The Daily Life Of A Rich And Vicious Man’S Wife Chapter 6

Qin Zhao, as usual, took the initiative to comb Jiang Li’s hair after Jiang Li woke up and finished washing.

Because Jiang Li was lazy, clumsy with his hands outside of playing Divine Domain, and had almost zero self-care ability, he was always unable to manage his own hair, a habit Qin Zhao had indulged.

Looking at his neat and tidy reflection in the mirror, the worry clouding Jiang Li’s eyes finally dissipated a little.

Qin Zhao didn’t press him. After smoothing the last strand of hair, he spoke, “Do you want to stay home today, or come to the company with me?”

Jiang Li was still lost, shaking his head, unsure how to answer. Qin Zhao stroked his hair and said, “Alright, let’s go eat breakfast first. We can think about it after we finish.”

Jiang Li nodded. Accompanied by Qin Zhao the entire way, they went to the dining room on the first floor of the villa. The livestream camera switched to the dining room as well.

The two sat at the dining table. Qin Zhao swapped his own portion of breakfast, which he had cut into bite-sized pieces, with Jiang Li’s. It was a perfectly normal action. When Jiang Li was in a bad mood, he would indeed zone out at the dining table, sometimes forgetting to eat.

If he lived alone, this behavior would become very dangerous over time, which is why Qin Zhao had never felt comfortable leaving him by himself.

However, he didn’t trust any of the caregivers he found for Jiang Li, so for all these years, Qin Zhao had personally provided the close care. This allowed Jiang Li to shift his focus entirely onto his career.

Managing a top-tier e-sports team was no easy feat.

After breakfast, Qin Zhao had to go to work. He quickly tidied up the dishes and prepared to leave. Jiang Li still hadn’t made up his mind to go outside and face the world, due to his lack of security.

But he still followed Qin Zhao to the door and helped him tie his necktie. The audience in the livestream had only watched their interaction for a short while before noticing many issues.

Jiang Li’s actions and responses were several beats slower than a normal person’s. Sometimes, he couldn’t react to Qin Zhao’s words for a long time. His eyes were dull and lifeless, showing clear symptoms of depression.

[Something is seriously wrong. I thought the production team was trying to stage some melodramatic CEO-falls-in-love-with-me plot, but Jiang Li clearly has depressive tendencies. Does Qin Zhao, as his legal spouse and guardian, even know about this?]

[Qin Zhao definitely knows. No wonder he’s been glued to Jiang Li since he woke up, taking care of him. He has to repeat even the simplest things several times when talking to Jiang Li.]

[How could Jiang Li get depression? He’s good-looking, favored by a big shot, and successful in his career. By all accounts, he’s a winner in life, okay?]

[Jiang Li a winner in life? A winner my ass. If he were a winner, he wouldn’t be attacked by Gu Yunting’s brainless fans, or cyberbullied and looked down upon for being intersex.]

[Didn’t that Bai Luo, who suddenly became popular a while ago, also claim that Jiang Li refused to acknowledge him as his biological younger brother and left him to die?]

[Who is Bai Luo?]

[He’s Bai Yinzhu’s youngest son. He was born with renal insufficiency, a very cute little boy, just turned eighteen this year, and he’s also intersex.]

[Slowly typing out a question mark? Is that the little internet celebrity who blew up on SY?]

[Yeah, the one whose fans hype him up as a little angel sent down from heaven to undergo tribulation in the mortal world.]

[Is his mother crazy, letting him try to latch onto Jiang Li?]

[She’s not crazy. Bai Yinzhu has already released the paternity test report and statement. Jiang Li is indeed her eldest son, who was separated from her for many years.]

[It was only due to unavoidable circumstances back then that Jiang Li lived with his biological father. She went abroad alone to work hard, wanting to give the father and son a good life. But she didn’t expect her ex-husband to die in a car accident. After his death, Jiang Li’s guardianship fell into the hands of the National Fertility Bureau because of his intersex status.]

[The Qin family had some influence in the Fertility Bureau at the time and thought Jiang Li was good-looking. They used some means to transfer Jiang Li’s guardianship. After several years, Qin Zhao took over the Qin family, and Jiang Li’s guardianship also fell into his hands.]

