Chapter 1

Reunited with my birth parents for three months, our family went broke.

Caroline and Robert took Isabella, my adopted sister, to work in another city. Before they left, they only gave me three hundred dollars and told me to wait at home.

Three years later, I was diagnosed with stomach cancer. I couldn't help but call Caroline and Robert.

Caroline cried, saying:

“Robert fell from a construction site earning your tuition, and he’s still in the ICU. We really don't have any money for you, Amelia!”

I rushed out of the hospital, taking a thirty-hour train ride to their city.

I was dying. All the money I'd saved these past years, I'd leave it for Robert's life-saving treatment.

But when I found them, they were living in a huge mansion, celebrating Isabella's eighteenth birthday.

I overheard Caroline saying:

“She asked me for money. I can’t believe we’ve been pretending to be poor for three years, and she’s still so greedy. She’ll definitely try to snatch Isabella’s inheritance later.”

Robert immediately called the landlord and told them to kick me out, saying I needed to suffer a bit more.

Caroline hesitated:

“But won't she be homeless then?”

But Caroline, this hypocritical family, I don't want it anymore.