After the college entrance exam, my dad sat with me to check my scores online. I had gotten a perfect 750 and been accepted to Qingbei University.
He had been full of anticipation, but in an instant his eyes blazed with fury. He slapped me hard and told me to drop out and wash dishes and wait tables for a living.
I sucked in a sharp breath. My school had always taken pride in me as an outstanding graduate. I couldn't understand why he was doing this!
With red eyes, I shouted, “Why won't you let me go to school!”
My family was clearly well-off, yet he had already started calling around to find me a job.
I argued my case, but he heartlessly locked me in the storeroom. “You just can't go to school, no matter what!”
Sobbing uncontrollably, I called my mother and older brother at work.
My brother, who had once spoiled me like a precious jewel, grabbed me by the hair and slammed my head against the floor.
My mother turned deathly pale with fright. “This is too terrifying!”
“Letting that wretched girl work will only make her even more unruly. There's an old bachelor in the village who's fifty and still unmarried. If Jinqing marries him, she'll learn to behave!”
I couldn't understand why they had suddenly changed their attitude toward me, or why they refused to let me study. I planned to run away, but they broke my legs and sent me to the old bachelor's house.
The humiliation of my body and the old bachelor's curses made my heart ache as if it were being torn apart.
On the day Qingbei University began classes, I understood that I had no hope left.
Half a year later, my father came to visit, beaming with delight. I roared like a madwoman, asking why he had ruined my life.
His face darkened. He called me incorrigible, then told the old bachelor to beat me to death.
After being reborn, I returned to the day I was supposed to check my college entrance exam scores with my dad.
