My heart skipped a beat when I saw my mother weeping. It was safe to assume that Steven must have been gravely injured.

As I dragged my way over to the ward, I saw Steven lying on the bed. He was completely drenched in blood with a plaster cast applied to both his legs.

 

There was no way I could stand seeing him in such a state no matter how much I was irked by his actions. After all, at the end of the day, he was my only sibling.

I strode toward his bedside, staring at him, and noticing that he was bruised all over, especially his face. Although my parents hadn’t sustained any serious injury, they weren’t exactly fine.

What the heck is wrong with that brutal bunch? They didn’t pull their punches at all! How dare they beat Steven up to a pulp? Aren’t they afraid of being arrested?

 

“M-Mom…”

Overwhelmed by emotions, I was unable to finish my sentence.

Torrents of grief streamed down my cheeks. I approached my mother and looked at her with my face scrunched up in guilt.

 

Although it was Steven’s fault for getting himself involved, I felt bad as I wasn’t of much help. If only I was capable enough to turn the tables around, Steven wouldn’t have ended up heavily injured.

When she heard me, she stopped weeping and glared at me in the eyes. A few seconds later, she stood up and marched over in my direction.

 

“Mom, I’m so sorry—”

finish my sentence. She slapped me in the face without holding back the moment she reached my

hell out of my

at me with a pair of teary eyes

I returned to my senses, I looked at her with my eyes widened

I had been holding back almost came flooding out, but I knew I couldn’t afford

to resist the urge to confront my mom. She tried her best to maintain

my apology once again, “Mom, I’m

sight immediately! You’re not my

she dragged me out of the ward with all her might, indicating

How can you

at fault! I can’t

are you when we need you the most? Since you can’t be of much help, stop considering yourself a member of the family! I’ll

being able to resolve the issue on the family’s behalf. In another word, she held me

family’s current situation? Does she think I’m having a great time when they’re having it

repeated, “Mom, haven’t I made it clear? I

me accountable for the things that had

you’re able to make more than a few hundred thousand within a

I could say that would convince her otherwise since she had already decided that I was the

contempt. I wondered if she would react the same if I was the one heavily injured instead of

these years, I was the breadwinner of the family, yet an accident was

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