Had she been thinking about her ex-husband so much that she’d gone crazy?
Sure, her ex-husband was a bit handsome.
But not to the point where every man she saw looked like him, right?
“Next, let us invite Professor Lu Heng from Huaqing University to deliver the opening speech!”
“Please welcome Professor Lu!”
“Clap clap clap!”
Thunderous applause erupted.
People all around began clapping enthusiastically.
Only Jiang Mian stood there, mouth agape, unable to close it for a long time.
Oh my god, what kind of twisted fate is this!
It actually… really is my ex-husband?!
The person she thought she would never see again in this lifetime was actually standing right there on the stage!
“Distinguished leaders, honored guests, and comrades working on the front lines of scientific research…”
His clear and standard Mandarin echoed throughout the entire hall.
The audience fell silent, focusing intently.
Some even clutched their chests, as if afraid their hearts might leap out of their throats.
“As expected of a professor—he even sounds so pleasant when he speaks!”
Xu Hongmei stared at the stage with stars in her eyes.
After a moment, she leaned closer to Jiang Mian and whispered smugly:
“Well? A genuine professor like him—doesn’t he leave your ex-husband far behind?”
Jiang Mian: “……”
Whether he left her ex-husband far behind or not, she didn’t know.
But the Lu Heng standing on the stage now was indeed even more—
Refined?
Dressed in a simple Zhongshan suit, with his hair neatly parted in a three-seven style and slicked back.
His demeanor was elegant, his bearing outstanding.
Having left the farm, his complexion had become much fairer as well.
Looking at the row of weathered middle-aged and elderly men behind him only made him stand out even more—tall and striking, like a crane among chickens.
As expected of the male lead!
Yes, her ex-husband—Professor Lu—was the male lead of a period novel.
Don’t misunderstand, she wasn’t the female lead.
She was merely the cannon fodder ex-wife of the male lead, the wife he had married locally when he was sent down to work at a farm.
Later, after the male lead was rehabilitated, he planned to bring this “country wife” back to the city.
But just the day before returning to the city, Jiang Mian had a dream.
Only then did she realize that the world she lived in was actually just a novel.
And she was the cannon fodder ex-wife of the male lead in that story.
According to the plot, when the male lead was rehabilitated and returned to the city, he would take her along to the capital.
The moment they arrived, she would anger the male lead’s parents—who had come to receive them—so badly that they were hospitalized.
After that, she would become a lazy, troublemaking, and malicious country wife who caused chaos everywhere.
Damn it—what kind of cursed fate is this!
Not lazy, not picky with food, not troublesome—at most, just a bit uneducated. But how did it happen that the moment she entered the city, it was as if she had lost her mind?
But who knows? That’s just how the story was written.
No one understood.
No one dared to ask.
Later, when she became pregnant, she only grew worse, using her pregnancy as an excuse to act out even more.
She caused chaos everywhere.
The kind of chaos that exposed every bit of embarrassment from her in-laws’ entire family history.
The whole residential compound, the entire university, all knew that the dignified Professor Lu had married an illiterate rural wife.
Their marriage was completely ruined.
The male lead realized she was no longer the hardworking, simple, and gentle young wife she once was, and his heart completely turned cold.
In the end, this cannon-fodder ex-wife suspected that the eighty-year-old neighbor had stolen half a cabbage from her home. With a nine-month pregnant belly, she went to confront him.
Before the old man could even react, she tripped and fell first.
On the spot, the child was forced out.
The good news—the child survived.
The bad news—she didn’t.
“It was all her own doing!”
One sentence summed up her entire life.
The male lead stood in front of her cold body, holding their two sons and one daughter.
There was not a trace of emotion in his eyes.
But he still handled her funeral according to the rites of a legal wife.
She was pushed into the cremation furnace.
With a hiss—
Jiang Mian was awakened by the flames inside the furnace.
Oh my god!
That scared her to death!
Really scared her to death!
How could she end up with such a miserable fate?!
She didn’t want to be a cannon-fodder ex-wife!
She didn’t want to fight with an old man, didn’t want to die from premature labor!
She didn’t want to enter the city!!!
Thus, after awakening, she decisively chose to divorce.
She had thought that after the divorce, they would go their separate ways, never to meet again.
This time, coming to the capital for a conference, she believed that in such a vast city, with a sea of people, there was no way they would run into each other.
But unexpectedly, fate had other plans.
Enemies always meet on a narrow road.
She really ran into that fated yet ill-fated ex-husband again!
What should she do?
In a moment, she would have to go on stage to receive an award.
Would her name be seen by her ex-husband?
After finishing his speech, he would leave, right?
He wouldn’t be the one presenting the awards… right?
“Next, we will commend this year’s outstanding individuals and outstanding groups…”