The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 184 - 131: Illusion Dream_3

Chapter 184: Chapter 131: Illusion Dream_3

Zhou Yuan’s vision went black.

The video spread rapidly; his girlfriend, colleagues, and business clients all saw the news.

Netizens who didn’t know the truth started cursing him in the comments section. The company, considering the bigger picture, directly fired him.

His girlfriend doubted his character, and after several arguments, chose to break up.

Overnight, Zhou Yuan lost everything. For the first time in years, he felt anxious, pained, lost, and angry.

He reached out to the media and the police, posting online to prove his innocence, and stated he would sue to defend his rights.

Thus, the lawsuit dragged on for more than a year without a result.

Zhou Yuan’s life was thoroughly disrupted and plunged into darkness.

That afternoon, Zhou Yuan was on the subway and encountered that woman again. Their eyes met; the woman smirked and turned away.

Zhou Yuan clenched his fists, the fire of anger rising in his heart, and in a daze, he heard a sinister voice in his ear.

"Kill her, kill her, kill her..."

"Kill her and all your troubles will be gone..."

Zhou Yuan shook his head, trying to shake the evil voice from his mind.

Killing would come with a price.

He had fought hard to gain his precious freedom; how could he go to prison over this woman?

Six months later, he finally won the lawsuit, and the other party posted an apology video online.

He finally emerged from the darkness, as if ushering in a new life.

A month later, Zhou Yuan found a new girlfriend and resumed his old sales job.

Until he turned 26, and the era of fierce competition arrived.

Spark Technology launched a brain enhancement chip that allowed people to think faster and be full of energy with minimal sleep each day.

Enhanced workers were overwhelming ordinary workers.

Zhou Yuan worked desperately to meet his targets, but each month he barely scraped by, frequently being called in for scolding by his supervisor, who repeatedly reminded him to buy a brain enhancement chip, but...

Zhou Yuan had no money.

His girlfriend’s parents also started urging them to marry, saying they were not getting any younger, and it would be best to get married and have a child within a year. The dowry didn’t need to be much, just 188,000, and to add Zhou Yuan’s house to the woman’s name.

"Yuan, I have my eye on a necklace."

On the video call, his girlfriend said as she applied lipstick, "It’s almost May 20th; can you buy it for me?"

Zhou Yuan was driving, glanced over, and asked, "How much?"

"28,000."

Zhou Yuan immediately got irritated, "28,000? I work my ass off every day to earn a bit of money, can’t you understand that?"

"Other girls get Maseratis from their boyfriends during holidays, and what about you?" his girlfriend shouted, "If you were capable, I’d serve you every day!"

She then hung up the call abruptly.

Damn it, you think I’m easygoing, huh?

Zhou Yuan, weighed down by numerous troubles, was on the verge of exploding. He pulled over and sent a breakup message, then immediately blocked her.

Three years of relationship might as well have been fed to a dog.

What a dog-eat-dog life.

Just then, his phone rang suddenly. It was a colleague he had a good relationship with.

Zhou Yuan took a deep breath to calm his emotions and answered the call.

"Old Zhou, how have you been lately?"

"Not bad."

"I have a job here, not sure if you’re interested; you can make quite a bit." There was the sound of mahjong tiles clacking in the background.

"What kind of job?"

"The World Cup is coming soon, right? A friend of mine is running online betting. You don’t need to do anything else, just recruit people."

"No thanks," Zhou Yuan didn’t want to get involved in any shady business.

"Hey, hey, hey, don’t be so hasty, this job is very lucrative."

The man’s words sounded like a devil’s whisper, "You get 500 yuan for each person. If you work for a month, you can get 60,000!

How about that? Pretty good deal, right?"

Zhou Yuan bit his lip, hesitating.