My mom is a big coward, and I’m a little coward.
After Dad died, we were often bullied.
To keep us from being bullied, she chose to remarry.
Only after they got their marriage certificate did we find out that the small-business owner she married was actually the father of the capital’s most powerful young heir.
The night before we moved, the two of us huddled together in bed, terrified, and cried all night.
From then on, in our new home, I ate only three bites of rice and kept close to the walls whenever I went out.
I was afraid of offending the capital’s young heir and getting beaten to a pulp.
Until I was bullied at school again, and he charged into the crowd, shielding me behind him.
He said,
“Picking on my little sister again? Do you think I’m dead?”
That was when I realized that, in his heart, we had already been a family for a long time.
Theme: A big brother’s love is the best gift heaven could give me.
