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“You’re trying to deceive me.” Wang Meng’s father crashed into the iron gate, his head covered in blood as he reached out to grab Wang Meng’s clothes, “It’s a lie! My wife can’t come back from the dead.”

Wang Meng was startled by the impact of his father hitting the gate, but at that time, he finally dislocated his thumb.

“Then what about your son? That money’s enough for your son to finish college. As things stand now, your son can only start working after he graduates from high school,” Wang Meng gasped out, the pain in his thumb quickly masked by the pain in his heart. He removed the handcuff from his hand while using his body to conceal his newly freed hand.

“Son…son…Meng Meng…” his father muttered to himself.

Wang Meng continued, “If you don’t have enough money, I’ll lend you some. Let’s play first and talk later.”

His father looked up at him, clearly at a loss as to what to do.

Wang Meng’s heart was full of disgust as soon as he saw it. His father was too soft-hearted to endure the constant coaxing, as evidenced by the confused look on his face, which was actually a sign that he was wavering.

“If you were really thinking of your child, you should have worked more and done overtime. But instead, you got off work early and went to play cards all night long while your child worked on his homework at school every day. How many times did you forget to pick him up?” Wang Meng continued. “Stop pretending. If you ever really cared about your son, you wouldn’t have done such a thing. Now, let’s play some cards. Everyone knows how you really feel.”

“Raise a child to protect against old age, raise a child to protect against old age,”(1) his father suddenly said. “I’m old so my son has to take care of me.”

Then his father said something astonishing, “I can’t gamble in prison. If I gamble and my son finds out, he won’t support me. My son is just as kind-hearted as his mother so he’ll support me. I won’t make him angry.”

Wang Meng looked at his father. It wasn’t surprising that such words came out of his father’s mouth, but he was still shocked to hear them.

“So you didn’t love your son at all. Otherwise, after his mother died, how could you have the heart to make him wait for you at school again and again until the wee hours of the morning while you were out playing cards?”

“His birth wasn’t planned,” his father suddenly said. “Children are too troublesome. At that time, it was just easier to pretend that he didn’t exist. But he can support me now, so I can’t offend him.”

“Your son has led a prosperous life. This is the money he gave you,” Wang Meng said while looking at the money. “Since he gave it to you, you can go ahead and gamble with it.”

“My son is well-off?”

“Yes.”

“Is this his money?”

“You can spend it. Your son has made so much money that you won’t be able to spend it all before you die.”

“No, he wouldn’t give me money if he knew that I was gambling. I killed his mother.”

“No one will tell him,” Wang Meng said.

“No one will tell him?”

“That’s right. No one will say a word.” Wang Meng looked at his father, who was looking back at him in confusion.

“You have to promise. If he finds out, I’ll wind up starving to death on the side of the road,” his father said again.

“You are his father. He won’t let you starve to death. Your kind-hearted wife didn’t let you starve to death even after what you did to her. She always forgave you.”

For the first time, a relieved smile appeared on his father’s face. “Yes, he’s just like my wife. I don’t need to be so nervous.”

Then, his father took all the money.

All the movies always had a scene where there was a final reconciliation, but it seemed that such a thing didn’t exist in reality.

Wang Meng, after watching his father take the money to the gambling table, hit his head on the iron gate again, dislocated his other thumb, and then freed himself from the handcuffs.

He didn’t feel any pain as he popped his two thumbs back into place.

His father had actually been manipulative and took advantage of others’ kindness. Wang Meng even knew that his father didn’t lose every time. But when he won, he never brought the money back home with him.

His father had played the role of a weak, obedient, stupid, and weak-willed person, but he had actually been exploiting his mother the whole time.

Wang Meng’s mother always said that he was a good guy at heart; he just happened to have some bad friends.

He also knew that his father wasn’t some heinous villain, and that this kind of bad behavior wasn’t on par with that of a standard villain.

But it was on such a low level that it was simply disgusting.

With both of his hands free now, Wang Meng watched as his father started to gamble. But Wang Meng didn’t succeed in making his father believe that he didn’t need to feel guilty, because he found that his father hadn’t felt guilty from the start.

If there was any trace of guilt, it was very weak.

The next thing he had to do was create an opportunity for himself.

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TN Notes:

(1) It’s a Chinese idiom basically meaning that you have kids so that they’ll support you when you’re older.

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