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"Sister, this is your three hundredth IOU."
My adopted sister, Chu Yue, waved the note in her hand, a glimmer of pride in her eyes.
I looked at the paper filled with numbers and suddenly smiled.
Indeed, from the age of ten to eighteen, a full eight years.
I, Gu Churan, had become a debtor in this family.
Sitting on a bench outside the operating room, I opened my wallet.
It was empty; I couldn't even scrape together three thousand yuan for the surgery fee.
At that moment, my adopted sister was celebrating her eighteenth birthday on a Mediterranean cruise.
Our parents gifted her a luxurious penthouse in Jiangcheng CBD and a limited edition Maserati.
And here I was, writing my three hundredth IOU in the hospital corridor.
"Gu Churan, you are eighteen now; we are no longer obligated to give you money," my father said coldly, looking at me. "Either write an IOU or figure it out yourself."
With tears in my eyes, I wrote on the paper: Owe Father Gu Mingyuan cash three thousand yuan exactly.
This was my three hundredth IOU in this family.
Scrolling through my phone, I saw a post from my adopted sister.
In the photo, she wore the latest Chanel gown, standing on the deck of the cruise ship surrounded by a group of socialites.
My childhood friend, Lin Mo, gazed at her affectionately.
"Thank you to my beloved parents and Brother Mo for giving me the most perfect Coming of Age Ceremony," she captioned it, followed by an array of exaggerated emojis.
I looked down at the crumpled IOU in my hand and suddenly laughed.
How ironic it was—my biological parents, my adopted sister, and my childhood friend were all celebrating her eighteenth Coming of Age Ceremony while I could only write my three hundredth IOU.
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