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My words left Dr. Evans momentarily speechless.
Derek’s face was grim, but he quickly composed himself, his eyes red.
Forget it, Alex isn’t to blame for this. I
“I’m dying now. My wife betrayed me, my family sold me out, I don’t even want to live anymore.”
“But I stil! have a daughter who just turned one. She’s so pitiful, abandoned by her mother, and her father bear to leave her.”
“Alex, you’re the only good brother I have. Please, I beg you, raise her for me.”
It’s
just my
bad luck…”
can’t live on.
I just can’t
Dr. Evans, ever the empath, let two streams of tears fall.
“Look, Mr. Miller is begging you like this. Just say yes. You’re his best friend, could
don’t deserve to be a man!”
you really be so
cruel as
to
refuse? If so, you
Watching them play good cop, bad cop, perfectly coordinated, I felt nothing but disgust.
In my last life, I had too much blood drawn and was disoriented. Derek even colluded with Dr. Evans to set
a
trap
for
- me.
i was genuinely soft–hearted, which was why I agreed to take care of his daughter.
But no good deed goes unpunished. My girlfriend was hostile toward this adopted daughter, believing her to be my love child with
another woman.
She refused to listen to my explanations, packed her things, and left me, also falling out with her family.
At that time, I hadn’t even graduated from my Master’s program and couldn’t juggle both studies and the child, so I had
to
drop out.
Because my major was a combined Bachelor’s and Master’s program, and due to the circumstances, I didn’t even have a Bachelor’s degree; I was just a college dropout.
Without a good degree, I could only do arduous manual labor.
To better support the child, I worked three jobs a day, often sleeping only three or four hours.
And the child had poor health from a young age, constantly ending up in th
with money flowing like water.
hospital, even undergoing several major surgeries,
I gritted my teeth and took out high–interest loans, but with the interest compounding, I couldn’t pay them back at all.
3:37 AM
I gritted my teeth and took out high–interest loans, but with the interest compounding, I couldn’t pay them back at all.
The debt collectors were brutal, causing constant harassment for everyone, and my landlord refused to renew the lease, kicking me and the child out.
