"Ah..."
A groan of pain rang out.
The man on the hospital bed suddenly opened his eyes.
"Where am I...?"
"The operating room at the Municipal People's Hospital."
"Uh... what happened to me?"
The man looked utterly bewildered.
There seemed to be something wrong with his memory.
As he spoke, he tried to get out of bed, but his limbs were too weak for him to move.
"You were unconscious for a whole day and night. You nearly died when you were brought in yesterday. They barely managed to save you, and then your condition worsened again this morning."
"Man, what could possibly have driven you to drink pesticide and kill yourself?"
If Xiao Yu hadn't used his Immortal Arts and Elixir to neutralize the poison,
there would have been no saving this man. He would have died a very painful death.
"Pesticide? Ah, right, I drank pesticide. I remember now."
"Heh, haha. After graduating from college, I worked my fingers to the bone and finally got married. My wife and I worked hard together and saved for ten years. We scraped together a million for a down payment and bought a house worth three million."
"And then, overnight, we were back to square one. Worse, we were buried in debt."
"We'd barely taken out the mortgage and bought the house before prices crashed. It lost well over half its value. Now it's worth a million, the same as our down payment, but we still have to repay a two-million loan!"
"With interest, that two million could buy another three or four houses!!"
"We couldn't get past it, so we decided to give up the house and the million we'd put down. We'd just accept our bad luck. So we stopped making payments."
"And then... hehehe!"
"I never imagined that