Fan Xiuying hurriedly brought her two granddaughters to the hospital. After finding out where the emergency room was, she rushed over and saw Jiang Xin and Jiang Laoshi with pale faces outside the emergency room. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"How is it? How is he?"

Fan Xiuying pushed the children over.

Ladi and Zhaodi saw their mother and happily dashed over.

"Mom, why are you here? We thought you were sick."

Ladi is not young; don’t be fooled by her age of six, she is quite sensible.

Jiang Xin shook her head, "Mom, it’s okay. You and your sister sit here for a while, your dad is inside now."

Her face was pale, and she didn’t want to hide anything.

The doctor had said that Qin Dazhuang’s condition was critical, and he could die at any moment.

"Jiang Xin, what exactly is going on? How did Qin Dazhuang end up drinking rat poison?"

Fan Xiuying still couldn’t understand how Qin Dazhuang was entangled with the Jiang family again. The last time with his debts was already frightening enough.

Thankfully, Jin Dachuan helped resolve that issue.

That was on account of Song Moting and Jiang Xiaoxiao, but these situations can’t keep occurring endlessly.

It hadn’t been peaceful for a few months, and now Qin Dazhuang caused another scene, worse this time by drinking rat poison directly.

He really won’t let the Jiang family have peace.

"Mom, I don’t know the specifics either, just what the people who brought him in said. Qin Dazhuang owed a lot of gambling debts that he couldn’t repay, and they broke his hands and feet. They told him that if he couldn’t pay back the money, he’d be sent to a black coal mine or up the mountain to carry logs to repay the debt.

You know those places aren’t meant for decent people, and dying there might go unnoticed. I guess that’s why Qin Dazhuang drank the poison."

Jiang Xin held her children, and although she had already lost all hope for Qin Dazhuang, hearing about his miserable situation made her feel bad. After all, they were once married.

Ultimately, Qin Dazhuang is still the father of their two children.

He was also the man she once loved; the feelings she invested weren’t fake.

Zhaodi and Ladi held Jiang Xin’s hand, "Mom, will Dad die?"

They knew rat poison could kill because their neighbor’s child accidentally ingested it, and the five-year-old died.

They remembered that tragic scene.

Jiang Xiao shook her head, "Mom doesn’t know either, we’ll only find out when the doctor comes out."

The doctor came out.

"Who is Qin Dazhuang’s family member?"

No one answered.

Jiang Xin had no choice but to stand up, "I’m his ex-wife."

"We’ve managed to save him, and he’s not in any immediate danger, but the poisoning lasted too long, and there might be lasting after-effects. His limbs might have issues in the future."

After the doctor finished explaining, Qin Dazhuang was wheeled out.

He was unconscious, his face was pale and haggard, stubble unshaven, no longer looking like a normal person, appearing both pitiful and pathetic.

The two children rushed over.

Jiang Xin helplessly said to her parents, "Mom, Dad, you go home first, take the kids with you. I’ll take care of him. We can’t just leave him unattended. Even if he’s not worthy of being called human now, if we don’t care for him in this state, I can’t harden my heart."

"You silly child, don’t be foolish. Don’t you know the state Qin Dazhuang has sunk to? He’s gone mad with gambling, capable of anything. Haven’t you heard he even hit his own mother and stole money from his sister? Is that something a normal person does?

In his heart, everyone became strangers long ago. You’re sympathetic now, but once he recovers, he might cling to you, what will you do then?"

Fan Xiuying wouldn’t accept this. Her daughter was soft-hearted, but being soft-hearted doesn’t mean doing good deeds indiscriminately.

They might be sympathetic towards others, but with Qin Dazhuang, this isn’t about being soft-hearted.

Jiang Xin nodded, "I know, but he doesn’t have any relatives with him now. Just leaving him alone in the hospital is unreasonable."

Jiang Xin understood.

Jiang Laoshi thought for a moment, "Leaving Qin Dazhuang alone in the hospital isn’t right. After all, he’s a person and the father of two children. Even if he’s wrong, we can’t kick him when he’s down.

But Jiang Xin, you can’t take care of him. Considering your relationship with him, taking care of him could lead Qin Dazhuang to have other thoughts in the future. I’ll take care of him! This way, it will cut off any ideas he might have about you later."

The family made a decision.

Jiang Laoshi stayed to take care of him.

Jiang Xin took the kids back home.

When Qin Dazhuang woke up.

He saw his father-in-law and daughter by his side.

The young daughter, Ladi, hadn’t gone to kindergarten and was drinking water from a cup.

As soon as she saw Qin Dazhuang awake, she rushed over.

"Daddy, you’re awake!"

She turned to call Jiang Laoshi.

"Grandpa, Grandpa, my dad is awake."

Jiang Laoshi, holding the child, came to Qin Dazhuang’s bedside, seeing he was awake, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the doctor had said there was no immediate danger, he had been asleep for a whole day and night.

Jiang Laoshi had been there, watching over him for a day and night.

"It’s good you’re awake. You, a grown man, talking about life and death at the drop of a hat. Haven’t you thought about it being so simple after you’re dead? If you die, who will take care of your two children? Are we in the Jiang family supposed to owe you just because you had children?"

Jiang Laoshi wasn’t someone who usually scolded others; these few words he uttered were already stern.

Qin Dazhuang shook his head with effort, pale and guilty, he never expected himself to do something so disgraceful, yet his father-in-law could still take care of him by his bedside.

Just for this point alone, he knew he owed the Jiang family.

"Dad..."

"Don’t call me Dad, I’m not your dad. I’m not worthy of that title. Don’t think I’ve any motives for taking care of you. I’m only doing so for the sake of the two children. I can’t just watch you die,

If you truly feel sorry for your two kids, do fewer outrageous things, quit gambling. You’ve wrecked a perfectly good family, what’s so good about gambling? It’s as if you’re possessed and have to gamble."

Qin Dazhuang began to cry like a child, "Dad, I didn’t mean to, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. It’s like I’m possessed. When I see people playing cards and gambling, I disregard everything as if it’s my life, and if I don’t gamble, I’ll die.

Every time after gambling, I regret why I did it. But the next day, I continue the same way, every day repeating the cycle. I feel like I’m a lost cause.

I just wanted to end it all. I can’t live my entire life like this. It’s one thing for me to be like this, but when the kids grow up and learn they have a father addicted to gambling with a mountain of debts. I feel like there’s no hope for living when I think of that, it would be better if I just died."

Jiang Laoshi sighed, got up, and went out to smoke.

Seeing Qin Dazhuang like this, anyone would feel sympathetic, but Jiang Laoshi also knew sympathy couldn’t be indulged.

Who dares trust the words of a gambler?