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I was the child abandoned by my parents during a kidnapping. Back then, I was seven years old, and my twin brother and sister were ten. The kidnappers asked for 30 million dollars, and only one of us would get the chance to come back alive. When the call came to my father, he was swamped with an overseas merger and acquisition deal. So my mother answered the phone. That call, which changed my life forever, lasted less than three minutes. My mother was as calm as if she were negotiating a business deal. "You can't touch the twins. Lucas has a sharp business mind, and Isabella is eloquent. They are the future of my family. "I can pay the ransom, but I want the twins to return alive." The kidnappers laughed and said she was greedy, that 30 million dollars was not enough to save all her children's lives. Without the slightest hesitation, my mother said, "That youngest one has no real ability. You can keep her. We don't have that much money." Even a choice at such a time was filled with shrewdness and calculation. What they chose was not a child, but an investment with the highest rate of return. Later, the police raided the kidnappers' den. In the chaos, a bullet grazed the knee of my left leg. From then on, although I survived, I became the only one in the family who couldn't hold up her head, a cripple who limped when she walked.