Not Your Spare Daughter Anymore

Summary

I was the brightest child in the foster shelter.

When I was seven, the couple who ran the small broth-and-dumpling cart just outside the shelter gates finally saved up enough money to adopt me. I had spent countless afternoons perched on their wooden crate, warmed by their laughter and the steam rising from their pots.

Yet on that very same afternoon, my biological parents arrived.

My birth mother stood before me, draped in designer silk and dripping with diamond jewelry.