Everyone Loves the Villainous Scumbag [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 21

Yu Wuyang returned from the hospital before classes started at noon.

Lin Chuan and Chen Mo, who usually did not care about him, asked about his physical condition. Although their relationship was not good, they showed some classmate camaraderie under the persuasion of the teacher that morning.

Luo Jianghe did not eat lunch with Chen Mo and the others. By the time he returned to the dormitory, Chen Mo and the rest had already prepared to go to the classroom.

After the two left, the dormitory was once again occupied only by Yu Wuyang and Luo Jianghe.

Luo Jianghe remained silent, and Yu Wuyang was cautious, appearing afraid of making him angry.

In fact, Yu Wuyang must have known what was happening. Even Chen Mo and the others, who usually had a poor relationship with him, had taken the initiative to speak. How could Luo Jianghe, who had played so well with him before, have nothing to say at all?

Even if it were just a simple word of concern, Luo Jianghe would usually take the initiative to strike up a conversation.

After sitting in silence at his desk for a while, Luo Jianghe finally spoke to Yu Wuyang. “Can you still attend class today? Do you need to rest for another day?”

Seeing Luo Jianghe talk to him, a faint, almost imperceptible curve appeared at the corner of Yu Wuyang’s mouth.

He reached out and gently touched his head, which was still wrapped in bandages. “My head still hurts a bit, but it is just a superficial wound. It will not affect my classes.”

Luo Jianghe nodded and continued to ask, “How did you get into a fight with them last night? How did you fall down the stairs?”

Yu Wuyang glanced at Luo Jianghe without leaving a trace, then lowered his eyes and said, “Was I not in a bad mood? They mocked me with a couple of sentences, saying that I liked men but was still rejected. I could not help but hit Chen Ping.”

Luo Jianghe noticed that Yu Wuyang did not answer his second question.

“Be more careful next time. If no one is walking with you, just endure it when you run into them. You can report it to the teacher afterward. If those girls had not seen you being pushed down the stairs yesterday before the attackers pushed you and ran away, your injuries could have been much worse. If you had a concussion, forget your health for a moment; your studies would have been delayed.”

Yu Wuyang’s eyebrow, which featured a small mole, twitched slightly. “How did you know that two girls saw me being pushed down the stairs?”

Luo Jianghe froze for a second before saying, “The teacher sought us out this morning to understand your situation.”

Luo Jianghe was not lying. He had not learned the entire sequence of events from the head teacher, but his statement would lead Yu Wuyang to think in that direction. Naturally, he was also unsure if Yu Wuyang was using similar tactics to make him believe that Chen Ping and the others had pushed him.

Luo Jianghe stood up from his chair and walked to Yu Wuyang’s side.

Yu Wuyang sat there, looking up at him with a faint smile. He was delighted by Luo Jianghe’s approach.

“Jianghe, it is so good that you can still talk to me.”

“Yu Wuyang,” Luo Jianghe’s expression was tinged with a bit of sorrow. “A good person can sometimes become a little bad for self-preservation, but one cannot fall because of certain interests and desires. No matter what you do in the future, the first thing is to protect your own safety. This is my advice to you.”

Yu Wuyang looked at Luo Jianghe calmly and said no more.

It was almost time for class. Luo Jianghe chose not to go to the classroom with Yu Wuyang this time. Yu Wuyang only had minor scratches that did not hinder his walking or his ability to attend class, so he naturally went to the classroom as well.

When the students and teachers saw the bandages on his head, they all froze for a couple of seconds. Many guessed that a fight had occurred between Yu Wuyang and Chen Ping’s group, especially since many had noticed Luo Jianghe and the others being called to the office that morning. However, they probably did not expect Yu Wuyang’s head to be injured. The bandaging looked quite frightening.

After this farce, everyone in the class returned to their original study atmosphere.

Luo Jianghe no longer completely ignored Yu Wuyang, but their relationship became one of casual greetings and occasional small talk. Even when he saw the grievance in Yu Wuyang’s eyes, he acted as if he did not see it.

To complete the tasks assigned by the system, his own mental state was being pushed to the limit.

He struggled through until the college entrance examination in June. Once the exam was over, he could finally stay out of the plot for a long period. He had some money in his pocket now, so he just waited for the bankruptcy of the Luo family. He needed to adjust himself and wait for his plot to arrive once again.

He told himself that he was only one step away. As long as he finished this step, he could say goodbye to this world forever.

He had moved back to his own home before the exam. One night after the exam was over and he had filled out his college preferences, Luo Jianghe woke up and saw the main lights in the living room downstairs were still on.

