I Became a Vicious Supporting Role in the '70s
Chapter 337: I’m Not Like You, My Luck Is Much Better

Chapter 337: Chapter 337: I’m Not Like You, My Luck Is Much Better

Chen Du had barely left when he suddenly came running back. Lu Zhenping raised his eyebrows, wondering if something was amiss.

"Deputy Director Lu, you’d better go check it out. A beautiful lady from the Police Station is here claiming to be your wife."

Lu Zhenping curled his lips into a smile, knowing his wife always had a plan.

"Let’s go, hurry up."

Chen Du: "..."

He was just checking the files, gravely serious, and now suddenly he’s energized as if he had taken a super pill.

"Hurry up, my chief home officer has arrived, don’t dawdle."

"Alright, I’m coming."

Today, Shen Meng wore a small V-neck dress that accentuated her waist, with a pair of white high-heeled shoes, and her hair done up in a bun. Gorgeous and elegant, with a faint smile on her lips, her entire demeanor softened significantly, making one can’t help but draw nearer.

She held three lunch boxes in her hand, sitting quietly in the lobby, forming a stark contrast with Lu Zhengya sitting nervously beside her.

"Zhenping!"

"Honey, why are you here? Didn’t I tell you to take care of yourself and rest more since you’ve just arrived in the Provincial City? It was not easy getting a two-day holiday, and you’ll be busy again soon."

"It’s fine, I had some free time today, so I made some of your favorite dishes and brought them over. Hope I’m not disturbing your work?"

Lu Zhenping clicked his tongue before saying, "I’m delighted to see you; there’s no such thing as disturbance. Dear, are you tired of waiting here? Come into my office, I’ll get you a glass of water. Have a rest, and after we eat, I’ll take you home."

Lu Zhenping’s voice in the hallway was loud, causing the nearby workers, shocked, to nearly halt their work, staring at the couple in astonishment.

Although Lu Zhenping hasn’t been here long, he is known to work very hard and meticulously, and few had seen his gentle side.

This sudden glimpse was like seeing a ghost; some even dropped their teacups out of shock.

The noise did not cause Shen Meng or Lu Zhenping to stop their loving gaze.

However, Lu Zhengya, sitting beside them, couldn’t resist any more and said: "Brother Lu, you really treat your wife well. Watching you makes me envious. Unlike me, I’m unlucky with a messed-up life."

"Of course, speaking of Lu Zhenping, setting aside everything else, he treats his dear wife impeccably. I say ’east’ and he won’t go ’west’. If I ask him to beat a dog, he won’t chase a chicken. He always listens to me. Even our children have to stand aside. I had great luck; back at my parents’ home, everyone – parents, siblings – doted on me, and it’s the same with my in-laws. Now Zhenping and our children pamper me too – last night, my son even gave me his New Year’s gift money to buy a pretty dress. The child is so filial."

"That’s deserved; you’re simply the best in our family, the eldest. If we don’t treat you well, who should we treat well?"

Lu Zhengya: "..."

Who are you mocking with those sarcastic words? And Lu Zhenping, such a grown man, doesn’t he have any principles, being led by the nose by a woman – has he lost his mind??

"Whoo-whoo-whoo, Brother Lu, I... I didn’t mean anything by it. I’m just too envious, so, if Mr. Shen doesn’t want to hear, I won’t talk about it now."

Lu Zhenping, as if he had just noticed her, frowned and looked her up and down before hissing,

"You... you look familiar. Are you Ya Fei’s mom?"

Lu Zhengya: "..."

Impossible, impossible, how could she be so unnoticed, how could she be forgotten!!!

"Brother Lu, it’s Zheng Ya here. You organized a fundraiser a while ago and donated to my family. Ya Fei even brought his siblings to visit you, do you...do you not remember?"

Lu Zhenping pondered for a moment, glanced back, and called out to the busy-looking person.

"Chen Du, did we have a fundraiser recently?"

"Ah? Yes, yes, we at the Police Station have fundraisers every now and then. The brothers just received their salaries and almost all of it was donated, leaving hardly any money to take home. Unfortunately, that’s just the way it is in this line of work."

Lu Zhenping turned his head and took another look at Lu Zhengya.

"You heard this comrade, there are often children at our unit and some people who come to thank us for the donations. I’m so busy every day, I really can’t remember everyone, but you... um..."

Originally feeling utterly devastated, Lu Zhengya suddenly brightened up when she heard Lu Zhenping hinting at something with the word "you".

"What?"

"Comrade, looking at your outfit, it seems like you don’t need donations, right? You don’t look like someone who lacks money."

"I......"

"Indeed, this white short-sleeve blouse with yellow floral prints, cinched at the waist and cuffs, and your blue lace-trimmed half skirt, plus the double-star white shoes on your feet, that outfit wouldn’t cost less than sixty. My monthly salary plus bonuses is nearly two hundred and ninety, and even I wouldn’t indulge in buying such a set of clothes. I must say, comrade, you have a great taste in clothing, the clothes you buy are really classy."

Suddenly, Shen Meng’s interjection stopped all the explanations Lu Zhengya had, making her choke up, unable to speak further and her face turned beet red.

At the Police Station, the people who had donated to her looked very displeased, especially the female officers who had warmly welcomed her and helped her previously.

They felt nauseatingly disgusted.

They worked day and night on cases, not to mention dressing well, they couldn’t even afford good meals. The hard-saved money was just wasted, which was unbearable.

"It’s truly heartless. I toil through the night, my monthly base is barely twenty-something, and with additional bonuses, it makes just around forty. We even organize monthly fundraisers. If there were real hardships it wouldn’t matter, doing good is an honorable thing. I didn’t expect some would exploit these hardships for their own benefits, haha, what’s even the point of my effort, am I just unlucky?"

"Fifteen yuan for a pair of these small white shoes, twenty-five yuan for one skirt, over twenty for a short-sleeve shirt, I wouldn’t dare buy them, I fear it might shorten my life."

"I can’t compare, no way. Some people just reach out their hand and get money, while we are the real strugglers. Deputy Director Lu, we can’t be so casual with such matters anymore, otherwise not only do we empty our wallets, but the help also doesn’t go to the truly needy."

"That’s right, it’s not that we have low awareness, it’s just some people are too cunning, we cannot match that!"

......

Lu Zhengya was trembling all over, she had not expected that dressing up to meet Lu Zhenping and trying to improve their relationship would instead result in such ridicule from the people at the Police Station, leaving her heartbroken.

Lu Zhengya staggered a few steps, tears covering her face, and shook her head slightly looking at the female officers who had just criticized her.

"You all, it doesn’t matter if you look down on me, but don’t insult my integrity. I came here just to thank Brother Lu, I had no ill intentions, you all are too much, really too much."

After saying that, she grabbed the gift pastry waiting on the table, covered her mouth, and ran off sobbing.

Female officer: "......"

"You dead goods, do you still have any integrity left???"