Hospital No. 444.

Chapter 626 Soul Mate

Chris Owen never imagined that he and his wife would end up like this.

He was once a university professor, mainly studying geology. In the college, he was a teacher respected by students, and at home, he was also a respected head of the family.

But everything was broken when he discovered that his son was secretly smoking marijuana.

In the United States today, the proportion of people who smoke marijuana has even surpassed that of smokers. On college campuses, it is common for students to smoke marijuana. The key is that more than 20 states in the United States, including Washington, D.C., have already declared marijuana legal.

Smoking marijuana has become a completely legal thing for people.

In contrast, Chris, who firmly reprimanded his son after discovering he was smoking marijuana and threw all the marijuana in his room into the toilet, seemed like an outsider in the family.

He knew very well that once a person chooses to become an addict, he would continue to try more stimulating drugs. In the United States, it is not difficult for a minor to buy heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs. Even in schools, there are brokers who specialize in the wholesale delivery of drugs.

The wife accused him of making a big deal out of nothing, saying that smoking marijuana is no big deal now, and even most of her colleagues have tried it. In her opinion, it is not much different from smoking.

But as a university professor, Chris knew very well what this meant. And under the protection of his mother, his son refused to admit his mistake, so he was slapped in the face and left home.

A month after his son John ran away from home, he was arrested by the police.

He was accused of sexually assaulting a woman, and he and the woman were both drug addicts, and the two met in a bar. The woman accused John of using violence against her many times and sexually assaulting her.

The wife insisted that the other party was framing her son purely for money.

In the United States, the ME TOO feminist movement was in full swing, and the scandal involving a university professor's son suspected of sexual assault immediately became a hot topic. It was even difficult for Chris to continue teaching at the school.

He could only go to the police station and pay a bail to get his son out temporarily.

What is certain is that John did have sex with the woman, and there is no doubt about that, and he did not deny it. However, he claimed that he was just smoking marijuana with her and using drugs to "enhance sexual desire", and was definitely not sexually assaulting her. The other party said this deliberately in order to extort money.

However, the incident quickly became a big deal. John's photo was posted on Facebook, and with his identity as the son of a university professor, it immediately spread like wildfire on social media. Many people had already identified him as a sexual predator, and countless rumors were then added to the Owen family.

Chris was overwhelmed, and in the end, even he himself began to doubt whether his son had really sexually assaulted the woman.

The son eventually chose to commit suicide.

Chris now regrets it very much. If he had known earlier, he would not have paid for his bail. If he was detained, he would not be able to commit suicide even if he wanted to.

……

At this time, he closed the book in his hand.

"Isn't your book about the neurological effects of drugs?"

Chris was stunned and looked at the blonde woman opposite him.

She pointed to the cover of the book and said, "This is a German book."

"Yeah...yes. I don't know much German, so it's a little hard for me to read. There's no English translation of this book in the United States, only the German version."

Chris looked at the blonde in front of him and said, "Do you know German better?"

"It's OK. I'm a translator, and I'm good at Chinese and German. I learned Chinese first because I liked Bruce Lee. Later, I learned German."

"Well, can you help me look at these paragraphs?"

"Okay, let me take a look." Chris handed the book to the other party.

She took the book and looked at it, then said, "This is about investigating drug abuse in the United States. It says that a large number of painkillers are over-abused in the United States."

At this point, she looked at Chris and said, "Come to think of it, when I was learning Chinese, I learned that in Chinese, all the drugs of abuse that we call drugs are called narcotics."

The word "drug" was said in Chinese, so Chris didn't understand what it meant and could only repeat it mechanically: "Drug?"

"It's Poison. Look, this paragraph mentions that China's anti-drug measures are the most stringent in the world..."

After translating a few paragraphs for Chris, she said, "Well, are you interested in researching this? Most people don't read academic books like this to learn German, do they?"

"I guess so... This book discusses the effects of drugs on the nervous system. I don't quite understand many parts of it."

After all, Chris is just a professor of geology and has no special knowledge of medicine or pharmacology.

His son died, and his death made his innocence an eternal mystery.

The wife believed her son unconditionally and insisted that the other party was blackmailing her.

He wanted to know whether severe hallucinations occurred after taking large amounts of marijuana.

He read a lot of books on the subject and even bought some foreign books, but even after reading these books, he still couldn't get the answer and had no way of knowing whether his son was really guilty.

"But in China, do Drug and Poison mean the same thing?"

"Yes. China is the country with the strictest drug control in the world. This is because about a hundred years ago, they also had a high drug abuse rate like our country."

"Qing Dynasty? Opium War?" Although he was not a history major, Chris was quite familiar with this well-known modern history.

After a long silence, he said, "Did you mention Bruce Lee just now?"

"Well...my husband and I are both fans of Bruce Lee. Even though he has passed away for so many years."

Chris remembered that there was also a poster of Bruce Lee in his son's room. He never expected that his son would like the Chinese martial arts star of the last century.

"It is indeed very important for a couple to have common hobbies."

He once felt that he and his wife were soul mates.

But unexpectedly, they couldn't be together in the end.

The words "only death can separate us" in the wedding vows have become so funny.

“I’m going to Washington, D.C., to meet with him now.”

"That's great. Are you from Washington?"

"No, I'm from Atlanta and he lives in Philadelphia... Our situation is complicated..."

"Do you think... you and your husband are soul mates?"

Chris didn't know why, but suddenly he asked this question.