Chapter 1590: Chapter 1594: Choice
But those familiar with Eldest Xiang all knew that he was determined to sever ties with them.
Jii Chunjue was a very self-aware person.
After Eldest Xiang cut off relations with his wife, Jii Chunjue knew that the protective umbrella of the Xiang Family was no longer effective. He restrained himself a lot, stopped getting involved with married women, and simply found two cinema students who had not yet graduated to be his mistresses.
After coming into contact with Gu Junzhu’s subordinates, Jii Chunjue started frequenting various high-end settings with them.
Human greed is endless, especially for a scoundrel like Jii Chunjue.
He had lost the backing of Eldest Xiang and was ready to lay low, but after encountering Gu Junzhu’s subordinates, he felt that meeting such a foolish and rich person was his good fortune and not deceiving them would be a waste of his luck.
Every day, drifting through flashy nightlife with Gu Junzhu’s subordinates, drinking the finest wines and enjoying the most attentive services, Jii Chunjue became increasingly depraved and increasingly felt that money was a good thing.
Day by day, he felt more strongly that one could be without anything, but one must not be without health and money.
He finally couldn’t resist and made his move on Gu Junzhu’s subordinates, proposing to partner with them in business and successively defrauding them of tens of millions.
He thought Gu Junzhu’s subordinates were foolish and rich fat sheep, but in reality, the money was deliberately let slip by Gu Junzhu’s subordinates for him to take.
Defrauding Gu Junzhu’s subordinates of tens of millions made him guilty of economic fraud, and just this charge was enough to have him serve jail time for life.
Gu Junzhu’s subordinates, while deliberately letting him take the money, also took him to gamble extravagantly at the OM casino.
The casino there was legal, and even if judicial intervention occurred later, Gu Junzhu’s subordinates would not bear any responsibility.
The money Jii Chunjue defrauded from Gu Junzhu’s subordinates was quickly lost at the OM casino.
And the one who won his money was another of Gu Junzhu’s subordinates.
As Jii Chunjue’s appetite grew larger and his addiction worsened, Gu Junzhu’s subordinates claimed to have business abroad and needed to leave the country for a few months.
Gu Junzhu’s subordinates left, but Jii Chunjue’s addiction remained.
Unable to defraud more money from Gu Junzhu’s subordinates, and unable to quit his addiction, he began to gamble extravagantly with his savings.
Within a few days, his savings were gone.
Unwilling to accept defeat, he attempted a comeback and sold off all his valuable possessions.
A few days later, it was all lost again.
This time, he used business as an excuse to deceive his wife, Xiang Baolian, out of all her savings.
In a matter of days, it was all lost completely.
Then, he secretly sold the house they lived in.
The money from selling the house was quickly squandered.
Xiang Baolian finally realized something was wrong, and after a big argument with him, she decided to divorce him.
The decision for Xiang Baolian to divorce Jii Chunjue was made by her mother, Wang Qiulan.
Xiang Baolian was infatuated with Jii Chunjue’s looks and initially didn’t want to divorce, but Wang Qiulan knew that gambling was a bottomless pit, and if Xiang Baolian didn’t divorce Jii Chunjue, Jii Chunjue could drag both her and Xiang Baozhu into this bottomless pit.
Wang Qiulan gave Xiang Baolian a choice.
If Xiang Baolian agreed to divorce Jii Chunjue, she and their son Jii Haomiao could live with her.
If she didn’t divorce, both she and Xiang Baozhu would sever ties with her, and they would not be dragged down by Jii Chunjue.
All of Xiang Baolian’s family house, car, and savings had been completely gambled away by Jii Chunjue.
She already had nothing.
Without her mother, she simply couldn’t continue living.