Good Dad System (Arc 5) Chapter 43.5: Her Gambler Dad (5)
But she had no idea that her husband, who lacked medical knowledge, had his search bar filled with the following information on his mobile phone: “Will taking sleeping pills kill you?”, “What is the lethal dose of sleeping pills?”, “Will timely rescue after taking sleeping pills have any impact on the human body?”, and most of the answers below were serious advice – “Sleeping pills sold in hospitals nowadays are basically not lethal.”, “Unless you take thousands or tens of thousands of pills, it will not be fatal, don’t commit suicide!”, “Of course there will be some, but gastric lavage is not comfortable, so be rational and cherish your life.”
After returning home, Wu Liping moved out with her husband. She felt a little resentful towards her husband, but after being frightened by his attitude of wanting to die, she didn’t want to say anything hurtful anymore. She moved out of the house with her husband, and even the dilapidated and remote old house had to be sold. At that time, her husband borrowed money from relatives and friends in the name of his business. Out of trust in her husband, everyone lended a lot. Wu Liping and her husband set up a bed behind the rented shop and lived a hard life. After considering it again and again, she tactfully told her daughter the truth and said that she would bear the consequences if the sky fell. The image of her father in Pei Tao’s heart collapsed completely. When she heard from her mother that her father almost died, she didn’t dare to ask more questions. She could only pretend to be deaf and dumb and started working at the school.
At this time, any individual should have his conscience awakened and return to the right path.
Gambling is like a horrible transformed monster. It opens its mouth wide and swallows the person you once loved, chews him/her and spits him/her out. The person who appears in front of you looks the same as before , but he/she is no longer the same person.
The love, family affection and beauty of the past were all wiped out, leaving only the body and the twisted soul.
Not long after, the original body started gambling again. He no longer had any credibility among his friends, but he could still look for money outside – for example, classmates he had rarely contacted before, business partners he knew. As long as he thought of a way, he could always get money. If all else failed, he could still borrow it.
Money cannot be avoided and soon he lost all his money. Wu Liping, who had always been concerned about her husband, was almost in despair when she found out. She didn’t understand: she had been married to this man for more than 20 years and lived together day and night, how could this happen?
She was so disappointed that she decided not to give her husband a penny. She also secretly sent a group message using her husband’s mobile phone, telling all his friends not to lend him money anymore. Of course, until this time she had no thoughts about divorce. It was not because she was a loser or a cheap skate as others thought. It was just that they had been together for more than 20 years, and they were like a piece of rotten meat on the body. Everyone knew that if it was not cut off, it would only get worse and even affect other parts of the body. But deciding to cut it off was not an easy thing.
She couldn’t be ruthless, but the original body was ruthless.
The original body found that there was no more money left at home, so he went to borrow some money from someone. However, he had no collateral, so the amount he could borrow was not much. While his wife was out packing her, he stole the bank card in the cabinet. When he went to withdraw money from the ATM, he found that there was a full 50,000 yuan in it. This was transferred from Wu Liping’s best friend. The elderly in the other’s family wanted to come to City B for medical treatment. She was out of town and could not make it in time, so she asked Wu Liping, who was familiar with the environment, to help her deal with the hospitalization and surgery first, and transferred the money in advance. The original body didn’t care what the money was used for. He took it all out. Wu Liping, who received a text message reminder, hurried home, only to find that the house was empty – the original body even took away a gold necklace bought when they got married and the gold jewelry given to his daughter by relatives and friends when she was eighteen years old.
This time, Wu Liping finally gave up hope on her husband. She told her daughter Pei Tao everything. The mother and daughter kept calling the number that had no response, only then did they realize that they had been blocked.
A few days later, the dialogue box that seemed to be motionless showed the original body’s message for the first time: [Don’t bother me, the money is spent.]
Wu Liping did not call the police. Accompanied by her daughter Pei Tao, she went to the court to appeal for divorce and tried to separate herself from her husband. However, her husband disappeared without a trace, leaving behind endless debts and debt collectors who would appear from time to time as gifts to his wife and daughter.
After spending all his money, the original body went to the south. He used to not work much, but now he got a job in a factory, working two days for one day wages and then going out to squander three days. Even so, he still did not forget to place some bets and gamble some money. He has lived like this day after day, without having to think about his family or the past, but only about tomorrow.
Such days seem to take a great toll on a person. The original body did not live long. At the age of 58, he was gambling in the middle of the night and suffered from high blood pressure due to excessive stimulation. He died after failed rescue efforts. After investigation, the police found that his ID card was forged. Years of life had changed him a lot, and his identity could not be matched. The notice for identifying the body was posted for many days, but no one claimed it.
After he turned into a soul, he was pulled to his daughter Pei Tao by some unknown force. He had been addicted to gambling several times before, but he couldn’t even see a ghost. Where could he go to gamble? He couldn’t be more than a hundred meters away from his daughter, so he was forced to quit. Death is like the extinguishing of a light, and he seemed to have regained some of his sanity. Everything in the past filled his mind.