After My Family's "Deaths", I Cashed In

Synopsis

After my SATs, my parents left me behind and took their adopted daughter, Eunice Webb, on a seaside vacation. They ran into a typhoon and all three of them died. When the news reached me, I didn't cry. I didn't make a scene. I immediately got their death certificates, pulled out the accidental death insurance policies I had purchased in advance, and calmly collected 30 million dollars in compensation. My fiancé cursed me, saying I cared only about money. He had no idea I had returned from the future. In my previous life, when I learned my family had died, I was inconsolable. I took on the massive debts they left behind, gave up my chance at college and worked endless jobs to repay creditors, protecting the family home the creditors were eyeing. During those years, my fiancé stayed by my side, offering encouragement. He cheered me on when I returned from late-night delivery shifts, but he never gave me a single dollar. At thirty-five, I finally paid off every cent, but at the cost of my health. I looked decades older than my age. On my birthday, I bought myself a small three-dollar cake to celebrate. Just as I leaned forward to blow out the candles, the door opened. My parents and Eunice walked in proudly dressed in designer clothes. My parents looked loftily at me and smiled, saying, "Not bad. Now we believe you're not someone obsessed with money. You passed the test. You're qualified to be part of the family now." My parents then turned to Eunice. "Eunice, you did great by coming up with such a clever idea." Eunice smiled faintly, stepped forward gracefully, and blew out my candles. The only bit of light left in my twenty years of life went out with them. My overworked heart gave out and I died on the spot. When I opened my eyes again, my family was preparing to head to the seaside, straight into that typhoon. I said nothing and quietly bought them enormous accidental death insurance policies. This time, I only wanted them to disappear from this world forever.