On the first day of the Lunar New Year, my childhood friend Jianjun, who'd known me since we were both toddlers in split-crotch pants, pinned me at a gambling table. I lost the entire 300,000 yuan I'd saved for my son's tuition. I had just pressed my thumbprint onto an IOU when my phone rang. It was my wife, Xiulan: “If you dare come home, I'll chop you to death with a knife.”
I rushed out of the casino into the cold rain, and a truck came straight at me.
