In fact...... For this kind of thing, Michael has long had a feeling.

His wife, who was several years younger than him, had easily captured the heart of a young girl with his excellent work and status.

Everyone aspires to a good life, and it may be a bit inappropriate to say that, but it is true.

Michael is indeed much older than the girl, but he has a stable job, more income and higher social status, and the girl who has just entered the society and has been hitting her head for less than two years is quickly relieved.

Whenever I look at those classmates or former colleagues who are still living in those small dilapidated houses in the lower city that only cost a few dozen yuan a month, or pay the rent through their bodies, I am still confused about the future.

She was already in the brightly lit room, lying on the couch, applying the nail polish to her toenails that people envied to gnash their teeth but still couldn't afford.

She can command the servants to do anything, she can sleep until ten o'clock in the morning every day, and then she can have a nap and follow the drama until late at night every day.

This kind of life is so comfortable, so comfortable that she is not much different from many years ago.

The awareness of society, the awareness of the cruelty of reality, all this is still stuck on the night when she decided to make her future easier.

She has no ability to work, no ability to survive in society, and Michael himself is well aware of this.

But he had never thought about correcting that before, he felt that his job was stable, that Director Johnson was not a strong director, and that he was also very talkative.

In addition, Michael's own status is not low, and he still has the opportunity to go up, why should the wife of the director of the Sebin City Taxation Bureau in the future go to find a job that is no different from ordinary women?

He was in love with this young woman, and sometimes people would laugh at him, and his colleagues would say with envy and hatred that a thirty-year-old man had married a high school student, as if they were talking about him.

But there will also be times when he doesn't know whether he is in love with this woman, or her young body, or his face.

It wasn't until the moment he came in that he knew that some things couldn't be changed.

His wife is incapacitated, in other words, she can't support herself and their children, let alone pay the bills.

Although he kept some of his savings, and despite Commissioner Johnson's promise to release him early from prison if he met the criteria in the Extraordinary Talent Levy Act, there was still a gap of a few years.

The family's money can't last so long, his parents' side, his wife's parents' side, may support a woman, but they can't support a child.

What's more, there are so many bills.

In fact, he had been mentally prepared for a long time, maybe he would get a divorce, maybe what would happen, but he didn't expect that everything would come so quickly, and in less than a year, his wife would become pregnant.

His wife had come here in the hope that he would give her some advice, and the man wanted her to keep the child, and she didn't know how to choose, so she came to ask her husband, who had never made a decision on such a big matter on her own.

It's realistic, and it's cruel.

And what's even more cruel is that the man has his own family, he won't marry Michael's wife, in other words, even if Michael divorces his wife, his wife can only be that man's lover.

What finally defeated Michael was some of the things she brought up.

Various bills, as well as little Michael's academic problems.

Michael Jr. was imprisoned for being instigated to admit to his crimes, and although Michael later admitted to the judge that he had instigated the crimes, and Michael Jr. was acquitted, the repercussions of these events have spread.

In private schools, his classmates ostracized little Michael, treating him as a thief, calling him the son of a criminal who should not defile the sacred campus.

The originally lively and cheerful child has become silent, the smile has disappeared from his face, and every day he seems to be preoccupied, and he is even more afraid of going to school.

The psychiatrist who counseled Michael's wife told her that if little Michael continued to live in such an environment, it was very likely to cause a series of mental illnesses.

The best way is to change the environment for him to live and study, but all this requires money.

A lot of money.

The money for counseling, the cost of changing schools, the cost of renting a house near the new school or they can continue to live in the same place, but they need more toll fees.

It's all money...... , a lot of money, the family's need for money eventually crushed Michael, who respected his wife's choice in silence.

He did not interfere with her wife's decision, and it was up to her to decide whether to give birth to this other man's child.

At the same time, he also knew that the man would pay the bills for them every month, continue to hire a maid to maintain their daily life, and was even willing to spend some money to tutor little Michael and change schools for him.

What else could he choose?

angrily scolded this woman for shamelessly sleeping with others after he was imprisoned and pregnant?

