All the heavens begin with the love in the courtyard.

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Chapter 166: Social Animal Yu Huanshui

"Hey, young man, young man, wake up! Wake up!"

Zhang Peng's memories slowly merged into this body. His head was fuzzy as he was helped up and sat on the roadside curb.

"Young man, you don't look well. Do you want to go to the hospital?"

Zhang Peng looked up and saw a kind auntie helping him up. He shook his head and quickly said something.

"No, no, thank you, Auntie. I just have low blood sugar, I'll feel better after sitting for a while!"

The aunt nodded and walked away with her basket.

Zhang Peng sat on the sidewalk, holding his head, looking somewhat pained. Memories flooded his mind once again. There was a bag at his feet containing a CT scan. He sat on the sidewalk for a long time before slowly burying Zhang Peng's memories back into his mind.

Unexpectedly, he entered a new dream after only taking a short nap. Yu Huanshui shook his head.

Seeing the surrounding skyscrapers and pedestrians on the street, all glued to their phones, this dream is a modern world.

His name is Yu Huanshui, he is thirty-three years old, and he works in sales at a subsidiary of a large company. He earns seven or eight thousand yuan a month with a base salary plus commission. He also has a wife who is two years younger than him, a seven-year-old son, and a three-bedroom apartment in this big city.

Owning a house in a big city, having a beautiful wife and a beloved son, and having a successful career—this kind of life might have been the life that an ordinary person named Zhang Peng once envied.

He can call himself Yu Huanshui!

Yes, this is Yu Huanshui, who has fallen into despair.

In this world, the reality is that the house was bought with a loan, and most of the monthly salary is used to pay off the loan. The remaining amount is just enough to cover the family's expenses. There is even money that cannot be spent on buying milk for the children because there is simply no money.

His wife, Gan Hong, was indeed a beautiful woman. She was the school beauty back then. In order to win her over, he bought a three-bedroom apartment in this city right after she graduated.

But the reality is that an accident ten years ago turned Yu Huanshui from a social elite into a timid and subservient corporate slave.

From that time on, his wife Gan Hong also began to look down on him. Yu Huanshui had to take care of all the household expenses, including picking up and dropping off the children at school and doing the laundry and cooking.

Even in their marital life, Yu Huanshui relied on pornographic films to satisfy his needs. Gan Hong even set a rule that it could only be done once a month at most.

Each time, in order to receive the monthly charity, I have to do a hundred push-ups before I can go to bed.

That's not all. In the end, he discovered that he had been cuckolded all along, and even at the end of the original story, he still didn't know if his beloved son was his biological child.

As for work, it goes without saying that he was looked down upon by his superiors and even by his former apprentices. He worked overtime every day, making phone calls for twelve hours straight, yet still failed to meet sales targets for five consecutive months and was on the verge of being fired.

Five years ago, I lent 130,000 yuan to one of my best friends. When I asked him to repay the money, he tricked me.

He was scolded by his wife, scolded by his boss, and betrayed by his former best friend. Finally, he couldn't bear reality anymore and decided to get drunk. So he bought a bottle of Moutai, but it turned out to be fake. In the end, he suffered from alcohol poisoning and went to the hospital for a CT scan. He was diagnosed with late-stage cancer and was told that he had at most three to five months to live.

This is Yu Huanshui from the original novel, a middle-aged man driven to the brink of madness by reality.

Yes, this world is Yu Huanshui's world. He looked at the CT scan at his feet and at this bustling steel city, and wondered why he felt so like crying.

Yu Huanshui shook his head, completely merging Zhang Peng's memories. He was now unsure whether he was Zhang Peng or Yu Huanshui, but clearly, this body belonged to Yu Huanshui.

Knowing what his future would be like was so damn awesome. He had just come out of the hospital and was now dizzy and passed out on the side of the road because of drinking fake alcohol.

In the original novel, Yu Huanshui completely lost his heart at this moment, because the CT scan at his feet showed that he only had a few months to live, and he eventually died in agony.

In order to live a crazy life to the fullest, he started a crazy plan to die, but halfway through, he discovered that his cancer was a misdiagnosis.

But by then it was too late to turn back, because in his reckless actions he had offended countless people, and he had even sold his corneas in advance, spending all the deposits.

Towards the end of the story, he decided to play the hero and was shot in the chest. In the ambulance, he was having his last beautiful dream.

Now everything has returned to the day I was misdiagnosed at the hospital, and my life can still go on. That dark comedy never happened.

