The person making the prayer this time was a girl named Liu Zhaodi.
Zhao Di, Zhao Di.
Needless to say, just by looking at her name, one can roughly know her fate.
Bringing in her younger brother and sacrificing for him was the plan that dictated her life.
From the time Liu Zhaodi could remember, she heard these words every day.
"You're the older sister, you should give way to your younger brother."
“You are a girl, and you will belong to someone else’s family in the future. Your younger brother is the true heir of our Liu family. You must take good care of your younger brother.”
“A woman’s family is her only support, so you have to keep up with your brother. When your parents pass away, your brother will be there to support you.”
“It’s a waste of time and money for girls to go to school. They’d be better off starting work early to earn money for their brother to buy a house and get married.”
“What unmarried girl would keep all the money she earns? Listen to me, give it all to Mom. Mom will keep it safe for you and give it to you when you need it.”
"You only have one brother, if you don't help him, who will?"
...
Liu Wangdi had heard these words for thirty years.
Thirty years of brainwashing and PUA have successfully turned her into the most filial daughter in the surrounding area, the kind that other parents envy and admire.
At the same time, she is also a perfect example of someone who spoils her brother.
Liu Zhaodi has always treated her younger brother Liu Chengcai like an ancestor since he was a child.
She dropped out of high school before finishing and worked in a factory for six years, giving her mother 300,000 yuan.
Three hundred thousand yuan was transformed into a small villa in my hometown, making all my relatives and neighbors extremely envious.
Liu's parents praised her to the skies, calling her their "good girl" and praising her to everyone they met, making Liu Zhaodi extremely happy.
She felt that her parents loved her too, because they always smiled with great pride when they talked about her to outsiders.
Her father said, "My dear daughter, we are not capable, and your brother is still young, so our family is counting on you."
So from that time on, Liu Zhaodi paid for all of the family's food, clothing, housing, and transportation, as well as Liu Chengcai's tuition and living expenses.
The villagers all say that the Liu couple raised a good daughter, and they won't have to worry about their son buying a house and getting married in the future.
Not long after, her mother wiped away her tears and said, "Your brother is a good-for-nothing. He spent so much money and still couldn't get into university."
Whether he can get married in the future depends entirely on you, his older sister.
Liu Zhaodi wiped away her mother's tears: "Mom, don't worry, I'm still here."
She must earn lots and lots of money to buy her brother a house, help him get married, and let her parents enjoy their old age in peace.
Earning money through manual labor was too slow, so Liu Zhaodi started setting up a food stall, selling whatever made money.
She is quick and efficient, and hardworking; you could say she has taken the concept of hard work and perseverance to the extreme.
They get up before dawn every day to prepare materials, sell breakfast, then lunch, and then late-night snacks.
It wasn't until late at night that I dragged my exhausted body home.
But as long as she sees her parents' smiling faces, hears their praise, and hears Liu Chengcai occasionally call her "sister," she is overjoyed.
Liu Zhaodi felt that it was all worth it.
She supports her family with her own hands; she is a valuable person.
This sale took another seven years.
By selling food, Liu Zhaodi bought a house in her hometown county town outright and made a down payment on another one in the provincial capital.
Because times have changed, houses in small county towns are no longer enough to find wives.
The house in her hometown is registered under her parents' names, and the house in the provincial capital is registered under her younger brother's name. Naturally, Liu Zhaodi will be responsible for paying the mortgage.
With the help of this 140-square-meter fully furnished apartment in the provincial capital, Liu Cheng finally succeeded in finding a partner and entered the stage of discussing marriage.
New problems have arisen.
Five gold pieces and a diamond, plus the bride price, wedding, and banquet, will cost approximately 300,000 yuan.
Liu's parents spent all their time sighing and crying in front of Liu Zhaodi.
“There are already two kids in the village who are the same age as your brother, and your brother still hasn’t gotten married. What’s the point of us living? We might as well die.”
When they said this, they had no idea that Liu Zhaodi was already thirty years old and had never even had a boyfriend.
To keep her parents "alive," Liu Zhaodi has been setting up her stall for even longer.
Despite having a high fever, she didn't rest and worked non-stop until 3 a.m., when she was closing up shop, the gas cylinder exploded.
Liu Zhaodi immediately burst into flames.
He suffered burns covering 70% of his body and barely survived, becoming a hideous monster.
The doctor said that to save his life and then recover to a human-like appearance through skin grafts, it would cost two million.
Liu Zhaodi did the math and figured that if she sold the two houses and added the money she had saved with her mother over the years, she would still have enough to live on.
Even though she had become a monster, she still wanted to live.
She's never even been in a relationship, yet she wants to travel and see the world.
All these years I've only been focused on making money, I haven't been anywhere, and I don't even have a single friend.
But Liu Zhaodi didn't expect that her parents, who always talked about their good daughter, would immediately change their expressions when they heard that the treatment would cost two million.
Then, without a second's hesitation, he gave up on treatment.
"Zhaodi, you're already in this state, so don't waste money. That money is meant to be saved for your brother's wedding."
"You silly child, how could you be so careless? We're still 50,000 yuan short of the bride price, what are we going to do now?"
"How about we go home and recover slowly? This hospital is outrageous, charging over a thousand a day, it's highway robbery."
Liu Zhaodi looked at her parents in disbelief. Wasn't she their good daughter?
Isn't all the money in the family earned by her working hard from dawn till dusk?
The younger brother won't die if he can't get married, but she will die if she doesn't get treatment. Don't they know which is more important?
Her vocal cords were burned, and she couldn't speak. Tears streamed down her festering cheeks, and she felt excruciating pain.
Perhaps because of the intense pain, Liu Zhaodi's mind was clearer than ever before.
She watched as her parents guiltily turned their faces away, then forcibly stopped her treatment and discharged her from the hospital.
She wasn't even entitled to live in the new house she bought with her own money.
Because her beloved younger brother, whom she had cared for since childhood and who had financially supported her upbringing, said:
“Don’t let that ugly woman into my marital home. My girlfriend is coming to see the house, what if I scare her? Besides, I told her I’m an only child, she doesn’t know about Liu Zhaodi.”
Upon hearing this, Liu's parents quickly rented the cheapest basement apartment outside and settled her in.
The basement was hot and humid, and Liu Zhaodi's wound became severely infected, festering and oozing pus.
She endured seven days of excruciating pain before finally passing away.
The eye, burned down to just one, wouldn't close no matter what it tried.
After she died, she watched her parents sigh with relief, and then they happily went to prepare for their engagement banquet.
With their money tree dead, Liu's parents had no choice but to sell their house in the county town, which was more than enough to cover the bride price and wedding banquet.
She also overheard them saying, "Zhao Di died too young. We were planning to have her raise Cheng Cai's children in the future."
In short, Liu Zhaodi almost turned into a vengeful ghost on the spot.
"I'm going to make that family of vampires lose everything and suffer a fate worse than death. They'll have to spit out all the blood they drank from me."
"As you wish."
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