Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

Chapter 102

The despair, anger, sadness, and helplessness did not go amiss between the lines. Tears filled Serenity‘s eyes as she flipped through her sister‘s diary while accounts of the past flooded her mind.

Dad‘s side of the family and Mom‘s side of the family were ripping each other apart over the insurance money. All of them were trying to get a bigger cut. No one cared about Serenity and me. No one talked about adopting us and taking care of us. Mom and Dad were dead, but all they could think about was money. What about our feelings? Is this what they call a family?

Mom, Dad, come home. Do you know what your daughters are going through now? How could you leave me and Serenity behind?

It was raining. Was God feeling sorry because my sister and I lost our parents? We didn‘t have a mom and dad anymore. I cried for Mom and Dad, but they could no longer hear me. I looked at Serenity‘s clueless face and cried. She cried too.

Serenity had been asking me when Mom and Dad were coming home. She missed them.

her that Mom and Dad were never returning.

us. We have become orphans, children without a mom

Granddad and Grandmom said that we won‘t owe them anything if we agree to give them six

The blood money was an exchange for their son and daughter–in–law‘s lives. Don‘t they have any consideration for their son and daughter–in law with all that fuss about money? Oh, I guess they don‘t care about the dead

didn‘t want to miss out either, so they wanted the remaining half of the insurance money. What

it anymore and insisted that some money be left to us for our future and education. In the end, Mom‘s parents took four hundred thousand dollars. They also said we didn‘t have to be responsible for them anymore and vice versa. Mom wasn‘t

Mom and Dad are gone, the house now

they couldn‘t argue over Grandmom. My uncles and cousins

They smashed Mom‘s photo frame and said they‘d burn