The Daily Life Of A Rich And Vicious Man’S Wife Chapter 5
byChapter 5 (After Going on a Dating Reality Show with My Wealthy Husband, Did He Get Canceled?)
To protect Jiang Li’s hard-won stable emotions, Qin Zhao didn’t tell him when the program recording officially began.
He simply had the production team install hidden cameras and recording equipment in the house while he took Jiang Li out for a relaxing walk.
The program’s operating model was divided into live streaming on online platforms and edited broadcasts on satellite TV. This model carried a certain risk.
If a guest participating in the show behaved in a way that contradicted their established persona, it was easy for the audience in the live stream to notice, leading to public backlash or viewers rejecting the content.
Therefore, the director of this program always conducted extensive research before filming, and if a candidate didn’t meet the requirements, they wouldn’t be approved.
But Jiang Li was different. He was the treasure held in the palm of his superior’s hand, the patriarch of the entire production team. No one dared to set up any small problems during the recording process.
Everything was done strictly according to Qin Zhao’s requirements, allowing the audience to see Jiang Li’s most authentic daily life.
Considering Jiang Li’s mental state, and the possibility of some R-rated scenes occurring with Qin Zhao, the production team’s live stream specifically applied for a filing with the national official marriage allocation system bureau.
The National Marriage Bureau must have been aware of Jiang Li’s basic situation, as discrimination against intersex individuals (who possess the ability to reproduce) still persisted in modern society.
Even intersex individuals in developed regions with strained reproductive resources could not enjoy freedom of marriage, let alone someone with a certain degree of fame like Jiang Li.
According to international regulations, an intersex person who reaches the age of fifteen is considered an adult. If their hormone threshold exceeds the standard, and they are unmarried, widowed without finding a new husband in time, or refuse to bear children with their husband—regardless of family background, social status, or income—they will be forcibly nationalized and become state-owned public property.
After becoming state property, they would be distributed by the state to regions facing severe reproductive shortages, becoming objects for local men to vent their sexual desires anytime and anywhere.
They could not even be called people. People referred to those intersex individuals who failed to comply with regulations by marrying at the legal age and whose high hormone threshold led to nationalization as “Public Buses and Public Wives.”
Once they became Public Buses and Public Wives, only death awaited them, because as long as they could satisfy the desires of those men, inhumane treatment was simply routine for them.
On busy days, they might have to receive hundreds of men, and their special intersex physique allowed them to entertain several men simultaneously.
As public objects that anyone could use, no one cared about their physical or mental state.
The lifespan of intersex individuals who became Public Buses and Public Wives was generally very short. Unless they were widowed at an advanced age, they usually did not live past thirty, because they were played to death before they could reach old age and lose their looks.
The regulation regarding Public Buses and Public Wives was indeed inhumane, but in the current society where the national birth rate was extremely low, the state resorted to any means necessary to stimulate the reproductive desires of the lower classes.
There was no helping it; the intersex physique was such that they could not live without men their entire lives. Although there were inhibitors for intersex individuals with excessively high hormone thresholds.
However, using inhibitors privately without state approval or filing was illegal. The state had the right to immediately deem the intersex person as state property.
Jiang Li had applied for the right to use inhibitors, but the injections had side effects. During the years he struggled for the team, when lust arose, he either endured it or sought out Qin Zhao.
Over time, it was a miracle his psychological state hadn’t completely deteriorated.
Gu Yunting’s fans targeted this very point about Jiang Li. If they mobilized public opinion online to pressure him, and if Jiang Li’s mental state deteriorated and his threshold exceeded the regulated standard, even the greatest guardian couldn’t protect him. Becoming a Public Bus and Public Wife would be a certainty, and then wouldn’t they be free to humiliate him?
Why should Jiang Li look down on their “gege,” calling him ugly? He was just an intersex person, yet he showed no respect.
What was even more ironic was that the majority of Gu Yunting’s fans were intersex individuals just like Jiang Li. Due to current societal trends, it was popular to brainwash young intersex people or women, causing them to constantly lower their tolerance for men.
Even if those men were ugly and had a terrible track record, like Gu Yunting, as long as they had capital backing them, they could attract their adoration.
Online public opinion was completely controlled by certain capital forces. Even if sober ordinary people pointed out to them that they shouldn’t have such low or non-existent standards for their partners, because compromising with “filth” was cruel to themselves.
Yet, such kind reminders would be met with mass attacks. They had been so thoroughly brainwashed by capital that they knew they were eating a pile of excrement, yet they would still show it off to those around them, with an expression that seemed to say, “Don’t be too envious of me.” They were even afraid that others might harm this pile of excrement because they liked eating it, so they went into full defensive mode.
Anyone who dared to say a negative word about this pile of excrement would be fought fiercely. Family, lovers, friends—people who genuinely cared for them—were completely disregarded.
The entire reason was that the pile of excrement they were eating was too excellent. The whole world was jealous that they could eat such good excrement.
Over time, ordinary people realized they couldn’t reason with them and stopped trying. They didn’t even bother to talk about it or mention it. This is why Gu Yunting’s fans were so rampant online.
On the day the episode of My Golden and Brilliant Life featuring Jiang Li was scheduled to be recorded, as soon as the live stream opened, a large number of Gu Yunting’s fans flooded in. Before Jiang Li even appeared on screen, various vulgar and offensive bullet comments appeared, using the dirtiest language possible.
The level of toxicity was so high that even passersby couldn’t stand it, and the comment section devolved into chaos. Ultimately, it boiled down to a developed society where people had no worries about food and clothing, leaving them idle.
[Isn’t he just a slutty bitch ridden by thousands? Still fooling around here, probably wants the whole nation to see his slutty, cheap appearance.]