But why am I particularly looking forward to that dark comedy?

Haha, Yu Huanshui stood up, threw the bag along with the CT scan into the trash can, shook his head, and thought about what he should do!

In the original story, he should be home preparing to hang himself right now, having even written his will. But the noise from the renovations upstairs makes him completely lose it, and he decides to go crazy and do something reckless in the last part of his life.

But now, why bother hanging yourself?

The dark humor in the original work is indeed very interesting. Yu Huanshui, who has been suppressing his emotions for ten years, really wants to have a good time again.

He had Zhong Yuemin's skills, so he could play however he wanted. Besides, he really wanted to have a go at it.

Ten years ago, in 2009, Yu Huanshui, when the mobile internet was just emerging, and he and two good friends created an online food delivery platform.

At that time, Yu Huanshui was full of energy, and his company was developing rapidly. In his early twenties, his net worth had already exceeded ten million. At the most critical moment for the company's development, a big shot appeared and decided to invest in their company.

The two parties had agreed to meet at a certain place. On the day of the meeting, Yu Huanshui, who had been working overtime all night, and his colleague Dazhuang rode their motorcycles at high speed toward their destination.

But halfway there, a truck came speeding by and collided with the motorcycle. Dazhuang died on the spot. Yu Huanshui, covered in blood, got up and walked to Dazhuang's mangled body. He looked at his business partner and good friend, who was still motionless.

At that moment, his mind went blank. Later, when the police arrived, they asked Yu Huanshui who was riding the motorcycle. At the last moment, Yu Huanshui lied and said that it was Dazhuang who was riding the motorcycle.

From that moment on, Yu Huanshui was completely ruined. He was constantly immersed in self-blame, blaming himself for causing Dazhuang's death and for lying. From then on, the energetic Yu Huanshui disappeared, and a timid and submissive office worker was born.

After his company went bankrupt, Yu Huanshui drifted through ten years in a daze until a cancer CT scan finally broke the last straw in his life.

He had been suppressing his feelings for far too long; he needed a complete release.

He opened his phone and saw many missed calls. A slight smile appeared on his lips as he tapped on one of the numbers, which displayed "President Wei".

Yu Huanshui pressed the dial button, and the other end answered after only two rings.

Before Yu Huanshui could even speak, the person opposite him started cursing.

"Yu Huanshui, you haven't come to work all day, do you even want to keep your job?"

The voice wasn't that of General Manager Wei, but rather that of Vice President Zhao Minjue. Clearly, the General Manager and the Vice President were together, and there was even an office director, Liang Anni, standing next to them.

After Yu Huanshui put his phone away and waited for the other person to finish cursing, he slowly spoke into the phone.

"President Zhao, it seems you, President Wei, and Director Liang are all together. That's even better. I'll get straight to the point and stop beating around the bush. I have something you want. You can discuss what price you're willing to pay in exchange. We can talk about the rest when I get to the company tomorrow!"

"Xiao Yu, what exactly do you want? We can talk this over, we can talk this over, hello? Hello?"

Yu Huanshui hung up the phone, looked into the distance, and a wicked smile appeared on his lips.

Chapter 167: How to get a deadbeat to pay back money?

Yu Huanshui's company is a cable manufacturing company. The company he works for now is a branch of the group. The general manager of the branch is surnamed Wei, so he is usually called General Manager Wei.

The other deputy manager is Zhao Minjue, and the office director is a somewhat flirtatious woman named Liang Anni.

These three were the three heads of the branch company, while Yu Huanshui was just an ordinary salesperson in the sales department, and originally had no relationship with these three.

But a misunderstanding last night has now created an inseparable bond between them.

Last night, Yu Huanshui called his good friend Lü Fumeng again, urging Lü Fumeng to return the 130,000 yuan he lent him five years ago.

Lu Fumeng brushed him off, saying he was in Africa and would talk to him when he got back, adding that long-distance calls were expensive, and then hung up on Yu Huanshui.

But Yu Huanshui, who had just finished making the phone call, seemed to see Lü Fumeng on a bustling street. Yu Huanshui naturally followed him all the way to a bar.

Lu Fumeng went into a private room in the bar, and Yu Huanshui couldn't remember which room it was, so he could only make phone calls while searching for the room one by one.

As a result, in one of the private rooms, he ran into his own company's General Manager Wei and General Manager Zhao, as well as Liang Anni.

That scene made Yu Huanshui a little embarrassed. In order to apologize, he took the initiative to go outside and bring in two dozen beers to apologize. However, this back and forth provoked the three bosses who had ulterior motives.

