safe in distress

Joan had been married once, and when he was very young, he fell in love with someone.

His lover is handsome and outstanding, and in his eyes is the most charming appearance.

He can be with that person regardless of the eyes of the world, and he can even go to the other side of the world to hold a wedding.

Back then he had a big house, endless wealth and a doting family.It's a pity that he still doesn't know how to maintain a relationship. He used endless willfulness and inconsideration to cut wounds on his lover's heart one by one, and the blood that flowed out merged into rivers, separating them for a long time Far.

Later, their relationship finally came to an end, and the man left him, his city, and even the country.

Before Qiao An had time to resent and regret, something even more terrifying happened.

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When there was only love in his world, the carefree palace his father built for him quietly collapsed.

The company went bankrupt, the house was mortgaged, and debt collectors came to the door. In an instant, Qiao An lost everything.

He still remembered that his father, who was always decent in his memory, was unkempt and hunched over, his fingertips trembling and he couldn't light the cigarette in his hand.

He said.

"Dad is useless. Dad can't take care of you anymore."

Joan has always hated himself for not giving this tired middle-aged man some comfort. He was stupid and naive, thinking that everything would get better for no reason, and there was no filth and darkness in the world.

He was still annoyed by the frozen bank card, and his father had already jumped from the tall building in the cold wind, like a fallen leaf falling on the cold concrete floor.

Qiao An obeyed his father's will and gave up the inheritance, so he barely got rid of his debts.

His father, with the last flame of his life, gave him the last decency left.

But such greatness is hard to comfort.After his father passed away, he lost almost everything. In order to survive, Joan had done all sorts of dishonorable jobs over the years.

He is not a hard-working person. His superior family conditions and unprincipled doting make him soaked in the honey of happiness. He doesn't need to work hard to get a rich life that others can't get in his life.

He didn't get good grades when he was studying, so he chose the relatively easy art test, and if he couldn't draw a good enough work, he would spend money on it.Stumbled and stumbled into college and studied art majors that cost a lot of money, but refused to calm down and really learn anything.Even after graduation, I didn’t settle down, and I was called yearning for freedom and art. I invested in galleries and works, but I was idle all day long.

Relying on his family's financial resources, he was a high-sounding artist, so of course he suffered a complete defeat when the wind and rain were uncertain.

They lost everything, their lodgings and vehicles, their fine clothes and food, and their servant driver. When Qiao An left the sealed-up villa with his weeping mother, he had only a negligible amount of money on hand.

Joan first went to sell paintings, pawned the only jewelry he and his mother had, and was cheated repeatedly. He didn't have much cash, but his expenses were still as high as before. Even if he reluctantly sold his studio, he would soon I can't make ends meet.

Joan finally found that he could no longer rent a high-end apartment worth tens of thousands a month, and he could no longer enter and leave high-end restaurants and famous shopping malls unscrupulously.He stood in front of the bank's ATM that day and looked at the glaring double-digit balance on the screen. He counted several times with his fingers in disbelief, until he was impatiently urged by other people in line behind him.

He looked at the ordinary people in ordinary clothes around him, and finally resigned himself to his fate.

He is down.

He fell from heaven to hell.

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Life goes on.

Joan refunded the rent of the luxury apartment, and with the extra 1 yuan she had finally paid, she forced her mother, who didn't want to believe in reality, to live in an ordinary residential area that cost 1000 yuan a month.

He is no longer a fresh graduate, and he has no work experience at all, so how can he find a corresponding job.

Joan was so stimulated by the blows again and again that he was afraid to go out and interview. He really wanted to hide in the house, but he lost his safe haven and only had a mother who needed food and drink to support.

He had no choice but to do odd jobs for eight yuan an hour. He had to stand up every day with sore back and back pain, and talk dryly, so he could barely make ends meet.

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Joan didn't know what dignity and face were in the past.

And never understood why his lover would get angry over little things.

It wasn't until he was poor and destitute that he gradually understood.

His mother is used to living a good life, even if she is poor, she is unwilling to recognize the reality, and she still often picks and chooses. She dislikes going out to work for being too cheap, and she can't be frugal, so she still spends money lavishly.

Once Joan found a relatively well-paid part-time job in a fast food restaurant. For an hourly wage of 12 yuan an hour, he fried French fries every day, served dishes, and took orders at the cashier with a handkerchief soaked in dish soap. Wiping the table, even a pair of delicate hands were bruised, finally earning 230 yuan, he was so happy that he was about to fly, as he went home, he thought that he would finally be able to save for next month The rent is gone.

