336: Chapter 336 Everyone else is here to make money, but he's here to build a career.

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Jiangbei Province.

At the First Detention Center, the heavy iron gates slowly creaked open. A middle-aged man with a face weathered by time walked out, his eyes squinting against the bright, dazzling sunlight outside.

Twenty years!

A full twenty years!

How many twenty-year periods are there in a person's life!

Li Hai took a moment to adjust before stepping forward. Not far away, a dilapidated Wuling van was parked, and a man was leaning against the vehicle smoking a cigarette.

Seeing Li Hai's figure, the man quickly stubbed out his cigarette and trotted over, taking a small bundle from Li Hai's hands.

The bundle was so light it barely weighed anything; clearly, there was almost nothing inside.

"Brother Hai, get in the car. I'll take you for a bath first, and then we'll have a good meal!"

"Brother, thank you."

Li Hai felt a touch of emotion. On the day of his release from prison, the only person who came to pick him up was He Fei, his former brother-in-arms.

His parents had long since turned into piles of yellow earth.

In this world, he was now truly alone.

After getting into the van and sitting in the passenger seat, he appeared to be resting with his eyes closed, but in reality, Li Hai's heart was filled with a towering hatred. The figures of that adulterous couple surfaced in his mind once again.

His twenty years in prison were all thanks to that pair.

Li Hai asked slowly, "He Fei, do you have any news about Liu Lili and Zhao Liang?"

He Fei sighed softly and advised, "Brother Hai, forget it. Everything is in the past. Start over from today and live a steady life."

It wasn't that he was unwilling to tell Li Hai, but rather that the opponent was simply too powerful.

The Zhao father and son now practically ruled Qinglin City. The elder Zhao had served a term as Executive Vice Mayor of Qinglin City and had retired from the position of Director of the People's Congress; his influence remained immense. Zhao Liang, meanwhile, was the boss of a large company.

Forget it?

Could he really just let it go?

Li Hai gave a wretched smile. Twenty years of imprisonment and the death of his parents were all because of that couple. How could he just let it go?

Li Hai originally had a bright and promising future.

In the year 2000, he graduated from the National Jiangcheng University, a prestigious top-tier university. He had entered the Baima County County Party Committee Office in Qinglin City with the city's highest written exam score and second-highest interview score. His future had been brilliant.

At that time, both of his parents were still alive and in good health.

What made others even more envious was that Li Hai had also found a beautiful girlfriend, Liu Lili.

However, no one knew that the reason Liu Lili took an interest in Li Hai, who came from a rural background, was not just because he was bright, handsome, and a total heartthrob, but because she was even more optimistic about his career prospects.

The two met and started dating in 2000. By 2002, they had been together for two full years and had reached the stage of discussing marriage. Then Zhao Liang appeared, and everything changed.

Zhao Liang was the son of County Magistrate Zhao, and Liu Lili soon secretly hooked up with Young Master Zhao.

After getting together with Young Master Zhao, she increasingly felt that Li Hai was useless. Not only had his career stagnated after two years of work, but he even had to scrape together money from everywhere just for a down payment on a marital home. She felt it was absolutely humiliating.

In the beginning, the two were still surreptitious, but later they became increasingly bold. Many of Li Hai's colleagues knew Liu Lili was cheating; only Li Hai was kept in the dark.