woman into a dull, overweight, and busy housewife.

What if I marry someone with a bad temper who'll resort to violence at the slightest disagreement...?

Ye Ruoyi glanced at Wei Jiangchen, who was driving seriously, and thought to herself that he shouldn't be that kind of person, right?

It would be terrible if you encountered a domestic abuser.

Violence involving the word "family" is like binding your partner. Throwing a punch at someone else can result in detention or even imprisonment; however, throwing a punch at a family member becomes a domestic dispute, and at most, you'll serve a few years in jail if you kill them, and there's virtually no criminal cost for injuring them.

The various realities of the internet age made her hesitant to gamble with the rest of her life.

If you bet right, everything will be wonderful;

If you gamble wrong, you'll be doomed—in a sewer, at the bottom of a cliff, in a freezer, in a fire…

But he is Wei Jiangchen!

Ye Ruoyi didn't know why, but his casual question made her think about so many scenarios, even the good and bad of their future married life. Her heart was pounding and her face was burning red.

"Look, look!" The little white cat slapped its thigh and exclaimed, "Hua Zaihong is really something. She's blind to date a scumbag and then advises others to be careful about marriage. But she needs to be careful when she's with such a good person as my host? Just go for it! Jumping into a happy nest with your eyes closed is fine too!"

Don't want to get married?

As Jiang Chen drove, she pondered the situation. If she really didn't want to get married, it wouldn't be a big deal. In modern society, cohabitation and marriage are just a piece of paper apart.

As long as the two of them are together, they don't have much attachment to anything else.

The worst-case scenario is that Hua Zaihong's example might cause Ye Ruoyi to develop a fear of men, making her not want to date and only want to focus on her career. What would happen then?

Shenhong City, Yushan Public Security Bureau.

"Qian Jiankun, confess yourself." The police acted swiftly after receiving the report.

Especially since this rumor-mongering case has stirred up a wave online and attracted public attention, they also want to quickly bring the mastermind behind it to justice.

With the conclusive evidence provided by Jiang Chen, the police quickly arrested the two suspects and interrogated them separately.

"There's nothing to explain," Qian Jiankun muttered, head down, still trying to put up a stubborn resistance.

He is 35 years old this year and has not been able to find a suitable partner.

When I was in my early twenties, I worked as a truck driver and earned a lot of money each month. I also had high standards, so when I looked for a partner, she had to be good-looking, have a good figure, and be gentle and obedient.

Qian Jiankun's hometown is in a suburban county of Shenhong City. His family built a grand house in the city, but he didn't buy a house there. Those with good conditions didn't want him, and he didn't want those with poor conditions. This back and forth has delayed him until now.

After entering middle age, his back ached from years of driving, so he had to give up driving trucks and find a delivery job that was neither good nor bad. With that meager salary, buying a house in the city was out of the question. Girls who worked in the city all wanted to stay and live in the bustling metropolis, and no one wanted to marry him and go back to their hometown.

But he doesn't lower his standards at all; he wants to find a gentle, beautiful, considerate, and well-built only daughter from the city, preferably with a car, a house, and her own savings, to live off her family's wealth.

Unable to find work in real life, Qian Jiankun spent his days tipping various livestreamers on different websites and platforms. Late at night, he would frequent certain unsavory groups, watching secretly filmed videos posted by others to kill time.

After being stimulated and tempted by videos on the internet for a long time, he also wanted to get some hidden cameras to secretly film people.

You should know that this stuff is incredibly profitable!

He knew that those big players who sold secretly filmed hotel videos in bulk earned at least three to five million yuan a year. Even if they got caught, they'd only be fined a few hundred yuan at most, and wouldn't even have to go to jail.

With money, what kind of woman can't you find?

Driven by profit and a twisted mentality, Qian Jiankun bought several pinhole cameras online.

But after receiving the goods, he realized that he didn't have a way to secretly film; and he had been ripped off when he bought the product, as it could only be charged and couldn't be used for continuous filming for very long.

One day, Qian Jiankun passed by the public restroom downstairs and saw a repairman busy at work. He then came up with a crooked idea.

"These videos you filmed, along with the records of the packaged sales, are all evidence. We have complete evidence of them." Seeing that he was tilting his head and seemed unyielding, the officer coldly reminded him, "Now we'll have you confess to the crime of secretly filming videos and spreading rumors."

