The Poor Girl's Secret
Language: en
Since I can remember, I knew my family was poor. So when I suspected I had a serious illness, my first reaction wasn't fear, but asking my parents carefully: "If... I got cancer, what would we do?" They laughed at my overthinking, but their tone was firm: "If that day comes, we'll sell everything we own to treat you." I tossed and turned all night, finally deciding—I couldn't be a burden to them. But after I swallowed a whole bottle of sleeping pills, I "saw" them laughing and chatting in a penthouse in the city center. At that moment, I finally understood. The "hard life" that…