From the moment I was born, I never had a name of my own.
When people spoke of me, all I heard were harsh curses.
Bastard. Half-breed. Illegitimate child.
Countless times in the dead of night, I wondered what I had done wrong to deserve such endless scorn and rejection.
My mother was the Lin family’s cherished daughter. My father was the head of the powerful Chen family.
A chance mishap brought me into this world.
But to them, my arrival was never a happy surprise. I was a burden they couldn’t shake off.
Because of my birth, my mother lost the man she had always loved, and spent her life regretting it.
My father already had a legitimate daughter, and to the Chen family, I was an awkwardly born stain, an unnecessary blemish.
From then on, I became like a hot potato, passed back and forth between the Chen and Lin families.
I wandered between the two households, seeing nothing but the cold stares of the world and enduring one rejection after another.
No one cared about my pain. No one pitied my plight.
Between those two enormous families, there wasn’t a single place that could make room for a lonely child like me.
