Chapter 247: Calamity Fate

In short, all kinds of reasons were thrown at him one after another. In the end, it was only because the village officials stepped in that he was spared from having to leave home and find work at such a young age and was able to continue attending school. Even so, naturally, none of the family’s property remained for him until he grew up.

Then his grandmother used everything she had gotten to subsidize her youngest son. Since the other children had failed to gain any benefits and had even ended up with a bad reputation, they stopped caring about him. His grandmother went to live with her youngest son in her old age. However, because she had handed over her savings to him in advance and no longer had any benefits to offer, her youngest son did not take proper care of her. As a result, the final years of his grandmother’s life were far from peaceful.

In Joo Joowon’s eyes, rather than saying that he himself was a disaster, it would be more accurate to say that all of these things were caused by people.

Even the car accident had happened because his younger brother had always been arrogant, believing that people outside would indulge him as well. He had clearly seen a car while crossing the road, yet still ran straight into its path. His parents had not stopped him either and had followed after him. If Joo Joowon had to say who was truly unlucky, it was the driver.

In the end, even the compensation money that the other party paid did not fall into his hands.

Of course, Joo Joowon did not think that the Age of Apocalypse was simply making things up either. However, he really did not feel that he possessed that much destructive power.

A rural school disappearing was hardly unusual, and small companies going bankrupt was also something that happened all the time.

If it really had anything to do with him, then at most, he had merely happened to encounter those events at the right time.

If there had not already been problems with them in the first place, no matter what happened, they would not have been unlucky enough to collapse simply because of him.

At least among his classmates who had been with him for several years, not a single one had failed the college entrance examination because of various accidents or unexpected incidents.

Their results in the examination had always been roughly the same as their usual grades.

Even the homeroom teacher who had always helped him had never encountered any problems. From this, it could be seen that this fate was not nearly as exaggerated as the legends among ordinary people made it out to be.

Therefore, after being surprised for a moment, Joo Joowon stopped caring about it.

After all, being a Celestial Fiend and Forsaken Star was indeed an extremely ominous fate, but it did not actually affect the person who possessed it. Usually, it was only the people around them who would suffer misfortune.

Joo Joowon looked back over his own experiences and did not feel that he had never suffered any misfortune. Rather, he had never managed to rise in life. His life had always been one of falling, falling, and falling again.

As for the time when he first encountered Byeol, that really had been the lowest point of his life. Perhaps because he had felt that they were both suffering from the same fate at the time, he had somehow, almost as if possessed by some strange impulse, brought Byeol home.

After that came nearly an entire year of continuous bad luck.

At that time, Joo Joowon had never thought of blaming Byeol. He had never believed in such things. No matter how unlucky his circumstances were, he had still worked three jobs a day and desperately struggled to earn more than twenty thousand yuan in a month, finally managing to save Byeol’s life.

To be honest, during that period, what Byeol ate was not food at all. It was money being burned.

Joo Joowon felt that he could at least be considered an inspiring example. From a young age, he had possessed a strong sense of self-awareness and had never once regarded his parents’ curses as his own problem.

All these years, he had hacked his own way through the thorns, step by step, until he finally reached a broad road.

If a mere fate could determine his destiny, then that would be far too arbitrary.

He had never avoided contact with people or remained without friends because he thought himself to be an ominous person. Rather, he had been the one who had deliberately isolated himself from others.

Joo Joowon had always been like this since childhood. From the moment he became conscious of himself, he had simply liked playing alone and had never felt lonely at all.

Of course, in the eyes of most people, this kind of personality was definitely unpleasant and problematic. From childhood until adulthood, he had often been called withdrawn and gloomy. But that did not affect anything. People who did not like him would not like him no matter how much he changed, while those who looked at him without prejudice would never have prejudice against him in the first place.

For example, his homeroom teacher from high school, hus classmates at the time, and even those blood relatives who were more dangerous than wolves, tigers, leopards, and bears.

Supporting his chin, Joo Joowon thought about it for a moment. Since he felt that none of these things had really affected him, he quickly stopped caring about it.

However... no wonder his life in the apocalypse had been so exciting. Ordinary people really did not have luck like his...

After glancing at Byeol’s panel, Joo Joowon realized that he had met Byeol several years ago.

At that time, the Age of Apocalypse had not yet descended, but according to the game’s description, the fate had already begun to take effect back then. What did this mean?