To support my son, Shen Yichuan, in studying abroad in France, my husband and I worked day and night, scrimping and saving to cover his monthly living expenses of 18,000 yuan. When my husband underwent surgery for an acute myocardial infarction, I shouldered everything alone, not telling our son a single thing because I was afraid it would affect his exams. For years, I comforted myself by believing how hard it must be for him to live alone so far overseas. Then, one day, I happened to meet one of his classmates, and everything I had stubbornly believed came crashing down. It turned out that my son had returned to China two years earlier and had been living and working there ever since, while continually fabricating lies about studying abroad to keep asking his family for money. When my husband and I rushed to see our son, we learned that he was about to marry his wealthy fiancée. Yet at the wedding, the seats reserved for the groom's parents were marked vacant.