Mom Does It All for Your Own Good

When the wedding-gift list slapped against her face in the river breeze, the last thing she heard was her mother's familiar, "It's for your own good." When she opened her eyes again, her college entrance exam application lay spread across the table, its 48-hour countdown glaring red. She had been reborn, and the bullet comments from the Law-Bomb System were translating "Mom's only doing this for your own good" into a red-background warning: "Locked in and forced to marry for 300,000 yuan."

She pulled out her phone and livestreamed herself calling the police. On camera, her mother's hand was hidden behind the door, clutching the butcher's marriage proposal. She tapped her stock-market prediction ability, and when 2 million yuan arrived in her account, her older brother was kicking down the door, demanding "my sister's bride price money." The night Chen Zhiheng showed up with pollution data, the streetlights cast their shadows together across the bridge railing. He said, "I'll investigate my dad's pollution discharge, you focus on your college entrance exams. We'll save each other." Later, when girls from the "Bring Glory to the Family Alliance" flooded her livestream with messages saying, "I want to escape too," she finally understood that salvation was never a one-person job.

The courtroom lights flickered across her mother's face as she confessed, but she gripped the evidence bag Chen Zhiheng had handed her.

A hundred million viewers were still commenting, "The trial is over," when the System suddenly displayed a new prompt: "There's another layer to Mom's 'for your own good' that you haven't uncovered yet."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.