The three were arguing over the division of the spoils when Yu Huanshui suddenly burst in, startling them all. After taking Yu Huanshui away, they discovered that the USB drive containing the spoils was missing. The contents of the USB drive were related to how many years they would be sentenced to, and the three of them suspected that Yu Huanshui had stolen it.

That's how the scene just now happened. Yu Huanshui called President Wei directly and asked him to figure out what he should offer in exchange for him tomorrow.

Actually, Yu Huanshui didn't take the USB drive; his visit yesterday was purely a misunderstanding.

In the original novel, because of this misunderstanding, and Yu Huanshui's sudden discovery that he has cancer, he decides to turn the tables and extort money from the group to leave some savings for his son, which results in a darkly humorous tragedy.

However, for now, Yu Huanshui decided to play along and have some fun with the bosses.

The reason why Mr. Wei and his group were afraid of that USB drive was because it contained their accounts of how they divided the spoils.

Their cable company is just a branch. Generally, senior executives like them receive a fixed base salary plus commission, earning a few hundred thousand or a million a year at most.

So, Vice President Zhao hooked up with Liang Anni, and then Liang Anni used her body to persuade President Wei, and the three of them made a fortune together.

Their method of making money was not complicated: instead of reporting the cables sold by the branch office to the head office, they would set up a low-quality cable processing plant in a remote place, put the cables on their own company's brand, and sell them without anyone noticing.

Because the customers purchased the cable from a reputable local brand company, they wouldn't suspect it was counterfeit. As the three leaders of the branch, they could easily earn many times more profit than the company's commission simply by deceiving their superiors and subordinates.

They only need to mix two or three fake orders out of ten, and no one will notice. They distribute the profits once a quarter, with Liang Anni in charge of the accounts, General Manager Wei taking 50%, Liang Anni taking 30%, and General Manager Zhao taking 20%.

They could easily earn a small fortune a year with this kind of business. But it was precisely because of Yu Huanshui's unexpected intrusion that one of the three, who already had ulterior motives, started to have an idea. He wanted to use Yu Huanshui to make the other two give up a portion of their profits.

Now, Yu Huanshui naturally decided to play along and teach these three a lesson.

Next, Yu Huanshui planned to go find his good friend Lü Fumeng.

Back then, Yu Huanshui, Lü Fumeng, and Dazhuang started a business together. Just when they were about to succeed, that kind of thing happened. Dazhuang passed away, and Yu Huanshui and Lü Fumeng went their separate ways. Yu Huanshui became a corporate slave, while Lü Fumeng, relying on his art painting skills, successfully entered high society.

Driving luxury cars, living in mansions, and having a beautiful painter girlfriend, this seemingly perfect man never thought about repaying the 130,000 yuan that Yu Huanshui borrowed five years ago.

Not only did Lü Fumeng refuse to repay the money, he also tricked Yu Huanshui several times, telling Yu Huanshui to take his wife to look at cars, saying that once he chose a car, he would pay for it for him, and that he shouldn't worry about the price, just buy it if he liked it, and he would make up the difference himself.

But after Yu Huanshui chose the car, he couldn't get through to Lü Fumeng by phone. When he finally got through again, Lü said he was in Africa.

This kind of person even had the audacity to say that the reason he didn't return the money was because Yu Huanshui had wronged Dazhuang. Back then, Yu Huanshui lied, causing Dazhuang's parents to not receive compensation and ultimately die alone.

Yes, Yu Huanshui did wrong Dazhuang, but how much did it really have to do with Lü Fumeng?

Five years ago, when Lü Fumeng was at his lowest point, Yu Huanshui didn't hesitate to lend him all of his inheritance of 130,000 yuan from his mother. But five years later, Yu Huanshui just wanted to be a man for once and buy his wife a car, but in the end, he was tricked by his best friend.

There's no point in being friends with this kind of person anymore; let's get the money back first.

Getting your money back from a scoundrel like Lü Fumeng is actually quite simple. The reason this kind of scoundrel can squeeze into high society is simply by packaging himself. What he fears most is losing face.

Yu Huanshui walked to the entrance of a small shop and called out to the aunt inside.

"Auntie, how much does it cost to make one copy?"

"Eight cents a piece, fifty pieces or more, fifty cents a piece!"

"Okay, give me fifty then! Wait, let me create a document first!"

Yu Huanshui created a document on the computer in the convenience store and typed a sentence directly into it.