Chapter 96 A Desperate Gamble
This is Su Hui's last chance.
After being deported back to China, Su Hui dared not contact her former cronies and used the little money she had to rent a small single room.
The single room is less than half the size of his original bathroom, yet it bears the marks of life for all the tenants who once lived there.
The mottled wall surface was covered with oil stains, dried sludge, dirt of varying shades, and numerous glue marks.
Every resident here tried to cover up the appalling state of the place, but all failed.
Poverty cannot be concealed; it stubbornly persists in one's nature.
No matter how magnificent the robe, if the roots are rotten, there is no hope.
Su had a belated epiphany.
But he had already reached a dead end, and of course he knew that he had no one to blame for it.
He has only himself to blame.
He once had a life of abundance, but he was never satisfied and continued to greedily plunder.
He was so selfish that it wasn't enough for him to be happy; he couldn't tolerate anyone else enjoying even the slightest bit of happiness.
His understanding of happiness is arbitrary, unique, and belongs only to him.
So even though Su Fengxian was capable of giving love to both children, he didn't allow it; that love could only be given to him alone.
He and Su Pu could have lived their own lives peacefully, but he was not satisfied. He wanted Su Pu to be perpetually impoverished. His life needed such a contrast to make him feel doubly happy.
After returning to China, Su Hui's material and spiritual world completely collapsed. She had no money in her pocket, and when she turned on her phone, she could only receive veiled concern from old acquaintances.
He couldn't stand it and kept running away until one day he saw a flyer his roommate brought home, which said there was an investment and business event in a couple of days, to be held in the banquet hall of a glittering hotel in the city center.
invest?
Su was intrigued, and after looking at the rate of return, she became even more enamored.
He still has a house left to him by his mother, which was previously put into trust management and rented to a family from out of town who came to Yuncheng to run a catering business.
This was his last remaining asset, and he was determined to gamble everything on it.
On the day the investment promotion conference began, Su took out the most expensive outfit from her suitcase, dressed herself up, and appeared at the venue.
The scene was indeed filled with wealthy people. Su quietly appraised their watches, and even those worth six figures seemed shabby.
However, once the event officially started, he discovered that this so-called "investment promotion conference" was nothing more than a gimmick.
After the planner finished speaking, a row of beautifully dressed dealers in matching fishtail gowns appeared gracefully at the table and started dealing the cards.
Su Hui also received a card, a 7 of hearts.
7 is his lucky number, so even after realizing the true purpose of the investment promotion meeting, he did not leave immediately.
He wanted to see if he had truly suffered a complete defeat.
Soon, the results were announced, and he was lucky; he won against three companies.
With an initial investment of 10,000 yuan, he earned 20,000 yuan before he even had a chance to pay any more.
Su Hui suppressed a smile, thinking to herself that everyone here must be very wealthy, so it couldn't be a scam.
He set a bottom line for himself: if he lost 10,000 yuan, he would leave.
That night, he lost 130,000.
...
Looking back, I realized that this was a carefully planned scam. Most of the people at the "investment promotion meeting" were actors, specifically designed to deceive this small group of opportunistic individuals.
He could have stayed away from this mess, but by the time he realized it, it was too late.
By the time he realized what was happening, he had already signed the property transfer agreement. The house, located in the best part of the city center, was mortgaged for three million to a so-called "investment company."
There were still more than 40,000 left. Su Hui originally wanted to take out 10,000 to test whether things would turn around.
Then the 40,000 yuan quickly disappeared, and he found himself with an IOU for 60,000 yuan.
At this point, Su Hui was blinded by defeat and finally realized that his life was ruined.
It's hopelessly rotten!
Since it's rotten, we might as well give it a shot.
A worthless life may not be worth much, but it can drag many people into misery.
He thought of Su Pu, and he thought of Li Jichuan.
Before he died, he wanted them to experience pain, a pain they could never let go of.
So Su borrowed another 100,000 yuan from the "investment company," determined to go all in.
Alternatively, he could carve out a way out for himself and Su Fengxian in their desperate situation.
Or, before he went to his death, he would take someone down with him... He refused to let Su Pu go even in death.
The plan was foolproof. Through the "investment company," he contacted a group of desperate criminals willing to carry out the kidnapping for him.
Most of these people are burdened with debts ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan, and they are desperately short of money.
He then learned some extortion techniques from the so-called "investment manager," learning not to reveal all his assets at once, to remain calm, and to have multiple phone numbers on hand if necessary.
But he never expected that there was one among this group of desperados who still retained a shred of humanity.
Zhang Da released Su Pu.
In the early hours of the morning, when he called the leader again to ask them to take a picture of Su Pu, the other party refused to answer the phone for a long time.
Su Hui's eyes were throbbing. She was in an underground casino and had already lost all of the more than one million yuan that Li Jichuan had just transferred to her.
