Zhou Guodong was worried about his wife. With no time to explain, he hurried straight home.
The front door stood wide open, and several burly men were inside.
"What are you doing? I already told you we'd repay the money as soon as possible. Why have you come to our home?"
Only after seeing that his wife was unharmed did Zhou Guodong breathe a sigh of relief.
The leader, dressed in a floral shirt, sat on the couch.
He pulled out a stack of printed papers and tossed them onto the coffee table.
"Zhou, three years ago, you borrowed a hundred thousand from our company. At the start of this year, you borrowed another five hundred thousand. With interest, you owe us 1.8 million."
"And so far, I haven't received a single cent."
"Either you pay up today, or we'll take your house, your wife, and your daughter!"
Zhou Guodong panicked at those words. He had even mortgaged his home to pay for his mother's medical treatment.
But who could have expected his wife to lose her job and his own leg to develop problems? One blow after another had pushed this already struggling family deeper into hardship.
"I've already found a job. I'll pay you back as soon as I can. Don't touch my family!"
"Everyone who borrows money says that. Enough talk. Take them all away."
At the floral-shirted man's order, the others immediately began ransacking the house.
"Stop searching! Please, stop! There's really nothing left here."
"That's my daughter's room. Don't go in there!"
The cries coming from the apartment could be heard clearly throughout the building, but no one dared lend a hand. After all, those debt collectors all had Pokémon.
No one thought of calling the police, either, because lending money was legal in this