Heartthrob, Your Image is Crumbling!

Chapter 582: Minmin's Ending

Tao Tian was currently looking completely dumbfounded. She never dreamed that Minmin would actually put on Qu Jing's clothes and pull a stunt like this without her permission.And now, Minmin was actually looking at Tao Tian pleadingly, hoping she would speak up for her.

Naturally, Tao Tian had no intention of helping Minmin and simply pretended not to notice her gaze.

Having just been kicked out of bed by Zhou Yuwen, Minmin gritted her teeth and declared, "Zhou Yuwen, I truly like you. Whatever Qu Jing can do, I can do too."

"Now that Qu Jing is gone, let me take her place. I promise I'll do a much better job than she did!"

"And even if I'm not good at first, I am more than willing to learn!"

Zhou Yuwen looked at her determined expression and asked, "Who told you that Qu Jing left?"

Minmin remained silent, merely shifting her gaze toward Tao Tian.

Realizing the situation was turning bad, Tao Tian hurriedly explained, "I don't know anything about this! I just mentioned it to her in passing while we were eating. I had absolutely no idea she would do this. Ask her if you don't believe me!"

Zhou Yuwen turned his attention back to Minmin.

Minmin nodded in agreement. "Zhou Yuwen, my figure isn't bad either, and I've never had a boyfriend. Why is it that Qu Jing is acceptable but I'm not? I really have a great body."

Speaking, Minmin stood up. By now, she had cast all caution to the wind. She was already dressed in revealing clothes, and with this movement, her beautiful curves were fully displayed in front of Zhou Yuwen.

Zhou Yuwen remained expressionless. "Go outside for now. I will come find you after Tao Tian and I finish talking."

Minmin wanted to say something more.

"I don't like repeating myself," Zhou Yuwen stated flatly.

Minmin's voice stopped abruptly. Giving up on further arguments, she lowered her head, turned around, and left the room.

As she walked out, she couldn't help but glance back at Tao Tian, hoping her former roommate might put in a good word for her.

However, Tao Tian turned a blind eye to her pleading gaze. Truthfully, she didn't dare to look at anything else right now.

Who would dare? This Minmin was completely digging her own grave.

Once Minmin was out of the room, Zhou Yuwen looked at Tao Tian.

Tao Tian hastily defended herself, "This really has nothing to do with me!"

"I just thought she looked pitifully sad, so I took her in. Who could have expected her to sneak in at a time like this?"

Zhou Yuwen just stared at Tao Tian in silence.

Honestly, the whole situation was highly suspicious. How could it be such a coincidence that the moment Tao Tian went out to buy food, Minmin sneaked right in?

But seeing the earnest look in Tao Tian's eyes, Zhou Yuwen finally said, "I believe you."

Hearing this, Tao Tian breathed a sigh of relief. Watching Zhou Yuwen looking so thoughtful, she couldn't help but ask, "What are your planning to do?"

Zhou Yuwen asked what she meant by that.

"I mean..."

Tao Tian wanted to ask how he was going to deal with Minmin.

"Deal with her how?" Zhou Yuwen replied. "I have no relationship with her whatsoever."

"But just now she..."

Tao Tian's words stopped abruptly. After a brief hesitation, she couldn't help but say, "Yuwen... Minmin's personality might be a bit flawed, but she is, in a way, one of the women who has touched you. You can't just let her go, can you?"

Zhou Yuwen scoffed, "What kind of logic is that? Am I supposed to claim every woman who touches me?"

"Wouldn't I be taking in absolutely everyone at that rate?"

Tao Tian fell silent.

Zhou Yuwen wasn't intentionally losing his temper with Tao Tian, but at the end of the day, this mess was her fault.

If she hadn't insisted on taking Minmin in, none of this would have happened.

However, seeing her standing there with her head bowed so low she couldn't even see her toes, looking like someone who genuinely knew she had messed up, Zhou Yuwen couldn't bring himself to scold her further. He thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. Call her in. I'll give her a chance."

"?" Tao Tian paused, surprised that Zhou Yuwen was being so accommodating.

Zhou Yuwen told her not to ask questions and just do as he instructed.

Tao Tian knew that even though Zhou Yuwen's tone was calm, she was still the one at fault here. She didn't argue and quietly went out to bring Minmin back inside.

Seeing Tao Tian come out, Minmin hurried over and asked how it went.

Tao Tian didn't answer, simply gesturing for Minmin to go inside first.

By the time Minmin walked in, Zhou Yuwen had already gotten dressed and was sitting on the sofa by the wall.

Seeing this, Minmin felt a surge of joy, convinced that she was about to succeed. She wanted to say something, but not quite daring to speak out of turn, she carefully called out, "Zhou Yuwen."

Zhou Yuwen grunted in acknowledgment and asked, "Do you really like me?"

