"My grandparents died when I was young, and my other relatives wished they could stay as far away from my family as possible. No one looked after me."
"I hadn't even graduated from junior high before I could no longer afford the tuition. I went out looking for work, but people thought I was too young and had no qualifications, so no one wanted to hire me. I had no choice but to scrape by on the streets."
"When there was work, I did odd jobs and collected recyclables to sell. You know what happened after that. Two brothers dragged me into gambling, I ended up drowning in debt with no money to repay it, and then I ran away."
Su Qiao thought for a moment. "How much did you owe?"
He Kai raised his hand and gestured. "Sixty thousand."
"But it's already been half a year. With the interest, it's probably much more than sixty thousand by now. Those people are like vampires."
As they brought up the matter, He Kai suddenly remembered something and whispered, "Let me tell you something. That He Xiaolan actually took out online loans and owed more than two hundred thousand. It wasn't because something happened to her family. She just wanted to show off, and spent it all on designer clothes and bags."
"Tell me, are those things really that important? If you can't afford them, you still take out loans to buy them. I really can't understand it."
With that much money, what couldn't she buy? Why insist on things that couldn't be eaten and weren't practical?
Su Qiao had long since guessed that He Xiaolan was not some honest, demure girl, so she wasn't surprised.
"Then do you really think gambling is that much fun?"
He Kai awkwardly rubbed his nose.