Chapter 9
From that day on, I no longer had a family.
The verdict for my uncle’s family came quickly, thirty years ago. At his age, even if he were released, it would only be to wait for death.
But what I hadn’t expected was that in court, my mom produced a psychiatric evaluation and was acquitted.
The next day, as I walked into the company, a whole bucket of water was suddenly splashed over
- me.
Instead of an apology, I was met with sneers.
“Pretending to look proper, but secretly abusing your own mother, driving her into madness.A beast like you deserves hell.”
“Why waste words on her? Heartless, unfilial, insane, no matter how much money she makes, she won’t live long enough to spend it.”
I went to the washroom to clean myself before returning to the office. The moment I entered, the whispers scattered into silence.
No one spoke, but the eyes fixed on me carried a strange, heavy meaning.
A colleague I had always kept under control finally found a chance to strike at me.
“Millicent, so impressive, crushing colleagues at work and even beating your own mother at home. Is this your way of venting? To be scolded as a public toilet and still parade in here, you truly have a thick skin.”
Whispers rippled through the office. “Millicent always looked so kind. Who would have thought she’s actually violent? I wouldn’t dare talk to her again, one wrong word and she might fire me.”
‘Exactly. When she pulls that cold face, it’s frightening. I thought she was just distant, but now! see she’s dangerous. Who can feel safe working with her?”
Just a few sentences, and as my anger slowly cooled, the outline of the truth had already formed n my mind.
My assistant hurried over, her expression uneasy. “Millicent, the boss wants you in his office.”
nodded and walked into the general manager’s office, my coworkers smirking behind me.
He scowled and placed his phone in front of me.
On the screen, my mom appeared, her hair white, her face pale and sickly. She sobbed into a ivestream camera.
Pulling up her sleeves and pant legs, she showed scars everywhere, cigarette burns, knife cuts,
and bruises from sticks.
More than half a million people watched the livestream, flooding the screen with comments.
This is enough to send someone to prison!]
[Hell is empty, demons walk the earth. Who could do this to an old woman?]
My mom wiped her eyes and whispered, “At my age, I never wanted to air our family’s shame in public. But I can’t endure it anymore. I’m afraid one day I’ll die at home, and no one will ever
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[This is enough to send someone to prison!]
[Hell is empty, demons walk the earth. Who could do this to an old woman?]
My mom wiped her eyes and whispered, “At my age, I never wanted to air our family’s shame in public. But I can’t endure it anymore. I’m afraid one day I’ll die at home, and no one will ever
know.”
“My daughter is a monster. She caused her father’s death in a car accident and felt no guilt. She hits me, curses me, and treats me like dirt. For years, even as a senior executive at a big company, she’s only given me plain buns and pickles to eat. If I so much as touch a piece of meat, she beats me nearly to death, calling me a worthless old woman.”
She sobbed harder. “I stayed silent, but she only became crueler, taking out all her work frustrations on me. And it’s not just me; she even ruined her uncle’s family. All because he once introduced her to a good man, she falsely accused him of hiring people to hurt her, sending his whole family to prison.”
“I have no money, no power. All I can do is beg the people watching to help me, to stand up against my heartless daughter.”
In the midst of this, some voices questioned, “Auntie, with so many wounds on your body, this already counts as malicious assault. Why didn’t you go to the police?”
My mom burst into tears, wailing bitterly. “She’s still my daughter. How could I ruin her completely? I only wished for her to lose her dignity, never to find work again, to be shunned like a rat despised by everyone.”
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