Lu Chengwen looked at Meilan. "No offense, beautiful woman, but all I have to do is snap my fingers, like this!"
Snap!
"My subordinates can bring me dozens, even hundreds of beautiful women for me to choose from. So... beauty is the easiest thing for me to obtain. It's not something I need to put any special effort into."
Meilan stammered, "Then I... I can manage your daily life and take care of you."
Lu Chengwen said, "You wouldn't be able to do that well either. If my mother scolded you every day, could you endure it and, through day after day of patience, intelligence, and good character, make her change her opinion of you?"
"I..."
"You can't." Lu Chengwen said, "You don't understand. You think you're clever just because you watched a few episodes of Empresses in the Palace. You think you understand power struggles, that you're different, that your way of thinking is unique, that everyone else is drunk while you alone are sober. You think all you lack is an opportunity, and if one came your way, you'd definitely be better than everyone else. Impossible!"
"First, an opportunity would never come to you. If one did, it would definitely be a trap. Of course, at that point, you definitely wouldn't believe it was a trap. You'd convince yourself that this was your chance to defy fate and change your life. But afterward, you'd get screwed over horribly. Absolutely horribly. People like me can screw over a girl with no foundation like you without bearing nearly any responsibility! And everyone would call you stupid, foolish, useless. They'd laugh at you for being a scheming woman desperate to marry into a wealthy family. But I know perfectly well that you don't have any schemes at all."
"Second, even if