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After returning from the landfill, I had my secretary send them $10,000, quietly left by the door, weighed down by a brick, without revealing the sender’s identity.
But a few days later, Mom came to my company again.
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This time, as soon as she entered, she dropped to her knees with a thud.
I was mentally prepared, thinking she had recognized me, so I kept my composure.
“Ms. Miller, I’ve truly run out of options, which is why I came to you.”
Hearing that my cover wasn’t blown, I walked over and gently helped her up.
“Auntie, what happened?”
After just a few days, Mom looked ten years older.
She sobbed,
Then haltingly, finally managed to explain the situation.
It turned out that Tiffany had hit someone with her car on the day of the accident.
Though the victim was not in critical condition, they had broken an arm.
Our family might be dirt poor now, but we could still scrape together the medical
expenses.
However, the victim happened to be Julian Cheng, the son of the Cheng Group, the city’s largest real estate developer. The Cheng family was relentless.
After listening, I asked Mom one question.
“How do you know I would help you?”
Mom lifted her cloudy eyes, timidly staring at me: “Ms. Miller, we don’t want to burden you. But as you’ve seen, our family simply cannot stand against the Cheng family. And because of what we did to our older daughter in the past, all our friends and family have cut us off… We can only, only come to you for help…”
I met Mom’s gaze, seeing my unfamiliar face reflected in her pupils,
And the thick scab over my heart cracked open just a tiny bit.
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“I’ll see what I can do.”
