LOGINWhile we were out shopping for Christmas, my mom set her heart on a massage chair that cost over ten thousand dollars and insisted I buy it for her. When it was time to pay, she handed me a stack of supermarket reward vouchers, saying, "There are plenty of reward points; spend all you like." I checked and found the vouchers were only enough to redeem two packs of toilet paper, yet I quietly covered the cost and bought the massage chair anyway. Then, my younger sister, Cheryl Quest, made snide remarks in the family group chat. Cheryl: [Celeste Quest must have hoarded a ton of points. Every time Mom gave her a stack of reward vouchers, she barely redeemed anything.] Cheryl: [She definitely pocketed the rest; talk about milking everything she can.] My mom did not say a word to defend me, seemingly convinced that I had indeed pocketed her "massive stash of reward points". She would even go around showing off to relatives. "My daughter is so capable; I got all this by redeeming reward points and didn't spend a dime." Over the years, I had chipped in hundreds of thousands of dollars to help them buy fridges, TVs, washing machines, and all sorts of appliances. However, I ended up with a reputation of having pocketed a "massive stash of reward points". Thus, when my mom handed me another stack of expired reward vouchers, asking me to help redeem them for cash and distribute them as gifts during Christmas, I took the vouchers and proceeded to tuck them into festive envelopes.
View MoreThree months later, I moved to a new city, changed my job, and blocked all my family's contacts. I only kept one setting where 1,500 dollars would be automatically transferred every month.According to a sensible cousin from my hometown, who was the daughter of Lana, whose account was banned, Cheryl had to work at a factory to pay off her debts. Every day, she came home exhausted, only to care for our bedridden mother. They could not afford a caregiver, so the two spent their days fighting and cursing each other.My mother called Cheryl a thief, saying she stole her pension money.Cheryl called my mother senile for insisting on spoiling her. Now both of them were suffering.The home that had once been consumed by greed and vanity was now a living hell filled with endless chaos.I sat on the balcony of my new home, sipping on coffee. In my hand was a scratch-off lottery ticket that I had just received from the supermarket.[Congratulations! You have won a 5-dollar voucher.]I s
At the hospital, my mom lay in bed with an IV drip attached.The doctor said it was due to a sudden emotional outburst and a spike in blood pressure. There was no immediate danger to her life, but she needed to rest.Cheryl was taken away by the police to make a statement. Because she was an immediate family member and my mom refused to file a case against her and arrest her after waking up, they only gave her a verbal warning and let her go back.The atmosphere in the ward was tense.My mom looked ten years older as she lay there, staring blankly at the ceiling.Cheryl sat on the side, cutting apples, her hands still shaking. She did not dare look at our mom or at me. "Celeste... Could you lend me some money to cover the shortfall?"Cheryl suddenly spoke, her voice barely above a whisper. "Mom needs money for treatment. That financial platform may have vanished, but I'm still trying to recover a little..."I looked at her, filled with disbelief. Even now, all she could think ab
I thought this matter had come to an end for the time being.Unexpectedly, the real disaster occurred just two days later.I was at work when I suddenly received a call from the police station. "Are you Sophia Lawson's daughter? Your mother made a scene at the bank and smashed the counter glass. Please come over."When I arrived at the police station, my mom was throwing a full-blown tantrum in the mediation room.Cheryl stood off to the side, shrinking into herself and not daring to say a word."What happened?" I asked a police officer.The police officer looked helpless. "The old lady insists that the bank swallowed her money. She said her account had 300,000 dollars in pension funds, but now it's all gone. She insists that the bank stole it."'300,000 dollars?' I thought and was stunned for a moment.My mom was ridiculously stingy, even picking rotten vegetable leaves out of the trash to eat. Could she really have saved 300,000 dollars? Moreover, if she had that much money
As soon as the word "fraud" was uttered, the air in the private room seemed to be sucked dry.My mom stopped whimpering and sat up straight, showing no sign of having a heart attack at all."Are... Are you going to sue your own mother?" She stared at me in disbelief."You two forced me to do it." I pulled out a chair and sat down calmly.Just then, Lana suddenly shrieked. "Ah! My livestream! It's been banned!"It turned out that because I had shown too many real transaction records and the word "fraud", along with the frenzied reports from netizens, the platform judged that the live stream room had illegal inducement and fraud risks, so they suspended Lana's account.Before the account was suspended, the final wave of traffic had already propelled the livestream to the top of the local trending charts. The headline now read: [Toxic Family Exposed: Daughter Fights Back in Epic Showdown].Lana was on the verge of tears. She had only wanted to ride the drama to gain followers, bu


















Welcome to GoodNovel world of fiction. If you like this novel, or you are an idealist hoping to explore a perfect world, and also want to become an original novel author online to increase income, you can join our family to read or create various types of books, such as romance novel, epic reading, werewolf novel, fantasy novel, history novel and so on. If you are a reader, high quality novels can be selected here. If you are an author, you can obtain more inspiration from others to create more brilliant works, what's more, your works on our platform will catch more attention and win more admiration from readers.