TGDS Chapter 44.2

Good Dad System (Arc 5) Chapter 44.2: Her Gambler Dad (8)

Pei Tao has always believed that she lives in a “honey pot”. If a person’s life has a luck value, she believes that it should be close to the full point. She has parents who love her, a good family background, outstanding looks, and excellent grades. She has always been content. But it turns out that all this has been broken without her knowing it.

 

Mom said that when she was still preparing for the college entrance examination, Dad went to gamble in an offline casino and lost a lot. At that time, Mom used it as an excuse to sell the house for financial management. In fact, Dad lost too much and couldn’t even keep the house. This time, what forced Mom to explain to her as a daughter was that Dad went to gamble again, and just like last time, he lost a lot. The head office, which was the main source of income, and the old buildings left by grandparents were also mortgaged. There was also a suicide incident, and Mom couldn’t hide it anymore.

 

Pei Tao still remembers that she was exceptionally calm that day. She grabbed the phone and told her mother that everything would be fine. She could apply for a student loan from the school, and there were many part-time jobs around. Her coursework was easy and she could afford her own life. After comforting her mother, she hung up the phone, but was overwhelmed by the sudden emotion.

 

How did her father become like this? Pei Tao clicked on the contact. The three of them had a small group called “Family”. The last time someone spoke in the group, she shared about the club activities she did at school. Her parents took turns praising her and told her to keep up the good work. But did this family become like this at that time? She helped change her father’s profile picture to the one on his and her mother’s marriage certificate. She looked at the person in the photo and had to accept the fact. What could she do? That was his father!

 

She thought about persuading her mother to divorce, but hesitated and softened her heart. Her mother said that her father had changed, and if they didn’t trust her father, he would definitely commit suicide again. In such a situation, no matter how tired she was from working or going to school, Pei Tao remembered to say hello to her father every day and share some interesting articles. She humbly hoped that her efforts could properly divert his attention.

 

She had countless nightmares and sweet dreams in the dead of night, with their family as the protagonists. Sometimes they knelt on the ground and begged their father to change, and sometimes their father turned over a new leaf and lived a serious life with them. Every time she woke up, she would tell herself again that her father would change, he would definitely change. If she couldn’t even deceive herself, how could she continue to maintain such a false peace?

 

Of course, her father soon gave her and her mother a wake-up call. Pei Tao remembered that yesterday at noon, she had just woken up and saw a list of missed calls on her phone. She hurriedly answered the phone and heard her mother crying on the other end of the phone. Her mother, who had always been strong and intended to be herself in front of her, choked up and said, “Taozi, your father ran away again. I have your Aunt Wang’s 50,000 yuan here, and he took it away too. This is the life-saving money for her family. How could he do this?”

 

Her mother was crying so hard that she was out of breath, but Pei Tao listened to the whole thing calmly as if the pause button had been pressed. She comforted her mother in a low voice, and immediately asked her roommate to help her ask for leave, saying that something happened at home and she had to go back. Then she packed her luggage as quickly as possible, went to the ATM machine at the bank entrance to withdraw all her savings of only two thousand, and got on the bus home.

 

As soon as she got on the bus, she sat in the last row and leaned her head against the chair. She suddenly burst into tears, biting her lips, her body trembling and she said nothing. Hot tears poured down, falling on her body drop by drop. She didn’t even have time to think about what would happen if others saw her in such a miserable state. She only knew that she couldn’t bear it any longer.

 

She wanted to scream at her father hysterically like a child. She wanted to ask her father how could you do this.

 

Wu Liping and her daughter looked at each other in silence, both of them were in a daze. She stuffed noodles into her mouthful one by one , but she couldn’t taste it at all. In fact, she didn’t dare tell her daughter before, ever since she paid off her husband’s debts last time, the family has been stretched to the limit, and even the rent has to be saved in advance. She and Pei Naochun not only treated the store as their home, but also separated out a compartment in the back to store some wardrobes and luggage. They also ate simple meals. Noodles like these cost less than a few yuan a bag, and they had to wait until dark to buy some not-so-fresh vegetables at the market, which only cost a few cents a handful. The meatballs were also a frozen product with a high starch content. They could take the bus to the wholesale market on the outskirts of the city to buy them. A large bag cost just over ten yuan. She did the best she could and felt that she could accompany her husband to make a comeback, but she didn’t expect that everything was an illusory dream.

 

“Mom, has Dad contacted you?” Pei Tao asked without hope. After she knew about her father’s gambling, she secretly searched for a lot of relevant information on the Internet. At one point, she scrolled down the search box, and all the historical searches were related to this. She advised all online bloggers to break up if they involved pornography, gambling, or drugs. The other party said strictly –

“You thought you were saving him, but you didn’t know you were letting him drag you down with him to hell.”

 

Pei Tao didn’t understand the meaning of this sentence at that time, but now she clearly realized that she and her mother were pulled down in this way. It was like they were at the edge of a swamp. They stretched out their hands desperately, handed out sticks, and begged God for mercy, hoping that there would be one in ten thousand chance of pulling him back. However, they didn’t expect that the other party was stronger. After struggling, the three of them fell into it, getting deeper and deeper.