My CEO Baby Daddy Keeps Falling for My Tricks-Chapter 887 - 898 Su Yueze Side Story: Emotional Rift

"If I had his connections, I’d definitely be better than him!" Xu Ming said, begrudgingly.

Yan Bing had always admired her boyfriend, a high school champion from a county town next to B City, who had been admitted to Tsinghua University with excellent grades. He also performed well at Tsinghua, so after graduating, he used some connections to join the Local Tax Bureau in B City.

For a child from a county town, joining the Local Tax Bureau in B City was like paradise on earth.

Xu Ming was the pride of his entire family and even the entire county.

His parents, and even his aunts and uncles, would boast to anyone that their family member worked at the tax bureau in B City, talking about it as if it was a very impressive feat.

This led to Xu Ming’s confidence becoming extremely inflated, turning into arrogance. He always thought he was better than everyone else in the world.

He believed that anyone who was better than him only got there because of their background. If he had the same background, then how things would be...

Yan Bing knew how to handle this kind of talk from him; she had already anticipated he would say this.

But...

Despite her boyfriend’s arrogance, Yan Bing didn’t find it off-putting at all. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom

She could completely understand where Xu Ming’s immense confidence came from and, in fact, she felt quite proud of him.

Seeing that Yan Bing hadn’t said anything, Xu Ming felt somewhat unsatisfied and climbed up from her legs."What’s the matter, do you think I’m wrong?"

"Of course not!" Yan Bing smiled.

Although Yan Bing didn’t take it seriously, Xu Ming thought she was, and asked with a bit of anger, "You look down on me, don’t you? You think I’m incompetent, right?"

Yan Bing looked at him, puzzled. "When have I ever looked down on you?"

"You’ve always looked down on me. You sneer at my county town origins, my parents who were crammed into B City!" Xu Ming escalated the issue.

Yan Bing was getting fed up. "Xu Ming, can you please stop making a fuss for no reason? When have I ever looked down on your background? Besides, isn’t your background quite good? Why would I need to look down on you?"

"You people from B City always look down on newcomers, as if we’ve encroached on your resources!"

Yan Bing was frustrated by this unwarranted accusation. If she had actually said something, that would be one thing, but she hadn’t. "Xu Ming, if I looked down on you, would I be dating you? Would I want to marry you?"

"Anyway, that’s how you B City people are!" Xu Ming said, somewhat angrily.

"Others are others, they are not me! You can’t lump me in with them!"

Xu Ming closed his mouth, not saying anything further, just sulking.

The two sat in silence for a long time until Yan Bing took the initiative to break it."What’s wrong? Are you unhappy with your work?"

Xu Ming covered his face with both hands and rubbed hard. "It’s nothing!"

Yan Bing knew where his issue lay, came closer to him, and hugged him. "If you’re unhappy about something, just talk about it. It’ll make you feel better to get it off your chest!"

Xu Ming said dejectedly, "People at the bureau make fun of me behind my back, saying I have no taste in clothes, saying I reek of the countryside!"

Yan Bing was particularly angry upon hearing this, but still comforted him reasonably, "That’s because they’re jealous of your talent, that’s why they say such things. You’re not unsophisticated at all. Besides, even if you come from a small place, what of it? You should be proud of that, not ashamed!"

"But it still upsets me to be talked about like that!" Xu Ming was saddened.

"..."

Yan Bing didn’t know how to comfort her boyfriend further; an individual’s sense of inferiority can’t be reasoned away by others, it must fade on its own.

Xu Ming slowly clenched his fists tightly."One day I will become head of the bureau, Bureau Chief, and then see if they dare to look down on me!"

"Heh..." Yan Bing laughed again. "Why put so much pressure on yourself? You’re already doing very well, a civil servant for the state with a high salary. I think I’m very happy with you!"

Xu Ming was not satisfied with this at all. "What am I now? Just barely scraping by. Your salary is even higher than mine..."

"Mine?" Yan Bing laughed self-deprecatingly. "Mine isn’t stable, though. Some months, if performance is good, I get more, but when it’s not, I just get the base salary!"

In fact, her salary was indeed much higher than his; her monthly salary plus bonus was at most 16,000 or 17,000, while hers approached 50,000, and in good months, it exceeded 100,000. However, she never flaunted the amount of her salary. Men always need face, and if you make more than them, it’s something they just can’t handle.

Xu Ming was very unsatisfied with himself. "The main reason is that I’m still not a leader, even at the minor level; if I were, my income wouldn’t just be this. Look at my roommate from college, I heard he got into Tsinghua because of connections, too, and he even failed several courses when graduating. The next year, through who knows what connections, he managed to get his diploma. He even joined the Local Tax Bureau a year later than I did, but, being a local from B City with an uncle inside the bureau, he was promoted to section head the second year and entered the deputy rank the third year. I’ve heard their Deputy Bureau Chief is retiring soon, and he is the candidate for that position. Me, on the other hand, I’m still just an ordinary staff member!"

Yan Bing knew he was not content. "Everyone has their own fate, and it’s not necessarily good to be an official."

"I’m working in a state department now, I’m in civil service; if I don’t become an official, if I don’t climb up, then what am I doing here? I might as well go straight to a private company, I could make more money!"

Yan Bing didn’t know what to say; she least liked it when men blame others and the world for their troubles.

"Why is my life so miserable, why is there no one to help me? If I had an able father, an able uncle, or another relative like that, my life wouldn’t be what it is now!"

"So what can you do now? You don’t have such relatives, are you going to stay unhappy forever?" Yan Bing asked, annoyed.

Xu Ming looked up at her."Yan Bing, didn’t you say you had an uncle who held a sizable government position? Can’t you think of a way, give me a little help?"

Yan Bing found it rather ludicrous."That uncle... he’s not even my direct uncle, but a distant relative’s. It wouldn’t be right to ask him for such a favor, would it? Moreover, even if we were very close, my uncle is already semi-retired and couldn’t help even if he wanted to!"

"If your family doesn’t make contact, of course you won’t be close. Should interact more. I just want him to put in a word for me," Xu Ming moved closer to Yan Bing, hoping she would give him more help.

Yan Bing was unwilling."If we could ask such a relative, my mother would have already done so to secure a job for me."