Pretty idiots are born to be played with and ruined by their husbands.

Chapter 3: Bankrupt Villain and Vicious Fake Young Master

That slap was so big, it really hurt. The spot on his chest where he had been bitten by the centipede was all red from the slap.

Ruan Zhijuan hurriedly examined the bite wound, muttering, "Why did it have to bite here of all places..."

Zhou Gangxun lifted his foot, crushing the red centipede to death with the sole of his shoe. Staring at the piece of meat belonging to Ruan Zhijuan, he recalled the wild cherries that grew on the mountain trees he passed on his way here, which were also just as red.

But it tastes very astringent.

He ignored Ruan Zhijuan's latest round of complaints, grabbed a change of clothes, turned around, and went into the bathroom.

"I need to do laundry too." When Ruan Zhijuan saw Zhou Gangxun enter the bathroom, she didn't care about anything else and hurriedly changed her dirty clothes and underwear. Before she was even dressed, she followed him and stuffed all the dirty clothes into Zhou Gangxun's pile, waiting to reap the benefits.

There was no washing machine in Zhou Gangxun's rented room. He heard from the neighbors that such a machine would be about a hundred dollars cheaper, so Ruan Zhijuan would always keep an eye on Zhou Gangxun to see when he would do his laundry.

His gaze inadvertently fell on the oversized black underwear next to him, and his cheeks tingled with embarrassment. Zhou Gangxun not only had big hands and feet, but also... a very big butt.

Ruan Zhijuan looked away from the filth, turned around and went back into the house, intending to continue eating her boxed lunch.

But as soon as he sat down on the sofa, he heard Zhou Gangxun's cold voice from the bathroom: "Wash yourself."

Before Ruan Zhijuan could get over, she saw that Zhou Gangxun had picked out all of his clothes and thrown them on the bathroom floor. The smaller one on top was obviously his underwear.

"Zhou Gangxun!" Ruan Zhijuan shouted. This was a pair of underwear he really liked. It was mint green with milky white butterflies embroidered on it and white lace trim.

"You... how could you throw it on the ground...?" Ruan Zhijuan immediately noticed the black footprints on the side of her underwear; Zhou Gangxun had even stepped on them!

That footprint was huge, you bastard! Zhou Gangxun is a turtle bastard!

Looking at Ruan Zhijuan's expression, as if she wanted to build a tomb for her underwear and burn paper money to worship it every Qingming Festival, Zhou Gangxun was too lazy to argue with her. "If you're not going to wash it, then go naked."

Naked...? Upon hearing this, Ruan Zhijuan's almond-shaped eyes widened in anger. How could Zhou Gangxun let him be naked?

I don't know what's gotten into Zhou Gangxun today. Making him wash his own underwear is practically a reward, and he's still so ungrateful.

Who knows what he might secretly do with his underwear that needs washing.

Before he could continue speaking, Zhou Gangxun closed the bathroom door, unilaterally ending the communication.

Zhou Gangxun took off his clothes and looked at himself in the mirror. His body was strong and powerful, with well-defined muscles. His legs were not atrophied, nor were there any bedsores or ulcers. He could not imagine that he looked like that. There were no incisions on his waist and abdomen, no empty space lacking organs, and no infected, suppurating, and blackened wounds.

"Zhou Gangxun... since you're going to do laundry anyway, why don't you just wash it for me too...?"

"I'm your wife, so you should do my laundry..."

Ruan Zhijuan was lying outside the door, chattering incessantly. His voice was soft, so it sounded like a cat in heat, but a cat in heat can be quite annoying.

Zhou Gangxun turned on the tap, trying to drown out Ruan Zhijuan's buzzing sound with the water.

In the three days following Zhou's bankruptcy, he had a dream in which he was the villainous protagonist in a novel, while Ruan Zhijuan was the vicious fake young master.

The novel is set in Hong Kong around 2000, and its content highly overlaps with his previous life trajectory.

This includes establishing a marriage relationship with Ruan Zhijuan after the night she was drugged, and two days later, the district chief candidate supported by Zhou was suspected of corruption and transnational money laundering, which led to Zhou being suspected by the bank of improper transfer of benefits and the rejection of an application for a large amount of funds, thus triggering a series of dominoes to collapse.

First, the stock price plummeted, then the core project's technology was leaked, and the technical staff jumped ship. Under the leadership of the Ruan and Ji families, the company was besieged by multiple companies. Finally, a week ago, the company declared bankruptcy, suspended trading, and began liquidation of its assets.

I moved here from the port city four days ago.

Zhou Gangxun submerged his body in the icy water. He was the one who always caused others to go bankrupt and be liquidated, and this was the first time he had tasted the bitterness of being betrayed by everyone.

Then came the epilogue, in which a few strokes of the pen set the stage for his entire tragic life.

After he went bankrupt, Ruan Zhijuan couldn't bear living in poverty in a rented room, so while she was being supported by him with verbal abuse and disgust, she wanted to climb the social ladder. She took the opportunity to have an affair with the foreman at his construction site.

At first, the two of them hid from each other. Later, he had an accident at the construction site and was sent to the emergency room. After hearing the amount of compensation, Ruan Zhijuan hesitated to sign the risk consent form for emergency treatment, thinking that he would die from his serious injuries. But unexpectedly, his condition suddenly improved and gradually stabilized.

He survived, but his lower body was completely disabled from the waist down.

Since he became disabled, Ruan Zhijuan has become increasingly cruel. They no longer avoid him, but in order to prevent him from making any noise, they often give him sleeping pills, tie him to a chair, or simply leave him in the bathroom. They only throw him leftovers or cold rice when they remember him.

Later, the contractor absconded with the construction site funds and compensation money.

Taking advantage of his fever and lack of consciousness, Ruan Zhijuan wiped his body with snot and tears, kissed him, and said she would live a good life with him. She said that she did this because she had no money and no sense of security. She coaxed and tricked him into signing a high-interest loan, selling his blood, kidneys, and herself.

But before the next day was over, Ruan Zhijuan packed her things and ran away with others that night.

All that remained was a persistent high fever, his eyes wide open, staring helplessly at the emptied rented room, at himself lying in the shady clinic, at his organs being removed one after another, at the necrosis and complications that plagued his body, at the constant bleeding day and night.

They really treat him like a dog.

It's because he wasn't thinking clearly at the time that he was deceived.

Zhou Gangxun chuckled softly, looking down at his palm. Ruan Zhijuan's neck was so thin that it could be snapped in two with one hand, even without a fan.

"Zhou Gangxun..." Ruan Zhijuan's voice came in again, pleading, "I'll let you... let you smell my panties, okay?"

Zhou Gangxun, who was submerged in cold water, immediately stopped, frowning as he looked at the figure peering inside from the doorway. What did he say?

Before Zhou Gangxun could even wonder if he had misheard, the voice outside added, as if making a pact, "But... you can't get it on my underwear..."

With a loud bang, Zhou Gangxun smashed the water pipe of the water heater with a single punch. *Smell! bubbly!*