Can Someone Please Go After My Sister!?!?! - Chapter 24

Bankruptcy

"You look like you have no life experience at all... Why is that?"

"I never had to do these things myself... In the past, others had always done it for me. Even the clothes I wore were specially matched by someone."

I am speechless...

"It sounds like you've experienced the decadent life of capitalism..."

"My father is a real estate developer... My mother died a few days after giving birth to my sister." She wiped her tears, "Our family was considered well-off in the local area, and we also had a villa in Qingshan District..."

Uh...I see...

After all, he is a real estate developer.

I smiled bitterly. In the 2000s, he was indeed a monster who was called the same as the "coal boss".

But now...

"For several years, our family's business has been declining, and my uncle fled to the United States with the funds he raised at a critical moment... My father had a bad heart and became bedridden because of this incident."

"Later, other people who were competing with us maliciously reported that my father had falsified accounts to confuse cash flow and was actually bankrupt... The financing parties refused to continue to provide my father with working capital, and the community that was being completed had no money, so my father had no choice but to mortgage all his property to the bank..."

I sighed.

"In the end, because the construction period was delayed again and again, all the funds were used up but the project was not completed. Everything was wasted." Her eyes were a little dazed. "The bank and the financier took away everything. A month ago, my father also had a heart attack because of this incident and died in the hospital."

I quietly looked at her dazed profile, and for some reason I felt a little distressed.

I know this feeling.

But she might be more painful than me - after all, she watched her father die of depression because of this.

"How did your father...die?"

As soon as I said this, I couldn't help but want to slap myself twice - is it okay to ask such a question?

But she smiled at me softly, albeit a little weakly: "You are the only one who dared to ask in such a long time."

I didn't respond.

"He was very depressed when he passed away... Although it was a sudden heart attack, he had already sensed all of this. It would be better to say that he felt that death was a kind of relief." She shook her head gently. "Before he died, he desperately grabbed my hand and said to me, I'm sorry, I didn't give you anything..."

I sighed. Indeed, such a young lady ended up like this... No wonder the furnishings in the room were so shabby.

When I thought about how she was suddenly thrown into an indifferent society and had to struggle to survive with her sister, I instinctively felt a little distressed.

I seemed to see myself many years ago, silently gritting my teeth and picking up mineral water bottles at the gate of the community to exchange for money, and having to avoid acquaintances and classmates, and using the money to buy Taoyao a popsicle, and the two of us happily broke it apart and ate it.

I'm afraid that the melted popsicle contains the tears in my heart.

"You are very strong." I looked into her eyes gently. "Although your father left you nothing, he gave you the nobility to not bow to difficulties."

Liu Shitong smiled softly, stopping the last trace of sobbing, and her face was a little red for some reason: "Thank you...Lin Yushan."

"But what is that clock?" I wondered.

She glanced at the grandfather clock next to her, "I secretly made this at the end. I bought a few other things to earn living expenses."

Suddenly, a look of surprise flashed across her face: "By the way, what time is it now?"

I looked at my phone: "7pm, what's going on?"

Her face suddenly turned pale, and she stood up suddenly from the ground, forgetting to wipe away her tears.

"I, I forgot I was going to the auction!"

"Auction?" I blinked. "What?"

"My home... all our belongings that have been confiscated in Qingshan District will be auctioned off by the bank tonight..."

"What do you want to buy?" I stared at her, not thinking that she would have the energy to buy anything now...

She gritted her teeth and said nothing, just looking at me helplessly...

I suddenly realized that I was an uninvited guest. I guess she wouldn't be at ease if I stayed here alone with her sister.

"If it's convenient for you, I can go with you." I smiled at her. "After all, it's a bit inconvenient for you to go alone. If you have to buy your own things at the auction, people will gossip about you."

There was a hint of hesitation in Liu Shitong's eyes, as if she was having a fierce ideological struggle.

After all, it is not easy to open your heart to strangers and show others your most vulnerable side and your most painful past.

I looked at my phone: "It's already 7:10..."

She gritted her teeth and said, "Then let's go together."

I smiled softly.

We closed the door, asked Liu Yutong to look after the house carefully, and then hurried downstairs.

"I only have one bicycle..." She looked at me hesitantly: "What are you going to do?"

I looked at the slightly tilted seat of the second-hand bicycle, and the girl's blue and white stripes came to my mind...

"This seat is prone to getting caught. I'll fix it for you some other day." I subconsciously said

I blurted it out - and then realized that I seemed to have brought up a topic that I shouldn't have mentioned.

Her face instantly turned red, and under the light of the street lamp, her profile made people tremble slightly: "You, what are you talking about!"

Uh, I coughed twice, "It's okay... I saw your bicycle posture that day... It was very strange..."

She bit her lip lightly, her nice voice stuttering a little: "I just learned it recently... I've never ridden before."

"It's very dangerous to ride a bicycle in a skirt." As soon as I said this, I almost killed myself again.

“You…” She stamped her feet and avoided my gaze in panic, wanting to escape but having nowhere to hide. She just turned her head slightly and said in an almost inaudible voice: “…Thank you.”

"What is there to thank me for?" I really felt that I was just courting death and dragging others into it.

"If it were someone else, they would probably just laugh at me or take pictures... maybe even share it on their social media..." She mustered up the courage to look at me, "Thanks to you."

"Thanks to me being treated as a pervert and becoming the focus, you weren't too embarrassed?"

"No..." She shook her head, "Thank you anyway."

A smile appeared on my face, and I felt a little warm in my heart. I stepped into the car and patted the back seat gently: "Get in, I'll take you."

The girl looked at me, smiled and nodded, grabbed the corner of my clothes and got into the car, carefully keeping a distance from me.

I pedaled at full speed and rushed towards Qingshan District...