Chapter 116: Chapter 116: A Favor Turned to Enmity

“What did you say? Ten years! Are you kidding me?” Mengniu Naiqiao shot up from his stool, finding it utterly ridiculous. “Damn it, I’m not some broke bastard. You want me to be celibate for ten years? In your dreams! Besides, I don’t have that kind of time. I’m supposed to get married, have a kid, and inherit the family fortune this year, and you want me to wait ten years to get married! I bet you’re just giving me this crap advice to mess with me!”

With that, Mengniu Naiqiao immediately went offline and left the stream.

Mengniu Naiqiao figured the streamer must be just like the viewers in her chat, jealous that he had eight girlfriends. That was why she deliberately ruined his one true chance at marriage!

’That has to be it!’

’Fuck that. I don’t buy it. There are so many women in the world. As long as I’m willing to throw money around, what kind of woman can’t I get?’

The more Shen Zhiyao insisted, the more determined he was to prove her wrong!

The moment he disconnected, he immediately arranged a match, got married, and prayed for a son under the blessings of the Qiao Family ancestors.

To his surprise, more than a year passed, and his wife still hadn’t gotten pregnant.

They went to the hospital for a checkup together, where they found out he had a zero sperm count.

But he was dead set on having a son and pestered his wife daily to give him a child. After enduring this torment for a long time, his wife finally couldn’t take it anymore and quickly filed for divorce.

And he, being well and truly single again, only ended up with 3 million yuan of the family inheritance.

After that, he married eight more times, but those women were all after his money. They cheated on him repeatedly during their marriages and gave birth to children that weren’t his.

Finally, when even the inheritance he’d received had been whittled away to almost nothing, he remembered Shen Zhiyao’s warning and regretted not following her advice.

…

That night, before going to sleep, ClosestBrother deliberately recited the incantation Shen Zhiyao had given him.

As he was falling asleep, he was still debating whether to donate or to listen to his wife and refuse.

Before long, the sound of snoring filled the air as he drifted off into a groggy sleep.

Just then, a beam of light flew under his pillow and entered his dream.

In the dream, ClosestBrother couldn’t resist the repeated pleas of his brother and relatives. Ignoring his wife’s objections, he went to the hospital to donate a kidney to his older brother.

He only had one older brother, after all.

But a person has two kidneys. If he could save a close relative, losing one was no big deal. It seemed like a worthwhile trade.

After the surgery, his sister-in-law was incredibly grateful. She took him back to her place to recover and even brought his three children along to care for them.

A year later, his brother made it past the organ rejection period, and all his bodily functions were normal.

As for ClosestBrother, other than feeling weak and feeble, there were no other major issues.

He quit his physically demanding job as a loader and instead became a security guard in his residential community. Although the pay was meager, he could barely scrape by since he wasn’t supporting his three children.

Meanwhile, his brother, sister-in-law, and other relatives took turns pleading with his wife to come back.

Seeing that what was done was done, and realizing that the three children couldn’t be without a father, his wife reconciled with ClosestBrother.

But she had a condition: his brother’s family had to give ClosestBrother 1,000 yuan a month for living expenses as a subsidy for their family.

This was a promise his brother had made before the surgery, so of course, he agreed.

This continued for three or four years, and gradually, resentment began to build in the brother’s heart.

The brother’s family income wasn’t high to begin with, and they also had three children of their own to raise.

Every month, besides taking care of their three children, they had to pay for his expensive medications. His wife nagged him about it daily, saying:

“I told you from the start not to give your brother a thousand a month, but you just wouldn’t listen! Well, look at us now! We can’t afford medicine, we can’t afford to raise our kids. Are you happy now!?”

Later on, their aunt needed surgery that would cost 300,000.

The older brother said, “Let’s split it, 150,000 each. Aunt worked so hard to raise us when we were little. We can’t just stand by and do nothing now.”

