Chen Jue and Lin Xiao are both primary school teachers. I have been married for fifteen years, my daughter is ten, and my life is peaceful and stable.
Three years ago, Lin Xiao was diagnosed with malignant tumor. Surgery, chemotherapy, and targeted drugs cost 670,000. The medical insurance reimbursed 300,000 yuan, and the rest was all borrowed. Chen Jue maxed out four credit cards and took out three online loans. He calculated that the 370,000 yuan could be repaid in six years.
What he didn't know was that the borrowed money was growing new money.
He used loans to support loans and compounded interest. By the time he found out, the hole was already 370,000 yuan deep.
He kept it secret for three years. Hiding it from Lin Xiao, hiding it from everyone. I get up in the middle of the night to settle accounts, pay off my credit cards every month, and feel terrified every time I receive a collection call. He thought he could handle it.
Until Lin Xiao flipped through his cell phone.
She stared at the numbers on the screen and didn't speak for a long time. Then he looked up at him, as if looking at a stranger.
"Three hundred and seventy thousand? You kept this from me for three years?"
What broke his heart even more was that she was hiding it from him too. In order to save money, she changed the targeted drug to a domestic one and did not go for reexamination, thus saving everything. She was afraid of dragging down the family, but she didn't know that the family had been dragged into the abyss long ago.
That night, they faced the hole seriously for the first time. We quarreled and cried, but finally she leaned on his shoulder and said: "Three hundred and seventy thousand, let's pay it back together."
This is a story about concealment and confession, drag and sharing. Two ordinary teachers, a serious illness, and a debt of 370,000 yuan. They don't know how long it will take, but they know that as long as two people carry it together, there will be tomorrow.
