Chapter 204: Chapter 204: Wang Mei’s Self-Inflicted Misery

He Han came back to the art troupe. Everyone had already packed up their things. He Han clapped his hands. "Come, come, gather up, I have something to say."

Everyone put down what they were holding and came to stand in front of He Han. Seeing his gaze fall on her, Wang Mei, feeling guilty, wanted to shrink back and hide behind others.

But how could He Han possibly let her slip away.

"Wang Mei, step out for a moment."

Hearing He Han’s voice, Wang Mei could only lower her head and walk over to his side.

"Everyone should be clear about Wang Mei’s situation today. This matter ends here. No one is to bring it up again in the future. It was all just a misunderstanding, and there was no deception involved." He Han raised his voice, sweeping his gaze over everyone.

"If you want to date someone, I won’t stop you. But if you can’t do your own job well because of it, then don’t blame me, He Han, for showing no mercy." He Han’s expression darkened, and everyone nervously swallowed.

"About yesterday’s performance, the final program—Wang Mei, you tell me, what was that about? No one reported it to me, and no one said there’d be a change of personnel. Why did your program turn into Comrade Fu Xiaoxiao’s?" He Han’s voice grew cold as his eyes landed on Wang Mei.

Wang Mei’s face went pale. Yesterday she’d only wanted to teach Fu Xiaoxiao a lesson and had forgotten that this wasn’t a place where she could act recklessly.

"I just wanted to give the program something new..." Wang Mei still tried to explain.

"Did you tell me that? What do you think the army is? A place where you can do whatever you want, change a program whenever you feel like it?" Hearing her use this excuse, He Han became even angrier.

"I..." Wang Mei opened her mouth, but when she met He Han’s sharp gaze, she was so frightened she didn’t dare say another word.

"I’m sorry, I won’t dare do it again. I didn’t do well this time." Wang Mei lowered her head and admitted her fault.

She thought He Han would let her off for the sake of her being tricked in love this time, but He Han was not that kind of person.

"From this moment on, the lead dancer position held by Wang Mei will be taken over by Su He. Wang Mei will spend a month reflecting on her mistakes." He Han was not going to indulge her; each matter is its own. This was no reason for her to act willfully.

"What?" Wang Mei looked at He Han in disbelief.

"Huh?" Su He was stunned as well. Her? She’d become the lead dancer?

"I don’t agree. I can still dance!" There was no way Wang Mei would give up her lead dancer position. She’d worked hard to climb up to this spot and had never dared relax. She trained seriously every day and never let herself fall behind.

"This isn’t about asking for your agreement. It’s your punishment." He Han let out a cold laugh. What did she think he meant? This wasn’t a discussion; it was a notice.

"How can this be blamed on me? I was tricked too!" Wang Mei looked at He Han with dissatisfaction, feeling that he was targeting her.

"Then who should be blamed? You wrote the letter yourself and delivered it to the wrong person. Who’s that on? The punishment now is for you arbitrarily changing an important program. Each matter is separate. Your private intent to make Comrade Fu Xiaoxiao look bad has nothing to do with you being deceived. Don’t think you can muddle things up." He Han said coldly.

To Wang Mei, it was all one thing, but to He Han, they were two matters that weren’t connected at all.

"Why are you all targeting me! I’m already miserable enough..." Wang Mei roared, feeling it was unfair.

Seeing Wang Mei like this, Su He also felt bad. She stepped forward to persuade her. "Wang Mei, don’t be like this. You can still come back later."

"Smack!" Seeing Su He dare come over, Wang Mei viciously slapped her across the face.

"You got close to me on purpose just so you could one day steal my position, didn’t you! And I thought of you as my best friend, yet you treat me like this!" Wang Mei’s resentful gaze fixed on Su He, convinced that Su He had been plotting to grab her spot.

Just waiting for the day she could push Wang Mei down and step on her to climb up.

"Wang Mei! This is your own mistake. What does it have to do with Su He? You’re just taking it out on her!" He Han was extremely disappointed in Wang Mei. He hadn’t expected someone he’d trained to think like this. He’d only lightly punished her, and not only did she fail to reflect, she even shifted all the blame onto someone else.

"Wang Mei, you’ve gone too far! And Su He has been defending you all this time. You’re not worth helping." The others hurried forward to help Su He up. Seeing her cheek swell up at once, they knew how much force Wang Mei had used.

"Hurry and take Su He to get some medicine on that." He Han saw that the injury on Su He’s face was quite serious and quickly told someone to take her away.

"Su He, come on, we’ll help you go put some medicine on." Several female comrades quickly supported Su He as they went to get her treated.

"Wang Mei, since you think we’re all targeting you, do as you please then!" He Han gave Wang Mei a cold look. "We can’t keep you in the art troupe any longer."

The others glanced at Wang Mei’s twisted expression and all followed He Han away.

Wang Mei collapsed onto the ground. All her years of effort had gone to waste.

-

Fu Xiaoxiao heard from Wang Lu that Wang Mei had been expelled from the art troupe and was stunned for a moment. "It’s that serious? She got kicked out just like that?"

"From what I heard, it’s because He Tuan stripped her of the lead dancer spot and appointed someone else. Wang Mei went crazy over it, and she didn’t show any attitude of recognizing her mistake. She shifted the blame onto others. Dodging responsibility is a major taboo." Wang Lu explained to Fu Xiaoxiao and the others.

"I feel like she totally brought this on herself." Lin Xue thought that Wang Mei had gone too far. Everyone had already said it was a misunderstanding, yet she still wouldn’t let it go.

"She just didn’t get what she wanted and couldn’t accept it. She thought she’d been writing letters with Lu Feng all along and had already imagined herself as his pampered wife. Then suddenly it all turned into nothing, and the person wasn’t even the same man." Fu Xiaoxiao felt that Wang Mei ended up like this simply because she wanted too much.

If not for her vanity, her correspondence with Lu Feng would never have become something the entire art troupe knew about. Now that the truth was out and everyone knew this ’Feng’ was not that ’Feng’, she had instantly become a clown, everyone’s laughingstock.

Being such a proud person, of course she couldn’t bear such a fall.

"I agree with that. I also think she’s just unwilling to accept it. She’s stirred up such a big mess and dragged Lu Feng into it—clearly she’s still hung up on him!" Lin Xue’s thoughts were the same as Fu Xiaoxiao’s. She felt that Wang Mei’s goal was Lu Feng.

As for Lu Feng himself, he was just busily picking up food and putting it into Fu Xiaoxiao’s bowl. "Wife, eat."

He simply didn’t have Wang Mei in his heart, and he certainly didn’t care about her outcome.

Seeing him like this, everyone tactfully stopped using Wang Mei as a topic.

"Comrade Fu Xiaoxiao, you’ve got a package." Just as everyone was chatting and laughing, a voice came from outside the door.

Wang Lu quickly stood up and went to the door. In a short while, he came back carrying two big burlap sacks.

"Sister-in-law, these were mailed to you by Comrade Chen Xiu." Wang Lu said to Fu Xiaoxiao as he took out a letter. "This is the letter Comrade Chen Xiu sent you."

"Sister Chen Xiu?" Fu Xiaoxiao’s eyes lit up. She stepped forward to take the letter, the corners of her mouth curling in a happy smile.

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