Or are they asked to move out of their homes and rent a house in Downtown, and come through their landlords every week...... In exchange for the power to continue living and then having little Michael go to those free, junk public schools in Downtown, and end up being a gang member on the streets?

Or did you choose to commit suicide under extreme depression and pressure?

For Michael now, there are not many choices he can make, and in the end he gave up everything and chose children.

This is also the reason why he is so miserable, for the first time he feels humble, weak, and powerless.

Even when he started serving his sentence, he didn't feel that way.

Gap looked at the man next to him who was pulling his hair and crying bitterly, and there were some indescribable feelings in his heart, some sympathy, some pity, but some happiness.

He had divorced Vera before he came in, and he had divided the property, and most importantly he had never constrained Vera in her work and life, and he also encouraged her to qualify as an accountant.

Of course, at that time, his purpose was just to let this woman find something to do, not to pester herself all day long to interfere in his work and life, nothing more.

But these practices make the problems that Gap has to face much easier than Michael, someone once said that happiness is actually very simple, as long as it is better than the unlucky people around him, it is happiness.

He felt that he was right, so much so that he can still comfort Michael, "You have to be strong, Michael, think about your children, everything is not so bad......"

If Gap and Michael had known that little Michael's sexuality was changing, they might not have thought so.

"I ...... I'm just sad and want to cry, crying makes me feel so much better!", Michael, with tears and snot on his face, wiped the things that made Gap a little sick to his stomach, "Thank you, thank you, brother, I'll be strong, for my children." ”

Maybe after such a venting, Michael's emotions gradually stabilized, and he accepted the facts, even if he didn't accept it, what could he do?

There was something in their hearts, and no one answered at this time, and after a while, Michael suddenly said, "Can you show me those books of yours, those of the law, after reading them?"

There was something called strength in his eyes, and he wanted to change.

In the past, he was too irritable, maybe he had some ability, but he was still irritable, his work style was brutal, and most importantly, he knew little about the law.

In fact, many low-level law enforcement workers, their understanding of the law is limited to some situations that often appear in their work, and even they do not understand the definition of obstruction of official business and assault on police.

Michael actually suffered some losses in this regard, and if he had known more about the law at the time, maybe the problem would not have been so serious.

His roommate, the accountant named Gap, had been studying law on his own since the first day he came in, and he had the same idea, but he never acted on it, and now was the time.

Even while serving a prison sentence, there is still time for change.

"Of course!", Gap liked the learning atmosphere, which would make his prison life less boring.

Two people who both think that they are victims and framed people stand together and encourage each other to learn, and this will be a very special place to learn and let them grow quickly.

The next day, while Gap was reading a book—he had a lot of time to read, he didn't need forced labor, he didn't need to be forced to let off, he didn't need to take off his clothes and go to the shower in front of many people, he had privileges.

Because he had worked as an audit accountant for Ristoan, the prison executives, including the warden, hoped that Gap could help them avoid taxes legally and reasonably when they filed their taxes.

This is also the most special phenomenon in federal prisons, where criminals with special specialties such as accountants, doctors, and lawyers are particularly popular in prisons.

The warden not only fetched him the law books he needed, but also placed him next to Michael, a "good man" (1).

While he was reading a book, the guard opened the door to the cell, and it was polite, "Mr. Gap, someone is coming to visit!"

Gap, who was sitting on the bed, was stunned for a moment, and he quickly stood up, "I'm going to ...... now", he put on his light blue local prison uniform and walked towards him, "Can I know who it is in advance?"

The guard shook his head, "Sorry, I don't know, it's two men." ”

A short time later, Gap appeared in the prison work area through the corridor, and under the guidance of the prison guards, he did not go to the room specially prepared for prison visits, but went to the warden's office.

Pushing open the door, there was a heroic figure standing outside the huge floor-to-ceiling window, and the light outside the window was extremely dazzling, so that Gap could only see a general shadow.

"Meet again, Mr. Gap!"

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(1), the author here uses the comparison of Michael's performance before and after his imprisonment to describe the changes that have occurred after he has experienced these things, so that everyone in the whole text has human nature, no longer a face-painted NPC, but a living person.