Time Travel: The Queen's Coronation

I had just coaxed my child to sleep when I received a call from Rong Zixuan.

"Aqing, can you lend me some money?" Rong Zixuan's voice was anxious.

"How much to borrow?"

'One hundred million dollars'

"Why are you borrowing so much money?" I was confused.

"I have an urgent matter! Please, please!" Rong Zixuan pleaded.

"Borrowing so much money urgently can't be a good thing!" I doubted.

"I beg you! Human life is at stake!" Rong Zixuan pleaded.

"What happened?" I was alert.

"Please don't ask so many questions first. I really need this money!" Rong Zixuan continued to beg.

"If you don't tell me what you're going to use the money for, I won't lend it to you! It's not a small amount, I can't just lend it to you!"

"Aqing, I beg you, I really need this money. I have no other choice but to come to you!" Rong Zixuan still begged, but refused to tell me the reason.

"If you're asking me to borrow money, I have to know what you're going to do with it! What if you use the money to do something bad and it gets traced back to me? If you don't consider me, you have to consider our two young children at least!"

"I..." Rong Zixuan hesitated to speak.

"You say you need it urgently, and you describe it as extremely urgent, but you don't tell me your purpose. Are you trying to deceive me? And we've been husband and wife for at least two years. Don't you trust me? Why wouldn't you tell me this?"

"How can I put this into words? I, I, my girlfriend is a liar. She cheated me out of all my money and tricked me into gambling. I lost $100 million! I am penniless now. The casino owner said that if I don't pay him today, he will chop me up. Ah Qing, for the sake of our marriage and the fact that I am the father of two children, you must save me!" Rong Zixuan said to me crying.

"How could your girlfriend be a liar? I see you two are in a good relationship, right? You even traveled together last month! I can tell you love each other!"

"Her motives for approaching me from the beginning weren't pure. She knew about Boss Huang's situation and wanted to pull the same old trick on me, but she used a honey trap. I fell for her trick and bought her everything she wanted. In the end, I spent all my money! She then tricked me into gambling. At first, I could win a little, and she encouraged me to be bold, so I fell for it. Then, and then, and then, I ended up owing $100 million! I was so stupid! I got scammed twice in less than a year!"

"You're still using a honey trap! You've run into a pig-killing scam! Your big fat pig has been eaten, and now they're going to crush your bones and squeeze every last drop of value out of you!"

"Please stop scolding me first. Can you lend me some money? Otherwise they will chop me up! You don't want the children to be without a father, do you?" Rong Zixuan cried anxiously, and it could be heard that he was very frightened.

"Give them your phone number and I'll communicate with them."

I spent over an hour talking with the casino's manager, and they finally agreed to let me deposit $50 million first. At the same time, they also released Rong Zixuan. I'll transfer the remaining balance once Rong Zixuan safely arrives in China.

The phone returned to Rong Zixuan's hands again, and I comforted him, "Zixuan, I will transfer 50 million to them first, and I will also transfer you some money so that you can buy a plane ticket back home. I will transfer the rest to them after you are safe. Just wait a moment, I will arrange for someone to transfer the money to them immediately."

"Thank you!" Rong Zixuan said ashamedly.

I hung up the phone and turned around to see Shen Junhui with a gloomy face.

"Didn't Rong Zixuan claim to be a freeloader? Why is he asking you for money now?"

"He has a reason for this!"

"I don't care! You can't give it to him!"

"I'm not giving it to him, I'm lending it to him! This is life-saving money! I can't just sit there and watch him get chopped into pieces, leaving two young kids fatherless at such a young age!"

"What did he do to deserve being torn into pieces?"

"He was scammed and owed a huge debt."

"Wow! A pig-killing scam! I have to hear about this, tell me!" Shen Junhui watched the fun with a look of gloating, and insisted that I tell him about Rong Zixuan.

"His new girlfriend is a con man, and their story is all part of a scam. He fell into her trap step by step without realizing it. In the end, the woman tricked him into gambling, and he was eventually detained by the casino owner. The casino owner threatened him that if he didn't pay today, he would send him to see the King of Hell. He had no choice but to come to my rescue."

"Hahahaha! A pig-killing scam! Rong Zixuan, this idiot! He deserves it!" Shen Junhui laughed wildly.

"You can laugh, but saving a life is more important than building a seven-story pagoda, so don't stop me!"

"You can borrow money! You have to make him write an IOU!"

"He's in Germany, and we're in the US. We can't guarantee that the IOU was written by him personally, so it's better not to have it. Also, it's difficult for him to pay back the money given his current situation, so it's better to donate it to him as a charity!"

"It doesn't matter. I'll fly to Germany tomorrow and ask him to write the IOU in person," Shen Junhui thought with a smile.

"That's not necessary. We don't need this little money!"

"It's necessary! I want him to pay back everything he did to me before!"

"You deserved what he did to you before! And you're still seeking revenge on him. You have no legitimate reason to do so!"

"So what if he has no official background? He used to show off in front of me, so I'm showing off in front of him now."

"How can you, a 5'9" tall man, be so petty?"

"This is about a man's dignity! I have to get it back!"

"You men are so childish! You argue over the smallest of things, and it's just old news!"

"I don't care! I'm going to assert my sovereignty in front of him right now! I'm your man! I'm going to humiliate him severely!"

"Okay, okay, if you want to go, go ahead! But don't make things difficult for him. After all, this is a matter of life and death, you can't not give him money! And don't go too far. He's a very proud person. If you push him into a corner, he'll fight you to the death!"

"I know! I'll be careful!"

The next day, Shen Junhui flew to Germany to deal with Rong Zixuan's affairs. I just hoped that the two of them would not fight again. I guess after Shen Junhui landed in Germany, he called him and gave him many instructions. He repeatedly promised me that he would definitely send Rong Zixuan back to China safely. Later, after Rong Zixuan returned to China, he also called me to report that he was safe, but there was a hint of dissatisfaction and complaints in his tone. I probably knew that he must have been angry with Shen Junhui. But I didn't want to comfort him anymore. It was over between us, and he needed to comfort himself and could no longer rely on others. But after all, he was someone I once loved, and seeing him so destitute, I still felt a little sad.