"Rumble"
Dark clouds, like cotton wool soaked in ink, weighed heavily on the skyscrapers in the CBD of
Jiangcheng, Raindrops as big as beans hit the glass curtain walls, splashing up fine water flowers and blurring the outline of the city outside the window.
Chen Fan slumped on the edge of the rooftop, his legs dangling a hundred meters above the ground, hisfingertips still clutching the debt collection note that had been wrinkled by the rain.
The red words "Owing 5 million" were as blinding as blood, and each number was gnawing at his remaining sanity.
Behind her came rapid footsteps. Lin Mengyao, wearing high heels and holding a white umbrella, had no trace of wory on her exquisitely made-up face, only an uncontainable
trace of disgust. Zhao Kai, who was beside her, put his arm around her waist, dressed in a suit and tie, with a mocking smile on his lips- that was once Chen Fan's best brother, but now the one who has ruined everything for him.
"Chen Fan, don't play dead here."" Lin Mengyao's voice came through the rain curtain, shrill and cold. "It was you who vouched for Zhao Kai back then. Now that he can't pay back the money, what does it have to do with us?" Your parents' hospitalization costs money. Crying with me
won't help. I don't have the money to fill your hole."
Chen Fan suddenly raised his head. Raindrops trickled down his hair and into his eyes, stinging and painful.He recalled that half a year ago, Lin Mengyao, with red-rimmed eyes, had told him that Zhao Kai's company was short of cash. As long as he helped guarantee a loan, he would repay it immediately once the funds were
recovered, and they could still raise enough for the down payment oftheir wedding, He believed it, signed it like a
fool, and even gave Lin Mengyao the money his parents had saved for their old age all their lives as an emergency.
But when he turmed around, he saw Lin Mengyao and Zhao Kai kissing passionately at the hotel entrance. The luxury bag they were carying was bought with his parents' retirement money.
"Why?" Chen Fan's voice was hoarse as if it had been sandblasted. "I've been
pursuing you for three years. I'll give you whatever you want. Even if I live frugally
myself, I've never let you suffer the slightest injustice.."Why did you deceive me?Zhao Kai gave a sneer, stepped forward and kicked the debt collection note at Chen Fan's foot with the tip of his shoe: "Chen Fan, don't you look in the mirror at yourself?" A poor boy from the countryside is worthy of a school beauty like Mengyao? If it weren't for your honesty and gullible nature, could you have been a fool forso long?
Lin Mengyao held Zhao Kaï's arm tightly and looked down at Chen Fan from above, saying, "Let me tell you the truth. I've never liked you. I was with you just because I saw that you were willing to spend money on me." Now that I'm with Zhao Kai, please stop pestering me. Hurry up and find a place to pay off the debt. Don't drag us down."
"Dragging you down?" " Chen Fan suddenly burst into laughter, his laughter filled with despair."Because of this debt, one of my parents suffered a stroke and became paralyzed, and the other was so anxious that he bled in the stomach. They are stil lying in the hospital now!" You've driven me to a dead end.
How dare you say I've got you into trouble?"
He struggled to his feet. The rain had soaked his clothes and stuck to his body, making him feel bone-chiling cold. Zhao Kai was afraid that he would go crazy, so he took a step back, but still stubbornly said, "That's your parents' bad luck.It has nothing to do with us!"
If you are sensible, you should hurry up..
Before he could finish speaking, Chen Fan suddenly
jumped up
The wind at a height of 100 meters filled his ears, and the scene on the ground was rapidly magnified in front of his eyes. The frightened faces of Lin Mengyao and Zhao Kai were getting smaller and smaller. He remembered his parents' haggard appearance in front of the hospital bed, remembered that he had lived like a joke for more than 20 years, and his tears fell with the rain. "If.." To do it all over again.. ."
One second before his consciousness was completely plunged into darkness, Chen Fan had only one thought left in his mind.