At the same time, footsteps could be heard outside the alley, seemingly someone was coming!
The two quickly separated like thieves.
*Bai Jue's heart was racing, her face flushed.*
"Dongzi, I'm sorry, Sister Bai Jue was rude, let's go back to my place first!"
*Bai Jue didn't dare to look at him, and with some panic, she led Lin Dong up the dirty, old corridor of the rental house.*
In a moment, the two arrived at the door of their current rental house.
Bai Jue took out the key and opened the door, revealing an old and shabby one-bedroom apartment.
Before they even entered, they could see in the living room a broken sofa with a disheveled man wearing glasses, who looked like he hadn't bathed in at least three to four days, drinking beer.
This was Lin Dong's elder cousin, Lin Jian, the village's once only college student!
But now, he no longer carried the air of someone dressed in formal clothes, only the dishevelment of a gambling drunkard.
As soon as Lin Dong entered, he glanced at his elder cousin.
He noticed Lin Jian's skin and sclera were jaundiced, his complexion dark and murky, and his skin dry, rough, and swollen, indicating obvious signs of liver disease.
Just as he was about to tell him the situation, he saw Lin Jian run over from the sofa:
"Dongzi, why are you here? Come in quickly!"
He was overly 'enthusiastic' towards Lin Dong, running over to take his luggage.
He grabbed Lin Dong's bag, rummaging through it as he spoke:
"Dongzi, you must have brought a lot of money from home this time?"
"Lend your brother some money, I feel lucky today, I am sure I can win with the next bet!"
*Lin Dong could hardly believe how his cousin Lin Jian could end up like this.*
*"Lin Jian, Dongzi came to seek refuge with us. How can you just ask him for money right away?"*
Unable to bear it any longer, Bai Jue spoke up.
It seemed like Lin Jian only just noticed Bai Jue, and with an iron-blue face, he shouted, "Why are you back?"
"Didn't I find you a part-time job?"
"Why can't you work properly, earn money to pay off my debt? Why did you come back?"
*Hearing Lin Jian's string of questions, Lin Dong frowned and answered for her,*
"I was staying at the station and ran into Sister Bai Jue, so I brought her back!"
Lin Jian's face didn't look good as he glared at Bai Jue, "Alright, for Dongzi's sake today, I'll let it go. You go back tomorrow!"
"I'm not going, I'm not doing that kind of work!" Bai Jue felt incredibly humiliated, shaking her head and shouting. She would rather die than do that again.
"Not going?" Lin Jian raised his phone, "Do you want what's inside to be sent to your parents, your sister, your nurse colleagues in the hospital?"
"You... you have no shame!" *Bai Jue sobbed from the injustice.*
*Lin Dong frowned deeply, and coldly said to Lin Jian,* "Brother Jian, how can you be like this now?"
"How can you force Sister Bai Jue to do such things?"
"Is this something a person does?"
"Even a beast wouldn't do this!"
Lin Jian sneered, "You, a kid from the countryside, what do you know."
"I'm doing this for her own good, with her legs open, money will roll in!"
"Moreover, I spent the betrothal gift to marry her. Isn't it to make her earn money for me? Why else would I marry her?"
*Lin Dong was astonished, was this really the only highly educated elder brother from their clan?*
*The pride of the clan?*
*It seems the old saying is true, the most heartless are scholars.*
*Some scholars when shameless, have no bottom line!*
"What's the matter? You've grown up and now you want to protect Sister Bai Jue?"
"I have explosive videos of her that I've secretly taken over the years on this phone."
"If she doesn't make me five hundred thousand, I will send these videos to her parents, sister, colleagues... Let's see who loses dignity then!"
"Of course, Dongzi, if you feel sorry for Sister Bai Jue and don't want her to do that to earn money, you can give me five hundred thousand."
"I'll give you all the videos. I'll also sell you Sister Bai Jue!"
"But you probably won't be able to earn five hundred thousand in your lifetime. You, from the countryside, don't understand the saying 'money is hard to earn, and shit is hard to eat...'"
*Lin Dong couldn't listen anymore.*
*Are these even human words?*
He sighed, took out one thousand from his pocket and threw it at him.
"Brother Jian, this is one thousand. Take this money and get medicine following the prescription I gave... you are still in the early stages of liver disease, it's not too late for treatment now..."
"You're the one who's sick!" Without waiting for Lin Dong to finish, Lin Jian snatched the one thousand.
Seeing the money, he was like a dog seeing sh*t.
It was clear, a person who was deep into gambling lost all conscience, only intending to continue betting.
He clutched the one thousand, ready to head to the casino.
Before leaving, he grinned and said:
"Dongzi, think it over. If you really run into dumb luck and make money, for the sake of a brother, I'll sell you Sister Bai Jue at an eighty percent discount... only for four hundred thousand..."
"Get out! Lin Jian, are you still human?"
Beside him, Bai Jue threw a shoe at him, shouting loudly.
Lin Jian didn't feel any shame, clutching the money, he left the house.
After he left, only Lin Dong and Sister Bai Jue were left in the house.
*Lin Dong's expression was extremely complicated at the moment, he really couldn't understand how the pride of their clan could become worse than a beast.*
"Wooo..." At this time, Bai Jue was lying on the ground, crying with her face covered in tears.
Lin Dong sighed, *a good woman like Sister Bai Jue, marrying such a man, was truly unfortunate.*
*He wanted to comfort her, but didn't know what to say.*
Bai Jue cried for a while, then remembering Lin Dong was there, quickly stood up, wiping her tears, and said:
"Dongzi, I'm sorry, for letting you see this joke."
Lin Dong shook his head, "Sister Bai Jue, it's the Lin family who should apologize. Sigh, why did he become like this?"
Bai Jue wiped her tears, "Since a few years ago, he had a car accident. He got addicted to gambling, and owes several hundreds of thousands in foreign debt!"
"Then he was fired from work by the company, and now he is unemployed, spending his days drinking..."
"Sister Bai Jue, with the way he is to you, why don't you divorce him?" Lin Dong asked.
"I want a divorce, but he secretly took those kinds of videos of me. He said if I divorce him, he will upload them online! And he forced me to do that kind of part-time job, making money to pay off his debts... wooo, if he continues to force me like this, I can only die."
*Bai Jue kept wiping her tears.*
*Lin Dong grew more and more furious as he listened!*
*To call Lin Jian a beast was an insult to beasts!*
"Sister Bai Jue, is what he said earlier true?" Lin Dong asked.
"Ah? What is true?" Bai Jue was stunned, somewhat confused.
"That thing about the five hundred thousand."
"Dongzi, you... you want to spend five hundred thousand to buy Sister Bai Jue, to make her your woman?" As soon as she said this, Bai Jue's face turned as red as a ripe peach, almost dripping water.