When I was three years old, my mother divorced because my father was having an affair with He Yun.

My father wouldn't let her take me with her, so she had to return to her family.

At that time, divorced women were very embarrassed, and even her brother in her family looked down on her, so she had no way to take me with her.

Later on, she hurriedly married another man and disappeared for a while.

Meanwhile, my father quickly married Liu Yun and had a daughter, Lin Jiao, the following year.

She not only bullied me herself, but also gave birth to a daughter who joined in tormenting me.

My father was mostly working outside and rarely at home, so he had no idea how Liu Yun treated me.

Liu Yun would deliberately give me a few coins in front of outsiders to buy snacks, pretending to be a good person.

But when I returned home, not only could I not eat the snacks, but I would also get beaten.

When my father was at home, he would also pretend to treat us equally.

In reality, my clothes were all marked with bruises underneath.

Every time, she would only cook two eggs for them, one for each of them, and none for me.

They made me wash all their clothes, while Lin Jiao just ate and played, leaving me to do all the household chores.

When she was in a bad mood, she would beat me, and in winter, she would lock me in the bathroom, drench me with water, and then give me a few coins to buy soy sauce from the store.

There were countless similar incidents, and if it weren't for my mother coming to see me secretly, I wouldn't have lasted.

Yes, my mother came back to see me later!

She also brought my half-brother, Meng Yan, who was four years younger than me.

My mother said the man she later married was abusive, beating her at the drop of a hat, then kneeling down to apologize, but she couldn't live with me out of fear that I would also be beaten.

So she could only bring Meng Yan to see me secretly when she missed me, a habit that lasted for over a decade.

Meng Yan was originally well-behaved, a normal child.

But when he was seven, he got meningitis, leaving him with sequelae.

He couldn't be stimulated, any stimulation would trigger a relapse, making him extremely violent, and even causing harm!

When he wasn't having an episode, he seemed normal, but he was extremely paranoid, with delusional disorder.

He couldn't stand seeing me and my mother being beaten.

According to my mother, every time she was being beaten, Meng Yan would come out to stop it, and even protect her by resisting his father.

But in the end, the mother and son would be beaten together.

I was left with scars after being bullied by Liu Yun, and Meng Yan immediately wanted to go to my house to confront her when he saw it.

But we always stopped him.

We had been together for more than ten years, and even though we had different fathers, our bond was very strong.

And he was admitted to a mental hospital because of me.