In the end, his wife, Deng Ying, was so stressed that she hanged herself. His daughters cut off all ties with him, claiming that with such a father, they would rather he die outside than care about him.
His legs were so rotten that he was paralyzed on the bed, unable to move. He ate, drank, and defecated on the bed. His stench was so bad that the neighbors around him had moved away.
He lived in a dilapidated old house and often did not have food to eat.
However, none of the relatives he had treated with his heart and soul cared about him. The nephews who had said that they would take care of him in his old age were nowhere to be seen! They did not return a single bit of the money he had lent them all those years ago...
He could only watch as his body was gnawed at by the rats and the insects crawled all over him. He cried every night in pain, and finally, he reached a point of hunger so bad that he couldn't even scream.
At the last moment of his life, his well-dressed parents finally came in. They came in with their hands covering their noses and looked at him with disdain. They told him personally that he was not the biological son of the Shen family!
At the last moment of his death, many thoughts flashed through Shen Gang's mind. He finally came to a realization.
He felt so regretful! He hated it! If he hadn't listened to their nonsense and treated his four daughters well, perhaps he would have been able to lead a good life...
Early the next morning, when Shen Wan woke up, she found her father, Shen Gang, sitting alone in the small courtyard with an extremely strange expression.
Sensing that the dream magic from last night had taken effect, Shen Wan asked, "Dad, aren't you going to send money to your brother's house? Why haven't you left yet?"
Shen Gang raised his head and looked at her. His face was full of panic and fear.
His lips trembled, and he gritted his teeth, "I won't send it off! What does his son getting a wife have to do with me? It's better to use it for our own household!"
Upon hearing this, Deng Ying, who was busy in the kitchen, came over and said in surprise, "Really? You really don't want to give them the money?"
"Of course! I said I won't, so I really won't! Would I lie to you?" Shen Gang's expression was a little unnatural.
Seeing that Deng Ying was about to cry again, he quickly took out the passbook from his pocket and stuffed it into her hand. "Take this passbook. We'll just live a good life at home in the future. Don't worry about anything else."
When he woke up in the morning, Shen Gang took a long time to recover from the despair in his dream. The things that happened in the dream were so real that it was as if he had experienced it himself!
Could it be that this was what really happened? Did the heavens take pity on him and gave him a warning?
No matter what, when he thought of his miserable ending in the dream, Shen Gang felt that he could not go on like this!
What pushed him was finding out that he was not their biological son in the dream. It was like a thorn that ruthlessly stabbed into his heart. It seemed to have an answer to the things that he had been unable to figure out all these years.
It was no wonder that his parents did not like him since he was young. Nothing he did could ever be as good as his elder brother. No matter how filial he was to his parents, they always sided with his elder brother's family and only gave the good things to him.
In the past, he had thought that he had not done a good enough job. It turned out that it was because he was not their biological son that they were using him and humiliating him!
In the end, he was betrayed, he was the fool who had been tricked and played by others!
"Okay, okay. Our house is always leaking, so we can use the money to fix it. Also, the school is always urging us to pay for Shen Wan and Miao Miao's school fees. Shen Xin and Shen Yu are under a lot of pressure, and they're not doing well..." Deng Ying carefully put the passbook into her arms and a rare smile appeared on her face. She started to talk about the trifle things in life.
Shen Gang lit a cigarette and started smoking.
He stared at the ground with a sullen face and continued, "Find someone to repair the house this spring. Pay the money that you need to pay. Don't let others take advantage of you!"
"Okay, I'll go make breakfast. I don't want you to go hungry." It was rare for Deng Ying to see the stubborn Shen Gang thinking things through. Her mood instantly brightened. She put on her apron and went to make breakfast.
The moment he heard the word hungry. Shen Gang's hair stood on end. The feeling of being so hungry and unable to move in his bed in his dream last night seemed to have happened just a moment ago. He never wanted to experience this feeling again in his life!
Then, he looked at his crippled leg and thought to himself that he should go to the hospital to have it checked out. It was crippled, not broken. There was always a possibility of recovery. If he were to be crippled for the rest of his life, he would really be just waiting for his death.