The Amazing Son-in-Law [The Charismatic Charlie Wade] (Chinese name) Chapter: 4709

At that moment, Mei Yuzhen was waking up in the car. Man Jinshan and Man Yingjie had been driving through the night, covering about 1,000 kilometers. They were now more than 2,000 kilometers away from the US-Mexico border.

Mei Yuzhen had asked them to drive all the way to El Paso, Texas, and then cross into Mexico by land. After being rocked in the car all night, she felt a bit dazed from lack of sleep.

As she gathered her thoughts, memories from her early days in America flooded back. When she first arrived in the United States, she used a fake identity but worked hard and stayed responsible. Although she didn’t make much money as a nanny, her employer provided food and shelter, allowing her to send most of her earnings back home. This support greatly improved her family’s living conditions.

As time passed, however, Mei Yuzhen began to feel the effects of the materialistic culture around her. She became increasingly dissatisfied with how illegal immigrants were treated.

In Chinatown, she noticed two types of Chinese babysitters. Some had legal status or green cards, while others, like her, were undocumented immigrants. The legal nannies typically earned at least 50% more than those without papers.

Whenever she met other nannies and they discussed their jobs, Mei Yuzhen often complained about her low pay. She felt frustrated because she believed her work was the same as theirs, yet her salary was much lower. This growing resentment began to build towards her employer’s family.

Mei Yuzhen always felt that those around her were intentionally bullying and mistreating her. She saw herself as a poor woman who had left her husband and hometown behind.

What Mei Yuzhen didn’t realize was a simple truth: her employer took a risk by helping her, an undocumented immigrant, because it was cheaper for them. Given their limited resources, employers often have to make difficult choices. If hiring someone legally and someone illegally cost the same, they would always choose the legal option.

Most illegal immigrants understand this reality, but Mei Yuzhen did not. She failed to see the natural differences between herself and legal nannies, allowing resentment to build deep within her, eventually turning into hatred.

In the third year after Mei Yuzhen arrived in the United States, tragedy struck. A fire broke out in her employer’s home, killing a young couple in their thirties and their five-year-old daughter. Their baby son, who was less than a year old, was missing.

This fire was started by Mei Yuzhen.

After setting the fire, she fled with the infant to another city. There, she worked with a middleman and sold the child for $30,000 to a Chinese couple in their forties who had been struggling to have a baby.