The Scholarship Trap
"The installment payments and penalty fees from the luxury goods he bought back then still haven't been cleared. His family used to spoil him, but after learning what he did, they were completely disappointed and stopped giving him a cent.
"After he got out of jail, he could only take odd jobs to pay his debts. He's barely scraping by."
After hearing that, I felt no pleasure at all. Only calm remained.
All his poverty and humiliation were the price of his greed, malice, and lack of restraint.
The man sighed. "He brought it on himself. A perfectly good future at college, ruined by greed. People really shouldn't harbor even a shred of bad intent."
I nodded lightly. "One greedy thought rises, a