Thirdly, she tried to solicit money from me.

On Olivia’s third birthday, I went back home to receive the presents my mother had prepared for Olivia.

When Wendy saw me, she immediately burst into tears.

“Dad, you must help Liam. If you don’t help him, my son and I won’t survive.”

I knew she had said that on purpose for me to overhear. I feigned ignorance.

“Liam put his trust in the wrong person, that’s why he lost all his money. I’m not asking for a lot. I just need five hundred thousand dollars.”

Wendy sobbed pitifully.

She was not feeling the pinch because it was not her money.

My father was a lawyer, and my mother was a restaurant owner. Since young, they had sent her to private schools.

They even sent her to study overseas because of her bad grades.

My parents did not fork up a single cent for my marriage because I married rich.

My mother said she had stashed away my wedding funds as emergency savings for me. Instead, she had given the money to Wendy.

Not only that, they even gave Wendy two houses as a wedding gift.

By the third year of her marriage, she went back home crying over money.

She still had a long way to go.

“Ruby, why are you pretending like you’re not hearing this? Aren’t you supposed to help your brother-in-law?

“Do you really want Charlie and me to be homeless? Why are you so cruel?

“Mom, Dad, look! This is what we get for taking her back to us.”

Wendy could not stand that I was ignoring her. Hence, she exploded before she could finish her crying act.

I had the means to help her, but I really did not want to.

In the past, when I married Liam, he had revealed his true colors in less than a week because my parents never forked up money for our wedding.

He had seemed like a good, caring person on the surface. However, he was a rotten human being with bad friends and bad habits like frequenting brothels, casinos and more.

He was basically a black hole. No amount of money could fill that.

In the end, he could no longer remain in this city. He brought me back to his hometown in the countryside. There, I learned that he had some previous marriages.

He demanded that I take care of his first wife, his mother, and all his other family members.

I was too tired to even contemplating to kill myself. Even eating felt like a luxury to me.

“Ruby, I’m talking to you! Your husband is so rich. It’s fine if he lends some money to Liam!”

Wendy saw that I was not answering her, so she moved to strike me.

“Hey, stop fighting! You’re sisters.”

My mother pulled Wendy aside and coaxed her.

Then, she dragged me into the kitchen.

“Ruby, she’s your younger sister. Just throw her a lifejacket, we can’t just let her suffer like that.”

I sneered and recalled the night my first child had a high fever in the past.

It was raining heavily, and I had walked to the hilltop mansion and begged Wendy to give me some money so I could bring my child to a doctor.

With a glass of red wine in her hand, she had instructed her butler to throw my child and I out into a ditch.

By the time I crawled out from that ditch, my child had gone completely cold.

“Mom, Dad, I bet you don’t know that Wendy has already sold off the two houses you gave her to pay off Liam’s debt?

“And Liam didn’t lose his money because his business failed. Instead, he gambled all the money away!”

“Ruby, shut up! What nonsense are you telling our parents!”

Wendy picked up a broom and started to strike me.

After hitting me a few times, my nose started to bleed.

I kept dodging her attacks as I yelled.

“It’s true! You can look into it!

“Why should I lend her money? Her husband will take all of her money anyway!”

“Wendy! You! How dare you…”

My father was extremely furious.

“Wendy! Are you insane? We bought those houses with our life-savings! We gave them all to you! How dare you use it to…”

My mother was so furious that she passed out.

Wendy knew that persuading our parents was pointless, so later that afternoon, she showed up at their house with Charlie. At the doorstep, the two of them fell to their knees while crying.

“Mom, Dad, please, please save Liam. Please save our family.

“Even if it’s not for me, you have to think of Charlie.

“I don’t even have enough money to feed him.”

My mother remained in bed. Through tears, she asked me to persuade Wendy to come on in.

I did, but Wendy would not listen.

She kept repeating that as long as we did not lend money to Liam, she would continue kneeling in front of our parents’ house with Charlie.

She would only enter the house with Charlie once we agreed to lend her money.

She stayed there until night fell. All our neighbors had come home to rest.

She was still crying, and all the neighbors came over to watch her cry.

She even stopped me from going home.

“If you don’t give me any money today, you can’t leave!

“Charlie, cry to your aunt!”

Charlie was very tiny. He was about the same size as my child who had died in the past.

His cries were very feeble.

He did not even have a jacket on in the cold weather.

His mother was forcing him to cry to obtain my help. I felt sorry for the clueless child.

My father could not stand seeing her and Charlie in that state. He pulled me back into the house.

Once inside, he suddenly fell to his knees and begged me. I was extremely shocked and also fell to my knees to meet his level.

It was not right for him to do that as an elder.

“Dad, what are you doing?”

“Please save your younger sister. Your mother and I really don’t have that much money.”

