In "Thirty Only", in order to give her son the best kindergarten and win orders for the company, Gu Jia tried her best to squeeze into the wife's circle.
Gu Jia is making cakes, serving tea and water, and buying expensive bags to go to the wife's circle, but she has been excluded and suppressed by the wife's circle.
In the end, Mrs. Li set up a bureau to let Gu Jia take over the tea factory and pit Gu Jia, and Gu Jia saw the truth that she was suppressed and excluded by the wife's circle.
So the question is, why did Gu Jia, who is shrewd and capable and can put down her figure, not fit into the wife's circle, but was suppressed and excluded by the joint bureau?
1. While clearing the high, you can't look down on it
Gu Jia's heart has always looked down on the wife circle. On the surface, she can put down her body to please the wife circle, but in fact, she disdains the survival mode of the wife circle that relies on her husband's family to survive.
The first detail is that in order for her son to go to a good kindergarten, Gu Jia specially made a cake to please Mrs. Wang, who lives in the same building.
As a result, she found that Mrs. Wang couldn't even distinguish between Van Gogh and Monet's works, and when she returned home, she said indignantly to Xu Huanshan,
Here, you can see the arrogance of some cultural people in Gu Jia's heart, feeling that she is a graduate of a famous university, cultured and tasteful, and these nouveau riche wives are different. At this point, she and Xu Huanshan belong to the same kind of person, and they are both a little high.
The second detail is that when she saw Mrs. Yu and learned that Mrs. Yu's husband was more than 20 years older than her, and Mrs. Yu was still a stepmother and had to take care of her naughty stepson, Gu Jia's micro-expression at that time could be said to be smug and mocking.
This also led to her being unwilling to be an obedient little brother serving tea and pouring water in the wife's circle, whether she wanted to puncture the false self-esteem of the wives who used it as a façade, and therefore she pierced the fact that Mrs. Wang couldn't distinguish between Van Gogh and Monet's works, and also pierced Mrs. Yu's lack of buying second-hand bracelets.
2. The essence of business is exchange
The fuse that really made Gu Jia squeeze out of the wife circle was actually the fact that she took the second-hand bracelet and threatened her wife.
On the surface, Mrs. Yu vented her bitterness with her, telling her that it was not easy to be a stepmother, Gu Jia gave her parenting advice, and Mrs. Yu promoted orders from her own paradise and Gu Jia Fireworks Company.
It seems that Gu Jia helped Mrs. Yu solve the problem of parenting, and Mrs. Yu helped Gu Jia alleviate the company's capital chain problem, which is mutually beneficial for both parties.
But in fact, it was Gu Jia who threatened Mrs. Yu with the handle of the second-hand bracelet, and Mrs. Yu could only agree to Gu Jia's request in order to be able to get along in the wife's circle.
And Gu Jia did not give a kickback to Mrs. Yu after getting the order of 5 million, even if Mrs. Yu cried to her that her living expenses were tight, Gu Jia did not give up the interests at hand.
Therefore, the essence of business is the exchange of resources, Gu Jia only wants to exchange the benefits in the hands of the wife's circle, but she has not thought about what benefits she can bring to others, and she is destined to not be able to integrate into the wife's circle.
3. The essence of business is exchange
And what really made Gu Jia get cheated was that Mrs. Li made a game and set up Gu Jia's next tea factory.
To tell the truth, Gu Jia did not lose unjustly in this matter. Mrs. Li just threw out an olive branch, mainly to see if Gu Jia could take the bait.
After Gu Jia came into contact with the 5 million orders given by Mrs. Yu, after tasting the sweetness of the information gap, she blindly thought that the resources given by Mrs. Yu were good.
This also led to her taking over the tea factory project without even a field trip.
After taking down the tea factory, Gu Jia realized that he had been set up.
Therefore, there is no need to be strong in different circles. Gu Jia was busy, and in the end, the fireworks company had an accident, Xu Huanshan was in prison, and when she was so busy selling the house to raise compensation, she didn't see anyone from the wife's circle to help, but the owner of the tea factory specially took more than 10,000 cash raised by the villagers to express her gratitude.
At that moment, Gu Jia's eyes were red. I think that after going through so many things, she finally understood that the true feelings in the world have never been brought by the exchange of interests.