273: Chapter 262 Selling the Daughter 273: Chapter 262 Selling the Daughter “I’m sorry, I’m not thirsty.
Let’s talk about my foster father’s debt to your establishment instead,” Wu Xin said very politely as she refused the offer.
She was well aware of whose turf she was on, and that annoying these people would surely mean she’d end up on the losing side.
“Oh, it seems Miss Wu is still quite cautious of me.
Actually, I’m a good person, it’s just that this damn society…
Sigh, rough folks like us can’t compare to cultured people like you.
Just looking at your delicate skin makes me want to come over and…
cough, that is, get to know you better,” the man chuckled a few times, his expression as if to say ‘look how innocent I am.’
Wu Xin was used to this sort of hypocrisy, where people pretend to be harmless when in reality they were all devils to their core, devouring others without spitting out the bones.
“Here’s fifty thousand yuan.
I’ve brought the money as you requested.
Where is my foster father?” Wu Xin spoke coldly.
“I hope this is the first and the last time because due to gambling, I have inexplicably paid nearly two hundred thousand already.
If you let him in again, next time I definitely won’t have the money to bail him out.”
“Hey, Miss Wu, don’t be like that.
We are all family, why speak so distantly?” The man sat down next to Wu Xin with a laugh.
“Since your father likes to come here, as his daughter, shouldn’t you indulge your father’s desires?
Besides, who knows?
Maybe Old Man Wu will suddenly catch a lucky streak and win back all the money he lost.”
“I don’t know whether he can win money or not, but all I see every day is him giving money to your place.
I want to make this clear, for the last time, and you better listen well, I will definitely not come here with money to fill his holes again,” Wu Xin stated unhappily.
“Haha, alright, alright, I can tell Miss Wu is a person with personality, I, Mr.
Kang, respect people with personality most.” The man stood up and gave Wu Xin a salute.
“Since I have high hopes for Miss Wu, I’m going to give Old Man Wu a VIP card for our gambling den.
You should know that you can’t get this without hundreds of millions, but with this card, I believe Old Man Wu will definitely hit it big.”
“What VIP card?” The idea of a VIP card existing even in an underground gambling den was laughably absurd to Wu Xin.
“It’s a card that lets you take out an unsecured loan of a hundred thousand yuan from us.
See how well I treat Old Man Wu?” The man shamelessly continued.
“I bet Old Man Wu will become devoted to me, and who knows, in a fit of happiness might even betroth you to me.”
Watching the man’s almost crazed behavior, Wu Xin was truly frightened inside.
She was just an ordinary hotpot restaurant owner with no backing.
If this man decided to make a move on her, her only option would be suicide to protect her purity.
“Since you’ve brought the money, let’s first see your father, shall we?” The man casually tossed the fifty thousand yuan onto a desk, clapped his hands, and a few burly men walked in from outside after he instructed them briefly.
It wasn’t long before they brought in a small, frail Old Man Wu.
Old Man Wu’s face and forehead bore scars, indicating he had suffered a bit inside, but when he saw Wu Xin sitting on the sofa, he happily shouted, “Xinxin, I knew you wouldn’t let your dad die at their hands.”
“Will you let go of me now?
My daughter has come to pay off my debt,” Old Man Wu, seeming quite displeased with the men still holding him, struggled and called out.
“Let him go,” the man said nonchalantly as his subordinates looked at him questioningly.
“Old Man Wu, your daughter is really naive.
I told her on the phone that you owed us fifty thousand yuan, and she actually believed it.”
“It’s not fifty thousand?” Wu Xin asked, staring at the man.
“It is fifty thousand, but that’s the principal amount.
Did you think we were Guanyin Bodhisattva, lending money without charging for it?” The man sneered.
“Don’t be naive, sweetheart, we charge interest on loans.
Old Man Wu, tell your daughter how much you really owe us.”
“Well…” Old Man Wu was covered in cold sweat and glanced at his daughter before quickly turning his head away, “it should be seventy thousand, right?”
“It should be seventy thousand?” The man bellowed angrily.
“You’ve owed us for two days, and it’s only seventy thousand?
Let me tell you both, as of now, you owe me a total of a hundred thousand.”
“A hundred thousand?
Why don’t you just rob us?
The fifty thousand yuan he borrowed from you didn’t just end up in your pockets?” Wu Xin said icily.
“I don’t have a hundred thousand.
Take this fifty thousand yuan if you want it, or I’m leaving.”
“Don’t be in such a hurry to leave,” the man pressed Wu Xin back down into the sofa as she tried to stand up.
“We know it’s tough running a shop and living on your own, and it’s impossible for you to have that much money, so we made some inquiries with Old Man Wu, and the result was quite obvious.”
“I don’t understand what you’re saying.
I’m leaving,” Wu Xin suddenly felt an ominous foreboding in her heart and stood up to leave.
But once again, the man blocked her.
He stroked Wu Xin’s cheek and chuckled, “We’ve decided that you can just spend one night with me, and then you won’t have to pay the extra interest.”
“What did you say?” Wu Xin felt she might have misheard.
What has the world come to?
Her foster father actually used her body to repay his gambling debts.
“That’s right, you don’t need to repay the interest.
Considering your father said you have a nice figure, after we’re done I’ll give you another fifty thousand yuan.
You should know you can buy a lot of bodies for thirty-five thousand,” the man licked his lips, looking eager.
“Impossible, I will never agree to that,” Wu Xin refused flat out, starting to regret coming here.
“Hehe, don’t rush, at first I didn’t agree either, but now that I’ve seen you in person, I feel it’s very much worth it.
No, no, not just worth it, I struck gold, hahaha.
Just thinking about what’s going to happen soon excites me,” the man laughed crazily.
“Don’t struggle too hard later, or with your thin arms and legs, I could break you just for fun.
Better to just give in to me,” he said.
Hearing the man’s words, Wu Xin almost fainted.
Was this really her foster father?
The old him was timid, cowardly, and avoided trouble, but that was all forgivable, as long as he earnestly lived his life.
But now, for a mere few thousand, he had pushed his own daughter to the edge of the Abyss.