It was already the early hours of the morning. He thought that no one in the family should be awake that late. Their family lived in a small villa, so there were surveillance cameras everywhere. Combined with the security guards in the community, it was unlikely to be a thief.

He went downstairs quietly. Before he had walked two steps, he heard Father Luo let out a soft sigh. “Wife, let us get a divorce.”

Luo Jianghe’s footsteps stopped. He did not dare to make a sound and quietly crouched by the stairs to eavesdrop. As he listened, his frown deepened.

Based on the conversation between the couple, the crisis in Father Luo’s company was not as simple as just running out of money. It was very likely that even if he could not keep it going, Father Luo would still carry a debt of at least forty to fifty million yuan.

Fifty million yuan. Under the circumstances where the family had no money, even if they sold all their current real estate and cars and gathered the life savings of the elderly, they probably could not collect that much. It was said that their family had over one hundred million yuan in assets, but Father Luo’s company had no cash flow. Once the company was gone, most of the assets would be lost with it.

Stated this way, the pressure on their family was truly significant. It was estimated that after the bankruptcy and the sale of all family property, they would still owe tens of millions of yuan. Even ten million yuan would be enough to crush several generations of their family.

Without their family wealth, Luo Jianghe and Luo Xi would just be children who were slightly better than average. Without any family support, even if their abilities allowed them to eventually earn five hundred thousand yuan a year, each of them would have to work for ten years without eating or drinking to pay it off.

But before that, they still had to go to school. Luo Jianghe had at least four years of study left, and Luo Xi had seven years. After they entered society, the possibility of their income reaching five hundred thousand yuan a year was actually very slim.

Furthermore, they still had to live. There were elderly people in the family to support. Even if the grandparents had pensions, Luo Jianghe and his sister would still need a place to live. All of this required money.

According to a normal calculation, if this ten million yuan debt was placed on the shoulders of Father Luo and Luo Jianghe, it would take at least twenty years of debt. This was calculated based on their maximum earning capacity and the assumption that no financial accidents occurred.

If Luo Jianghe and Luo Xi did not have an income of five hundred thousand yuan a year each after entering society, the debt would be even harder to repay. It might take thirty or forty years. They might only barely finish paying the tens of millions of debt when their lives were almost over.

How could one earn five hundred thousand yuan a year? Luo Jianghe did not know. Even after working hard in society for several years in his previous life, he could only manage an income of one hundred thousand yuan a year including year-end bonuses. Excluding buying a house or having children, his life had been relatively comfortable.

High income meant looking for jobs in more developed areas with higher wages, but the expenses incurred while working would also be higher. How to save the money earned was the real problem. Ten million yuan was a devastating blow even for the middle class, let alone for a family after bankruptcy.

How would their family repay this debt in the future?

Luo Jianghe would leave sooner or later anyway. He had known for a long time that the Luo family would go bankrupt. Whether they had money or debt did not put much pressure on him.

But what about Luo Xi? If Father Luo and Mother Luo passed away and he also left, then all that would be left for her was a pile of family debt.

Luo Jianghe assumed that Father Luo was considering the next generation, which was why he planned to divide part of the property before everything was settled. If most of the property were transferred in advance, it might not necessarily be saved later.

Therefore, what Father Luo could do was likely give Mother Luo and the two children the most basic living security during the divorce. A villa, a car, and a few tens of thousands of yuan in assets? With the help of the pensions of Grandpa and Grandma Luo, it would not be a problem to ensure the two children grew up steadily, but their family consumption would face a huge downgrade.

If Father Luo had no money to repay the company debts, he would likely go to prison in the future. As for how many years he would be sentenced, Luo Jianghe was not sure.

Father Luo’s voice in the living room was very calm. He had probably accepted his fate. Only Mother Luo kept crying when she learned the truth.

Luo Jianghe wanted to go downstairs to comfort them, but he knew his parents probably did not want him to know about this so soon. They were parents in a virtual world, yet they made him feel a real heartache.

Luo Jianghe sensibly did not go downstairs. Instead, he went to the toilet and then returned to his room quietly.

Early the next morning, he searched for various information online. Finally, before noon, he downloaded a live-streaming software called Little Rabbit and bought some live-streaming equipment online.

For his first live broadcast, he just found a spot in his room with good lighting and started the stream. The beauty filters on the software were quite extreme. For someone with delicate features like him, it actually made him look worse. His already small face became sharp, and his skin was blurred until his contours were invisible.

Luo Jianghe endured it for only a minute before he could not stand it and turned off the beauty filters. Looking at his fresh self in the lens, Luo Jianghe finally let out a sigh of relief.

He had always been bad at naming things. To prevent his ID from looking too ugly, he simply used his real name and called it “Jianghe ah Jianghe.”

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