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Original title: Daddy, How Much for a Hug?｜爸爸，抱一下多少钱？

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01A Dollar Can't Buy Cake02Breakfast Beside an Empty Seat03A Free Cage Beats a Home That Charges04A Mother's Indifference05Victoria Detained, Stella Sold Again06Jokes in the Ledger, Surgery at the Clinic07Stella Offers to Sell Her Cornea08Settling the Debt with a Cornea

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  1. Episode 1 · A Dollar Can't Buy CakeOn her birthday, Stella tries to buy a small piece of cake with the dollar she earned collecting bottles, but her mother Victoria demands two dollars and calls it part of her training. Hungry, Stella spends the dollar on ten minutes of cartoons on her father Julian's phone, then sees a ten-thousand-dollar top-up for her adopted sister Evelyn. She leaves home alone and is lured away by a man offering free candy, food, and shelter.
  2. Episode 2 · Breakfast Beside an Empty SeatThe morning after Stella disappears, the family eats breakfast as usual. Julian and Victoria readily fund Evelyn's piano lessons with half a million dollars. Evelyn feigns surprise at Stella's absence, while her parents dismiss it as a tantrum. Only when housekeeper Doris returns with a tablet do they realize Stella is gone.
  3. Episode 3 · A Free Cage Beats a Home That ChargesVictoria refuses to search for Stella, certain she cannot last a day without money. Julian orders Doris to clear out Stella's room and turn it into a dance studio for Evelyn, planning to rent her a basement storage room for five dollars a day. Meanwhile, Stella is blindfolded and taken to an abandoned factory, where trafficker Scar offers her a dog cage and food for free, and she calmly accepts.
  4. Episode 4 · A Mother's IndifferencePolice call Victoria to identify Stella's backpack found outside the city, but she refuses, calling it a waste of time. At the station, Claire reads Stella's water-damaged notebook and, enraged by Victoria's cruelty, orders an immediate child abuse investigation.
  5. Episode 5 · Victoria Detained, Stella Sold AgainPolice demand Victoria's cooperation in Stella's disappearance, but she refuses and blames them. Claire orders her detained. Evelyn tearfully informs Julian. Meanwhile, Stella is sold to a stranger named Vera at the factory and asks only if she can eat for free at her new home.
  6. Episode 6 · Jokes in the Ledger, Surgery at the ClinicJulian dismisses Stella's ledger entries as jokes and threatens to sue the police. Frank bursts in with news that Stella has been located at an illegal clinic on the west side, where a group was preparing to operate on her for organ removal.
  7. Episode 7 · Stella Offers to Sell Her CorneaOn the operating table, Stella doesn't cry or struggle. She calmly asks organ trafficker Vera how much her eyes are worth, then offers to sell a cornea for $35,200 — the exact amount she needs to repay her parents for years of charges and finally be free of any debt to them.
  8. Episode 8 · Settling the Debt with a CorneaFrank kicks open the operating room door to find only an empty, blood-stained table. The doctor says Stella woke under anesthesia, bit him, and jumped out the back window. Police find a plastic bag by the river containing a note and a bank card, in which Stella calculates her debt to her parents at $35,200 and leaves the proceeds from selling her cornea to pay it off, severing all ties.

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  1. [00:00] In my house, everything has a price tag.
  2. [00:03] Water costs money, food costs money, even sleeping costs money.
  3. [00:09] Mum and Dad call it elite independence training.
  4. [00:12] Then, why does my adopted little sister get everything for free?
  5. [00:25] To pay off my debt, I sold myself to human traffickers.
  6. [00:39] So why did my parents, who called it elite education, end up crying with regret?
  7. [00:47] Stella! No! No! No, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
  8. [00:57] Everything at home has a price
  9. [01:00] Juice is 50 cents
  10. [01:02] A shower is one dollar
  11. [01:05] On my birthday, I took out the dollar I'd earned collecting bottles
  12. [01:10] Um, excuse me?
  13. [01:13] Mom, can I buy a little piece of cake?
  14. [01:15] I don't need any fruit on it
  15. [01:16] Is one dollar enough?
  16. [01:18] It's my birthday too
  17. [01:19] It's two dollars
  18. [01:20] No money, no cake
  19. [01:22] This is part of your training.
  20. [01:26] So I went hungry and spent my $1 on 10 minutes of cartoons on Dad's phone.
  21. [01:32] Then a payment alert popped up on the screen.
  22. [01:35] Family card top-up, $10,000.
  23. [01:38] Note, spending money for my precious adopted daughter.
  24. [01:41] So, Mom and Dad's elite education was only for me.
  25. [01:46] But I was their real daughter.
  26. [01:48] That morning, I walked out of the house alone.
  27. [01:52] A man asked if I wanted some candy.
  28. [01:55] How much is the candy?
  29. [01:57] It's free.
  30. [02:02] Sir, does the ride cost money?
  31. [02:06] I made one dollar collecting bottles, but I spent it on cartoons.
  32. [02:10] No, it's all free.
  33. [02:12] I'll take you somewhere you can eat and sleep for free.
  34. [02:14] I finally relaxed.
  35. [02:20] Sir, are you going to sell me to someone else to be their daughter?
  36. [02:23] Something like that. We're finding you a new home.
  37. [02:25] Then, does water cost money there?
  38. [02:28] They charge you for water at home?
  39. [02:30] Mm-hmm.
  40. [02:35] Mom, I have a fever. My head hurts so much. Can I have some water?
  41. [02:42] You really do have a fever, but don't think that means it's free.
  42. [02:46] If you want water, pay $2.
  43. [02:59] Tap water is 50 cents.
  44. [03:01] Warm water is $1.
  45. [03:03] Juice is $2.
  46. [03:05] Fuck.
  47. [03:06] I've been in this business for over a decade, and I've never seen parents this stilgy.
  48. [03:10] Are your parents Scrooge reincarnated?
  49. [03:12] I didn't know what Scrooge meant.
  50. [03:15] But I knew dad was the CEO of a public company.
  51. [03:18] He was generous.
  52. [03:20] He donated millions to charity at a time.
  53. [03:22] So why was he so stingy with me, even over 50 cents?
  54. [03:27] Uncle, once you sell me to my new family, will I have money?
  55. [03:33] Yeah, you'll have a lot of money.
  56. [03:35] You can eat whatever you want.

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