Only After I Took My Own Life Did My Brothers Learn How Wounded I Was

[False kindness and abuse / cherished by everyone / campus / healing and redemption / modern romance / sweet coming-of-age love]

[Heroine traumatized by 11 years in foster care × healing male lead, six years older]

“Go see your uncle's family.”

She had only just let her guard down around these two brothers who had appeared out of nowhere, and now they were sending her back to that hellhole?

Su Yuqing's grip tightened around the craft knife. As her consciousness began to fade, she seemed to hear the mother she had never met calling her.

“Bang!” The door was thrown open.

Under the moonlight, Su Yuqing lay curled on the floor. Blood from her wrist soaked into the carpet, a horrifying sight.

Su Yize picked her up. Her body was already cold, and his voice cracked. Su Yichen tore off his shirt and pressed it to the wound, his military boots trampling through the bloodstains, each step chilling to the bone.

The car sped away. All the details they had ignored came rushing back. At last, they realized that what they had called rebellion had been nothing but her desperate plea for help as she hovered near death.

The red light outside the operating room came on. Su Yichen made a call, his voice trembling: “Investigate Su Mingyuan and his family. Find out everything they did to Qingqing over those eleven years!”

During the two years Su Yuqing took off from school, Lin Yanci was always stopping by the Su family home. Without realizing it, he had begun to care about her in a way that went far beyond being “his younger sister's friend.”

As fireworks rose on New Year's Eve, he sat beside her and said softly, “Qingqing, I've never thought of you as a little sister.”