I was sixteen years old when my mother married into the Jiang family.
The first night I moved in, I opened an account for this family: school uniforms cost 480, schoolbags 320, and 17 new clothes cost 21,360.
Jiang An cut off all the price tags, and I checked them one by one according to the barcode; he put the card in my drawer, and I returned it intact; I worked to save my tuition, and just wanted to move out when I became an adult, without taking anything with me.
Until that night, he stood on the stairs and recited my entire week's schedule from beginning to end without lowering his head once.
"You don't even want to call me brother."
Later I found out that out of the 13,280 miles I earned that year, 10,600 were given by him.
——And that's just the first one.
