Just because I was a little bigger than my twin sister when I was born, Mom decided that I had stolen her nutrients in the womb and demanded I pay back 500,000 yuan in nutrition fees before I turned eighteen.
To repay the debt, I started delivering milk, collecting scrap, and folding matchboxes when I was six.
A week before Mom's deadline, I was finally just 5,000 yuan short of paying it all back.
But my body gave out from severe malnutrition and exhaustion.
On my eighteenth birthday, burning with a fever but too afraid to take a day off, I called Mom with trembling hands.
"Mom, I almost got caught in a machine just now. Could you lend me twenty yuan so I can buy some fever medicine...?"
"You haven't even paid off your old debt, and now you want to borrow money?" Mom interrupted impatiently. "You already stole all your sister's nutrients, and now you're pretending to be sick and weak? Get lost!"
The next moment, I heard a crowd on the other end of the line singing Happy Birthday to my sister.
"It's such a wonderful day, and you're bringing bad luck!"
Then Mom sent me a text: [I'm warning you, today's the final deadline. If I don't see the money by midnight, I'll see you in court!]
Suddenly, it all felt so pointless.
I smiled, looked at the line that read "5,000 yuan compensation for body donation," and tapped Confirm.
Mom, I've paid back everything I owed you and my sister.
Big portion. It's the kind of contradictions of the mother's generation that are carried to the next generation. The twin brother who was born with his mother died because of his mother's overnutrition and thought it was her mother's fault. He robbed his nutrition and died. Then, all the faults were attributed to his mother. Then his father divorced the protagonist's mother because he gave birth to two daughters, and then the protagonist's mother exploited the protagonist because the protagonist was stronger than the other child. Then I knew I regretted it when I died, and I didn't want the other one. All in all, I spent 5 years in prison and nothing happened. That's probably what it means anyway. Not worth watching.