In the shattered fragments of memory.

It was as if Arryn had experienced the man's short but tragic life.

He was born into an ordinary family in Chinatown, and his parents were both Chinese Americans who were smuggled to the Commonwealth.

Although the family is not wealthy, relying on the hard work of their parents, life is quite passable.

Because he was busy with work and lacked parental discipline, he focused more on playing and playing games when he was a student, of course, he didn't particularly inattentive to study, but he couldn't be admitted to a good university like those top students in the class.

After graduating from an ordinary community college, he found a job in a factory in Chinatown thanks to his parents' money.

Because of his fluent eloquence, he was transferred to the business department of the factory, and happened to meet several large customers and made several large orders.

With a part of him continuing, he met his love in the factory.

Thereupon.

As a matter of course, he got married and had children, and gradually his own family.

can see that he is about to spend an ordinary but ordinary life like his parents.

But bad luck struck quietly.

First, I went to the supermarket to buy a bottle of beer and went home, and my father, who was going to relax, was hit and killed on the curb less than 200 meters away from their home when a pair of black people who were in a big * hemp garbage drive a stolen family car on the street.

It was a pair of poor black ghosts, who finally had no compensation and no apology, and were prosecuted for driving and hit-and-run death and manslaughter, according to the law, they should have gone to prison for five years, but because of the sharp racial contradictions at that time, black riots were frequent, and the jury based on racial and social conflicts, the court finally sentenced the two to one year in prison with a two-year probation.

As for the total compensation of 20,000 US dollars for the two, if you think about it, it is impossible for those two poor black ghosts to come up with it.

After his father's death, his mother was depressed, and it didn't take long for her to become ill.

His mother was sick, and as a son, of course, he was responsible and spent money on treatment.

Although he didn't expect to spend so much, fortunately, he can still bear it with the savings of the previous few years.

As long as you work hard for a few years, the money will be earned back.

However, what he didn't expect was that at this time, the factory where he was working with a fairly good income failed to deliver the goods within the agreed date due to the rupture of the supply chain, thus paying a large amount of liquidated damages and going out of business.

The factory closed down, and he had to look for a new job, but the new factory was not friendly.

Because the old factory closed, there were a large number of factory owners who could pick and choose, desperately pushing down their salaries.

The salary given was not even half of what he had before, and the various benefits that should have been due were suppressed to the minimum by the other party.

With a glorious experience, of course, he will not be willing to give in like this.

After a few months of barely working in the new factory, he angrily chose to quit after seeing that he was tired and tired, but he was not even half of the salary he once was.

He thought that after leaving the new factory, he would soon find a better job with his own ability.

But reality slapped him mercilessly.

It's as if he's under some kind of curse.

He found a new job again and again, but it didn't take long for him to leave for various reasons.

There are active;

There are also passive ones;

There are those with high wages and those with low wages;

But no matter what job he did, he didn't last more than three months.

With one resignation after another.

Soon, the savings he had accumulated were quickly depleted.

This was followed by one credit card after another that was offered as an advance payment.

He earns less and less, but he spends more and more money.

Mother's medical expenses, children's milk powder money, living expenses, firewood, rice, oil and salt, various family expenses······

All of this requires money.

The weight of life creates a suffocating pressure that tries to crush him.

But.

He did not give in.

On the contrary, I worked harder and harder, and worked like crazy······

But in this world, it is not that you will be rewarded for your efforts, and your efforts will not necessarily reap happiness.

Under the madness of working three jobs a day, his income has improved slightly.

Fate struck him head-on again.

He ······ Sick!

After a long period of hard work, his not strong body was finally crushed.

In order to heal his body, the family used up the little savings he had accumulated when he went crazy not long ago, and even owed a foreign debt.

Just when he got a new job, cheered himself up, and everything could start all over again.

His mother······ The condition relapsed.

That night, he came out of the hospital after swiping the last balance of his credit card, but learned from the police that his wife had been hit by a stray bullet by a group of robbers when she returned from the hotel where she worked······

Luckily, his wife didn't die, but unfortunately, he couldn't get a penny out of his card to go to the hospital for treatment.

At the hospital payment desk, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the doctors, frantically begging the doctors to save his wife, but the doctors just told him indifferently that he could only follow the rules and regulations of the hospital.

Without money, surgery cannot be scheduled.

Fortunately, at this time, the wife's parents arrived in time, paid the operation fee, and saved their wife.

But in the same way, they no longer want their daughter to follow him to live this kind of precarious life.

They filed for divorce from him.

He agreed.

Because the wife who came out of the operating table, the first sentence was to ask him to go back quickly and take the child to the hospital.

It turned out that tonight, his child also had a high fever.

His wife was in a hurry to go home after work, planning to take the child to the hospital for treatment.

Looking at the empty balance in his credit card, he was captured by a deep sense of powerlessness.

He had no money left.

Ultimately.

The wife's parents came to the hospital with their children, but at the same time, they also forced him to sign the divorce agreement.

He came out of the hospital again, walking on the street in a daze, but the last ray of light had lost in his eyes.

When he returned to the apartment, he looked at the family photo of a family of five on the table, as if he had broken the last string in his body, and suddenly hugged the family photo on the table, and cried bitterly.

At that moment, two strands of scarlet light, attracted by his suffocating despair, fell from the void and submerged into his body.

·······

After reading the man's tragic life, Erin's expression was a little complicated.

It turns out that what is really suffocating is not the air that cannot be breathed, but the desperate life!

(End of chapter)