Laifu Is Frail, Yet Kicks His Way to Survival

Before she turned thirteen, Laifu had three wishes. First, that her father would quit drinking, gambling, and hitting people. Second, that her grandmother would look people in the eye and stop favoring boys over girls. Third, that her younger brother would stop making her take the blame for everything.

But after her father accidentally died because of her, she had no family left in that house.

The mother who had once doted on Laifu hated her now. “He was hitting me. That was my business. Who asked you to step in? If I’d known this would happen, I never should have given birth to you!”

Her younger brother even gloated as he shouted that she should be sent to juvenile detention. “You deserve this! You’re the one who got Dad killed. Don’t ever call yourself my sister again. I don’t have a cold-blooded murderer for a sister!”

Her grandmother went so far as to kneel before the police and demand that Laifu pay for her father’s death with her life. “Officers, this jinx killed my son. You have to sentence her to death so she can pay for his life!”

Her heart turned to ashes.

Encouraged by a social worker, she rekindled her hopes of going to school and pursuing a brighter future.

Five years later, when she faced her family again, she naively thought that as long as she admitted her mistakes, time would dispel every shadow. But things didn’t go as she hoped. So on her very first night home, she raised her fists and beat up the uncle who tried to bully her...