Chapter 12 A Flash of Inspiration

"Duan Haixiang, get out here! I work so hard every day to earn money to support my family, but you actually went gambling behind my back and even owed me a lot of debt!"

"If you still have a conscience, open the door and sell your old house to pay off my debts, otherwise come to the Civil Affairs Bureau with me tomorrow to get a divorce!"

Duan Huaijin had just walked to the door of his house, without even opening it, when he heard Lin Mei pounding on the bedroom door angrily.

Except for his hair and injured arm, Duan Huaijin's entire body was wet. He was changing his dripping shoes and socks at the door when he heard Duan Haixiang push the door open with a bang.

"He told you, didn't he?" Duan Haixiang looked at Lin Mei, his chest heaving violently. Seeing Duan Huaijin coming back, he immediately turned his attention and asked loudly, "Duan Huaijin, didn't I tell you not to tell anyone?"

"That's enough! The old man doesn't take responsibility for his own actions and wants to push it onto the younger one? The debt collector called me directly!!! Duan Haixiang, I've been married to you for so many years, how come I didn't realize you were so capable? And you even gambled without telling me."

Duan Haixiang was suddenly speechless. A few days ago, the debt collector said that he could give him more time and Duan Huaijin would help him pay the money back. So why did he turn around and call Lin Mei?

Lin Mei's eyes were red. "Anyway, this gambling debt is owed by you and has nothing to do with me. You either sell your old house or get a divorce and leave the house with nothing!"

"But if we sell the old house, where will my mother live?"

"I can't live like this anyway, I don't care where your mother lives!"

"Lin Mei! You don't even support your mother-in-law. You are so disloyal and unfilial!"

"Bang--!"

The tissue box on the dining table was smashed hard against the door frame, almost causing a bump on Duan Haixiang's head.

"How dare you mention Zhongxiao to me? Why don't you ask who is to blame for this?"

Duan Huaijin went back to his room, got a towel, and went into the bathroom, ignoring the quarrel at home.

Duan Haixiang was a coward and was already in the wrong, so he lost his temper instantly after being yelled at by Lin Mei. He hid in the bedroom and dared not come out.

After a while, there were sounds of smashing and smashing in the restaurant. Lin Mei smashed almost everything she could get her hands on, but she still felt unsatisfied.

When she first got married, she worked as a servant for a rich family in order to make money. After giving birth to a child, she took the risk of changing the child in order to let her son live a good life. Later, she tried to get in touch with her biological son. These were all ideas she had thought of with great effort, and Duan Haixiang, the coward, could not help at all.

It was still raining heavily outside, but Lin Mei really didn't want to stay with Duan Haixiang, so she took an umbrella and slammed the door of her house hard, shaking the whole corridor.

Duan Huaijin leaned against the bathroom door and listened quietly to the show outside.

The gambling debt that Duan Haixiang owed was the kind that had compound interest. It wasn't much to begin with, but Duan Haixiang failed to pay it off in time, and now it has become hundreds of thousands. The money that Zhang Hanzhou gave to Lin Mei every month was not enough. Lin Mei was probably out looking for an opportunity to meet Zhang Hanzhou.

Duan Huaijin took off his wet shirt and was about to wash it by hand along with Yu Chucheng's coat, but when he reached out, he took out a ring box from Yu Chucheng's coat, which was the one he saw in the clinic today.

“…”

Duan Huaijin opened the box with one hand and looked at the exquisite men's ring inside with an expressionless face.

The pattern on the ring looks simple, but the workmanship is very fine. The grooves are inlaid with sparkling diamonds, and there is even a line of words engraved on the inside.

Amor et Fidelitas.

Love and loyalty.

It can be seen how much care the person who customized this ring put in.

Duan Huaijin held the ring in his hand, his dark eyes showed no emotion, except that his joints were slightly white.

Hao Jia...

He repeated the name silently in his mind.

In his previous life, in order to make Zhang Hanzhou lose everything, he even wanted to take away Hao Jia, the person Zhang Hanzhou liked.

However, he had been planning for a long time, taking away the family property that Zhang Hanzhou was about to inherit and stripping Zhang Hanzhou of his status in Kyoto. In the end, he almost left Zhang Hanzhou with nowhere to go, but he failed to get rid of Hao Jia from his side. The two of them were firmly nailed together like magnets.

In the end, he didn't even understand why Hao Jia was worth all his efforts.

Just like he now doesn't understand what is so special about Hao Jia that makes Yu Chucheng like her so much, he is willing to do it even if he gets rejected by Yu Chucheng.

“Click.”

Duan Huaijin closed the lid and threw the box aside like trash.

