Saving Wang

Chapter 18-Promotion Notification

The promotion should have been a happy thing.

　　However, an unexpected promotion would be a target of public criticism.

　　When he received the notification that he was promoted from the designer assistant to the general manager of the design department, Wang Weixi did not feel a hint of joy. Instead, he felt fearful and humiliated.

　　Yi Duanfang once told him with great certainty that he would benefit greatly from his marriage, but Wang Weixi did not believe so because his father-in-law had helped him a lot and Wang Weixi did not expect anything more. However, Wang Weixi had miscalculated. The girl that he married came from a wealthy family, so she had never led a poor life. His monthly salary was only 2,500 RMB; even if he picked up some part-time jobs, Wang Weixi could only gain less than 4,000 RMB per month.

　　What could he do with 4,000 RMB in this fast city? It could only afford a single room in Jinling Hotel.

　　They now had a huge sum of money, but it was what they received from their wedding and they would return to the guests in the future. Therefore, to be exact, Wang Weixi was incapable of supporting his wife's life at all. To put it bluntly, a single piece of clothes in Chen Kexin's closet would probably cost his monthly salary, let alone her brand-name cosmetics. There was no doubt that Wang Weixi was facing the pressure he could not bear.

　　Two people got married. If they did not need to keep track of the money spending, their life would be wonderful, because their feelings did not cost a penny. However, in real lives, they would be in pain for they had to cope with the pressure from money earning.

　　A few days ago, Chen Kexin wanted to eat crabs. In order to please her, Wang Weixi took her out for dinner. The meal cost him 2,000 RMB and emptied his purse. He did not complain about it, but he really begrudged the money he paid.

　　Later on, Chen Kexin smashed so many bowls and dishes. Wang Weixi was also upset about it, but out of the love for Chen Kexin, he still said nothing.

　　He was able to forgive her because Chen Kexin married him without hesitation and she was not as arrogant and bad-tempered as other girls from wealthy families, of course, if you did not count "playing cute".

　　Nevertheless, when he was really promoted and given a huge salary raise, which meant his monthly salary would be 10 times or even 100 times more, he felt more pressure from his father-in-law.

　　Although Chen Derong had always spoken highly of his son-in-law and did not care about his humble family. Compared with other parents, he was definitely an open-minded father, but what he had done revealed a kind of contempt for Wang Weixi.

　　A man could have no money and no woman, but he had to keep his dignity and spine.

　　Having not yet had time to show his dignity, Wang Weixi had been seamlessly turned into a guy living off his woman by his father-in-law.

　　How could this not depress a man?!

　　The sunshine filled the room. Chen Kexin finally opened her eyes at 12 o'clock. She felt aches in her muscles and stretched herself. Looking around, she found her clothes being placed by the pillow by her husband.

　　"He might be in the kitchen." Chen Kexin thought, and then turned over and closed her eyes. However, her stomach rumbled helplessly, so she finally reluctantly got out of bed.

　　With dark circles under her eyes, she began to clean herself up.

　　When she cleaned herself up, she opened the door, but only to find her husband sitting on the sofa, with a cigarette in his hand and a depressed face. A strong smell of smoke permeated the entire living room. Chen Kexin furrowed her brows lightly and lowered her head, seeing that the ashtray on the tea table was stuffed with cigarette butts.