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Chapter 38 Who Takes Advantage of Who?_1

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Normally, Faye Owen would likely not bother with an exchange of words, she'd just toss out 200 yuan, and order the security guard to remove the barrier. But now, the "down-on-her-luck" President doesn't even have fifty yuan on her.

Perhaps she was capable of arguing about work with colleagues, but as a Stanford graduate from America, she certainly wasn't equipped to quarrel with ordinary elderly women from the market place. This was something she'd never been taught or had to deal with in her daily life.

She barely spoke two sentences before her face turned red from being trampled on verbally by the elderly woman. She felt a mixture of shame, anger, embarrassment, and helplessness. With a few dozen coins in her hands, ready to pay, yet the other party refused to accept it. Moreover, she couldn't understand much of what the elderly woman was saying, and could only infer from certain sensitive words, that it wasn't anything nice.