It had been over half a month since Ji Mingshu last posted on Weibo, and some people were still leaving comments under her last New Year's post, waiting for her to return. Little did they expect that what they ended up waiting for was such a bold and direct confrontation.
【Steady stance, fierce confrontation! The CEO's wife is the real deal!】
【Front row seats, melon seeds, cola, Sprite, and small stools—all for just one yuan!】
【? What happened? Who is Li Wenyin?】
【Back when a certain director posted that blog titled "My Ex Got Married," I commented, "If you don’t want to disturb your ex, you shouldn’t have posted this article." That comment got a lot of likes, but the director deleted it and blacklisted me. I still remember it clearly to this day.】
【To be honest, my husband’s ex-girlfriend was also that kind of piece of work. When we were dating, she’d constantly try to make her presence known around us. Since we had mutual friends, I couldn’t say much. Later, when my husband and I got married, she even posted old photos of them on her social media on our wedding day, saying stuff like "the past we can’t return to, I miss it." I was too much of a coward to confront her, but the more I thought about it, the angrier I got. I was even unhappy during our honeymoon. My husband felt I was wronged, so he posted on social media: "I don’t want to go back, please stop mentioning me, thank you." And I, the coward, was finally satisfied :）】
【The comment above reminds me of my own painful experience—almost exactly the same. But fate treats people differently. My ex-husband didn’t stand up for me back then; instead, he thought I was being dramatic. Later, he cheated on me during my breastfeeding period—with that piece-of-work ex of his :）】
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In truth, after posting the Weibo, Ji Mingshu had already vented most of her anger. She never expected this post to resonate so strongly with so many women—and even a small number of men.
The post was even reposted by a popular relationship blogger with nearly ten million followers, who added: "Not every current partner has the confidence to confront someone like the CEO’s wife. So, we can only hope that certain exes who lack self-awareness will take the initiative to enroll in the course 'The Self-Cultivation of an Ex.' /smile"
Soon, #TheSelfCultivationOfAnEx quietly climbed onto the trending topics list, rising from outside the top thirty all the way into the top ten. Every time Ji Mingshu refreshed, she could see her follower count skyrocketing, with likes, comments, reposts, and private messages flooding in.
When the reposts surpassed thirty thousand, Cen Sen finally woke up.
"What are you looking at?" His voice was hoarse, as if still heavy with sleep.
Ji Mingshu glanced at him and quickly hid her phone behind her back. "Just… just checking Weibo."
Even though she had been furious earlier, after posting the Weibo, she inexplicably felt a bit guilty.
How to put it? She didn’t really want Cen Sen to see her more aggressive side—like publicly confronting his ex on Weibo. She wasn’t sure if he’d think she was undignified or petty.
But what was done was done. It had blown up so much that deleting it wasn’t an option, and hiding it was impossible.
Ji Mingshu steeled herself, suddenly wrapped her arms around Cen Sen, and planted a series of kisses on him. Then, looking up at him with a soft, pleading expression, she said, "I need to tell you something. Prepare yourself—and you have to accept it!"
"What is it?"
Cen Sen looked down at her, his voice still calm, but the veins at his temples were already starting to throb uncontrollably."This is what happened, Li Wenyin posted on Weibo last night..."
Ji Mingshu organized her words while raising her phone, vividly showing him the whole story with pictures and text, "...Look, look, her fans are cursing me like this! Calling me a homewrecker! How could I not be angry, right? And I was a bit grumpy when I woke up this morning, you know that, so I posted a Weibo too, this one, this one."
She cautiously observed Cen Sen's expression and added, "Actually, after posting it, I felt it wasn't quite right. What's the point of arguing with her over this? But since it's already posted..."
After waiting for a while without Cen Sen taking the initiative to respond, she grabbed his arm, shaking it while insisting, "Anyway, you're not allowed to be angry or think I'm a shrew! I'm just telling you about this matter, but you have to forget it. The Ji Mingshu in your heart can only be a little fairy!"
"Mm, little fairy."
After reading the Weibo post, Cen Sen responded indifferently, put down his phone, and felt relieved.
Ji Mingshu probed, "Do you... have any thoughts about the Weibo I posted?"
Cen Sen thought for a moment, "The sentences are coherent, the logic is clear, well written."
"Then, then you don't think I was a bit aggressive, do you?" After all, I was confronting your ex-girlfriend.
Cen Sen thought again, "I know about this matter, but I've already forgotten it. You will always be... a little fairy in my heart."
Ji Mingshu: "..."
Why does this forced sweet talk feel so much like she's forcing a decent woman into a brothel.
She gave Cen Sen a look that said, "Alright, I can see you're trying really hard to keep up with the times," then went to the bathroom, satisfied.