"Of course I do! I've liked you since the very first time I saw you. If it wasn't for the fact that you only had eyes for Tao Tian..."

At this point, Minmin couldn't help but shoot a glance at Tao Tian.

The first time Minmin had ever noticed Zhou Yuwen was during their sophomore year when he took them to do some part-time work.

Naturally, Zhou Yuwen didn't believe a word of this.

"Very well," Zhou Yuwen said. "I will give you a chance."

"Mhm!"

"I'm not sure if Tao Tian has told you, but I own an estate in Boston. I'm currently recruiting maids internationally, and these maids come from various countries, mostly Caucasian."

"While I don't doubt their loyalty, I prefer having people from my own country. If you are willing to go there, I will handle your immigration process and offer you an annual salary of four hundred thousand."

Minmin froze. She had thought she was going to become Zhou Yuwen's woman, but to her shock, he was only offering her a position as a servant?! This...

"Immigrate? Does that mean I won't be able to come back?"

"You'll get two months of vacation every three years," Zhou Yuwen replied.

"Of course, you need to think this through. If you immigrate, it means your fate rests entirely in my hands. You will belong to me."

Hearing this, Minmin's face fell into a miserable expression. "But I just want to be your woman," she protested.

Zhou Yuwen couldn't help but laugh. "So this is what you call liking me?"

"And you claimed you could do anything Qu Jing could do?"

"I..." Minmin was momentarily at a loss for words.

"I said I was giving you a chance," Zhou Yuwen continued. "If you want to gain something, you are destined to lose something else. By entering the estate, you can stay by my side. Since you like me so much, isn't that exactly what you want?"

This was absolutely not what Minmin wanted. She just wanted to enjoy a life of luxury, not subject herself to servitude.

Furthermore, judging by Zhou Yuwen's mention of immigration, it meant she wouldn't even be able to return home.

Having a ton of money would be useless in that situation.

To put it in unpleasant terms, wouldn't she just be selling herself directly to Zhou Yuwen to be a foot-warming maid?

Only if the opportunity arose might she become his woman.

Which basically meant that inside the estate, Zhou Yuwen could sleep with her whenever he felt like it?

Wasn't that a bit too tragic?

Minmin began wracking her brain for a way to refuse Zhou Yuwen and make him change his mind.

She truly felt there wasn't much difference between her and Qu Jing.

Why was Qu Jing deemed worthy of being his woman, while she was only fit to be a servant?

Just as Minmin was about to speak, Zhou Yuwen interrupted, "Don't rush to answer. Think it through carefully yourself. I've offered you an opportunity; whether you take it is entirely up to you."

Having said his piece, Zhou Yuwen stood up and told Tao Tian he was heading back to the company.

"Handle her situation yourself."

Tao Tian nodded.

Only after Zhou Yuwen had left did Minmin's face fully crumple in dismay.

Looking at Tao Tian pitifully, she pleaded, "Sweetie, please help me persuade Zhou Yuwen! I even helped him eat..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Tao Tian turned around.

She spun around and delivered a sharp slap across her face.

The sound was sharp and deafening.

This was immediately followed by a yelp from Minmin. Flared with anger, she demanded, "Sweetie, what are you doing?! You hit me?"

"Jiang Minmin!"

Tao Tian was genuinely furious now, her ample chest heaving with every ragged breath.

"I've treated you well, haven't I?!" she shouted angrily. "Why are you trying to ruin me?!"

"I..."

Flinching under Tao Tian's furious glare, Minmin instantly felt guilty. Not daring to meet her eyes, she stammered, looking away, "I... I wasn't trying to ruin you."

"I was just trying to help you..."

"Sweetie, now that Qu Jing is gone, you're all by yourself. Zheng Yanyan and her group have three or four girls. How can you possibly handle them as just one person?"

"I was just worried you'd get bullied."

"How about you try to convince Zhou Yuwen to accept me?"

Minmin begged earnestly.

Looking at Minmin's lazy, entitled demeanor, Tao Tian couldn't suppress a wave of disdain. "Help me? Fine," she scoffed. "Then go through with the immigration and move to Boston. That's exactly how you can help me."

"Sweetie..."

Before Tao Tian could even finish speaking, Minmin weakly started begging again. She really didn't want things to end up like this. She whined, "You'll all be here in the country while I'll be overseas. How could I possibly help you from there?"

"That's where you're wrong," Tao Tian corrected her. "In the future, Zhou Yuwen's company will expand globally. The United States, being the world's economic center, is the most crucial piece of that puzzle. Do you have any idea how much money Zhou Yuwen's financial company on Wall Street makes in a single year?"

"How much?"

Minmin suddenly recalled some news she had seen before; it mentioned something around four or five billion.

"Zhou Yuwen is definitely going to expand into Wall Street eventually," Tao Tian explained. "And not just him—chances are, we'll all end up moving there."

