Jude's father's tense face eased a bit when he saw the bottle of expensive wine. Then he sneered, "You're up to something big today, aren't you? What have you done this time?"
"Nothing, of course nothing..." the young man waved his hand and said.
the middle-aged man said without facial expression, "Just cut that crap. Look at you... I know there must be something wrong. Just tell me what it is."
It was only then that the young man put the card on the table and said, "I am in urgent need of 10 million yuan to pay my debt."
"10 million? Pay your debt?" the middle-aged man went furious upon hearing those words. He wouldn't lend the money to his son for normal use, let alone to pay for his debts.
He could absolutely know what his son was indicating. The young man obviously owed other people money.
"What on earth is going on?" the middle-aged man questioned with a cold face, "You're gambling again, aren't you? Where did you borrow that money from?"
"I don't have a choice. I've lost too much and I wanted to win it back, but that only made me lose more," the young man said helplessly.
Now Maximilian understood why Jude's family wouldn't take this young man as one of them. It turned out that he was a gambler. To be honest, a gambler would totally destroy a family like this.
the middle-aged man said coldly, "We don't have the money. You can ask someone else."
He wanted to drive the black sheep out of this family right away. He tortured this family like the pawn of Satan. Too often had he borrowed money from somewhere else and gambled it away.
Even Aescul couldn't help sighing when he heard this, "Dude, that's a great number. You've lost 10 million?"
He was rich, but not rich enough to gamble away that much money. If that had happened to him, he could've already melted down.
The middle-aged woman was shocked and thought she heard it wrong. She tried to ask again and again, "You're scaring me... why are you gambling again? And you've lost that much? What on earth had happened?"
"Mom, it's true. Today is the deadline. I'll get myself killed if I don't pay the debt back," the young man carried out.
The middle-aged woman almost blacked out. She thought he son had retracted from the wrong path. She was wrecked when she heard that he was gambling again.
The middle-aged man said coldly, "It's none of my business. I wouldn't mind if they kill you on the street."
He knew he was being too cold blood, but he had warned his son many times and that seemed to carry little weight. Now the mistake was too huge to mend.
Moreover, he didn't have that much money. He could borrow it from his friends, but it would use up all his connections, and he would have to beg everyone he knew. He was too old to be humiliated like that.
The young man looked at Jude and said with an embarrassed smile, "Jude, I knew you would never let that happen to me."
"I think you deserve it, and ... you should remember I'm no longer your sister," Jude looked at him angrily. The troublemaker had long worn out her patience.
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