While Ji Mingshu was in the bathroom washing up, there was a new development on Weibo: after lying dormant for several days, the Junyi official Weibo once again stepped in to like Ji Mingshu's post, making its stance very clear and firm.
【Somehow, from this series of actions by the official account, I sense the CEO's strong survival instinct.】
【Confirmed to be henpecked.】
Actually, the like was from Zhou Jiaheng. The previous interventions were also personally drafted by this busy chief assistant in his spare time.
However, Zhou Jiaheng's intentions naturally represented Cen Sen's, so saying he had a "strong survival instinct" or was "henpecked" wasn't exactly unfair.
At the same time, there was much discussion in their social circle. Some felt Ji Mingshu's actions were beneath her status, with a socialite spending all day online arguing with others instead of doing proper things.
But others thought that if Cen Sen didn't mind and even used the group's Weibo to express support, then it was none of their business. Those with nothing better to do might as well check what flawed arranged marriage partners their families had lined up for them.
When Ji Mingshu's Second Uncle learned of this, he called her and scolded her. The scolding was nothing new—telling her to show her face less, speak less online, and quickly arrange to get pregnant and have children.
Ji Mingshu played the obedient granddaughter for a while with "yes, yes, yes," then signaled Cen Sen to rescue her, finally freeing herself from her Second Uncle's lengthy, point-by-point lecture.
Fortunately, aside from a few wealthy and beautiful bloggers revealing more details about Li Wenyin's white lotus behavior, no further incidents arose, and the matter didn't cause bigger waves online.
As for Li Wenyin, she never responded.Originally thinking Ji Mingshu was distorting the facts, Li Wenyin’s fans witnessed Junyi’s official Weibo stepping in, followed by several well-known wealthy and beautiful bloggers exposing the truth, their fragile hearts had long turned ice-cold.
After stubbornly waiting a few days, they still didn’t get any explanation from Li Wenyin. Instead, late one night, Li Wenyin quietly cleared her Weibo, changed her username, and updated her profile picture.
——Later, Jiang Chun declared that Li Wenyin’s actions marked a revolutionary victory in the campaign to expel Little Lotus Li, with profound implications for deterring white lotus cult followers from acting rashly. Comrade Ji Mingshu, through this battle, also became the well-deserved honorary recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lotus Expeller Association.
Ji Mingshu obviously wasn’t very keen on this honor. These past few days, surpassing Li Wenyin in Weibo followers was already the greatest honor for her.
But after surpassing her, her mindset became more relaxed. She never intended to become a celebrity or an internet influencer, so she stopped posting on Weibo and didn’t want to attract more attention.
This series of events, one wave subsiding only for another to rise, finally came to a gentle conclusion as the New Year ended. Although the capital no longer saw snowfall after the New Year, the temperature hadn’t warmed up yet.
On the twentieth day of the first lunar month, Cen Sen officially returned to work at the company.
Cen Sen had taken nearly twenty days off this time, which, according to him, was the longest break he’d had since starting work.
Even so, Ji Mingshu felt he was working every day, just moving his office to their home.
As the saying goes, one takes on the color of their company. After confirming their feelings for each other, Ji Mingshu was somewhat influenced by Cen Sen, often feeling that “since he’s so rich and still works so hard, I should also find something to do to be worthy of him.”
It seems that when you truly like someone, you unconsciously want to get closer to them, greedily wanting to invade their territory and share more topics with them.
So when she saw Cen Sen’s densely packed work plan for the first half of the year, Ji Mingshu slipped into his study, propped her chin seriously, and said, “I want to write a New Year’s plan too. Teach me.”
Cen Sen paused slightly, his hands resting on the keyboard. “What kind? Travel or shopping?”
“…”
Ji Mingshu stared at him with a look that said, “Do I really seem so lazy and unambitious?”
Cen Sen met her gaze with a look that said, “Yes, you really do seem so lazy and unambitious.”
Ten seconds later, Cen Sen raised the white flag because Ji Mingshu had been rubbing the inside of his calf with her bare feet under the desk the whole time.
He pulled out a document and handed it to Ji Mingshu. “I remember you were very interested in the Junyi Elegant Collection project before. The hotel will be completed this April. The project team has already selected over thirty designers to work on the guest room designs. If you’re interested, I can arrange for you to participate in the design competition, but on the condition that your design passes the project team’s anonymous blind selection vote.”
Ji Mingshu took the document and read it carefully for a while.
After finishing, she suddenly chuckled, casually brushing her hair as she muttered, “How come this Potala Palace looks so much like our study.”
“…”Cen Sen didn't quite catch her meaning at first, but by the time it dawned on him, Ji Mingshu had already wriggled onto his lap. With a smacking kiss, she cooed sweetly, "Thank you, hubby."
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