[The shill upstairs can keep spinning their story, I’m watching. You were the ones who spread rumors that Jiang Li was a slut who sold his body for money and would sleep with anyone who paid.]

[I’m truly disgusted. Compared to the Gu Yunting incident, that woman Bai Yinzhu must have put in a lot of effort. It’s true that Jiang Li is her flesh and blood, but most of the reason is probably for her younger son, Bai Luo.]

[Don’t you know that Bai Luo has renal insufficiency and needs a kidney transplant to be cured?]

[It’s obvious that this mother and son are taking advantage of Jiang Li’s loneliness and helplessness. First, they ruin his reputation, then they incite uninformed netizens to cyberbully him, leading to Jiang Li’s depressive tendencies. Once the threshold is reached, Jiang Li will have no choice but to become a public spouse.]

[Then won’t they be able to get Jiang Li’s two healthy kidneys for free, justifiably?]

[Holy crap, that’s so vicious? And Bai Luo is still promoting himself as a little angel?]

[This is where you don’t understand. Excessive innocence and naivety can also be a form of cruelty.]

[These people are so disgusting. Can’t they stand to see others do well?]

[No wonder Jiang Li is depressed. If this abuse continues, he’ll lose his mind.]

[There’s no helping it. The current social reality is so harsh towards intersex people. Unless he can pull himself together and actively escape this predicament, Qin Zhao can only help him for a while, not forever.]

[When the threshold is reached, becoming a public spouse is mandatory. Jiang Li will surely die. And he’s getting depressed at this critical juncture.]

[Does anyone with experience know how to help him? I just can’t bear to see my little God Jiang suffer.]

[Bai Yinzhu and Bai Luo, those two, are truly repulsive. I actually supported someone like that.]

Meanwhile, Bai Luo, who was preparing to meet his fan club and supporters, was unaware that the depressive state revealed in Jiang Li’s livestream had topped the trending searches.

The comments below were netizens calling on the National Fertility Bureau to focus on the mental and physical health of intersex people and women, the two major vulnerable groups.

Because they are not just lovers, daughters, mothers, and sisters—if even the people they trust most cannot help them, how despairing must that be?

Led by the audience of Jiang Li’s livestream, people spontaneously left messages under the National Fertility Bureau’s posts, even demanding the abolition of the public spouse law, as this regulation originated during wartime.

In today’s society, where people live in peace and prosperity, the continued existence of such an unreasonable requirement is clearly unjust.

Bai Luo looked at his meticulously styled appearance: fair, translucent skin, innocent, deer-like eyes, radiating a cheerful innocence. When he smiled, he showed two clean white rabbit teeth. Anyone who saw him would be captivated.

In this reborn life, he swore he would not repeat the mistakes of his previous life. He would make everyone who had bullied him pay the price they deserved.

Especially his older half-brother, Jiang Li. Why, in the last life, was Jiang Li, who was clearly an abandoned child of the family, able to latch onto a powerful figure like Qin Zhao, who could cover the sky with one hand and summon rain with the other, coasting all the way to become a winner in life?

Yet no matter what he did, he couldn’t win anyone’s favor. Jiang Li in the previous life was also utterly malicious. Was it such a big deal that he slept with Gu Chenyuan, the legal husband assigned to him by the state, a few times, and used one of his kidneys?

Jiang Li’s body was so healthy. The doctor even said that a person could survive with only one kidney.

He never expected that Jiang Li would use these few minor incidents not only to spread his and Gu Chenyuan’s explicit photos everywhere but also to drive his mother to suicidal depression, and then hire people to kidnap him to threaten Gu Chenyuan.

Fortunately, he was lucky. Thanks to Jiang Li being betrayed by his subordinates, Gu Chenyuan, in order to avenge him, used the excuse that Jiang Li was mentally ill to send him into an international military camp to become a military prostitute, eventually falling to the status of a public spouse and dying miserably on the street. That finally eased his anger somewhat.

Originally, he and Gu Chenyuan could have lived happily ever after, but he didn’t know what Jiang Li had done to Gu Chenyuan while he was still alive.

