Mom's Phone Threats

Echoes of the Abyss 1. The edge of the rooftop My mother stood on the edge of the rooftop, and the wind from the rooftop blew her gray hair into a mess. The phone was pressed to her ear, and her voice came through the radio waves, distant and broken: "Zhou Yu, your aunt hit someone, you take the blame, or I will jump down." I stood downstairs of the company holding my cell phone, looking up at the twenty-six-story office building. The crowd of people getting off work rushed past me, and the neon lights of the city had just begun to flash. I heard my own voice sounding so calm that it was unlike me: "Mom, you can go in peace. I'll burn more money for you for the first seven days." There was silence on the other end of the phone, only the howling of the wind. I knew she was frozen in place. "Zhou Yu... What did you say?" Her voice was trembling. "I said, if you want to jump, just jump. But I will never take the blame for my aunt." My voice was terrifyingly steady, "She hit someone and she should be responsible for it." "She is your aunt! She loved you so much when you were a child -" She started crying again. "She loves me?" I sneered, "The way she loved me was to dump the evidence of my dad's cheating on me when I was twelve years old? This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.