Without new photos, there's no new money coming in, and he's not qualified to return to the poker table.
This is worse than death for him.
Fifteen minutes later, the call finally went through, and the other party told him angrily that there was a mole among them who had let the person escape.
Su Hui's heart leaped into her throat, and she took several deep breaths to keep from fainting.
He slumped to the ground, telling those people to hurry up and go out to search. If they couldn't find him, he would go find Brother Xu at dawn, and none of them would have an easy time.
The other party cursed and said a few words about how they should have agreed to his request in the first place. Su told them to stop talking nonsense and hurry up and find the person. At the same time, he leaned against the wall to stand up and staggered outside.
It's snowing.
The world was silent. He stared blankly at the falling snow and remembered the day he first met Su Pu when he was a child.
It was a snowy day, and the snow fell all night and then all day, accumulating a thick layer on the ground and soiling his new leather shoes.
Later, when I entered the ward, I saw a very beautiful woman lying on a bed, and a very beautiful child lying on the bed next to her.
The child's bed was empty, and his feet were covered in chilblains. He had applied medicine, and the brown ointment stained the hospital's white sheets.
Su Hui looked at those bare feet, then looked down at her own gleaming shoes, and still felt it wasn't enough.
Not satisfied.
Looking back now, he probably started to feel jealous from the first time he met Su Pu.
Looking back now, I realize that jealousy probably contained a lot of envy as well.
He wouldn't run barefoot out in the snow for anyone to ask for help; he didn't have the courage or the ability to love someone that much, yet he longed for it.
He was a coward since childhood, and he may never have loved anyone in his entire life.
And all those who loved him left him.
In a daze, Su Hui answered the phone again, and the other party told him that Su Pu had been found.
Because he had been tied up with ropes for too long, his hands and feet were stiff and numb, and he couldn't run very far. He fainted as soon as he stepped out of the building.
"We'll take him back first and leave him inside. You can handle the rest yourself. We won't take any more money than you can offer!"
The other person's tone was full of disdain.
After all, if Su Pu escapes successfully and reports the crime to the police, their kidnapping charges will be confirmed, making them even more vulnerable than Su Hui, the employer.
"The key is under the floor mat. If you don't come, you can just leave him in that room to starve to death. Once he stinks, someone will find out."
The man chuckled, swore, and hung up the phone.
Just then, a taxi stopped next to Su Hui. He got in, hesitated for a moment, and then gave the address of the rental apartment.
He knew that Su Pu had lived there for more than half a year, and perhaps it wouldn't be bad to make it his final resting place.
As the door was unlocked, a faint smell of smoke still lingered in the air.
Su was surprised to find that this place was actually better than the house he was currently living in, and he was overwhelmed with mixed feelings.
He pushed open the door to the innermost room and saw Su Pu lying on the ground with her arms tied behind her back and her legs bound by ropes.
His eyes were completely blindfolded, and his mouth was also gagged.
“Ah, Su Pu,” he paused, then smiled and changed his wording, “my good brother!”
"Can you recognize my voice? After you've dealt with Li Jichuan, do you think you'll never see me again in this lifetime?"
"You wish!"
Su Hui took two steps forward, squatted down, and reached out to pull the blindfold off the person on the ground, only to find that Su Pu's face had become somewhat unfamiliar.
No, this is too unfamiliar.
This is not Su Pu at all!
Su was startled and ripped off the blindfold, then met a pair of bright blue eyes.
John spat out the wad of paper he had stuffed in his mouth. Surely no one really thinks that stuffing a wad of paper in their mouth will stop them from making a sound?
How childish!
Only Su Hui can still be trusted!
What an idiot!
The idiot was terrified and fell heavily backward, landing on the floor.
The next second, he felt a chill on his neck as a fencing sword was poking his Adam's apple.
Looking up along the frisbee, the person wielding the sword turned out to be Su Pu.
It was actually Su Pu?
That mute who always accepted his fate and was weak and powerless?
In a daze, the sword tip kept pressing against Su Hui's skin, and he began to feel short of breath.
"What are you doing?" Su Hui swallowed hard in pain, leaned back, and rolled over to dodge Su Pu's sword.
This action also made him start to re-examine his surroundings. He began to see the furnishings in the room clearly, and he noticed that cameras were set up everywhere. John also quietly got up and came behind Su Pu to protect him.
Outside the door, in a dimly lit area, stood Li Jichuan and his colleagues.
Su smiled, knowing he couldn't escape; this was a trap they had set for him.
If he weren't greedy, he wouldn't have walked right into the trap.
But he still came...
Now that things have come to this, Su Hui felt at ease, raised his chin, and asked Su Pu.
"Are there any swords left?"
"Would you like to have a match with me?"
"If I lose, I'll turn myself in right away; if I win, can you let me see Dad one more time before I turn myself in?"
Su Pu thought for a moment and nodded.
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