“You think your son and daughter-in-law have done anything for you! You don’t even know how to be a mother, so who are you to scold me, your daughter?”
She cut me off with a slap, then said something that hit me straight in the chest.
“If I’d known you’d turn out like this, I’d have strangled you to death! You’re completely inconsiderate! You don’t know how to care about your maternal family!”
She raged in the office for what felt like forever, keening and wailing as she accused me of being an ungrateful daughter.
She made me the talk of the whole company, shaming me in front of everyone.
Only when security physically escorted her out did her shrill voice finally subside.
That night when I came home, I found something else waiting for me: all my gold jewelry—the pieces worth twenty-one thousand dollars—were gone!
Panicked, I was about to call the police when my mother sent me text messages.
[Remember that twenty thousand I told you to return to your sister-in-law? You’ve stubbornly refused, so I gave your gold jewelry to her.]
[Listen to me. Go back and apologize. If you can reconcile with Lucius, do it!]