Xu Jun got into his car, filled with anger, frustration, resentnt, and jealousy.
At that mont, he felt like a dog, a dog slinking away with its tail between its legs.
By the ti he drove away from the small mountain village, his eyes were red, and he was on the verge of tears. He truly loved Lin Yujiao; only after losing her did he realize how much he loved her.
But no matter how much he regretted it, he couldn’t win her back; Lin Yujiao seed to have no feelings for him anymore.
From the way she looked at him, Xu Jun could no longer feel any warmth or affection, only disgust and indifference. This made him even more
He knew he had missed out on a good woman like Lin Yujiao, and being unwilling to accept it changed nothing.
Yet, the thought of Chen Feng, the third party, filled him with an unbearable rage.
To be robbed of love, even to say of a wife’s love, if Xu Jun truly put up with it, he would never find peace in his heart.
He was determined to take revenge.
However, he wasn’t a rash man who would recklessly stab soone, risking his own downfall.
Considering himself smart, he knew revenge needed careful planning, especially against soone like Chen Feng who had money. Otherwise, even if he did manage to beat up Chen Feng badly, he would surely face tenfold retaliation.
First, he definitely had to know his enemy; he needed to find out everything about Chen Feng, and preferably discover his weaknesses and leverage.
If Chen Feng was running a factory or doing business, Xu Jun would pay to infiltrate his people and obtain evidence of tax evasion, illegal production, safety violations, fire hazards, product defects, environntal and noise pollution, counterfeiting, etc.
If Chen Feng was self-employed, Xu Jun would set him up and trap him.
In short, Xu Jun felt there were plenty of ways to deal with soone if he really wanted to, especially now that he had several hundred thousand in savings and wasn’t short of money. He was confident it wouldn’t be too hard to spend money on soone to deal with Chen Feng.
Next was to co up with a concrete and feasible plan for revenge, targeting Chen Feng’s weaknesses. This step was not that difficult.
As Xu Jun drove, he started thinking about how to investigate Chen Feng’s background and how to set him up.
Just as his car descended the winding mountain road, he received a call from his mother.
Xu Jun was sowhat reluctant to answer, but as the phone kept ringing, he eventually picked up.
"Ah Jun, you need to co here quick. My chest hurts a lot; please take to the hospital."
Xu Jun imdiately beca anxious and asked, "Does it hurt a lot? What’s the pain like?"
"It just hurts a lot, you hurry back..."
"Alright, alright, I’m on my way."
As Xu Jun, worried, sped back ho and swiftly took his mother, who was in such pain her face had turned pale, to the hospital for a check-up.
A little over two hours later, despite ntally bracing himself, he was still shocked as if struck by lightning when he received the diagnosis. His mother had lung cancer.
In their family, it was just him and his mother, and he smoked, about a pack a day. Previously, along with Lin Yujiao, his mother was likely regularly exposed to his second-hand smoke, which probably caused her lung cancer.
Xu Jun collapsed on the spot, holding his head in his hands, crouching on the ground, sobbing, filled with guilt and regret.
...
The Lin family.
After Xu Jun left, both Mrs. Lin and Mr. Lin couldn’t help but smile at Chen Feng.
Mr. Lin declared, "Since you two like each other, we as parents certainly won’t hinder lovebirds. As for the marriage, we naturally hope the sooner the better. However, since you’ve decided not to marry yet, of course, we will respect you youngsters’ opinions. Let’s leave it at that."
Mrs. Lin, anwhile, gazed eagerly at the bundles of red bills on the dining table and swallowed hard before looking to Chen Feng and asking, "Ah Feng, do you really intend to give all this money to us to spend?"
Chen Feng nodded with a smile, "Of course, there’s exactly two hundred thousand here; you and uncle take it and spend it freely. Go travel around the country, have a look around, and appreciate the great sights of our holand."
"Well, that’s wonderful." Overco with joy, Mrs. Lin no longer bothered with pleasantries. She quickly stepped forward, deftly stuffing the twenty bundles of red bills back into the black plastic bag, all the while speaking with a flattering smile to Chen Feng, "It’s not safe to leave so much money lying around; I’ll go hide it well."
"You’re right, auntie, it should be hidden," agreed Chen Feng, smiling.
Seeing her mother’s behavior, Lin Yujiao blushed with embarrassnt and frustration, greatly displeased with her mother.
Mr. Lin chuckled and said, "Ah Feng, you ntioned you work in finance before. It seems like a very lucrative job, earning more than two hundred thousand a year, right?"
Chen Feng had previously told him that he worked in finance and had an annual inco of around two hundred thousand.
But now, with Chen Feng handing over two hundred thousand as a gesture of filial piety, and ntioning a monthly allowance of thirty thousand for Lin Yujiao, Mr. Lin could guess that Chen Feng’s annual inco was much more than that two hundred thousand.
Chen Feng smiled and said, "When I ntioned an annual inco of two hundred thousand before, I wasn’t wrong. That’s my fixed inco. But I also trade stocks in my spare ti. I’ve been rather lucky this year and made so money in the stock market."
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