The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 657 - 661: Great Kind Person (Part 2)

Chapter 657: Chapter 661: Great Kind Person (Part 2)

Helping others is certainly wonderful, but if helping others turns one’s own life into a mess, then it’s not so beautiful anymore.

Xiao Xiao unfortunately couldn’t realize this, and it was the original owner who suffered alongside him.

During their university days, this wasn’t so apparent.

After all, everyone was a student. Cong Shan loved to help others. It was nothing more than working to earn an income, and upon seeing a fellow student in poor conditions, he would sympathetically donate all his living expenses to them, then stoically eat steamed buns with clean water in the cafeteria.

As his girlfriend, the original owner would always share half of her own living expenses with him out of pity for her boyfriend, so they could both manage together.

Campus life was relatively simple, and many people actually admired Cong Shan’s charitable nature.

And because of this, he received a lot of appreciative glances.

But once they left campus and stepped into society, the situation changed drastically.

Not everyone agreed with this way of handling things.

Perhaps because of your kindness, what you get isn’t gratitude, but intensified insults.

And because of doing good deeds, your own important matters get delayed, leading to a chaotic work and personal life—a problem that occurred frequently with Cong Shan.

After graduating from university, the original owner rented a small room with her boyfriend Cong Shan as a starting point for their struggle to build a life together.

Of course, most of the rent was paid by the original owner.

So many years had passed, and Cong Shan never managed to save any money.

He somewhat bluntly relied on his girlfriend to make up for it.

The original owner was truly naïve. Although slightly uncomfortable at first, she let it pass gently under the soft words of Cong Shan.

After all, wasn’t it Cong Shan’s kindness that she had admired in the beginning? Now, the money that he didn’t have wasn’t wasted, but was used to help others, so she couldn’t really blame him.

However, the original owner still gently discussed with Cong Shan a few times, reminding him that he now had a girlfriend, and they were aiming for marriage.

If that’s the case, they needed to make plans for their future.

They couldn’t possibly continue to muddle through life the way they had before, spending money as soon as they got it.

But when Cong Shan cheerfully and sincerely promised to do better, he soon afterwards gave away his just-received salary out of sympathy to a poor old lady who had been kicked out by her daughter-in-law.

It was then that the original owner started to feel overwhelmed.

Their internship stipends were low, barely enough when combined.

Cong Shan, with his generosity, completely disrupted the original owner’s carefully made budget plan.

Cong Shan knew he was at fault and did not get angry, even when the original owner raged.

The money was already given away; what could the original owner do even if she was angry? She still had to find a way to deal with it.

The original owner could only appeal to her parents for help, eventually plugging the gap for that month’s shortfall.

This was the first time a rift appeared in their relationship.

But what about next month? Once the wound heals, the pain is forgotten.

After Cong Shan was fired from his company for delaying important work in order to help a girl who fell down, the original owner couldn’t contain her emotional collapse anymore.

Of course, this was just the tip of the iceberg that ignited her emotions.

During this period, there were many occurrences that left her frustrated because of her boyfriend’s various acts of helping others.

For example, he gave away the only bottle of cooking oil in the house to a neighbor’s elderly grandmother who had difficulty going out.

She had barely finished cooking a meal, and before she had a chance to eat, it was taken to be shared with an old man whose wife hadn’t returned home to cook.

And so on and so forth... there were countless similar incidents.

Every time, the original owner would have a serious talk with him, asking if he could stop behaving this way, but every time he sincerely admitted his mistakes, he just refused to correct them.

And the next time, he would carry on as before.

After so many repetitions, it really can drain one’s energy.

It wasn’t long before the original owner couldn’t hold back her emotions anymore and angrily confronted her boyfriend.

At this time, all those people he had helped came out of the woodwork, each one criticizing the original owner for not recognizing what was good for her.

How could she not be satisfied having such a great boyfriend?

Yet it was these neighbors whom the original owner had overheard disparaging Cong Shan’s "stupidity" and "foolishness" behind his back,

and then turning around, they would grumble about their difficult lives in front of Cong Shan, simply trying to gain a bit of advantage.

The simple Cong Shan always took them seriously,

even though they were wearing clothes and shoes that were better than his own.

Not only did the original owner begin to misunderstand her boyfriend’s actions, Cong Shan also started to have small complaints about her behavior.

She had always supported what he did and was a kind-hearted girl just like him, so why did she become so calculating once they stepped out of school?

The old people in the community are so pitiful, with their children not around to care for them properly, and he was just doing what he could manage—why was she blaming him for that?

As this happened more and more, not only did the original owner feel miserable, but Cong Shan also harbored frustration.

Not just between lovers, but even between spouses, if one holds back frustration with the other, they’re not far from breaking up.

However, the original owner truly loved Cong Shan.

All her plans for the future included her boyfriend.

Even though she was starting to feel disappointed in him, she never once thought about breaking up.

Until this time, when he lost his job.

They were soon facing the pressing need to pay rent and utility bills.

And with Cong Shan having lost his job, not only could he not collect a salary, but because of his actions, which had led to a loss for the company, he had to compensate them.

When Cong Shan confided to the original owner about this incident with hesitation, like a child who had done something wrong, the original owner just couldn’t take it anymore and exploded in anger.

And the landlord, who had also received Cong Shan’s help in the past, far from agreeing to their request to extend the rent deadline, stirred up more trouble between them.

Sometimes people’s hearts can be truly wicked and ugly.

In desperation, Cong Shan hesitantly said to the original owner, "Can you ask your aunt to help us out temporarily again? Once I find a job, I’ll repay her immediately."

The original owner was shocked that her broadly ’kind’ boyfriend could say such a thing.

In the end, the original owner didn’t ask her family for help; instead, she coldly took out some money she had secretly saved.

This money was meant for a skills training course registration fee, an amount she had saved over a long time.

Cong Shan was equally shocked that his girlfriend had her own secrets.

A thorn had lodged itself between them.

They both felt aggrieved.

The original owner felt that ever since she had been with Cong Shan, not only had her life fallen by several levels, but even having enough food and clothing had become a problem.

Meanwhile, Cong Shan felt that his girlfriend had changed and was no longer as endearing as before.