He should have stayed in Beijing, found a wife from a good family, lived a good life, and become a successful person.
But all of this was ruined by Dai Qinxue. Dai Qinxue deceived him and saddled him with tens of thousands of yuan in debt! What does ten thousand yuan mean in mainland China? It's Zhou Jian'an's salary for decades, and that bitch Dai Qinxue just swindled it away!
When Zhou Jian'an was desperate, Zhou Fangchun came to his aid. She immediately offered to help him pay off his debts. At that time, Zhou Jian'an truly felt that his sister was very kind to him, but Zhou Fangchun only wanted to drag him down another path of no return.
Zhou Jian'an had no other choice but to join Zhou Fangchun in running the mutual aid society. As a college student, how could he not know that the mutual aid society was a scam? Once he embarked on this path, there was no turning back.
Later, he strayed further and further from this path. He wanted Zhou Fangchun to delay his departure and pave the way for him, but unexpectedly, Zhou Fangchun accidentally killed the thug who was impersonating a policeman!
He was behind this; what could Zhou Jian'an do?
I had no choice but to escape to the port city, to say goodbye to everything in the past, and to try my best to move forward on this increasingly deviated path.
"Mao Xia, why are you blaming me? If it weren't for your mother, I, Zhou Jian'an, would still be working peacefully in Beijing, with a good wife, a child, and a good life. Your mother taught me to cheat people. Ten million wasn't enough, she wanted twenty million, twenty million wasn't enough, she wanted fifty million, fifty million wasn't enough, she wanted a hundred million! She cheated so much money. If I had stayed in Beijing and not fled, I would have ended up like her, waiting to be shot!"
Zhou Jian'an's words were like a knife to Mao Xia's heart. Mao Xia stared at him in disbelief, "What did you say? My mother will be shot? How is that possible!"
"Why is it impossible? She accidentally killed someone while trying to escape. You should know what the crime of murder is in mainland China. Besides, she's the behind-the-scenes boss of the mutual aid society. I've cleared myself of all charges in the society's accounts. Even if the police know I was an accomplice, they don't have enough evidence. On the contrary, your mother defrauded hundreds of millions of yuan and caused countless people to hang themselves or jump off buildings. If she doesn't get executed, who should?"
Mao Xia took a step back, her face completely pale.
She couldn't buy mainland newspapers in Hong Kong, and she had been trying to find out about Zhou Fangchun, but she had no way to do so. She wanted to call back to the mainland, but she didn't dare to act rashly.
Mao Xia always thought that Zhou Fangchun was just imprisoned and that he wouldn't be sentenced to death for economic crimes.
But she never expected that Zhou Fangchun had also killed someone.
"Do you know why your mother killed someone? She wanted to run away to Hong Kong and start over with you. She transferred most of the money she swindled to you. You told her not to trust anyone, right? But what did you do?! I gained your trust with just a few words, and a man lured you away from your marriage! For a man, for the sake of becoming a wealthy socialite, you used the money your mother swindled with her life to support him! In the end, you were swindled out of everything by that man. Mao Xia, if I were you, I wouldn't have the face to live in this world!"
Zhou Jian'an's words were like daggers piercing Mao Xia's heart.
Mao Xia's face was pale and bloodless. She kept backing away. She couldn't accept the news that her mother was going to be executed. She thought her mother was just going to jail and would come out of the prison sooner or later to find her in Hong Kong.
She thought her mother's love for her was just the love a normal mother has for her child.
But Zhou Fangchun was willing to go to jail and be executed for her sake rather than return the money in order to get a reduced sentence!
If she hadn't been scammed out of that money, and had returned it to the police, at least Zhou Fangchun's life could have been saved!
But now the money is gone, and her mother is about to die. Mao Xia has no money and owes the factory three million. She can't bear this blow. She feels that she has failed miserably and would rather die.
Mao Xia wandered aimlessly down the street. When she reached the intersection, she was stopped by two thugs.
A thug tried to harass her, but was rescued by a woman on the street.
The older sister chased away the thugs and looked at her face with a smile, "Little sister, what happened to you? Don't do anything rash. Tell me what's wrong, and I can comfort you."
Mao Xia never expected that strangers would be kinder than Zhou Jian'an. She couldn't hold back any longer and threw herself into the arms of this older sister, bursting into tears.
"Oh dear, sister, your crying breaks my heart. Actually, nothing is a big deal for us women. Our faces and figures are our own assets. If we use them well, the world can be ours. Why are you crying like this?"
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