I let out a cold laugh.
"What if I don't back down?"
"If you don't back down, I'll personally go to your school and teach you a lesson!"
"Come on, I don't care anymore. We might as well go down together!"
With that, I hung up the phone.
I tagged everyone again.
"Dear uncles and aunts, thank you for your good intentions, but Xiao Chang doesn't want you to get involved. Whether I live or die, it's my own fate."
"By the way, Mom, weren't you going to teach me a lesson? Hurry up, I'm waiting."
This time, Mother didn't reply to my message. After a while, she sent a message in the group.
"Liu Shang, from now on, consider us as if we never existed as your parents, and you are no longer our daughter. Don't contact us again!"
Seeing this message made me laugh out loud.
Finally, finally they don't want me anymore.
That's great.
I exited the group chat, cutting ties with this family completely.
I hope you won't regret it in the future.
I posted another message.
"Sorry everyone, the last post about living expenses was sent by Mother, she used my account without my consent. Thank you all for your concern; if anything happens, I'll keep you updated."
I also attached a screenshot of the group chat.
"Thank you all for your support, but please don't reach out to my Parents. I've severed ties with them and hope everyone will bless me as I embark on a new life!"
Once I posted it, it exploded with responses. Many girls commented.
"Big sister, I support you!"
"Big sister, I understand you. I couldn't take it anymore with my parents either, so I ran away from home."
"..."
One comment made me cry.
" little fish, swim quickly, freedom is all around!"
I don’t know why, but when I saw that comment, memories of my time in the Scorching Summer Day flooded back to me—working in the kitchen.
Back then, I was washing vegetables while arguing with my family.
I told myself not to cry, but I couldn’t help it.
In a corner where no one could see me, I secretly cried.
At that moment, I finally let it all out.
I squatted on the ground and cried loudly.
My roommates noticed something was off and rushed over to ask what was wrong.
"Xiao Chang, what's wrong?"
"Xiao Chang, don't scare us!"
Some of them patted my back while others wiped my tears.
After crying for a while, I felt less suppressed inside.
I stood up and smiled at them.
"It's okay, I'm happy. I'm finally free."
They looked at me with suspicion, but seeing my determination, they went back to their own things.
I took a tutoring job in Nancheng, working two hours every Saturday and Sunday for fifty yuan an hour, with ten yuan for round-trip transportation—it was quite reasonable.
When I arrived at the employer's house, I found that the employer was a woman who looked to be no more than thirty years old and had a daughter in elementary school.
Her name was Chen Qian, and she told me she had divorced her husband.
I was a bit surprised and didn’t understand why she was telling me this.
She smiled bitterly.
"I was the one who brought up the divorce."
She paused for a moment.
"Because I can’t do housework anymore. He would make sarcastic remarks and mock me. When I didn’t argue back, he just escalated his behavior."
"Then one day, I couldn’t take it anymore and we got into a fight. My daughter was helping me wash a cup when he pushed her aside, causing the cup to shatter, and he cut his hand in the process."
"He was furious and yelled at my daughter, which led to me confronting him."
"He insulted me, saying that a woman who can’t do anything would have nowhere to go after divorcing him."
"I told him, then let’s get divorced. He said that if we divorced, I would leave with nothing. I just laughed and told him that I never thought about taking his money; I only wanted to ensure my daughter wouldn’t suffer because of me."
"Tell me, is there such a man?"
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