Chapter 3
My mother had never seen me like that.
I was used to trying to please her in the hope of getting a little attention and love from her.
"Rita, I have let you down before. I know I was wrong. I really need you now.
"Of course, I won't let you take care of me for nothing. When I die, all my legacy will belong to you. Will you forgive me?"
In her expectant eyes, I shook my head resolutely, "No! Who the hell cares about your property? You have the nerve to show them off. Aren't you ashamed?"
After being brushed aside by me several times, my mother's face turned cold, "How can you talk like that? I am your mother, and it is your responsibility to take care of me."
She wanted to put pressure on me by using her identity as my mother.
She was so shameless!
"Now that you know you are my mother, where were you when I needed you?"
From childhood to adulthood, she only had Jason in her heart.
Even though Jason had never come to see her in those five years, she had always talked about him.
At that time, Jason, who had been listening outside the door, rushed in.
"That's enough, Rita! Do you still have a conscience? Mom is already like this. Why don't you just agree to her? Do you want to make her mad to death?"
I sneered, "If you are filial, you can take care of her!"
He choked.
"Don't change the subject. I'm different from you. I have a child to raise. You, as a daughter, are more caring than me as a son. And you're not married, so you're the most suitable person to take care of her."
"That's right! You are my daughter. You must take care of me, otherwise... I will sue you in court."
I was disgusted by their shamelessness.
Unable to pressure me morally, they tried to force me with the law.
But I wasn't scared.
"Okay, go ahead and sue me. You abandoned me when I was young. Now you are old and in poor health, so you want me to take care of you. I want to see how the law will judge you."
At worst, I could pay her alimony according to the legal standards.
She wanted me to be the sucker like I was in my previous life. No way!
But I didn't expect them to be so shameless!
Chapter 4
Jason was determined to throw the burden on me.
Without even telling me in advance, he dropped my mother off downstairs of my house early in the morning.
Although it was April, the morning wind was very cold. My mother was sitting in a wheelchair, crying and snoting.
The neighbors were very kind. Feeling sorry for her, they covered her with a quilt and gave her hot water.
My mother cried and told them how unfilial I was.
They all had children, so when they heard that, they were so angry that they came to knock on my door in groups, with disapproval written on their faces.
Some old women were so angry that their eyebrows were squinted and their eyes were raised.
"Young lady, how can you be so heartless? No matter how many faults your mother has, you can't just leave her downstairs and ignore her. How cold it is. Why don't you bring her up here quickly?"
"That's it. You will get old one day too. Do you want your children to treat you like this in the future?"
At first, I had no idea what was going on.
It wasn't until I looked down the window that I understood.
It was an attempt to use public opinion to force me to compromise.
They really underestimated me.
I had died once, so how could I care about other people's opinions?
But I didn't expect that someone would post the video of that day online.
In the video, my mother's lips turned purple from the cold and her eyes were filled with tears, looking so pitiful.
If I wasn't the person involved, I would have been fooled by her aggrieved look.
Public opinion was overwhelmingly criticizing me.
[Her daughter is too vicious and actually did such a thing. So wicked.]
[Such a wicked girl. She even abandoned her own mother.]
[This is murder in disguise! Her mom can sue her in court.]
[Poor old woman, you can come to my house to eat meals.]
[Who has the old woman's contact information? I want to send her some nourishment.]
In the comment section, apart from scolding me, there were also kind-hearted people asking how to donate to her.
It was far beyond Jason's expectations.
Chapter 5
Jason originally just wanted to use outsiders to force me to take care of my mother as they wished, but he didn't expect to have unexpected gains.
He didn't want to miss the opportunity.
Soon he went live, "Hello everyone, I am the son of the old woman in the video. I didn't know my sister would do such a cruel thing.
"We are a single-parent family. My mom worked hard to raise us. Now that my sister has grown up, she despises her because she is paralyzed and useless. She even threw her out and left her alone."
Jason won everyone's sympathy with just a few words.
The barrage of comments was all scolding me for being snobbish and saying that I should never have been born in the first place.
The live audience kept sending him gifts.
Of course, there were some audiences who noticed a problem.
After a while, a different opinion appeared, questioning why he, as a son, didn't take care of his mother.
Jason's face froze, and he explained, "After all, I am a man, so it is not convenient for me to take care of my mother. She really missed her daughter and wanted to live with her for a while. But my sister completely ignored her and drove her out. I feel ashamed to have such a sister.
"I can assure you here that I will never let my mother live on the streets."
As soon as he finished speaking, netizens were so moved that they sent him gifts again and praised him as a filial son.
The corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.
A filial son?
He was just a rebellious son!
After my mom got my dad's settlement money, she spent most of it on Jason.
Unexpectedly, he didn't study hard and was lazy, so he didn't even get into university and could barely go to a technical school.
After graduating from the technical school, he was too pretentious to work for others, so he invested all my mother's money in business.
Even two million dollars was not enough for him to spend.
My mother didn't have much cash on hand now. The only valuable things were the 2,153-square-foot house and a small bungalow in her hometown.
If my mother hadn't refused to agree, Jason would have sold the two houses to raise money for business.
After he got married, his family expenses were all supported by my mother and his wife, and he spent every day doing nothing.
But ever since my mother fell, not only could she not earn money, she had also been bedridden and needed someone to take care of her. The cost of her treatment and medication was also a considerable expense.
Jason and his wife naturally didn't want to have another burden in the family, so they set their sights on me.
In my previous life, I took care of her for the sake of mother-daughter relationship, but ended up like that.
Whoever she was now, I wouldn't care anymore!
But Jason didn't intend to let me off!