HCB Chapter 398 Diving
Chapter 398 Diving
This is outrageous! Someone actually jumped into the water to commit suicide!
The girl was standing three meters above the sea level when she jumped.
Everyone rushed over like arrows released from a bow, and effortlessly rescued the girl.
"Little sister, are you alright?" Everyone asked with concern.
The girl's blank gaze swept over Lily and the others, then she looked down at her clothes, a hint of confusion in her eyes. Strange, she thought, "I jumped down just now, why am I still in the same spot?" But overwhelmed with grief, she didn't think much of it, and stammered, "Why did you save me? Why didn't you let me die?"
"Little sister, what are you saying? Why are you so upset?" Tang Qianqian held the girl's hand, looking distressed. What a good girl she was. If she hadn't happened to see this, she probably would be gone.
“That’s right, you’re so young, you have a long life ahead of you!” Fangfang added.
“It’s lucky we ran into you. If you had really jumped, your life would have been over. Little sister, can you tell us what happened?” Li Wei asked.
The girl appeared dazed, tears streaming down her face, and she began to sob softly.
"Little sister, don't cry! Tell us what's wrong, and we'll see if we can help you," Lily asked with concern.
It's obvious to everyone that what could drive this young girl to suicide must be something serious. She's in the prime of her life and clearly a student. Since she's a student, she's most likely heartbroken.
Among them, only Tang Qianqian, Murong Fangfang, Li Wei, Zhang Xiuli, and Mao Mao, who had gone to university, could figure it out. Baihe and the others were clueless, but they could guess the general idea.
"Waaah... You can't help me, just let me die! I don't want to live anymore." The girl cried out, breaking free from Tang Qianqian and Fangfang's hands, trying to continue her "feat of jumping into the sea".
"Are you stupid?!" Li Wei blocked the girl's path and roared, "It's easy for you to jump, but have you thought about your parents who gave you life and raised you? How can you face them? Have you thought about their feelings? It's just a breakup, what's the big deal? You can always start over. Do you think you're the only one who's ever been heartbroken? If everyone who's heartbroken acted like you, how would all the heartbroken people in the world live? Would they all jump off buildings and commit suicide?"
Li Wei immediately launched into a tirade against the girl.
The girl, with tears in her eyes, glanced at Li Wei and said softly, "I'm not heartbroken."
"Huh?" Li Wei was stunned, feeling his face burning. So that wasn't what happened? He quickly said, "Little sister, since you're not heartbroken, you shouldn't try to kill yourself."
The girl seemed to have calmed down a bit. She wiped away her tears and said, "You don't understand. I... I'm finished. Completely finished."
As she spoke, the girl squatted down on the ground, hugged her knees, and continued to sob.
"Little sister, you were perfectly fine, how could this happen! Can you tell us what happened? Maybe we can help!" Lily asked.
The girl wiped away her tears and said, "You can't help me."
“How will we know we can’t help you if you don’t tell us?” Tang Qianqian said.
The girl sobbed for a while, seemed to hesitate, and then mustered up her courage and said, "I...I was deceived."
"We've been scammed?" Everyone was completely baffled.
Deceiving for love? Deceiving for sex?
"Little sister, who tricked you?" Lily asked curiously.
"I...I was scammed by a film company." The girl became more and more upset as she spoke.
"A film and television company? Little sister, can you tell me about it?" Tang Qianqian asked.
The girl wiped away her tears and said softly, "I'm a third-year student in the Performing Arts Department at SZ University. A while ago, a film and television company came to our school to recruit actors. I passed the interview and even signed a contract with the company. But after signing the contract, the person in charge of the company asked me to pay a deposit of 300,000 yuan before I could receive training. They said that all contracted actors have to pay this deposit."
"Did you pay it?" Li Wei asked.
"Yes, I paid it. Since my parents are from the countryside, they couldn't come up with that much money all at once, so they went around asking relatives and friends and finally managed to borrow 300,000 yuan to pay as a deposit. But who knew that after I paid the deposit, I couldn't get through to the film company by phone? I checked online, and there's no such company at all." As she spoke, the girl started sobbing again.
"Three hundred thousand yuan, all of which was borrowed by my parents, and now it's all gone."
"Sigh!" Zhang Xiuli sighed softly and said, "I've had similar experiences, but I'm much smarter than you. When I signed a contract with a company, I was careful. As soon as I reviewed the contract, I checked it online and asked a friend to help me find out. It turned out that it was also a shell company."
“There are so many fake companies like this. They use recruitment as a pretext to prey on the eagerness of college graduates to find jobs. Often, careless graduates will fall into their trap, especially those from rural areas who are more easily deceived,” Tang Qianqian said helplessly.
“This kind of thing is commonplace now, but you’re lucky you only got 300,000 yuan. There are plenty of people who have been scammed out of 400,000 or 500,000 yuan, or even more than a million yuan,” Li Wei said.
“Three hundred thousand yuan, all of which was borrowed by my parents. Now that I’ve been scammed, I don’t even dare to tell my parents about it.”
"So you couldn't think straight and came here to commit suicide, right?" Li Wei asked.
"What else can I do? Three hundred thousand, how am I supposed to pay them back? I might as well just die and end it all." The girl said calmly, though tears still streamed down her face.
“Death would be the end of everything, but have you thought about it? If you really die like this, your parents will not only have to bear this huge debt, but also the pain of losing their daughter. How are they supposed to live?” Tang Qianqian said.
"I..." The girl was speechless.
"Little sister, what's your name?" Fangfang asked.
“I…I’m called Jiang Xinyun,” the girl answered softly.
Tang Qianqian nodded and said, "Xinyun, you really don't need to do this. You're still young and have a bright future ahead of you. Yes, 300,000 is indeed a terrifying number for you right now, but have you thought about it? If you really jump off like this, then your outlook on life and values will be worthless. Don't you even understand this?"