After Receiving 5 Million, I Blocked My Mother

The company held a celebration, and as the quarterly sales champion, the boss awarded me a bonus of 500 thousand dollars and gave me a one-week vacation.

To reward myself, I broke my usual habit, bought tickets, booked a nice hotel, and went on a long-desired island vacation for six days with my best friend. Just after arriving home and happily posting on Instagram, I immediately received a call from my uncle.

My uncle was extremely angry. He harshly criticized me, "Your mother works 24/7 to support the family, and you spend so much money on traveling overseas? What kind of a daughter you are?"

"That's ridiculous. My mother works that hard because she wasted all her money to support my uncle and his family." I thought.

As I was preparing a retort, he continued to lash out his temper at me. "You must spend a lot of money on your trip! If you have that money to travel, why not give it to your mother so she can have some rest?"

Indeed, this trip cost me 150 thousand dollars. "But why should I apologize for spending my own money?"

My anger instantly reached the top of my head, and I rebuked him mercilessly, "Uncle Tom, you also know that my mother works hard. If you care about her so much, you wouldn't have asked for her hard-earned money!"

I hung up the phone without waiting for him to react. Before I could even catch my breath, my grandma Molly's call came in, "Max! Your mom has been crying all these days just because of you! Now come back soon!"

I only spent 150 thousand dollars on a trip, and my mom was already crying for me not to share the money. I wonder how would they respond if they knew that I had just received 5 million dollars from Rosemary, my father's mother.

But when I heard my mother crying on the phone, I still got up and went to see her at Molly's place.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw my mother sitting on the sofa, sobbing with red eyes. It seemed she had been crying for a long time. Molly was beside her, waving her hands and shouting angrily, "Just wait, this damn girl will come back, and I will teach her a lesson."

My uncle Tom and his wife Debbie chimed in, "That's right, she is so unreasonable. She needs to know that we won't let her do whatever she wants."

My eighteen-year-old cousin Josh was sitting with his legs crossed, playing games on his cell phone.

I entered the room. When they heard the noise, they all looked at me. Molly's voice thundered through the living room, "You silly girl. Why didn't you give money to your mother? Why do you want to travel?! Look how tired she is every day. As her daughter, don't you feel sorry for her at all?!"

"Why didn't she say that she, as a mother, didn't know how to love her daughter?" I thought, "This is so hilarious."

Uncle Tom yelled at me, too, "Why don't you come over and apologize to your mother? You spent so much money on traveling. Look how angry she is! How can you be so ignorant?"

Josh, who was addicted to games, suddenly raised his head when he heard "Spend money on traveling" and yelled at me, "You have money?! Can I borrow some?"

I ignored them and looked at my mother's red and swollen eyes. I felt a little pity for her for no reason. Maybe she had been brainwashed so deeply by her grandmother that she felt it was a sin for her and me to spend an extra penny on ourselves.

My mother was still sobbing, but she glanced at me from the corner of her eyes. I knew she was waiting for me to apologize, but I don't think she deserved it.

I calmed myself down and said to her, "Mom, I signed a few big orders this time and the company gave me a 50 thousand dollar bonus. That's why I..."