On the day I returned to home after completing my studies,my grandparents started having the servants prepare since early in the morning.They also invited many business tycoons in the industry to our family gathering.
My aunt took me to a place that usually served celebrities to get me dressed up,so that I could attend as the young lady of the Summer family.I didn't know whether to laugh or cry but nevertheless I let them arrange everything.
While waiting for my aunt to park the car,I thought I saw my mother's figure.She looked haggard.

Her suit had clearly been worn for a long time and was a bit wrinkled.She was walking around with her resume in hand,looking for a job.When she saw me,she froze for a moment.
I pretended not to see her and lowered my head,pretending to focus on my phone.She then shouted towards me,“Elena,is that you?”
I didn't want to pay attention to her,but my hands holding the phone were already trembling.
She seemed to see me as a lifesaver and grabbed my arm,”Elena,how have you been recently?You changed your phone number,and I couldn't get in touch with you.”
I replied indifferently, “I've been doing well.Don't worry about me.”
Seeing my cold attitude,she started to act like a reak mother and tried to use my pity or love left for her.

“Elena,I've regretted it so much since you left.I'm sorry for making you suffer all these years.It's all my fault.Can you just forgive me...”
I watched her cry,and I almost gave in,but then what she said next had me completely unmoved.
“Elena,can you talk to your grandfather and ask him to let me work at the Summer Group?My company went bankrupt,and I have very little savings left.When I applied for jobs at other companies,they all said I'm too old...”
I should have known she approached me with an ulterior motive.I was so stupid to think she had truly repented.

“I can't make decisions for my grandfather.You can talk to him yourself,”I refused.But then,to my surprise,she suddenly knelt down in front of me”.
“Elena,I really have nowhere else to go.Mandy spent money like it was nothging and still refuses to work, she’sjust mooching off me.Your Uncle Charles was caught cheating at gambling some time ago.His legs were broken and he's still in the hospital!”
Seeing that I wasn't moved,she gradually lost patience.”Elena Summer,I'm your mother!You can't just stand by and do nothing!”
People around saw her kneeling in front of me and started whispering that I was heartless.Some even started filming,criticizing how cold and merciless and heartless I was for making my mother kneel in public.
I asked her to get up,but she threatened me.She wanted me to either give her 200,000 dollars or arrange a job for her at the Summer Enterprises.
Just then,my aunt rushed over and stood in front of me to protect me.
“What do you think you're doing!”she shouted,”You abandoned Elena first.How dare you come and pester her now!”
When my mother saw my furious aunt,she tried to run away.But my aunt wasn't going to let her off easily.
She grabbed her and said, “You took the money my brother left you and used it to support your lover.Now you want Amanda to help you support that bastard and his daughter pair too?”The contents of whispers of the onlookers changed,and they started to condemn my mother.Feeling embarrassed,she slunk away.
This time when I returned,my grandfather held a banquet to announce my identity and let me work and learn in the Summer Enterprise.
He often said I was just like my father,organized and measured,and never needed him to worry.
On the anniversary of my father's death,my grandfather and I went to the cemetery to visit him.When we arrived,my grandfather refused to get out of the car.
Perhaps the pain of an old man loosing his only son was too much for him.He asked me to go and see my father on his behalf.