Bitter Roots and a Search for Family: The Six-Year-Old Nobody Wanted

Six-year-old Kugeng crouched at the entrance to the village, clutching a tattered family photo. Her grape-black eyes held no tears. Her adoptive family had thrown her out, claiming she was “cursed to bring death to her parents, a jinx born under an unlucky star.” But no one knew that every night, she hugged the photo and whispered, “Mama, where are you? Kugeng isn't afraid of pain.” She didn't know her birth mother had spent five whole years searching for her, combing through thirteen provinces. She didn't know the relatives who despised and bullied her would soon pay for their cold-heartedness. As the truth is revealed piece by piece, everyone discovers that the child they treated as a burden is actually the lost descendant of a martyr. And the vile relatives who climbed their way up by stepping on her are in for the harshest payback. Kugeng's search for her family is also a fight back for her dignity.