When you’re not the Golden Child of the family, it’s always made painfully obvious. Unbeknownst to literally every one of your other family members, the painful stab of being the secondary sibling stings a little more with each reminder. So when this 32-year-old woman discovered her family’s dark, $75k secret pact, she was not only devastated, but realized the full extent of her family’s favoritism.

Perhaps her Golden little sister never realized, but in this family, it pays to be the favorite. It pays tens of thousands, in fact.