After Jiang Li died, Gu Chenyuan started to treat him coldly. Once the honeymoon phase was over, there was only endless neglect, and Gu Chenyuan was unwilling to touch him.

Even when he occasionally got drunk and Bai Luo wanted to be intimate with him, Gu Chenyuan would only treat him as the deceased Jiang Li.

Bai Luo initially thought Gu Chenyuan still held affection for Jiang Li, and that with time, he would definitely forget him.

But unexpectedly, as the days went by, Gu Chenyuan’s longing for Jiang Li deepened. He even blamed Jiang Li’s death entirely on him.

He was imprisoned in a sunless basement and subjected to countless abuses.

Gu Chenyuan even forced him to endure, several times over, the gang rapes that Jiang Li had suffered in the military camp and as a public spouse when he was alive.

He would be brought back from the brink of death, only to be tortured year after year until he finally perished.

How could Bai Luo not hate the name Jiang Li? Now, heaven had opened its eyes and allowed him to live his life over again.

He swore that in this life, he would protect his mother, and he would make Jiang Li also taste what it was like to be universally condemned and die of depression.

With this thought in mind, he was determined to please the fans who supported him this time. But he never expected that the fan meeting he had painstakingly organized would turn into a condemnation session the moment he entered the venue.

The fans below were extremely agitated. As soon as they saw him, they threw everything they could at him, accompanied by unbearable insults.

“Get lost, you bastard! You call yourself a little angel? What good is just being pretty on the outside! Even ghosts would spit on the things you’ve done!”

“Exactly! I genuinely felt sorry for you being so young and suffering from that illness.”

“What did Jiang Li do wrong? He didn’t provoke you for no reason. He’s depressed because of the good deeds you and your mother have done.”

“This kind of person is so disgusting, exploiting other people’s sympathy for consumerism. What fan meeting? We don’t want to support people like you. Go away!”

“Exactly! Damn it, refund the money! Did we work hard to buy tickets and gifts for you just so you could use them to harm people? Refund the money!”

“Yes, refund the money! You must refund the money!”

Bai Luo’s fan meeting was not a free event. Fans paid for their own food, lodging, and travel, and also donated money to fund his entry into the entertainment industry.

Moreover, most of the fans were young, some still students in school, minors who were not financially independent or stable. They had saved up their ticket money by scrimping and saving, all just to give Bai Luo some kind encouragement at the meeting.

They never expected to be the biggest fools in the end. Of course, the fans were unhappy. The venue was rented, and the rent was paid by the collective contributions of the fans.

After learning about the relationship between Jiang Li and Bai Luo, the fans refused to pay. Not only was the venue rent unpaid, but large groups of fans blocked the entrance of the venue and refused to leave.

The landlord of the venue, who hadn’t received the money, had to inexplicably bear the various losses caused by Bai Luo’s downfall. Bai Yinzhu and Bai Luo, the mother and son, refused to pay compensation.

In a fit of anger, the landlord called the police.

After the local police and regulatory authorities intervened, they found that the venue landlord was not at fault, nor were the fans. Bai Yinzhu and Bai Luo, the mother and son, were guilty of illegal assembly, large-scale fundraising, and inducing minors and intersex individuals into improper consumption, which constituted criminal facts.

While the laws and regulations for women and intersex people in Country H might not be as equitable as those for men, there was a very strict system of protection laws for minors within these two vulnerable groups.

For crimes involving mental and economic losses through guidance and inducement, the fine was calculated as five times the total amount of money received by the beneficiary, based on the number of people and the amount of loss.

They also faced criminal detention ranging from seven to fifteen days. Once the charges were established, depending on the severity of the crime, the state could arrest and imprison them, or impose mandatory labor for three to seven years.

If the number of deceived minors exceeded fifty, it was considered a crime of extreme severity, resulting in the lifelong deprivation of political rights, and the inclusion of their descendants for three generations or more on the national blacklist.

Once placed on the national blacklist, all social welfare institutions, schools, companies, labor units, etc., had the right to refuse the descendants of the criminal.

This was the cost that crime must bear.