Who knew that because he was unprepared and put the money in the drawer at home, it was spent as soon as he turned around.

His mother, who didn't know the sufferings of the world, bought a glass for 98 yuan and told him it was a special price of the brand.

She said that with an unreasonable look on her face.

Joan suddenly collapsed.

He looked at the woman in front of him, as if he saw his ridiculous self through her.

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Joann thought of the first year with his husband.

His husband took out the 20 yuan he had worked hard to save for several years before, and planned to buy a small house in their small city.

That person was rarely overjoyed, and he was still talking about how he could finally pay a 20.00% down payment and buy a small house of [-] square meters.

The bank card loaded with the other party's hope was left at home, but Joan, who didn't understand the sufferings of the world, bought a coat with it, and showed it to the other party happily.

"Look, the clothes I bought for you! Do you like it or not!"

His husband had a quarrel with him, and the other party got angry, and Qiao An still felt full of grievances.

"How expensive is this? It's a good deal."

What is the difference between his self-righteous appearance and his unconscious mother.

The collapsed Qiao An felt as if he had been scalded by hot oil. He was in so much pain that he returned the product while crying, like a lunatic.

Only then did he realize that he was really ignorant in the past, he was bad and stupid, no wonder his husband didn't want him.

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Later, Joan discovered that the money for odd jobs was too little, and he needed to work hard to earn a meager salary to make ends meet.

Sometimes he would cry uselessly at night, and he remembered that his husband had told him that one needs to have a skill to be able to gain a stable foothold.

He snorted when he heard it, and he thought that his family could afford him a lifetime of leisure and fun without giving birth.

Turns out he was dead wrong.

In order to find a more suitable and stable job, without having to live in the panic of eating the last meal, Qiao An worked hard to save money and signed up for online classes to learn the most basic skills.

He has folded sheets in a hotel, carried a grease gun in a gas station, and chopped bones in the back kitchen.

For a long time, he gritted his teeth and worked part-time during the day and went to class at night. When he was busy, sleeping three or four hours a day was a luxury.

The days were tough, and the soft flesh on his body was also being consumed day by day, and the man who was still chubby became thinner and thinner.But he was nervous and needed money for everything, so in order to save Qiao An, he only dared to eat rice with pickles every day.

His mother couldn't get used to this kind of hard life, and after two years, she exhausted all her love for him, found an ordinary person with acceptable conditions, left him and started a new family.

Joan just became an outcast.

Fortunately, he finally applied for the company where he works now.

At the beginning, he often made mistakes at work, and no one would pamper him anymore. The first time was very hard. Without performance, there would be no bonus, and without bonus, there would be no way to live.He works hard every day to go to work, but he may not be able to reap the results.

Maybe there is an end to all the suffering. As he matured slowly, he was promoted from an unknown salesman to a team leader, and later became a business manager.

The salary has also gradually increased, from the basic salary of [-] yuan a month to [-], [-], [-] or [-].

Three or four years have passed like this, and Qiao An is no longer coquettish.

He now has more decent jobs than odd jobs, and can earn an average of tens of thousands of yuan after tax every month. Finally, he has the courage to buy fresh fruits, and he can go to department stores to buy a piece of clothing worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. , instead of hesitating in front of a bunch of temporary commodities and street stall commodities.

It's just that he never fell in love again. Even if men and women showed affection to him, Qiao An never promised anyone again.

In the eyes of his admirers, he is tenacious and hard-working, hard-working, caring for his family and frugal.

But he himself knew that he was an extremely failed lover, not worthy of anyone's love for him.

Because of his 30 years old, was divided into two parts.

He has enjoyed the most extravagant and rich life, spending a lot of money, calling for wind and rain, surrounded by people with flattering smiles.

He was also trampled into the mud from the clouds, starved of food, poorly clothed, helpless, and even fought with homeless people in the park to fight for territory.

He has had the days of luxury houses and cars, and the days of being down and out. For Joan now, there is nothing that can make him lose his composure.

Thirty years are like two lifetimes, one of his hearts is like an old man, unable to beat for anyone anymore.

At least, that's what he thought before today.

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"Let us welcome the new general manager transferred from the head office to guide the work..."

Joan was called into the conference room, and when he saw his newly appointed immediate boss, the official smile on his face froze stiffly before he could show it.

"Li Shuyang, General Manager Li."

The sitting man is more mature than in the past, more handsome and attractive.

Is to leave his lover.

The heart that he once broke.