Husband Passes Away Leaving a Huge Compensation Payment, Mother Tells Me to Hand It Over, After My Mother-in-Law Speaks, My Eyes Filled with Tears

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Husband Passes Away Leaving a Huge Compensation Payment, Mother Tells Me to Hand It Over, After My Mother-in-Law Speaks, My Eyes Filled with Tears

The two women before me, one is my own biological mother, the other is the mother of my late husband, which is to say my mother-in-law. I truly never expected that the one who would step forward to defend me would turn out to be my mother-in-law, and that the one who would disregard my wellbeing and come demanding the last bit of security for me and my newborn daughter would turn out to be my own mother.

Ever since I was old enough to understand things, I noticed that my mother always favored my younger brother. Whatever benefits the family had went to my brother. From childhood onward, whenever anything was related to my brother, I was always at a disadvantage. Although she never abused me, I truly never felt much maternal love either. After I grew up, I left home to study, and after graduating I stayed in the city where my university was located and started working there. Later, the person I found to date was also from this place, and after dating for over a year, we got married.

If I hadn't already known much about my natal family's affairs before, then starting from our marriage, my mother's behavior made things quite clear to my in-laws as well. She kept the entire 180,000 yuan bride price my in-laws gave, saying my brother would need to prepare a bride price when he married in the future, yet she didn't prepare a single cent of dowry for me, saying all the family's money had been spent on my and my brother's education. Seeing my own mother like this made me deeply disheartened. Fortunately, my husband didn't mind. He said if there's none, then there's none, we can earn it with our own hands. My mother-in-law also treated me very well, treating me like her own daughter and giving me the warmth of a family.

By this year, my husband and I had been married less than three years, and I never expected a sudden disaster to strike. He unexpectedly passed away, leaving behind our daughter still in swaddling clothes and me. At the time I was overwhelmed with grief and completely unable to accept such a fate. Fortunately, my mother-in-law kept holding back her sorrow to comfort me. Seeing that my will had completely collapsed, this elderly woman, who had lost her beloved son and was enduring the pain of a white-haired person burying a black-haired one, forced her frail body to busy herself handling my husband's affairs, showing extraordinary strength and resilience. When her son-in-law passed away, not a single person from my natal family came. It wasn't until my husband's accident compensation came through that my mother rushed over upon hearing the news, hoping I would hand over the compensation for my brother to buy a house. Hearing her say this, I simply couldn't believe it. After all, the three of us, grandmother, mother, and granddaughter, are in this situation now. My daughter just came into this world and already lost her father, and she has a long road ahead with many expenses. But my mother didn't take it seriously. She said she thought raising a little girl wouldn't cost much, so I might as well support my younger brother first.

Just as I was trembling with anger and didn't know what to do, my mother-in-law beside me really couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but speak up about my hardships during this period and the difficulty I would face raising my child alone in the future. She asked how my mother, also being a woman, couldn't sympathize with her own daughter's suffering. Seeing my mother's indifferent face, she finally said that since my mother doesn't treat me as a daughter, then from now on I am her daughter. The money is her son's compensation payment, and the three direct heirs now are me, my daughter, and my mother-in-law. It has nothing whatsoever to do with my natal family. She asked her to have some self-respect, know her place, and leave.

After my mother slunk away in embarrassment, I threw myself into my mother-in-law's arms and cried loudly. The elderly woman comforted me not to be sad, saying that as long as she's around, my daughter and I won't have to suffer too much. Everyone, why doesn't my mother know how to think about me, her daughter?