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Chapter 367: 【366】Sixty Wastrel’s Counterattack 1 (1st update)
Chapter 367: 【366】Sixty Wastrel’s Counterattack 1 (1st update)
Tangyuan woke up again to find herself in an old-fashioned hospital ward, the unfamiliar setting made her realize that she had very likely entered her third life.
Indeed, before she had a chance to get a clear look at herself, a flood of memories that didn’t belong to her rushed into her mind.
The original owner of the body was named Long Gang, a male, born in 1945 and died in 1970, dying at the young age of 25.
Long Gang was born into an ordinary family in the rural Northern region, with older brothers and sisters above him and younger brothers below. He was neither the treasured eldest son and daughter nor the most pampered youngest child. Caught in the middle, he endured the bullying and commands of his older siblings and the neglect caused by his parents’ favoritism towards his younger brother. Throughout his life, he was the family member with the lowest presence.
Honest and simple, Long Gang wasn’t made for academics and dropped out after primary school. He later became an apprentice at a furniture factory. At the age of twenty, he saw a woman jumping into a river and instinctively, without much consideration, he dived in to save her. The result, however, turned out to be quite the opposite; the woman claimed he had bullied her and she was pregnant, insisting on marrying him.
She followed him for a few days, then brought her family to his home to cause a scene. They made such a fuss that not even his parents and siblings believed him, thinking he really had done something wrong. In that era, without DNA testing, he couldn’t express his grievances.
He thought that if he had to marry her, then so be it. But the woman’s family demanded a huge betrothal gift of three thousand yuan. What was the value of three thousand yuan in the year ’65?
His older siblings had just married; where would the money come from for him? Even if there was money, the parents wanted to save it for his younger brother’s education, so they steadfastly refused to give any money.
Her family threatened to sue him and get him imprisoned, thinking it would force the Long Family to comply. Unexpectedly, his parents were callous enough to kick Long Gang out of the house and sever all ties with him.
Long Gang never expected his parents to be so heartless, nor could he have imagined that the woman he had casually saved could be so shameless in turning the tables on him.
Furious, he, too, issued a fierce retort; if relations were severed, then they should sever them for good, and never recognize each other for the rest of their lives.
The woman had not anticipated that the Long Family would so readily cast him out. Now without the betrothal gift secured, her belly grew bigger each day. And after all the commotion caused by her family, everyone in the neighborhood knew that the child was born out of wedlock. If she didn’t marry Long Gang, she would be utterly ruined.
Long Gang was also pathetic. His relationship with his parents was severed; if he had not been skilled in woodworking and had some education (a primary school graduate was considered educated in the sixties), the factory would have fired him long ago due to rumors. But because he was a temp worker with potential and worth training, they reluctantly kept him on. free\we\bnov(e)(l).com
The woman had decided to continue with him only because he had the job as a temp worker; otherwise, wouldn’t she have had to return to the countryside to farm?
So even when later Long Gang couldn’t produce the betrothal gift or prepare a house, the woman still resigned herself to marry him.
Long Gang thought getting a wife for free, not spending a single cent, was not an opportunity to miss.
Thus, one willing to hit and the other willing to endure, they got married.
After marriage, Cao Lijuan’s lazy nature was evident for all to see. They had no savings, no house, and could only rent in town, struggling to make ends meet and raise a child. What was key was that this bastard child wasn’t even Long Gang’s. The more he worked, the more suffocated he felt, as he hardly spent any of the money he earned; it all went to that woman.
The sense of unfairness built up over time, but he couldn’t just chase her away, so he resigned himself to his fate, coping with the situation daily.
He frequently felt himself to be a complete wretch. For the sake of an unrelated woman and child, he debased himself, unable to return to his own family or call out for his mother. How could he not be furious?
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