After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

He looked nonchalant and didn't show any fear at all.

It was as if he was still alive only because he had not died yet, but this kind of living seemed to be no different from death, except that he had one more breath... As for whether he was dead or alive, he didn't seem to care at all.

People like this are generally difficult to deal with.

Xu Chengjin looked at the other person in the dim light, and smiled after a while, "Okay, the gambling house is right there, of course it's okay. But Wang Erjie is an honest kid, he works hard to hunt, and he saves a few cents every day, but you led him astray, causing him to be heavily in debt now... Don't you feel guilty?"

This makes a lot of sense, but it seems a bit childish to Goudan who is struggling in the mud.

Goudan sneered at this, "Honest? Wang Dabao is indeed quite honest, but you say Wang Erjie is honest? Ha! Wang Erjie's father would wake up from his grave laughing! Do you know why Wang Erjie wants to make quick money? Haha! Because he has his eyes on my sister! He knew that my sister already had an engagement, but he still had such an idea! He blocked my sister in the alley and tried to force her to elope with him! Ha! He is dreaming. With his idiotic appearance, he still wants to eat swan meat! What a wishful thinking!"

He laughed as if he was telling a funny joke, and choked with such force that he began to cough so hard that the chair shook. The candle flame trembled violently and almost went out before it staggered and lit up again.

Young Master Xu's eyes twitched when he heard this. He glanced at Yuan Ge again and saw that he was also quite speechless. He changed his posture and said, "As the saying goes...a beautiful lady is always sought after by a gentleman. Well, although this method is not fair, but, this 'wishful thinking' is understandable!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Ge glanced at Xu Chengjin with a slightly cold look, and sneered, "What nonsense are you talking about... Since there is an engagement, just reject it. If you really let him make money in the gambling house, wouldn't that satisfy his wishes? If he is angry, find a dark and windy night, put a sack on him, and beat him up. If you are serious, he will not be able to get out of bed for several months. By then, your sister will be married, and it will be useless for him to have that idea."

The voice was gentle, yet surprisingly cold.

Goudan looked at Yuan Ge for the first time. The girl was dressed in gorgeous clothes. She was as delicate as a porcelain doll. She seemed to be about the same age as his sister. But after what happened to his sister, she could only hide in the quilt and cry secretly all night long until her eyes were swollen like walnuts. However, the girl in front of him could say that she would beat him up so that he could not get out of bed on a dark and windy night... Is this the confidence and pride of a daughter from a wealthy family?

His eyes suddenly turned around, and finally slowly fell in front of him. After a long while, he sneered, "Yeah, just refuse... but someone doesn't want to refuse! That bastard... that bastard who is not worthy of being a father! He also pointed at my sister to be his cash cow! He said that as long as Wang Erjie, that bastard, can afford the sky-high betrothal gift, he will decide for my sister to break off the engagement and remarry into the Wang family! Tell me, tell me, is this what a father should say?! My sister was entangled by that bastard and hid in the quilt crying, and he was outside happily planning how to make more money! How can there be such a bastard in this world!"

He had no memory of his mother, and didn't even know what she looked like. The first thing he remembered was his sister, who was only a few years old, holding a broken bowl to feed him a mouthful of rice and a mouthful of soup. The bowls in their house were always broken, because that bastard man broke them when he was drunk. In the eyes of the world, he was an honest widower who felt that the world was unfair and would only drink to drown his sorrows. He would get drunk whenever he drank, and when he was drunk he would smash things and beat people, his sons and his daughters. While beating, he would scold them, scolding the living and the dead, scolding the ones who gave birth to him, scolding the ones who gave birth to him, and scolding the ones who gave birth to his children. When he was tired of beating and scolding, he would fall asleep, leaving his sister crying and cleaning up.

Countless times, he wanted to take advantage of the bastard being drunk and kill him with a knife!

But his sister was unwilling, saying that murder was against the law and it was not worth breaking the law for such a bastard. The eldest sister was like a mother, and she was the one who brought him up, so he had to listen to her and protect her.

"The Wang family is even poorer than mine. Erjiezi appears to be honest in front of others, but that's just because he has no choice because his pockets are clean... I can't stand people like this the most, they're hypocritical!" Goudan spat, his stomach growling with hunger, but he turned a deaf ear to it and smiled smugly, "Yes, I dragged him into the gambling house. I pretended to be friendly with him and lured him into the gambling house... He did win some money for a while, and after drinking, he brought all the broken and whole money to my house and piled it all in front of that bastard. You didn't see it, but the bastard's eyes lit up instantly, his hands trembled, but he still pretended to be calm... Haha, that look was ridiculous!"

The story is quite interesting.

Yuan Ge sat there with his chin in his hand, listening intently. When he saw that the other party had stopped talking, he urged, "And then? Since Wang Erjie has brought the betrothal gifts, why hasn't he got the beauty yet?" He lost all his money and owed a lot of gambling debts.

"Oh...getting the beauty?" Goudan sneered, "The little girl is really naive. Human greed is never satisfied. He got so much money in a short time. That bastard is naturally not satisfied. He asked for more... Once there is one, there will be two. Once there is two, there will be endless things. Erjiezi didn't give up and went to the gambling house again with the money. But since then, he has never won a penny!"

"So..." Yuan Ge nodded to himself, looking very regretful. The tip of his index finger just stopped above the candle flame, moving slowly left and right. After a while, he smiled and said, "The story is quite interesting, but the protagonist is wrong, right?"

Goudan looked at Yuan Ge's finger resting on the flame. The finger was particularly beautiful and shiny. He was stunned for a moment, then he subconsciously asked, "What?"

"Even though this story is 70% true and 30% false, the one behind all this is not your father, but you... right?" Yuan Ge retracted his finger, adjusted his sitting posture leisurely, and looked at him straight, "Wang Erjie entered the gambling house because of you, but he had good luck in gambling. He did win a lot of money at the beginning. He was also sober and wanted to quit while he was ahead. But you couldn't do what he wanted, so you used your sister as bait to lure him deeper and deeper into the gambling house, and eventually he was doomed... Am I right?"