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After taking the meds, I somehow managed to
make it to where I was going.
It was a fancy–looking villa. I could hear a bunch of yelling coming from inside.
When I got closer, I saw a man and a woman in their forties or fifties berating a young woman.
“Why would you waste money for college, ya dummy! I’m made of money? No! The money goes to your bro. What do you want from me?”
The woman started shoving and hitting the girl,
telling her to wash clothes by hand.
I turned to leave.
The yelling stopped.
“Hey are you looking for someone?”
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“Hey, are you looking for someone?”
I stopped and tossed the jade pendant to him.
He caught it and immediately said, “Hey, that’s the jade pendant I gave to that trashy chick. What’s it doing in your hands? Maybe… are you my real daughter?”
The woman walked over. “It must be. You look just like you do on TV! We’re your real parents, and we don’t need you to take care of us in our old age. But, you have to give us a hundred grand. Your brother needs money for college!”
“Okay.”
I quickly wired them a deposit of ten grand.
They squinted at me. “You know… it kinda
sucks you were born a girl. We are the kinda
parents who favors boys over girls, and who
hates girls!”
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I laughed coldly. “You pretended to be my
parents and asked me for money. I already
called the cops. It’s fraud. Get ready to go to jail.”
They looked at each other and panicked,
quickly dropping to their knees.
“We’re just poor people getting paid to do this!
Don’t call the cops!”
“Don’t want me to call the cops? Then tell me the truth!”
Like I suspected, Holden paid them to fool me.
The goal was to make me believe Sierra, and
come crawling back to the
could control me.
family, where they
He’s been around since middle school and has
to step in like this? What a kid.
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His phone was ringing to me to prove it to me.
“I did it for you. You don’t have any connection with them. Even if you met them, what would happen? Would you abandon the family and me to go live with them?”
“I don’t have any proof that Sierra is lying, but think about it. Can a five–year–old lie? If we didn’t scar her so deeply, would she be so angry?”
“Come back, #1. Don’t focus on the things that don’t matter. I’ll pick you up at the airport. Besides, I need you at the engagement party tomorrow.”
My heart suddenly ached.
I remembered running behind me many years
ago, promising me that he would never lie to
me and never do things that would make me
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I said I didn’t believe him, but I believed him for
the rest of my life.
“Holden, we can’t go back.”
After saying that, I hung up the phone.
He called me like crazy.
About half an hour later, Sierra called me.
“Hua Zhuwei, are you crazy? You did this before my wedding. Are you jealous?”
“Okay, if you want to see those losers, go to South River Cemetery! Come back and die
when you see them!”
Mom’s phone also rang in a few minutes.
“What did you say to Holden? He said that if
you don’t come back, he will cancel the
engagement hanquet tomorrow You know that
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engagement banquet tomorrow. You know that Sierra has a mental illness. By doing this, we are also trying to treat her. She is not like you. Raised healthy, without illness or disaster, why can’t you be more tolerant?”
I couldn’t help but refute: “It’s not my fault, why should I accommodate her unreasonable troubles.”
“Because you are a vested interest, don’t you understand? Even if you didn’t make a mistake, you enjoyed everything that should belong to Sierra. If you are not wrong, you are also wrong.”
I never thought I would hear these words from my mother.
Everyone said that I was the pearl in the palm of my parents. For me, they don’t want a
second child, for fear of taking away my love.
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“Sorry, it’s my fault, you don’t have to worry about me snatching things from Sierra in the future.”
