Chapter: 1183

He thought he was familiar with the layout of this alley, so he could shake off this driver by going around twice. But he didn't think he would get hit that badly, and as soon as he got out of the car, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his abdomen and fell to the ground.

At this time, the driver also realized he was trying to run away and hurriedly pushed open the door to chase after him, only to find him already lying on the ground, feeling annoyed and saying, "You're going to run without paying? Hurry up and pay me!"

Zhao Zhaoyue lay on the ground, looking at the nasty taxi driver with a defeated expression that had lost its previous arrogance when he tried to intimidate others.

He looked at the driver, tears streaming down his face as he pleaded, "Master, I just went bankrupt, I have nothing, and I still owe a bunch of debts. And I've been beaten up like this, really can't afford to pay for the car fare, please spare me your mercy!"

The driver was furious, saying, "You owe a bunch of debts? I also owe a bunch of debts! If I had money, I wouldn't even be driving a taxi anymore. Do you think this 45 bucks is easy to get? This 45 bucks can feed me for two days! Hurry up and give it to me!"

Zhao Zhaoyue let out a sob: "Master, I'm really broke, and I don't have anything valuable on my body, please spare me your mercy!"

He quickly scrambled up, knelt down at his feet, and bowed his head, saying, "Master, I'm really broke, even if you kill me, I have nothing, please spare me your mercy! Please, Master, be like a parent to me, give me some red envelopes during the New Year, don't you?"

The taxi driver had never seen someone so shameless before, and he was furious: "You... how can you be so shameless? Don't you have parents? If they knew that you're bowing down to another person for 45 bucks, what would their feelings be like?"

Zhao Zhaoyue's nose began to twitch: "Master, I won't hide it from you. I'm an orphan, raised by the welfare institution in Jinling since childhood. After working so many years, I had saved up 120,000 yuan, but a scoundrel at the welfare institution stole all my savings and took out 500,000 yuan in high-interest loans from various loan apps on my behalf. Now I'm at a dead end..."

The taxi driver saw that he wasn't lying and was taken aback: "Everyone has gotten rich by now, how can there still be such a miserable person?"

Seeing this, he couldn't bear it anymore and continued to pressure him for the fare.

So he took a deep breath, looked at Zhao Zhaoyue, and said, "Considering your pitiful circumstances as an orphan from childhood, I'll let it slide this time. It's on me, and I'll treat you to a ride!"

Zhao Zhaoyue heard these words and immediately bowed his head three times, expressing his gratitude: "You're a good person, just like my foster parents!"

He looked up at the taxi driver, begging: "Since you've already treated me to a ride, can't you give me 50 bucks, just like treating me to a snack?"

The taxi driver was furious, one kick sending him flying away: "Of course, people who are pitied will always have something to hate. You're so shameless that you can still say such things, I'm fed up with you!"

Zhao Zhaoyue struggled to get up from the ground, brushing off his clothes, and thought to himself: "Although the process was a bit rough, I still managed to save 45 bucks."

He felt slightly better after taking advantage of the taxi driver's 45 bucks.

He hobbled towards his girlfriend's house, thinking to himself, when he first sees her, he'll surely burst into tears in her arms.

His girlfriend lived in this city's shantytown district, which was a self-built housing area that looked quite rundown.

However, in Zhao Zhaoyue's eyes, it was a gold mine, because now the government is regulating shantytowns, saying they'll demolish and then compensate with new homes, one by one.

So he was eager to marry his girlfriend early, which would allow him to move into their house as an above-door son-in-law and split the benefits when the time comes to demolish and rebuild.

He arrived at his girlfriend's doorstep, knocked on the door, but no one came out to open it.

He didn't know that his girlfriend Zhang Jun was currently in her room, focused on a private business with one of her clients who bought fake cigarettes.

He sent a message to his girlfriend through WeChat, but there was no response. He thought she must be sleeping and took out a key from under the pickled vegetable jar at her doorstep.

This was an accidental discovery of Zhang Jun's secret hiding place in the future mother-in-law. As people age, they tend to forget things more easily, so Zhang Jun had hidden this key away for emergencies. JrNovels.com