[Gag, gag. Why does he look down on my gege? My gege is so handsome. Is it an insult to Jiang Li to pair him with my gege?]
[Bitch! How dare he show his face in public? He’s so cheap, he’ll be sanctioned by the state into a Public Bus and Public Wife sooner or later.]
[I wonder how many men sleep with him a day. He’s so dirty, maybe he even has STDs.]
[He’s already like that and still wants to whitewash himself. I don’t know what’s so good about him. Gag, gag.]
[Can Gu Yunting’s brain-dead fans shut up? I came here to watch the show, not to watch you maggots discuss excrement.]
[What did Jiang Li do? Did he murder or commit arson? Do you need to use such foul language to curse him?]
[Because Jiang Li looks down on their gege, they’re desperate.]
[LOL, I remember most of Gu Yunting’s fans are intersex people and women, right? Instead of uniting to fight against social injustice, they come here to insult a powerful figure who proved with his strength that intersex people are not useless. That’s truly something.]
[The commenter above, don’t use individual cases to deny the whole. They are the ones who like eating excrement, which doesn’t represent all of us. We have always supported Jiang Li. He is an intersex person who achieved his current success almost with his life. We feel sorry for him; how could we slander him?]
[Even if the rumors are true, so what? He proved himself with his strength. We intersex people can have what we want without relying on men. I believe him. Even if it’s true, it must have been out of necessity, which is completely different from filth like Gu Yunting.]
[I support him for not compromising with Gu Yunting.]
[Why bother with them? I just like how unintelligent they are. The less intelligent women and intersex people are, the easier they are to manipulate.]
[Exactly. If every intersex person or woman were like Jiang Li, I might never find a wife in eight lifetimes.]
[Let them keep cursing. I’ll just turn off the bullet comments and continue watching the beautiful Jiang Li.]
[Qingshi is truly willing to invest. Sharing a premium resource like Jiang Li to benefit the public—what a great philanthropist.]
The arguments in the live stream’s bullet comments continued. The program director privately contacted Qin Zhao through a hidden communication device, asking if they should stop the recording.
After all, the live stream comments were being bullied by Gu Yunting’s fans, and the authority over speech in the live stream was held by the state. They could not block comments unfavorable to Jiang Li, or it would infringe upon the fans’ freedom of speech, as Jiang Li was merely an intersex person of low status.
Qin Zhao remained calm. He continued as usual, preparing breakfast for Jiang Li before he woke up, with no intention of halting the recording.
If Jiang Li couldn’t overcome this hurdle, how would he be any different from the person they described?
Winter had arrived, and spring would not be far behind. If he endured this cold winter, a complete rebirth would await him.
The sky brightened, and warm sunlight streamed through the gap in the curtains, illuminating Jiang Li.
Drowsily, Jiang Li finally woke up. He rubbed his eyes, which were still slightly red and swollen from crying last night. A camera was hidden in the wall facing his bed.
The light in the room was excellent, reflecting off Jiang Li’s waist-length, smooth silver hair, making it shimmer faintly.
Jiang Li’s features were exquisitely defined—a pair of captivating peach blossom eyes, a cold, clear gaze, and a slight frown that carried a lingering trace of sorrow.
It was this very appearance that always made Qin Zhao ache with tenderness.
Jiang Li’s beauty was well-known, and many netizens had seen what he looked like, but no matter how many times, they were always stunned by him.
His smooth, waist-length silver hair, his noble temperament, and his outstanding features made him seem like a figure from a painting, carrying a sense of ancient charm and ethereal grace.
Seeing the empty space beside him where Qin Zhao should have been, Jiang Li sat on the bed in a daze for a while. When he finally reacted, he felt uneasy.
His frown deepened. Just as he was about to throw off the covers and get out of bed to look for him, Qin Zhao pushed the door open and entered.
“Why didn’t you sleep longer?”
“Couldn’t sleep…” Jiang Li lowered his head, appearing listless. His eyes were dull and unfocused, clearly indicating he was in a very bad mood.
The bullet comments in the live stream instantly erupted the moment Qin Zhao appeared.
They had never imagined that Qin Zhao, the head of the Qin family—one of the four great families—had this kind of relationship with Jiang Li.
Qin Zhao was a former special forces soldier with formidable capabilities. Less than a year after taking over the Qin family’s businesses, he had the collateral relatives looking up to him. In the decade or so he had managed the Qin family’s assets, they had multiplied dozens of times, making the Qin family the most powerful of the four great families—a true business overlord.
Moreover, he was handsome. Even though he was approaching forty, his heroic demeanor was undiminished. With the passage of time, he had gained a sense of mature stability.
Jiang Li, who was considered tall, suddenly looked delicate next to him.
[Holy crap, holy crap! Jiang Li’s divine looks are enough, but his legal partner is actually this kind of big shot!]
[I’m kneeling to the production team. They managed to invite Qin Zhao out. What charm does Jiang Li have, besides being good-looking, that makes a big shot like this comb his hair?]
[Ahhh, ahhh, I’m dead! Isn’t this way better to ship than Gu Yunting and Jiang Li’s Yun Li CP?]
[President Qin is so handsome! I’m calling him husband right now!]
[Sisters, I’m defecting! The moment President Qin appears, comparing him to Gu Yunting, I truly wronged Jiang Li. If I had such a handsome husband, who would even look at trash like Gu Yunting?]
[The commenter above is right. And President Qin is much more powerful than Gu Yunting. The head of one of the four great families! Why chase a small-time idol when you can chase a CEO? I must have eaten too much gutter oil back then; my brain was broken.]
[Holy crap, holy crap! I need to apologize to Jiang Li. It’s not that his taste is bad; it’s too good! This President Qin is exactly my type!]