Chapter 1The Price of Entitlement

After my husband’s uncle passed away, my aunt-in-law was abandoned by both of her sons.

My mother-in-law, taking pity on her, suggested they live together for companionship.

This living arrangement lasted for eight years.

During those eight years, whenever I bought things, gave living expenses, or arranged medical checkups, I always paid double.

Later, my aunt-in-law won the lottery—$4.5 million after taxes—and immediately transferred the money to her two sons:

"This time, I'm giving $2.25 million to my older son and $2.25 million to my younger son. Now that I'm treating them equally, they can't accuse me of playing favorites anymore."

Then, she turned to me.

"You don't have a real job right now anyway, so go be a nanny for my older son. You'll get $3,000 a month, consider it my way of repaying you and your husband."

That very day, I packed her bags and sent them straight to her son's house.

Along with her luggage, I sent her cancer diagnosis report.

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It was my mother-in-law who called me. She sounded frantic, urging me to come home immediately.

I thought my aunt-in-law had a sudden medical emergency and rushed back from the company in a panic.

I bumped into my husband downstairs.

When we ran upstairs and opened the door, we saw my mother-in-law sitting on the sofa, fuming. My aunt-in-law didn't look too good either, sitting on the other side of the sofa, her head turned toward the window.

"Mom, Auntie, what's going on with you two?"

As soon as I spoke, my mother-in-law shot up, pointing at her sister-in-law.

"Send her to her son's house immediately!"

"Why should I?" My aunt-in-law whipped her head around, ready to fight.

My mother-in-law gritted her teeth, visibly unstable, and said:

"You have sons of your own, yet you insist on freeloading here. Do you think my son and daughter-in-law are suckers? Get out right now, before I kick you out!"

My husband and I were completely bewildered.

We quickly tried to calm my mother-in-law down and asked what had happened.

Panting heavily, she complained:

"She won the lottery! Four and a half million dollars, and she split it all between her two sons!"

"Those two kids she raised, neither of them is worth a damn. In eight years, they haven't even shown their faces!"

As we gasped in shock, my mother-in-law pointed at her again.

"Search your conscience and tell me, haven't my son and daughter-in-law treated you well enough these past eight years? Do you have any decency left?"

No sooner had my mother-in-law finished speaking than my aunt-in-law stood up, eyes wide.

She yelled back at her.

"Are you obsessed with money? That's the money I won from the lottery, what does it have to do with you! I'll give it to whoever I want, and I'm deliberately not giving it to your son, so what!"