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!
Chapter 6
Jason earned hundreds of thousands of dollars for his first live broadcast.
He was so happy that he dragged my mother to live broadcast every day to gain sympathy.
Many neighbors witnessed what happened that day, so they had been upset with me since then.
Some of extreme people believed what Jason said in his live broadcast room and came to my doorstep every day to shout at me, making it impossible for me to sleep well at night.
What they thought was righteous behavior was actually extremely foolish.
Jason was so complacent that he called me and said, "Rita, I am too clever for you. Just give in and take mom back home, or I will make you ashamed to face others in the future."
"Really? I'm curious that how will you make me ashamed to face others?"
He laughed arrogantly, "You have seen my live broadcast, right? Those idiots believed everything I said. If you don't do as I say, I will publish your information and subject you to cyberbullying."
I sneered.
He dared to distort the truth online, because he was sure that I had no evidence to prove that he was lying.
But I really had no evidence?
He and my mother never knew how I had got so much money to take care of her after I had quit my job in my previous life.
I had offered her the best medicine, the best hospital, and even the best daily diet.
It all had depended on my side job!
I was a video blogger. At first I didn't take it seriously, but later I accumulated a group of fans, and my monthly advertising income alone was over tens of thousands dollars.
Otherwise, would I be able to support both of us without working for five years?
My early fans all knew my background and they gave me the nickname "Inspirational Rita".
It was just that I never showed my face, so they didn't know that I was the heroine of the "Abandonment event" that had been making headlines recently.
Seeing that Jason was slandering me on live broadcast again, I directly posted a video on my account.
First of all, I admitted that I was the heroine of the "Abandonment event", then I explained the whole story again and showed the evidence of my work-study program over the years.
My fans commented as soon as possible:
[I feel sorry for you, Rita. I know your family treats you badly, but I didn't know it was so bad.]
[It is really miserable to have such a family.]
[Give you a hug, Rita. We all believe in you.]
Soon netizens also flocked in.
[Fuck, the truth is surprising.]
[This family is so disgusting. If I were the daughter, I would do something even worse than her. The mother deserves it.]
[Bah! How shameless! She abandoned her when she was only one year old. Now that she is paralyzed, she still dares to ask her to take care of her. How dare she be so shameless.]
[The obligation and responsibility to support both children and the elderly are equal. If she has never taken care of her daughter, why should she ask her to take care of her?]
At that time, a special voice appeared in the comments.
[I can prove that everything she said was true. She was my high school classmate and our classmates all knew about her family affairs.]
Later, more and more classmates came forward to testify for me.
I was so moved that I sent private messages to each of them to express my gratitude.
Soon, public opinion in Jason's live broadcast room changed.
He was so confused by the scolding that he quickly turned off the live broadcast!
That was not the end yet.