The villain must spend all his money before he goes bankrupt [Transmigration Book]

Who is Zou Rong?

Ye Zhou didn't react at first, but it wasn't until the policeman reported the name that he finally matched the name with the character in the original book.

Strictly speaking, Zou Rong doesn't even count as a supporting role in the book, because his roles are pitifully small, worse than the original cannon fodder.

This name appeared so rarely in the book that when Ye Zhou first heard the name, he still hadn't realized it.

But even though this character only played very few times, if Ye Zhou's guess is correct, then what he did was really nerve-wracking.

Zou Rong is Cheng Ran's half-brother. As for why the two have different surnames, we have to start with Cheng Ran's father.

Cheng Ran's father, Cheng Wen, is a standard phoenix man. After graduating from university, in order to stay in city a, he married Zou Qing, a college classmate who has a registered permanent residence in city a and has a good family background. , called Zou Rong.

Zou Qing has a strong personality. When she first got married, Cheng Wen was very considerate and obedient to Zou Qing. She was a good husband, and the two complemented each other perfectly. But after a long time, Cheng Wen felt that he was oppressed by his wife and couldn't breathe.

In the fifth year after their marriage, Cheng Wen had an affair. The other party was Cheng Ran's mother. For some reason, instead of letting Cheng's mother kill the child, Cheng Wen rented out a room for her. The house is ready for her to give birth to a child with her own surname.

At that time, Cheng's mother didn't know that Cheng Wen already had a family, and she was still immersed in Cheng Wen's sweet words, staying in the rented house to raise her baby with peace of mind.

But this kind of life didn't last long. When Cheng's mother was more than eight months pregnant, the incident broke out and Cheng Wen's cheating was finally discovered by his wife, Zou Qing.

Zou Qing found Cheng's mother, and the two had a fierce dispute, which caused Cheng's mother, who was pregnant at the time, to meet Hong directly and was rushed to the hospital.

After some treatment, although the child was born prematurely and survived, Cheng's mother failed to survive due to heavy bleeding.

Cheng's mother is dead, but the child is still alive. Even if she hates Cheng Wen and Cheng's mother in her heart, Zou Qing is not cruel enough to do anything to a newborn child.

Zou Qing originally wanted to divorce, but seeing her young son crying and unwilling to leave his father, the marriage did not come true after all.

She will continue to live without a divorce, but Cheng Wen must take this child away, and she must not let him appear in front of her eyes.

In desperation, Cheng Wen had no choice but to send the newborn Cheng Ran to his hometown in the countryside, where he paid for his monthly living expenses and let his mother take care of him.

Cheng Ran grew up with his grandma's parents since he was a child. Cheng Ran still had a short happy time when he was a child, but the good times didn't last long. When Cheng Ran was ten years old, his grandma passed away due to illness.

After going around for a while, Cheng Ran returned to Cheng Wen's place, and Cheng Wen finally took Cheng Ran back home after some hard talking.

At first, Cheng Ran still had expectations for this father, but Cheng Wen actually didn't have much affection for this child who never grew up by his side.

In the beginning, I got along with Cheng's mother because I enjoyed the excitement of having an affair, and because I wanted to have a son with my own surname.

When he first picked up Cheng Ran, he was very kind to his son with the same surname as himself, but soon Cheng Wen found that whenever he was nice to Cheng Ran, Zou Qing would lose his temper. His son Zou Rong was also furious.

Over time, Cheng Wen's father-son affection for Cheng Ran faded away.

Zou Rong inherited his mother's personality. He was a bully since he was a child, and he was spoiled by his parents. He suddenly had a younger brother. This younger brother always made his mother angry and took away his father's favor. The consequences can be imagined.

Cheng Ran's life in Zou's family was very difficult. He was beaten by Zou Rong almost every day. The children's attacks were not serious. Cheng Ran's skin was always bruised and purple, and he never recovered.

The stepbrother's exclusion, the stepmother's indifference, and the biological father's ignorance all cast a deep shadow on Cheng Ran's gloomy childhood.

Fortunately, his stepbrother was a scumbag. He didn't get into high school after finishing junior high school, and his grades weren't even enough for the worst school in high school. Zou Qing had no choice but to send him to a technical school in this city.

During the period when Zou Rong was not at home, Cheng Ran had a rare respite, but every winter and summer vacation was a holiday for other children, but it became a torment for Cheng Ran.

Living in such an environment, Cheng Ran has learned to hide his thoughts, trying to find a little living space by showing weakness and pretending to be pitiful.

I have to say that doing this really worked. Whenever Cheng Ran was bullied to the point of crying, that lunatic Zou Rong would miraculously stop, with a terrifying storm brewing in his eyes.

After going back and forth, Cheng Ran tasted the sweetness and became more and more handy. Although life was difficult, it was much better than before.

This kind of life continued until Cheng Ran graduated from high school, and finally ushered in a turning point.

With his own hard work, he was admitted to a key university in the city. His father and stepmother were unwilling to pay his tuition fees, so Cheng Ran worked part-time to earn money. He did several part-time jobs during the summer vacation, and finally managed to make up enough tuition fees before school started.

Later, when he was part-time job, Cheng Ran met Jiang Yu, and after confirming his relationship with Jiang Yu, his life finally started to get better.

After meeting Jiang Yu, Cheng Ran completely cut off all contact with the family that brought him countless pains, and started his new life.

If the plot only ends here, I'm afraid Ye Zhou might not remember Zou Rong as a passer-by, but...

After hearing this name, Ye Zhou seemed to have a voice in his heart telling him that this Zou Rong was likely to be the contact person between the protagonist Gong Shou and the original body in the later stage, on behalf of the protagonist Gong Shou to pass on the message for the original body.

And it was this person who first appeared by Yuanshen's side, who kept bewitching him to take revenge on Jiang Tingyuan and let Yuanshen drive his car into Jiang Tingyuan.

Including the car that Yuan Bo drove to hit Jiang Ting Yuan at the end, it was all prepared by this middleman himself, and the protagonist Gong Shou was completely picked up during the whole process.

In fact, the book does not describe much about Cheng Ran's half-brother. These contents are all mentioned when Cheng Ran mentioned his original family after Cheng Ran and Jiang Yu were together.

In addition, Zou Rong is never mentioned in the rest of the plot. Even when the protagonist Gong Shou is about to instigate the original body to kill Jiang Tingyuan in the later stage of the plot, Zou Rong's identity is only used as a code name and omitted. .

With an inexplicable intuition, the moment Ye Zhou heard the name, he superimposed it with the image of the person in the book who was connected with the original body.

He wasn't quite sure whether his guess was right or wrong, so he asked Mr. Jiang to help him check this person out.

If it's really him, it means... maybe the relationship between the protagonist Shou and his elder brother is not as bad as it is written in the book.

Zou Rong was even willing to take such a big risk to instigate Yuan Chen to kill for the sake of the protagonist. The relationship between the two is not so simple no matter how you think about it.