Cost of Breathing

Every breath he takes while alive is the price of atonement—— His mother believed that he had killed his father, causing his younger brother to struggle with illness since childhood. Hate drove him crazy. The wolf who is being demanded for debt in his depravity. The home became a purgatory. He silently carried everything - his mother's crazy scoldings, the sky-high price of medicine, the threats that followed, and his studies on the verge of collapse - just to find a way out for his younger brother. An old mobile phone with a broken screen was my father's last gift, and it was the rock that broke his heart. When his brother's breath was choked again, and when a stranger's banging on the door mixed with his mother's scream tore the night apart... He squeezed the life-saving money he had saved while working, and his nails dug into the palm of his hand. The shadows of the past were approaching with unsettled blood debts, and the unexpected help came from the bar owner who had been saved by him but was burdened with a dark past. There is also the fat classmate named Wang Maozi who stubbornly uses "dessert exchange" to pry open his frozen world... In the darkness where every breath is as heavy as iron, can these stubborn and flickering lights of despair penetrate the surrounding black curtain and see the slightest crack? ——The price they pay for breathing is so heavy that it's suffocating.