Chapter 4: Finding a Job is So Hard Part 1

Assistant Liu heard Wang Ya address her that way and quickly said, “Little sister, don’t shout randomly. This is our company’s big boss’s Eldest Daughter. She’s someone with great abilities.”

Wang Ya sneered mockingly, “Yeah, someone with great abilities, so great that she couldn’t even escape the Ghost Hitting Wall.” She raised an eyebrow and eyed the Blind Beauty in front of her with full mockery. The woman’s skin was as delicate as a freshly peeled boiled egg, but no matter how she looked at her—sideways or straight on—she just didn’t sit right with Wang Ya.

The Blind Beauty remained calm about Wang Ya’s form of address and sarcastic remarks. She said, “Miss Wang, can we talk inside?”

Wang Ya’s eyebrow twitched. She narrowed her eyes halfway and asked, “How do you know my name?”

The Blind Beauty extended her hand toward the bodyguard behind her. The bodyguard pulled out a bulging red women’s wallet and handed it to the Blind Beauty.

Wang Ya recognized at a glance that it was the wallet she had lost, and it even contained her ID Card!

The Blind Beauty handed the wallet to Wang Ya and asked, “Is this your wallet? See if anything else is missing. Can we go inside and sit down to talk?”

Wang Ya took the wallet, opened it, and saw her ID Card neatly placed inside, along with a thick stack of bills. She remembered that there had only been a little over three thousand yuan in her wallet! She closed the wallet and said, “Sure, please come in!” A brilliant smile floated onto her face as she picked up her bag and stepped aside to let the Blind Beauty enter.

Just as Zheng Yanxia lifted her leg to step into the room, Wang Ya suddenly stuck out her right foot to trip her. However, the expected scene of Zheng Yanxia stumbling did not occur. Zheng Yanxia strode forward with her head held high, stepping right over Wang Ya’s foot that was blocking the path in the middle. She didn’t even turn her head or blink as she walked straight past.

Wang Ya twisted her head in surprise to look at Zheng Yanxia. She took two steps forward, waved her fingers in front of Zheng Yanxia’s eyes, held up a “two” sign, and asked, “How many is this?”

Zheng Yanxia calmly said, “You know I can’t see.” Her empty, lifeless eyes faced Wang Ya, as if staring at thin air.

Wang Ya looked at Zheng Yanxia with a strange expression for a couple of moments and muttered in her heart, Can’t see, and yet I didn’t trip you? Even someone with normal vision would have stumbled if she suddenly stuck out her foot like that!

Zheng Yanxia said to Wang Ya, “Please sit, Miss Wang.” She turned, walked around the coffee table, and sat on the sofa, her pair of sightless eyes gazing toward where Wang Ya stood.

Wang Ya saw that Zheng Yanxia didn’t need anyone to guide her or a blind person’s cane to probe the way; she navigated around the coffee table and sat on the sofa just like a normal person. It felt utterly unreasonable! Wang Ya sat on the single-seater sofa nearby, eyed Zheng Yanxia, and asked, “You really can’t see?”

Zheng Yanxia calmly said, “My optic nerves have degenerated. I’ve been blind for many years.”

Wang Ya muttered softly, “What an impressive blind person.” She asked, “How do you do it?”

Zheng Yanxia knew Wang Ya was asking how she managed it and didn’t hide anything. She frankly replied, “I have Heart-Eye Vision. It’s innate.” Seeing that Wang Ya fell silent, she said, “I’m very sorry about last night.”

Wang Ya let out a heavy huff and scolded, “You still have the nerve to bring up last night! I’ve never seen such spineless people! I kindly stepped in to save you all, and what did you do? You ditched me and ran off!” She raised her left hand, wrapped full of bandages, and said, “See this? Four fingers all bleeding. So, how are you going to compensate me!”

Zheng Yanxia raised her hand slightly, and the bodyguard next to her stepped forward with a file bag. He pulled out ten stacks of crisp new hundred-yuan bills and placed them on the coffee table.

Wang Ya’s pretty face was full of anger as she faced Zheng Yanxia, but the corner of her eye glanced toward the coffee table. She huffed angrily, “You think ten thousand yuan can buy me off!” She leaned back on the sofa, already calculating in her mind how to spend that 100,000. Suddenly, she remembered something else and said, “How did my wallet end up with you?”

Zheng Yanxia said, “This morning, we went back and found you passed out on the roadside. Some workers from the neighboring construction site were gathered around. One of them claimed to be your fellow villager from the same village. I heard him mention that you’d lost your wallet, so I asked someone to help look for it. Luckily, we found it. The extra money in the wallet is compensation from the pickpocket for your loss.” She asked, “I wonder if Miss Wang is satisfied with this arrangement?”

Wang Ya was so furious she wanted to grab the ashtray on the table and smash it over someone’s head! Before she left home, her grandma had repeatedly warned her: if she was going to show her skills and take this path, she must never let anyone know her background and origins. Now it was all out in the open—her ID Card had been seen, and they knew exactly where her home was. If not for her grandma’s precaution when registering her household account and fudging the birth date, the discrepancy between the date on her ID Card and her real one would have exposed her Birth Chart. Now, her life would be in someone else’s hands. Losing the ID Card was no big deal—she could get a new one—but letting peers know her ID information was the ultimate taboo among taboos.

Zheng Yanxia asked, “Miss Wang, can I talk to you alone?”

Wang Ya knew what Zheng Yanxia wanted to ask: first, to probe her background; second, about the Ancient Old Ghost at the construction site. Wang Ya suppressed her anger, leaned sideways against the sofa armrest with her right hand propping up her cheek, and asked, “Talk about what?”

Zheng Yanxia waved her hand, and the two bodyguards following her along with Assistant Liu all retreated, closing the door behind them.

Zheng Yanxia said, “Last night was a case of necessity. The situation was beyond our control; we were at our wits’ end. In that moment, if we hadn’t withdrawn in time, we might have all been wiped out. Now we know Miss Wang is someone with great abilities, but at the time… we could only save whoever we could!”