Lufei slowly took out his phone, looking at the contacts list. His hands were trembling as he pressed the long-lost number.

In his childhood, Lu Fei's family was quite affluent. They had no worries about food and drink. His parents owned a successful restaurant in the city, earning tens of thousands of yuan per year. But due to Lu Fei's gambling addiction, he not only sold their house but also accumulated a debt of over two hundred thousand yuan. This forced his parents to sell the restaurant and move back to their hometown.

Just a few years later, his father passed away due to illness, as they couldn't afford proper treatment. His mother also passed away, weighed down by sorrow.

The phone rang for a while, and just as Lu Fei thought nobody would answer, someone finally picked up.

"Who is it?" came the tired voice of Lu Guofeng from the other end of the line.

Lu Guofeng's voice was filled with exhaustion, causing Lu Fei's tears to flow uncontrollably.

"Dad, it's me," Lu Fei replied, trying to hold back his tears.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while.

"Why are you calling back? Did you accumulate more gambling debts? I have no money left. Are you only satisfied when you've forced me and your mother to death?" Lu Guofeng angrily retorted.

Rebuked by his father, Lu Fei didn't know how to respond. The guilt from his past and the nostalgia he felt now overwhelmed him, and tears gushed out.

"Is it Xiaofei?" Another voice came from the phone, his mother Li Yuqin spoke.

Li Yuqin's voice was also filled with fatigue, but from just one sentence, Lu Fei could tell how much she still cared, no matter how disappointing he was.

"Yes, Mom, it's me!" Lu Fei spoke into the phone. "I want to come back and see you."

"Xiaofei wants to come back? Pass the phone to me, let me talk to our son."

Li Yuqin told Lu Guofeng on the other end of the line, "Go buy two pounds of meat at the village market, prepare some dishes. When our son comes back, make him braised pork, it's his favorite!"

"He only comes back when something's wrong, and you want to make braised pork for him? You might as well throw it into the dung pit," Lu Guofeng complained. After a while, he reminded Li Yuqin, "Tell him to wear warm clothes. It's cold. When he arrives near town, have him call home, and I'll ride the tricycle to pick him up."

After a few more words between Li Yuqin, Lu Fei, and Lu Guofeng, the call ended.

After the call, Lu Fei's phone received a notification: the bill was overdue.

And now, he didn't even have enough money for bus fare.

It was quite an achievement to reach such a low point in life. Lu Fei truly regarded himself as worse than a dog, unable to produce even a single cent.

He remembered that during this period when he didn't even have money for meals, he and several others who used to hang out together resorted to robbing. After a few months, they were caught and he ended up serving two years in prison. After that, he tried to be honest, but his life never seemed to improve.

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Reborn, perhaps it was a chance given by heaven to make amends for his past mistakes.

After careful consideration, Lu Fei decided to return in a couple of days. At the very least, he needed to save up enough money for transportation. At the same time, he had to win back Tong Xiaojun during this period. He wanted to take up the responsibility of a husband and make up for all that he owed her. If he couldn't provide a good life for Tong Xiaojun and their unborn child, he might as well end his life.

"Making money may have been difficult for the previous version of Lu Fei, but for the Lu Fei with memories from the next twenty years, money should not be a problem.

Unfortunately, he had to take it step by step and couldn't achieve overnight success, like buying a lottery ticket, for example.

In the past twenty years, he had certainly thought about buying a lottery ticket and striking it rich. However, he couldn't remember any of the lottery numbers, so it was impossible for him to achieve instant success.

In the afternoon, Lu Fei tore down the posters in his home and cleaned both the inside and outside of his thirty-square-meter rented room. Although the room was small and simple, cleaning it made him feel better.

After cleaning, Lu Fei felt hungry and cooked himself a bowl of porridge. There was only half a bowl of rice left in the old rice jar, and his mind was a mess because he kept thinking about how to make money. If he didn't find a way to make money soon, he would end up starving on the streets.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Just as Lu Fei was contemplating, someone knocked on the door.

"Who is it?"

"It's me, Brother Fei, Hei Gou!" A young voice came from outside the door.

This Hei Gou was called Li Wen Tao. He got his nickname because he had a dark complexion. At that time, all the foolish young people hanging around outside had nicknames. Lu Fei was called "Fei Ji" (Airplane). They all learned from the Young and Dangerous movies, which really misled a lot of young people back then.

Lu Fei opened the door to find a young man with a crew cut, smoking a cigarette and wearing baggy pants. He also had an earring on his ear. If he dressed like this twenty years later and walked on the streets at night, he would be caught by the police station.

"Fei Ge, what's going on? Why haven't you been hanging out with us for the past few days?" Li Wen Tao walked into the room and said.

"Something came up at home," Lu Fei said, looking at him. His mind was racing, thinking if there was anything he could dig out from Li Tao.

"Let's go, go online? We're waiting for you to join our team!" Li Wen Tao patted Lu Fei's shoulder.

In this era, young people's leisure activities were related to games. Game arcades and internet cafes were popular, and gradually, internet cafes replaced the popularity of game arcades because online games were more enjoyable than single-player games in arcades.

When Lu Fei heard Li Wen Tao mention going online, his eyes lit up. Playing games online used to be a common thing, and he was very familiar with the boss of Xing Xing Internet Cafe.

At that time, internet cafes in Fu Cheng were not as crowded as they would be later. There were only about ten of them, if Lu Fei remembered correctly. But in the next two years, they would rise at a rate of ten to twenty cafes per year. Every store owner made a lot of money.

Wasn't this an opportunity for him to make money?

"Let's go, let's go! It'll be lively," Lu Fei said, putting his arm around Li Wen Tao and leaving.

Inside the internet cafe, on a Sunday, it was bustling with people. When Lu Fei and Li Wen Tao arrived, there were no available computers. The small mustache boss felt a headache when he saw Lu Fei and Li Wen Tao because they had caused trouble here before, and fights were common.

In the past, when Lu Fei didn't find a computer available, he would cause trouble. He would let someone else get off the computer and take it for himself, and if someone disagreed, he would give them a slap. So anyone who saw them was afraid of them. They were rude and unreasonable.

"Hey, you two, go down, go down," Li Wen Tao grabbed two teenagers who looked like high school students as they were about to leave. The two students looked at them and shrunk their necks, obviously a bit scared.

Lu Fei hurriedly said, "What are you doing? Like a thief. Those kids were playing nicely."

"Hmm?" Li Wen Tao was taken aback upon hearing this. He felt a bit confused. It was Sunday today, and if they didn't grab those kids' computers, how would they spend the day here?

Moreover, when Lu Fei used to snatch computers before, he was much more aggressive. What happened today? Did he change?

The small mustache boss was also stunned. It was the first time he had seen Lu Fei being so polite. The two students were relieved as well.

"Well, then..." Li Wen Tao said strangely.

"Just wait, behave!" Lu Fei said quickly.