What grudge do you have against Ye Ruoyi?

"This is a perfectly normal young girl you have no connection with, and you're spreading rumors and slandering her for no reason!"

Qian Jiankun was thinking of just giving up, figuring that at most he'd be fined a few dollars and his hidden camera would be confiscated for secretly filming women in the restroom. But he never expected that such a well-hidden thing as spreading rumors would be discovered!

The thought of those fabricated verdicts he had seen online recently made him panic.

Damn it, how did we get caught?!

He looked at the hidden camera and several memory cards on the table, swallowed hard, and sweat began to bead on his forehead.

"I really don't remember him." Ye Ruoyi looked at the stammering and hesitant man in the interrogation room, her face full of anger. "Why did you take pictures of me for no reason and then spread rumors about me?"

Jiang Chen crossed her arms and coldly stared at the seemingly honest and simple-minded man in his thirties, unable to fathom what kind of mentality could lead someone to do such a despicable thing.

Thanks to Rongtuanzi's ability to trace the information chain back to find clues, and based on the videos stored in his cloud drive, it was discovered that in addition to spreading rumors, Qian Jiankun had also installed pinhole cameras in the women's stalls of two public restrooms and packaged the videos to sell on those kinds of websites.

The video clips, numbering in the hundreds of gigabytes, contain countless victims.

However, according to the laws of the current mission world, Qian Jiankun's heinous act would at most result in ten days of detention and a fine of five hundred yuan, which is completely disproportionate to the harm suffered by the person being secretly filmed.

"It's just that she's unlucky." Qian Jiankun, who had been denying everything, finally bowed his head in the face of irrefutable evidence. He didn't dare to look the interrogating officer in the eye and muttered while fiddling with his hands: "Ye Ruoyi and Ping Xiaoan are the prettiest girls in the company. Many men are eyeing them and want to win them over."

Who doesn't like to look at beautiful women?

But those two girls are so ungrateful! I offered to drive them home several times, but Ping Xiaoan refused outright and completely ignored me! Ye Ruoyi is even more arrogant. She's used to being fawned over because of her pretty face, and she doesn't even glance at me when we meet.

I followed them every day after get off work, but since they were always together and I never saw them alone, we never got to know each other better.

Until that day…

On the day of the incident, he was responsible for moving the newly replaced filing cabinets in the design department upstairs. In the corridor, he overheard his supervisor talking to Ping Xiaoan and learned that she had bought a treadmill online.

Thinking that moving large items might require a man's help, Qian Jiankun, who was eager to get close to the two pretty girls, came up with a plan. After setting up the filing cabinet, he waited patiently to ask Ping Xiao'an if she needed help.

The other party politely declined, explaining that a courier would deliver it to their door and thanking him for his kindness.

Qian Jiankun grew dissatisfied after his invitations were ignored time and time again. In addition, when he sold the videos a few days ago, the seller said that he had not filmed enough pretty girls and offered a very low price.

He then thought of taking the opportunity to install a small pinhole camera in the room that Ye Ruoyi and Ping Xiaoan shared. As long as he could film such a beautiful girl, he would feel great whether he watched it himself or sold it.

While making a delivery, Qian Jiankun realized that his original plan to break in or infiltrate the delivery team would be difficult, and he had no way to install a camera to spy on the beauty's privacy in a short period of time.

After much deliberation, he decided to take a different approach.

They installed hidden cameras in the stairwell, pointing them at their doorways to film. Once they got the video footage of deliverymen coming to their door, they could edit it and distribute it online.

Qian Jiankun's thinking was simple: as long as he ruined Ping Xiaoan's reputation, she would lose her composure and stop putting on airs.

A girl with a reputation for promiscuity will definitely be isolated, and I will be able to find an opportunity to get my hands on her!

"I just wanted to make friends with them," Qian Jiankun argued. "Women these days are so materialistic and shameless, all they want is for men to be their lapdogs! I just wanted to clean up this social atmosphere, but who told Ye Ruoyi to show up and open the door halfway through?"

I thought I'd film Ping Xiaoan interacting with the deliveryman, but I was surprised to find a hidden surprise when I got the card back that evening.