The younger brother said, “I’m just a community security guard making two thousand a month. Where am I supposed to get 150,000?!”

The older brother shot back, “And you think I’m rich? We’re talking 300,000! Where am I supposed to get that kind of money? You could sell me and it still wouldn’t be enough!”

The younger brother said, “Don’t you have that apartment in the city school district? Sell it and pay for our aunt’s treatment!”

The sister-in-law heard this and blew up. “Fuck that! We bought that apartment, why should we be the ones to sell it?! Did your aunt only raise your brother? Why should he be the only one paying for this?”

The younger brother got angry too. “The only reason you could even afford that apartment is because I gave you all the money I earned every month after I got married! And after that, I gave my kidney to my brother. No matter how you look at it, you guys should be the ones paying!”

After that, their aunt passed away from her illness, and the bond between the two brothers was broken.

Ironically, not long after their aunt’s death, the family home was expropriated by the government, which offered 400,000 yuan in compensation.

The younger brother wanted a share of the money, but the older brother was furious. “You didn’t chip in when Aunt was sick, but now that there’s an inheritance to divide, you want to split it evenly? Dream on!”

The younger brother was also enraged. “Who saved you when you were on your deathbed? What did you say back then? You promised me with your own mouth that the family house would be mine! Now I’m just asking to split it, what’s wrong with that?!”

The older brother flew into a rage. “Because of one fucking kidney, I owe you for the rest of my life? I raised your three kids! I gave you a thousand yuan every single month! This debt of gratitude—haven’t I paid back enough?”

The conflict escalated to the point that ClosestBrother’s wife was literally angered to death.

Later, the once inseparable brothers became bitter enemies who no longer spoke to each other.

A few more years passed. The younger brother’s health completely collapsed, and he lost his job as a security guard. Before he was even fifty, he was bedridden at home.

With nothing else to do, the younger brother would go for strolls, find the neighborhood elders, and tell them all about how his ungrateful brother had wronged him.

His older brother also lived in the village, so the gossip quickly reached his ears.

The two brothers began to sling accusations and curses at each other.

The younger brother said, “If I’d known you were such a heartless bastard, I never would have given you my kidney!”

The older brother spat on him. “Pah! If I’d known I’d have to listen to you drone on about one kidney for the rest of my life, I never would have taken it!”

When the younger brother was old and bedridden, unable to move, his three children, who had long since grown to hate him, all refused to care for him.

Ultimately, the younger brother died in despair and agony, lying alone in his crude, earthen-walled house.

When the dream ended, a tear of despair slid from the corner of ClosestBrother’s eye.

Recalling everything that happened in the dream, he simply couldn’t comprehend how two blood brothers could end up as bitter enemies.

The scene was a perfect example of the old saying: a great kindness can be like a great enmity.

When a favor is so large it can never be repaid, and is brought up over and over again, that immense kindness turns into hatred.

After thinking for a long time, ClosestBrother sent a private message to Shen Zhiyao:

[ClosestBrother: Streamer, if I don’t donate my kidney to my brother, what will happen to him? Will he die?]

Shen Zhiyao’s reply was instantaneous: [He will die!]

In the end, with a heavy heart, he paid Shen Zhiyao the 1,000 yuan divination fee but didn’t mention what he had decided about donating the kidney.

Shen Zhiyao put down her phone, feeling utterly helpless.

She had planned to get something to eat after her stream ended today, but she finished so late that the street food stalls outside had already closed for the night.

In truth, with her current level of Cultivation, she could have easily survived by Fasting.

But in this peaceful and prosperous age, good food wasn’t just about staving off hunger; it was more about satisfying the palate.

Since coming to this world, Shen Zhiyao hadn’t developed many hobbies, but she did love to eat.

Fortunately, the white-robed female ghost knew how to cook, so she just ate some of the ghost’s cooking that evening to satisfy her craving.

Just as she was spacing out, she got a call from Jin Fan.

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