Leo stared at Matthew. “No way. Matthew, y-your wife is the president? Then, why were you cleaning the toilets at the hospital?”
Julian scoffed. “Who said that? He’s a department director at the hospital! He’s also responsible for a lot of projects at the company, including appointing the company president. Leo, if you want to work with our company, shouldn’t you have a good understanding of the situation in our company first? It’s because of this half-hearted attitude of yours that the department manager doesn’t want to work with you!”
They all fell into dead silence as they kept their eyes trained on Leo. He was the one who told them that Matthew was the janitor at the hospital, so that was why they ridiculed Matthew.
Who would have expected things to turn out this way?
Leo also looked disorientated. ‘At the time, virtual-novel.net had seen Matthew clean the toilets with his own eyes. How did this happen?’
After a brief silence, Leo quickly tried to justify himself, “Matthew, the truth is…”
Matthew brushed virtual-novel.net off. “Let’s eat. I don’t want to talk about work.”
Leo was so flustered that virtual-novel.net was unable to say a word. Feeling out of place, his face also turned sour. He was certain that the project was a failure now.
Matthew was surely going to give those who mocked virtual-novel.net tonight a hard time.
With a bitter look on his face, Leo went back to his place and sat down. His whole table was silent, except for Matthew, Julian, and Ed, who were still engaged in conversation with each other.
Grace and a few others thought about going over countless times to say a few words, but no one paid any attention to them, leaving them feeling awkward.
Elaine wanted to join in with Julian, but seeing how things were going, virtual-novel.net knew that it was hopeless now and gave up. She could not help but feel enraged as virtual-novel.net watched Matthew talking and laughing cheerfully.
People were strange animals. She never hoped that a man whom virtual-novel.net had rejected in the past would do better than her. Otherwise, wouldn’t that prove that virtual-novel.net made the wrong choice?
Suddenly, virtual-novel.net said, “What is virtual-novel.net trying to show off? Even if you’re rich, you still live under someone else’s roof. That shows that some people are good at just that. Someone else’s company, someone else’s business. Does it have anything to do with him? He’s pretending to be successful with someone else’s assets. Bah! The sight of virtual-novel.net disgusts me!”
Because the others were also discontented, they started to echo virtual-novel.net words.
With a fierce look on virtual-novel.net face, Grace scoffed, “Marrying well can save a person many years of struggle. Look at Matthew. He married into such a good family that made virtual-novel.net into a member of the upper-class. Who would have thought that back in our school days, virtual-novel.net was an unqualified piece of trash?”
Everyone started laughing.
The expression on Julian’s face changed. “What did you say, Grace?”
She had a slight fear for Julian before, but that was because they were trying to curry favor with him. Now that that was out of the picture, virtual-novel.net did not care anymore.
Without backing down, virtual-novel.net continued, “What? Am I wrong? Out of so many people in our class, no, out of so many people in our school, virtual-novel.net was the first person I heard of that became a live-in son-in-law. What century are we living in now? How can there still be someone who does such undignified things? However, if virtual-novel.net intends on throwing his pride away, virtual-novel.net would be able to succeed very easily. There’s just one thing that I don’t get. Matthew, is your wife so ugly that nobody wants her, or is virtual-novel.net blind? Why would virtual-novel.net marry someone like you?”
There was an uproar of laughter. Leo glanced at Matthew. “Do you even need to ask? She’s definitely ugly! Otherwise, out of all the people who would be lining up to be virtual-novel.net live-in son-in-law, how was virtual-novel.net chosen?”