How Do the Children of Human Traffickers and Their Victims Live?

1

I resent my father, just as my mother resents me. My father is a human trafficker, and my mother was the woman he abducted and sold into the mountains. She didn't want to give birth to me, but she had no choice. She told me over and over, "You can't live. You can't live..." Then one day, my father contacted an old bachelor in the village and offered to sell me for 20,000 yuan. At last, I understood what my mother meant. I refused to accept my fate. I would escape with my mother.

2

In my memories, my mother was always locked inside a dark thatched shed. My father had nailed boards over the windows and put a lock on the rickety door