The Day I Kissed An Older Man

Melody chuckled bitterly.

Lucas felt a pang in his heart. It was an indescribable sensation. There were times when the human heart was simply inexplicable. Before meeting Melody, he could hardly fathom the existence of a mother who did not love her own child.

"Wendy did such terrible things to me, and they never once asked. They only care about her. Why is that? Or maybe I'm just too worthless, so even though I'm my mom's biological daughter, she doesn't like me. It's really exhausting..."

Melody let out a deep sigh and closed her eyes, as if drifting off to sleep. No one but her knew how she wept over her fate.

Lucas did not immediately comfort her. Instead, he looked at her with eyes filled with complexity.

who cared about her. Wendy only had to cry a little for Helen

Her knees were scraped badly, and the pain was

hurts

out to Helen, but her mother continued to sit on the couch, eating potato chips in front of the TV, not

to Melody's knees after seeing how badly scraped they were. Melody reached out her arms to Helen when she

you even go down the stairs properly? You should be

moment on, every time she got hurt, Melody did not dare to openly express her pain. She blamed herself, thinking that if she had been more careful, she would

As

in that kind of environment through her formative years, her feelings of inadequacy and lack of love had become deeply ingrained. She felt like she could never escape from it. She hated her twisted family, despised her perpetually biased parents, and loathed that they exposed everything in front of Lucas, robbing her of the courage to stand beside him with dignity. She would forever be a joke to Lucas because of her family. A family that, at any moment, could drag