Of Truths and Lottery
After I won a total of one million dollars from the lottery, I planned to spend four hundred thousand dollars paying off my wife Jocelyn's debts, then buy our son, Sean, the sports models and Lego set he had always wanted.
But after waiting and waiting, the only thing I got was a call from my son. "Dad, there's an event at the kindergarten today, so go eat by yourself. Mommy and I will miss you!"
I said nothing.
Because just half a minute earlier, a screen of bullet comments had suddenly appeared in front of my eyes.
"The supporting male lead is just so sad. He's working three jobs to pay off the female lead's debts, and even his stomach is bleeding due to pure exhaustion. Meanwhile, the female lead is out buying the male lead a gold watch!"
"But if the supporting male lead doesn't work himself to death, how are the male lead and female lead supposed to end up together?"
At first, I did not believe those comments.
But just then, my phone buzzed, and a credit card charge alert came in. My stomach dropped.
I never would have thought the wife who always seemed to love me so deeply and the son I had worked so hard to raise would lie to me like this.
In that case, my ten million lottery winnings had nothing to do with them anymore.