I am the youngest child in the family, my brother is 8 years older than me, is good, and has the label of “young businessman”.
A monthly salary of hundreds of millions, driving a private car, a new phone, spending money like water, everyone in the village respects him.
My parents built a 2-storey house, poured out all their savings, and borrowed part of it.
He did not contribute any money, but on the day of the inauguration, he still said:
“I make money to take care of my parents, just take it slowly, when I need to pay it off!”
Yet less than half a year later, a group of strangers came.
They banged on the door, handed over a notarized debt note in my brother’s name, and said:
“Don’t pay, we sue, this house will be distrained.”
My parents seemed to be dead.
My brother was silent. No refusal, no argument.
Just bow your head and ask:
“Parents saved me this time… then I will pay it back gradually.”
Grandparents sobbed.
In the end, he sold the house, paying nearly 2.5 billion in debt to him.
On the day of signing the name transfer contract, less than 1 hour later, a woman in her 40s, stylishly dressed, appeared right at my door.
She pulled out a birth certificate, a series of photos of the hotel, bank transfers, and then sarcastically:
“Very good! Squeeze out both your biological parents to take care of the old man and his stepchild?”
The whole family stood in the picture.
She continued, “My brother has been raising his stepchild for three years, renting a house, buying a car for her—all with usury loans.
The money from doing business is small, but you have to make up for things that are out of the line.
My parents collapsed on the doorstep, and I, I raised my hand to hit my brother—but my hand was shaking so much that I couldn’t lift it.
That day, I took my mother to a small room, no air conditioning, no warm bed.
My mother whispered:
“Mother’s fault… I believed it too much…”
As for me, I only feel angry at the cover of ‘successful son’ that society praises.