Quick Transmigration: Drama Queen's Daily Life-Chapter 818 - 807: The Honest Man Who Was Used

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Shen Xiu was taken aback, then realized there was still another person in the house.

Then came endless rage. Great! He still knows how to come home. What’s the use of calling once every three days? He doesn’t give her any money. Does he know how difficult this month has been for her?

"Why are you only coming back now?" she said with a sullen face.

Ye Qiu smiled apologetically: "There’s been new progress at the research institute, I really couldn’t get away. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to ignore you."

However, his humble stance did not extinguish Shen Xiu’s anger. She said discontentedly, "A month, we just got married and you disappeared for an entire month. Do you even care about me at all?"

"I’m sorry, I really didn’t mean to, that’s just how experiments are, we can’t give up halfway."

"So you can just ignore me? Do you know how scared I was, not knowing anyone when I married and came here? People who didn’t know would still think I’m single!" Shen Xiu was still yelling. She admitted she was doing it on purpose, only this way would increase Ye Qiu’s guilt towards her.

Ye Qiu said nothing, keeping his head down and letting her speak.

"You dare to ignore me? Do you think just because I married you, you can do whatever you want? I’m talking to you, at least make a sound!"

"What’s going on?" Suddenly, there was a knock at the door accompanied by a warm greeting from a middle-aged woman.

Ye Qiu got up to open the door, smiling apologetically at the visitor: "Sister Zhang, did we disturb you? I’m sorry, we’ll keep it down."

"It’s nothing." The visitor was Professor Zhang Peipei, their neighbor across the hall. She looked inside and, seeing Shen Xiu’s somewhat red eyes, sighed and walked in.

"What’s wrong? You two just got married, talk it out. How come you’re arguing after just a month of marriage?"

Ye Qiu, filled with guilt, looked dejected: "It’s all my fault, I made Xiao Xiu angry."

"What’s going on, tell me?" Zhang Peipei took Shen Xiu’s hand, "Don’t be upset, if you feel wronged, tell me, Sister Zhang will stand up for you."

"It’s nothing major, we just got married and then he was gone for a month. I got upset, Sister Zhang, I’m sorry for disturbing you, I won’t be so loud in the future." Shen Xiu didn’t know that in this big city, neighbors would mediate in quarrels, wasn’t this meddling?

"Not coming home due to a contract?" Zhang Peipei frowned and asked Ye Qiu, "What is going on? Is Xiao Shen angry?"

Ye Qiu, somewhat helpless and at a loss, said, "There’s been new progress at the institute, I really couldn’t get away. Sister Zhang, can you persuade Xiao Xiu for me, I don’t know what to do."

"Is it because of that?" Zhang Peipei too felt helpless, turned to persuade Shen Xiu, "Xiao Shen, don’t be upset, be careful, it’ll affect your health. It’s Ye Qiu’s fault for not coming home after just getting married, but it’s understandable. People like them get so absorbed in their experiments that they ignore everything else. But what can we do? It’s all for the greater good. We have to show support. My husband is in geology, he often doesn’t come home either. Sometimes he goes away to the deserts for several months without even a signal, I get angry too, but we can’t blame them, it’s all work."

Shen Xiu was bottling things up, wanting to get angry but unable to. She couldn’t say she was upset because of this, she would have preferred if Ye Qiu wasn’t around much. What upset her was that Ye Qiu didn’t give her any living expenses, yet she couldn’t voice this reason.

Seeing Zhang Peipei’s look urging her not to be upset, she begrudgingly nodded, "Sorry, Sister Zhang, I was too emotional. I lack security, so I care a lot about whether Ye Qiu comes home."

"That’s normal." Zhang Peipei nodded understandingly. "The time they spend on experiments is out of our control. If you feel scared or lonely in the future, come to me. I have few classes and plenty of free time."

Shen Xiu lowered her eyes, smiling awkwardly, "Thank you, Sister Zhang."

"No need to thank me, I’ll be happy if you can resolve any misunderstandings. I’ll head back now. Ye Qiu, make sure to comfort Xiao Shen well, and don’t talk back, okay?"

"I will, thank you, Sister Zhang." Ye Qiu gratefully smiled as he saw her out.

Zhang Peipei nodded. She knew what Ye Qiu was like; he wasn’t the type to argue. Earlier, she only heard Xiao Shen’s voice.

"I’m hungry, is there anything to eat?" Ye Qiu asked Shen Xiu with a calm face.

Shen Xiu opened her mouth wide, unable to understand how he could say this so confidently to her while she was mad.

Shen Xiu said nothing, and Ye Qiu continued, "I said I’m hungry, is there anything to eat?"

"You still expect me to serve you?" Shen Xiu was even more furious, but this time she suppressed her voice.

"What are you talking about? What era is this to still talk about serving someone? I finally get a break to come home, is it too much to want to eat something you cook?" Ye Qiu said with a slightly confused and aggrieved tone.

"There’s no food left." Shen Xiu said sullenly, feeling that Ye Qiu was simply a blockhead, with whom there was nothing to discuss.

"How can there be no food left? Then what will you and Xiao Huan eat later?"

"What to eat? With nothing, we’ll just have to drink the northwest wind!"

"Then shouldn’t you hurry to buy some? Xiao Huan will be out of school soon."

"Buy, buy, buy, with what money?" Shen Xiu felt frustrated to her core. How could someone be so oblivious?

"You’re out of money?" Ye Qiu asked, startled.

Shen Xiu felt insulted, her face flushed with anger: "What, are you surprised? Am I supposed to have money? You know perfectly well that when I divorced Xiao Ze, I left with nothing."

"But don’t you have a job?"

Shen Xiu was almost internally injured with frustration. She couldn’t possibly say she married to live a good life and quit her job, could she?

"I resigned."

"Why?"

"The supervisor didn’t like me and kept making things difficult for me, can’t I choose not to tolerate her anymore?" Shen Xiu glared at Ye Qiu angrily.

"As long as you’re happy," Ye Qiu muttered quietly, then took out a wallet.

Shen Xiu’s eyes lit up a bit, looking at the flat wallet. Was this the moment he was going to hand over the bank card to her?

"Here, this is my last five hundred yuan, you can take it first."

Just five hundred? Looking at the thin stack of red banknotes, Shen Xiu did not reach out.

"What do you mean by the last five hundred yuan?" she asked, taking a deep breath.

"You know I’ve always supported orphanages and impoverished students. The orphanage where I grew up has a child with congenital heart disease, and another with hearing issues. Winter is coming, and I need to prepare things for the cold, so I gave all the fifty thousand I had saved to Dean Zhang. There was still a few thousand in the bank card, but you know I gave your mother twenty thousand, and then there’s the monthly stipends for the poor students, so I only have this much left."