On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Yue died. Before he died, he caught the fish his father liked, cooked a table full of dishes, then heard his father tell his son, “Your dad was never as good as your uncle when he was a kid. Don’t expect to be better than Yifei, either.” He had heard those exact words when he was eight. He didn’t argue or fight back. He went downstairs and crouched in the corner. When he looked up, he saw his father standing at the doorway of his older brother’s empty room, waiting for him: waiting for the man who came home once a year. Then a sharp pain seized his chest, and he never got up again. Cause of death: sudden cardiac arrest. Cause of illness: thirty years of hurt.
This is a story about “the well-behaved child.” It’s for everyone who never got their family’s love, and for everyone afraid their children will suffer the same fate. Let those words end with you.
Sadistic plot, family ethics plot
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