Scheming (3)

"I dropped out of school early and had a lot of time to earn money at work. The first time I spent my salary of more than twenty years was to buy back the Qiao family's courtyard which was sold to support Qiao Zijin in her university education. Then, she took all the money away and bought a house for Qiao Zijin as her dowry. I, who had worked hard for more than twenty years, was left with nothing."