The Day I Returned, Mom Told Me to Get Out

"Officer, have you got this wrong?"

"This feral girl isn't my daughter!"

My mother pointed at me and shrieked at the police who had brought me home.

"My daughter died a long time ago. She died ten years ago!"

Standing at the door of a home that felt both familiar and strange, I felt all the blood in my body freeze in an instant. After ten years of inhuman torment, I had escaped by the skin of my teeth. All I wanted was to return to my mother's arms. But her gaze was venomous and sharp, as if she wanted to tear me to pieces.

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"Ms. Liu, the DNA test results can't be wrong. She is the daughter who went missing ten years ago...