Lyle shouted through a loudspeaker. "Unfilial daughter Elowen abandoned her seriously ill mother in the hospital, neither visiting nor paying her medical expenses! Everyone, come and see! My mother lived such a bitter life, only to raise an ungrateful wretch like Elowen!"
My mother didn't say a word. She just sat in her wheelchair, wiping away tears.
Back then, to raise money, I had moved out of my apartment in the city center and rented this one-bedroom unit in an old residential complex instead, so most of my neighbors were elderly.
The neighbors mostly had children of their own, so they could deeply empathize with my mother's feelings, and they joined in accusing me.
"My dear, children are nothing but trouble, but this daughter of yours is really too heartless."
"Exactly. If she we
