Bound by the Cursed Alpha King

Her mother-in-law put twenty yuan in the red envelope for the birth of her daughter, and made no secret of what that meant. The amount stayed with her for years afterward. The sister-in-law's wedding is held in the banquet hall of an expensive hotel, with a full room of guests. At the gift table she sets down two twenty-yuan notes, squared up next to each other. The relative taking gifts picks them up and cannot get a word out. The noise in the hall stops. Her husband pulls her in by the waist and holds her there, breathing hard. Her mother-in-law had come in dressed up and laughing, and the laugh goes off her face in pieces. Forty yuan on the red table brings up everything that had been building since the birth, in front of the whole wedding, and the reception cannot get past it.