*

Yu Chucheng took a shower as soon as he got home, and only after the shower did he remember that the ring box seemed to be missing.

But he just thought it fell on the back seat of the car and didn't think much about it.

After having dinner with his family, Yu Chucheng lay comfortably on the lazy couch on the glass terrace of his home, listening to the big raindrops hitting the glass outside, lowering the projection screen, eating the fruit platter made by his aunt, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Oh, this is life..."

He was wearing a loose T-shirt and shorts, shaking his straight white legs, and randomly found a movie to watch.

It turns out that this movie is a suspense film. There is a chain car accident at the beginning, and the cars that collided with each other exploded on the spot.

Damn, so unlucky.

Yu Chucheng hurriedly changed one.

Thinking back, if it hadn't been for a car accident, he wouldn't have been transmigrated into this novel and had to work so hard as a bootlicker.

But then again, Duan Huaijin seemed to have died due to a car accident. It seems that the two of them are quite related in terms of death.

Yu Chucheng was amused by his own humor and couldn't help laughing. He picked up an apple and put it in his mouth.

This time, the movie being shown is a police and gangster film. The idea is good, but the plot is too boring. If the protagonist didn't have the halo of a protagonist, he would have been killed several times by the bad guys in the movie.

The sound of rain mixed with the sound of the movie was the best sound to help you fall asleep. Yu Chucheng was drowsy from watching the movie and could only vaguely hear the end of the movie.

“This world is not black and white. There are still many evils hidden in corners where the sun cannot shine. But please believe that justice will always prevail over evil.”

Yu Chucheng rubbed his eyes and yawned lazily.

Yes, justice will always triumph over evil. This has basically been the case throughout history. As the saying goes, it is not that there is no retribution, but that the time has not come. Villains will never have a good ending.

Thinking of this, Yu Chucheng stopped rubbing his eyes and calculated the time in his mind.

"Ten years..." Yu Chucheng murmured.

There are still ten years before Duan Huaijin died in a car accident.

Ten years is neither long nor short. But when Yu Chucheng suddenly realized that Duan Huaijin would not be 30 years old in ten years, his heart felt like being gripped by a hand.

So annoying.

Yu Chucheng turned off the projector, but he didn't know what he was upset about.

When Yu Chucheng first knew that the person who bit him was Duan Huaijin, he just wanted to avoid offending him and not be hated by him, and it would be best to stay away from him.

But now, whenever he thought of Duan Huaijin's ending in the book, he felt more and more uncomfortable.

Yu Chucheng let his mind go, staring blankly at the dark night sky above his head, when he suddenly smelled a sweet scent at the tip of his nose.

This is the smell of the barrier agent he sprayed after taking a shower. It has the same peach scent as his pheromones. Duan Huaijin spent most of his savings to buy it.

"Sigh..." Yu Chucheng closed his eyes resignedly.

His heart is not made of stone. It would be fine if he really didn't know Duan Huaijin, but what happened in the past few days has caused his life trajectory to intersect with Duan Huaijin's.

Once a person has a relationship, even if it is just a relationship connected by a thread, he does not want to see someone he knows die ten years later, knowing already that the death is inevitable, but watching that person walk towards the grave step by step.

Yu Chucheng sat up and muttered to himself, "Since the villain's fate is certain to be death, then why not stop Duan Huaijin from turning evil? But how do we stop him?"

Yu Chucheng thought motionlessly for more than ten minutes, more seriously than when he was doing math problems in the college entrance examination.

The fundamental reason why Duan Huaijin turned evil was not actually his background. It all came down to the huge gap in his heart after hearing the news.

As for why the gap is so huge, it is because his adoptive parents are not good human beings and no one has treated him sincerely since he was a child, leaving him struggling alone in the quagmire of life, while the protagonist Zhang Hanzhou is well-dressed and well-fed and is pampered.

If Duan Huaijin's adoptive parents had raised him as their own son since childhood, given him the warmth of family, and made him a happy person, perhaps Duan Huaijin would not have reacted so strongly after learning the truth.

Yu Chucheng put himself in Duan Huaijin's shoes and thought about it for a long time, and finally sorted out his thoughts.

"Got it!" Yu Chucheng suddenly had an idea, "Since Duan Huaijin lacks happiness, or love, then why not just find someone to warm him up?"

As for the selection, Duan Huaijin is an Alpha, so of course he should put himself in his shoes and consult Ji Zhou, who is also an Alpha, who is more reliable.

Yu Chucheng picked up his phone and called Ji Zhou in a hurry, "Hey Ji Zhou, if you really need an Omega to accompany you and warm you up, what type do you want him to be?"