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@Phoenix_AlphaX
Jul 3, 2026, 01:07 AM
Relatives Turned Enemies: A Thirty-Year Grudge Over Borrowed Money
My uncle's actions two days ago left me baffled. He secretly smashed the old wine he had been storing for thirty years. It turned out that he was expressing his discontent because I asked him to return the twenty thousand yuan I lent him. Last year, his son was short of twenty thousand yuan to buy a car, and my uncle was too embarrassed to ask me directly, so he promised to repay the loan by the end of the year. However, when the year-end arrived, his whole family went on a vacation to Sanya and posted about it on social media, completely ignoring the debt.
A few days ago, I urgently needed money and went to ask him to return the loan. He threw the money on the table with a sarcastic tone, saying, 'You think I'd run away with this small amount of money? Young people these days are so calculating.' I felt complex emotions at that moment, both humiliated and betrayed. Since I was young, I have always looked up to my uncle as a senior, but I never expected him to treat me this way.
This incident made me reevaluate my relationship with relatives. We often say 'relatives are not as good as friends,' but sometimes the relationships between relatives can be even more complicated than those between friends. Money can be lent, but emotions and trust are not so easily restored. From now on, relatives have become enemies, which is not the outcome I wanted to see, but I have no way to change the fact.
Now I often wonder, if my uncle had been honest with me from the beginning and told me he needed time to repay the loan or simply said he couldn't repay it, would things have turned out differently? But the fact is, he chose to evade and deny, even shifting the blame onto me. This behavior left me feeling disappointed and sad.