Even in the low-quality video, Ye Ruoyi's beauty remained undiminished, and even gained a touch of allure with the help of filters and color correction.

That night, Qian Jiankun became increasingly craving the book and tossed and turned, unable to sleep.

Ultimately, he decided to change his plans. He edited the video, added some obscene language and short stories of his own imagination, and posted them in the LSP group to get pleasure. Sure enough, when people in the group saw that such a beautiful girl had willingly fallen into depravity and had sex with deliverymen and couriers, they all jumped out to add fuel to the fire and comment on the video, including many obscene speculations and fantasies.

Qian Jiankun never expected that the combination of a beautiful woman, a deliveryman, and a errand runner would become so popular.

As the chat logs were forwarded to various groups, he gained immense pleasure while also fantasizing about how he would step in to "rescue the beauty" after Ye Ruoyi was isolated, winning her over with understanding and sweet words. The moved beauty would then burst into tears, just like those online celebrities who make videos, disregarding societal norms and resolutely dedicating herself to him.

"I'd already thought of names for the baby, who knew things would escalate like this, and Ye Ruoyi just ran away!" He slammed his fist on the table angrily, yelling, "Don't try to pin this on me! I just wanted to find a wife, I had no other bad intentions. Don't try to pin the rumors in the office about her having an affair with the supervisor on me, I didn't know anything about it!"

Chapter Twenty-Two: The Complete Collection of Shocking Views

"You call this not having any other bad intentions?" A female police officer in charge of taking statements was so angry that she cursed, "There are so many perverts exposed in the internet age! They just spout rumors without thinking; you haven't seen those videos, they were all filmed... Ugh, what kind of pervert would like to watch this kind of stuff?"

Hearing her complain, another officer curled his lip and muttered, "This girl named Ye Ruoyi is really pitiful, getting herself into this mess. Over there, they're interrogating Zhao Limei, who spread rumors that she had an affair with her supervisor. They've been asking her for ages, do you even know why she spread those rumors?"

His words piqued the curiosity of everyone in the office.

"Could it be that she has a crush on the supervisor? I just heard them say that the supervisor they called in to cooperate with the investigation is quite handsome."

"When a woman spreads rumors about another woman, it's either out of jealousy or hatred; the two are likely in conflict."

"That girl Ye Ruoyi is indeed very pretty. Maybe Zhao Limei is just jealous of her beauty?"

The police officer cleared his throat and shook his head, saying, "None of you guessed right! You can't look people in the eye. She and Ye Ruoyi have absolutely no conflict. On the contrary, they usually get along quite well."

Zhao Limei said that she was dissatisfied with Ye Ruoyi because she accidentally saw Ye Ruoyi's salary text message some time ago!

She'd been with the company for four years, making her a veteran employee; Ye Ruoyi had only been there for six months, a complete newbie. Their work was roughly the same, and even if Ye Ruoyi worked a lot of overtime, her salary couldn't be nearly four thousand yuan higher than hers.

"That's strange. Why can new employees earn more than old employees?" the young police officer interrupted, looking completely bewildered.

Another experienced officer explained, "This is the design company's fault; in fact, most companies do this. Employees hired four years ago have their total salary calculated based on a base salary plus commission at that time, and even if the base salary increases every year, it doesn't increase much."

But if we want to hire new employees, we have to pay the current average salary to find them.

With the same workload, a slight difference in base salary and overtime pay can make a big difference in total. That's why we often hear about someone getting a significant salary increase after changing jobs.

Always stuck in one company waiting for a raise? Are you kidding me! The boss would love for all employees to work for free and even pay out of pocket!

"So it was all a misunderstanding?"

"That's right. Zhao Limei only saw Ye Ruoyi's salary deposited via text message and had no idea that the young girl's starting salary was much higher than hers. No matter how she calculated it, something seemed off, so she went to ask her supervisor."

The supervisor definitely knows about this, what can he say?

There are many long-time employees under him. What if they find out that the salaries and benefits are different? Wouldn't that cause a huge uproar? The supervisor just brushed it off, but Zhao Limei became suspicious and over-interpreted it.

Coincidentally, Qian Jiankun's side spread rumors that caused a great uproar.