My name is Lin Wan. I used to be the apple of my parents' eyes.
Then my younger brother, Lin Hao, was born, and my world changed completely.
"You're the older sister, so you should give way to your younger brother." Those words were like shackles that bound me throughout my youth. Every resource in the family went to my brother. I worked summer jobs to pay my tuition, and even the 500,000 yuan scholarship I had fought so hard to earn was taken by my father to support him.
The demands never stopped, and neither did the guilt-tripping. I suppressed my true self, kept quiet and endured, swallowing every grievance.
But they didn't know that beneath my docile exterior, I had been keeping a careful account of every debt.
He Ming, who sat behind me in high school, deliberately got into the same university as me and became the person sitting behind me once again. He saw the scars hidden beneath my mild exterior, silently protected me, and guided me step by step.
Later, I married him.
With him by my side, I fought my way forward, tearing free of my family's shackles one step at a time and cutting off their endless demands in the name of family.
I won't let any of those who wronged me get away with it.
From a doormat forced to sacrifice everything for her younger brother to a woman in control of her own life, I, Lin Wan, have finally become someone they can only aspire to be!