"I don't mind telling you this. Zhou Yuwen just bought this estate, and he is already recruiting maids internationally. I genuinely think you should consider it. No matter how professional those foreign recruits are, they're strangers to him; they don't know him at all. But you're different. You've interacted with him before. If you go over there now, you might actually have a real chance to end up with him."

"But..." Minmin started to protest.

"Besides, with your capabilities, you'd never be able to find a job paying four hundred thousand a year domestically, would you?"

Hearing Tao Tian put it that way, it finally dawned on Minmin that four hundred thousand was an enormous sum. Over three years, that would be 1.2 million.

But immigration...

Tao Tian cut her off, "Don't even try to bargain on that. That part is non-negotiable."

"If you can't even manage that level of loyalty, what right do you have to say you like Zhou Yuwen?"

"Zhou Yuwen offering you this immigration deal is truly giving you a golden opportunity. You need to realize how many people would kill for a chance like this and still be turned away. Do you honestly think nobody would apply if he posted this job offer publicly?"

Minmin fell silent. She suddenly realized that Tao Tian was absolutely right.

Everyone always talked about how great it was overseas. Now that she had the chance to go abroad, why shouldn't she take it and see for herself?

After a moment of hesitation, Minmin looked at Tao Tian and asked, "Then... should I give it a try?"

"Don't look at me," Tao Tian replied. "You had the nerve to pull a stunt like today, and you still need me to make this decision for you?"

Minmin dithered, unsure whether she should take the plunge, and asked Tao Tian one more time, "Did Zhou Yuwen really just buy that estate?"

"Yes," Tao Tian confirmed. "That's why he needs people right now. You've truly stumbled upon a rare opportunity."

Receiving Tao Tian's affirmative answer, Minmin cast aside her remaining doubts.

Fine, she would give it a try.

She wasn't getting anywhere staying in the country anyway. Even though it meant living far away in a foreign land, at least the salary was incredibly high. Plus, since Zhou Yuwen was just starting his planning for the estate, it meant that if she worked hard and proved her worth, she might actually have a shot with him.

"If I take my work seriously and do a good job, will Zhou Yuwen eventually let me be his woman?" Minmin asked Tao Tian.

"That I don't know," Tao Tian answered. "But think about it—all of Zhou Yuwen's women are back here. If he goes to Boston in the future and doesn't have anyone to attend to him, you'll be right there, won't you?"

Minmin thought about it and realized it made perfect sense.

"Alright then! I'll do it."

"Good. I'll pass the message along to Zhou Yuwen for you."

"Can I tell him myself?"

"If you really want to become his woman, stop trying to think yourself clever!"

Tao Tian snapped through clenched teeth.

Following her communication with Tao Tian, Zhou Yuwen arranged for someone to escort Minmin to the estate. It was true that the estate was in dire need of staff, and the cost of hiring professional international maids was incredibly steep. Moreover, Tao Tian had a point—Minmin had been intimate with him, so there was no point in just turning her loose.

He might as well keep her in the estate as a maidservant.

Zhou Yuwen's estate was massive. With Minmin heading over there, the chances of her ever returning were undoubtedly slim.

But Zhou Yuwen hadn't completely lied to her either. If she grew on him after a few years, it wasn't entirely impossible that he might give her a chance to share his bed.

After all, compared to the other maidservants, she still had some useful connections.

Before actually working at the estate, Minmin would first undergo two years of training. There were specialized schools abroad dedicated to teaching people how to serve the ultra-wealthy.

Zhou Yuwen had enrolled her in one of these academies.

Later on, Tao Tian made a phone call to Qu Jing and recounted the entire ordeal.

Hearing this, Qu Jing was naturally quite upset. "I warned you ages ago to keep your guard up around Minmin, but you just wouldn't listen! Now look what happened!"

Tao Tian sighed. "I never imagined things would escalate like this."

"Whatever. So, she's heading over there now, right?" Qu Jing asked.

Tao Tian nodded affirmatively.

"Then leave her to me!" Qu Jing scoffed. "Hmph, didn't she claim she was perfectly willing? I'll make sure she stays perfectly willing!"

In truth, Minmin had made the right gamble this time. Over her five years of working in the estate, her feelings for Zhou Yuwen evolved from pure material dependence into an overwhelming obsession, ultimately turning her into his fiercely obsessed woman.

And in the end, Zhou Yuwen did grant her a proper status, allowing her to work directly alongside Tao Tian.

Of course, all of that would happen much later.

For now, Minmin boarded an airplane and headed across the ocean.

Meanwhile, the one thing Zhou Yuwen had absolutely not anticipated was that Yin Songyue would actually reject his recruitment offer.

She still held onto her hope of dating Zhou Yuwen, even if just for a single day.