Episode 1

On a scorching summer day at a construction site, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, and the bricks, which were fifty degrees, burned the hands. "It would be fantastic if I could have a cold Coke right now!" I said to myself while unloading the cargo. I looked at my torn gloves and licked my dry lips. After the company went bankrupt three years ago, I bought a second-hand truck to make a living and provide for my beautiful wife and innocent son. To earn more money, I would also help with unloading and do part-time delivery during rainy days or when there were no orders at night. However, when I finished unloading the cargo and was about to pick up another order, my phone suddenly rang. It was my wife, so I answered it immediately, calling her "baby," as I always do. But instead of hearing her voice, I heard my five-and-a-half-year-old son, with a slight sob in his tone, "Dad...". As I spoke to my son, he told me about a man who came to their house for dinner. After dinner, the man took my wife into the room and started hitting her until she cried. "Dad, when will you come back? I'm scared," he said. Suddenly, my smile disappeared, and my mind went blank.

Where's the mother who's being hit? They're obviously having an affair! I didn't really hear what my son said afterwards, because my mindset completely collapsed! I could even faintly hear my wife's intermittent voice on the other end of the phone at this time! The inner pain and anger made my breathing more and more rapid, and my hands were trembling with anger! After hanging up the phone with my son, my whole body shook, my head was buzzing, and I was dizzy for a while... Why? Why did this happen? You see, from the time we got married until now, I've never mistreated my wife! Even when the company went bankrupt, I didn't make her work, and I pampered her like a princess. I worked day and night, working hard every month to earn nearly 20,000 yuan. Although life is tiring now, as long as my wife and son aren't unhappy, I can make it through, and I firmly believe that I can make a comeback!... My wife, I met her ten years ago at a friend's wedding banquet. She was sparkling with a gorgeous face, a pair of alluring bright eyes, and a figure that left nothing to be desired. Love at first sight struck like lightning, and I pursued her like crazy! Although I was also considered talented at that time, her aloof personality kept her from paying attention to me. Because I was poor, from a rural background, and only a small designer in a state-owned enterprise, earning less than 10,000 yuan a month.

Living in a comfortable urban family, she was accustomed to a pampered and luxurious lifestyle, and didn't see me, a country bumpkin, as someone worth considering.

Throughout my pursuit of her, she made it clear many times that she would never marry a poor person like me.

But her rejection only served as motivation for me to work even harder.

In order to win her over, I quit my stable job in a state-owned enterprise and started my own design company with a loan.

Leveraging my professional skills and contacts accumulated through my previous job, my design company rapidly grew and gained recognition in the market.

Within three years, my design company made a name for itself, and my net worth exceeded one million dollars.

From small interior designs to large building constructions, my company was capable of handling every type of project and consistently earned praise from clients.

She saw my potential, my company's growth, and my sincerity towards her. And so, in the fourth year of my pursuit, when I presented a two million dollar betrothal gift to her parents, she agreed to marry me.

A year after our marriage, my net worth exceeded ten million dollars, and we welcomed a chubby baby boy into our lives.

With both our family and our careers flourishing, I generously bought her parents a nearly three million dollar house and gifted her sister a half-million dollar Audi.

During festivals and holidays, I would gift my in-laws red envelopes worth tens of thousands of dollars, never missing a single year. My in-laws adore me and always brag to their friends and relatives about their wonderful son-in-law. I also brought my elderly mother, who had difficulty moving around in the village, to live with me in the city. However, she constantly complained about her discomfort in the city. She did not like having to take off her shoes every time she entered a room, staying indoors and watching TV all day, or the scented air. She nagged me every day about going back to the village to grow vegetables and raise chickens, where she would have a sense of freedom. I knew my mother preferred working with the land and crops. My father died early, and the tuition fees and living expenses for my education were paid for by my mother's income from selling fruits and vegetables on a stall. Despite my best efforts to persuade her to stay, I could not resist her desire to return to the countryside, so I spent over a million dollars building a villa for her and gave her a bank card with a one million dollar limit. For the next two years, my family life was blissful, and my company continued to grow and became a well-known name in the industry. Unfortunately, this did not last. Due to my carelessness, my company's employees submitted a design proposal that was found to have plagiarized the work of another company that had been done two years prior in a large-scale construction project bid. As the legal representative of the company, I was taken to court directly. Eventually, the court ruled that my company had to pay the other side two hundred million yuan in compensation. My funds were cut off, my reputation tarnished, and my company went bankrupt, leaving me with millions of dollars in debt.

I sold all of my assets and added the one million in cash that I had given to my mother and all of her hard-earned savings from these years to pay off my debt. Then, just after turning thirty, I began my current life of waking up early and returning home late while delivering goods and food for two years. During this time, I attempted various ways to raise enough money to restart my business. However, due to personal credit issues, the bank refused to lend me even ten thousand yuan. I even went to my father-in-law and mother-in-law to borrow money because I had paid a two million yuan dowry to marry their daughter. Yet, they refused me, saying that they would keep the two million yuan to purchase a house for their youngest daughter's dowry. Even my former business acquaintances avoided me. They even mocked me, saying my reputation had been ruined, making it impossible for me to acquire any projects even if I restarted my company. Though I suffered many setbacks, I was not defeated by fate nor did I ever lose faith. I worked for two people's salaries, day and night, saving ten thousand yuan each month, and planned on starting anew in another city once I saved enough money. I wouldn't say much, but I have an innate talent for design, and with capital, as long as I run things conscientiously, I will undoubtedly rise again! However, the news of my wife's infidelity hit me like a bolt of lightning and shattered all my faith and determination.

To know, she has always been the driving force behind my struggles. She has always been my belief, Wu Shuang's faith! Now that my faith is gone, my world has collapsed... The more I think, the more disappointed and angry I become! Completely broken, I directly took out a wrench from the toolbox and placed it on the passenger seat, then started the truck! That's right, I want to personally smash this couple to death!

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