"Please, answer the phone!" I couldn't hold back my tears. Every second I delayed, my daughter's life slipped away a little more.

The doctor kept urging me. In desperation, I started calling relatives and friends to borrow money.

My aunt asked in confusion, "Belle is critically ill? You must be a scammer. I saw Jude's post on WhatsApp, he and his family are on a trip."

My aunt sent me a screenshot and in the photo were not only Jude and Linda but also his high school sweetheart, Margerie Beckham.

I felt like I had fallen into an ice pit. Belle had been in poor health since she was a child and I had to quit my job to take care of her.

Jude often worked overtime and traveled for business, earning money to support the family.

I ran back and forth between home and the hospital every day, pinching pennies just to save money for emergencies.

But I never imagined that Jude wasn't supporting our family at all. He even took Belle's life-saving money to go on a trip with Linda and Margerie.

I was dazed for three seconds, then quickly snapped back to reality and continued to gather money.

But by the time I had collected the full amount for the surgery, the doctor told me the kidney had gone to another patient. Belle had died.

I cried so hard that I almost passed out. "Today is Mother's Day. I should be receiving a gift from my daughter, not the news of her death ..."

In the end, it was the relatives who came after hearing the news and took me back. As for my husband, Belle's biological father, he only arrived at her funeral and even then, he was late.

I was drowning in tears, but Jude only squeezed out two tears in front of others. Once the guests left, he immediately changed his expression and demanded the funeral money from me.

He said, "Now that Belle is dead, you don't need that money anymore. Hand it over so I can use it for something important."

"Something important? What could you possibly be doing that would require five hundred thousand dollar? Belle was your own daughter! Aren't you even a little bit sad about her death?" I grabbed Jude by the collar and pulled out his phone, starting to go through his transaction history.

Jude didn't even bother to hide it, his face showing complete indifference. It turned out that he had secretly opened a new bank account long ago and transferred all our assets.