“Good… you cheap slut…” The fat woman said. “You have a whole bunch of lovers, don’t you?”
“What…?” I covered my face, my eyes full of tears. “What are you saying?”
The fat woman sneered and shouted loudly at the crowd: “Do you really not know? This cheap slut acts like a proper person during the day, but after work she’s someone’s mistress. What’s wrong with me hitting her?”
The crowd instantly became incomparably quiet.
“What’s wrong?!” Seeing no one respond, the woman’s momentum grew stronger. “You tell me! What’s wrong?! She seduced my man and I can’t hit her? What’s wrong with hitting a mistress?!”
My brain also became completely blank at this moment.
I saw the security guards holding those two men slowly release their hands.
Wait… why are you releasing your hands…?
Things seemed to be gradually going from incomprehensible to utterly absurd.
“You cheap slut dog… you even have the face to call people to stand up for you?” The fat woman said. “Today I’ll make you famously slutty!”
I reacted for about ten seconds before saying tremblingly: “What are you saying… I’m not a mistress…!”
“I know you won’t admit it.” The woman said. “I brought the photos for you. Don’t you like being slutty? Let everyone in the factory know how slutty you are!”
She pulled out a small stack of photos from her handbag and viciously threw them at my face. It was as if the photos slapped me again, and I was in a daze.
What on earth was happening?
The photos scattered to the ground, stirring up discussions all around.
I knew those photos weren’t me… but when I stared at those photos, my face still flushed with embarrassment.
“Slutty, right?” The woman seemed to be asking me, and also asking the people beside her. “You speak up for her? Look at what she’s done!”
Mantuan also widened his eyes at this moment to look at the photos on the ground. I knew it wasn’t me, but I didn’t know why I wanted to go up and cover those photos.
But just at this moment, I discovered these photos seemed a bit wrong, because they only showed bodies, they didn’t capture faces.
“What…” I said with a trembling voice. “These photos don’t show faces… This isn’t me at all…”
“Not you?!”
The fat woman reached out and grabbed my hair. I instantly let out a startled cry.
The next second she dragged me to lower my head and started rummaging on the ground.
Before long, she found the only one with a face from the stack of photos—
It was a photo of me working on the assembly line.
“You cheap slut… look at this, is this you or not!”
The fat woman grabbed my hair and kept pushing me toward the photo. She didn’t give me any chance to explain at all.
“Don’t pull my hair…!!” I shouted and pushed her, pushing her body that was like a ball of meat to the ground.
“You cheap slut dare to fight back again!!” She shouted loudly and was about to rush forward. Mantuan immediately went up and held her back.
“Big sister!” Mantuan said. “Wait a moment! Let’s make things clear!”
“How much clearer do you need?!” The fat woman said. “This whole roll of film is these photos. I had them all developed. Which one isn’t clear?”
Yes, as long as you looked carefully, you would quickly discover the suspicious points.
The photos with naked bodies had no face, and the photo with a face showed no naked body.
“The one on the assembly line is indeed me!” I said. “But what do those naked body photos have to do with me?”
“You cheap slut won’t admit it…” The woman said viciously. “Come come come! Today your colleagues are all here, I’ll let them look carefully!”
She picked up two photos and pointed at the time in the lower right corner of the photos.
I was momentarily dazed. The camera that took these photos was very advanced—each one would use micro digital displays to mark the time.
The photo of me on the assembly line was taken at six in the evening. The photos without clothes were taken at six-ten in the evening.
Only ten minutes apart.
She held up the photos for everyone to see, trying to tell them that because the times were very close, the person photographed could only be me.
Too absurd… This was simply too absurd.
“You’re simply being completely unreasonable…” I said. “Ten minutes ago I was still working in the factory, and ten minutes later I took off my clothes for photos…? What kind of logic is this?!”
“This is your slutty logic!!” The woman didn’t give me any chance to explain at all, and another slap landed on my face.
What frightened me wasn’t this slap, but that not a single person spoke up for me anymore.
Including Mantuan.
Just one second before my spirit completely collapsed, Director Fang finally arrived late. He came through from the crowd of onlookers, hastily pulled back the woman, then said in a strange tone: “What are you doing here?!”
“What am I doing?! I’m letting everyone see this cheap slut seduce my man!”
After hearing this, Director Fang looked at me with a face full of horror, then slapped his thigh: “Aiya! You… what are you making a fuss about! Come with me quickly!”
“I’m not leaving!!” The woman roared. “Fang! You tell me! How did this vixen seduce you?! Where were those photos taken?!”
“Nonsense!!” Director Fang also shouted loudly. “Do you still want me to keep working?! Whatever it is, talk about it at home!!”
After hearing this, the woman slowly widened her eyes. Within a few seconds her face flushed red again.
“Fang, now you dare to yell at me…? Good… good…” The woman nodded, looking extremely angry. “You useless fool… Today in front of so many people I’ll save you some face. Our account isn’t settled yet… When we get home, you just wait…”
The fat woman left cursing and swearing with the four men behind her, leaving only me completely dazed, and a large group of whispering colleagues.
The entire incident happened rapidly within ten minutes. By the time I realized what had happened, there was no longer any chance to open my mouth to defend myself.
A group of people stood in place with no one moving. On the ground there were still those naked body photos.
“Cough…” Director Fang cleared his throat and said, “Everyone stop looking, it’s all a misunderstanding. Work as you should.”
The crowd didn’t move.
“Don’t think too much.” Director Fang explained. “Tiantian and I have nothing going on. After I go back I’ll explain clearly to my wife.”
Why did I feel this was so strange…
Clearly Director Fang was explaining this matter, but I always felt like there was a knife placed at my neck.
Director Fang was indeed leadership material. Under these circumstances, he actually began to crouch on the ground collecting the photos as if nothing had happened.
The crowd also gradually dispersed at this time. Before Mantuan left, he glanced at me once. His eyes were very complex.
I really wanted to explain to him… Director Fang and I really had nothing going on…
But I had just said that, and Director Fang had also said that. Did I need to say it again now…?
Director Fang picked up the photos from the ground and said to me expressionlessly: “Tiantian, come with me.”