After he said that, my mother also kneeled down. Both of them begged and coerced me to give Wendy money.

My hand trembled when I called Ben.

Ben immediately rushed over to my place and prepared to take me to the bank.

Wendy was still throwing a tantrum and wanted to stop me from leaving.

“I’m leaving to get you the money! Don’t be ridiculous!”

I was so furious that I slapped her.

“Why should your brother-in-law lend you money? Can’t you be more mature and stop causing trouble to me?”

Wendy fell silent and she let us leave.

After we took the money, they were no longer outside the house. The living room was also empty.

I only heard someone talking when I got closer to my parents’ bedroom.

“After Ben and Ruby die, Olivia won’t be able to do anything. All their money will belong to Charlie.”

It was my mother’s voice.

“Ruby doesn’t want a second child, so she should let Charlie inherit all her money.

“That’s better than having some illegitimate child of Ben coming to take the money. It’s better for Charlie to have the money than some outsider.

“Isn’t that right, Charlie?”

“That’s right! After Aunt Ruby dies, her money belongs to me.”

Charlie said.

“When Ruby returns, just be nice to her. She’s soft-hearted.”

I laughed as tears streamed down my cheeks.

They knew I was soft-hearted, so they always schemed against me.

It turned out my family was lying to me and putting up a show.

When they asked me for money, they brought up the fact that we were a family, but they never thought of me as one of them when they lied to me.

I was overwhelmed with the disappointment of being lied to. I felt my heart throbbing in pain.

Ben’s expression was dark. He moved forward to kick the door open.

I stopped him.

We placed the money on the table and left.

That would be the first and the last time I ever gave them money. From then on, I would never give them a single cent.

They were plotting to get my money even while I was alive. It was one thing to scheme against me; it was another thing to target my daughter.

I was extremely disappointed.

All these so-called family members were parasites.

Wendy carried her second son’s dead body in her arms and cried the whole night.

The next day, Liam and her drove to my place with Charlie and made a scene.

Reporters were surrounding the Reid family mansion. Wendy was not satisfied with that, so she hired a funeral party to put up funeral decorations all around the mansion.

It was extremely annoying.

“Everyone, are you seeing this?! My son was killed by his heartless aunt!

“My own sister has been looking down on me ever since she married a rich man. I’ve been begging her to lend me some money to treat my newly born child.

“My pleas fell on deaf ears. Now, my child is dead. We’ll all die before her house and let her regret it!”

She was carrying the dead baby with a scarf wrapped around her head as she sobbed.

The crowd was intrigued by the story.

“I heard that Ruby couldn’t give birth to a son, so she’s been jealous of her younger sister. That’s why she was unwilling to save her nephew.”

“The Reid family has such a huge business. They must have a son as an heir. If they can’t have one, Ruby must have some issues.”

“Her daughter doesn’t look like her either. Maybe they got a surrogate.”

Liam was walking around with a miniature coffin as funeral music played.

Olivia was initially playing on the swing in the garden. The commotion frightened her, and she hid and cried.

“Ruby, let’s just lend your younger sister some money and get them off our property.”

Peter and Mariam were business people, so they cared about their image. Hence, they tried persuading me.

“That’s right, Ruby. If you don’t have that money, I can give it to you. It’s not good for them to keep making a scene before our house.”

Ben also called me and suggested that I use money to resolve this issue.

Statements of how I had killed my nephew had gone viral online. Netizens argued with each other.

They were calling me all sorts of names. They even asked Olivia to die to make up for Wendy’s son’s death.

The Reid Corporation’s stocks were affected by the online discourse and kept falling.

I did not listen to anyone. I had made a decision to not lend them any money.

I opened the door and walked out and faced the reporters.

“Hello everyone, thanks for your concern. My brother-in-law has gambled away my younger sister’s two houses, which includes my wedding fund of a million dollars.

“I lent them five hundred thousand dollars a few years ago, and they did not even repay a single cent to me. No matter how much money I have, it’ll never be enough for this black hole.

“Besides, I was switched at birth with my younger sister. We are not related. Everyone, please be my witness today. From today onwards, I will cut ties with her officially.”

Wendy saw that her lies had been exposed, so she grabbed me and whispered, “Ruby, if you refuse to give me anything today, we’ll stay here and haunt you forever.

“After that, you’ll have to take care of us.

“I’d like to see who folds first.”

“Is that so?”

I was not angered. Instead, I laughed.

I turned around and called home.

“Hello, is this Liam’s wife? Your husband is having an affair and a child out here in the city.”

Liam’s first wife had lost her mind because she could not bear children.

She had loved to torture Liam’s illegitimate sons.

It was high time that Wendy experienced the torture I had experienced in the past.