The Canary that couldn't escape

Chapter 807: Chapter 808: A Childhood Too Painful to Look Back On 3

Mo Ran held him tightly, biting his lip and said nothing.

"Entering the Gu family was the beginning of my nightmare. Because I am an illegitimate child, born of low status, and because I am disabled, I have no use. So everyone in the Gu family despised me and never treated me kindly."

"When I first went in, I was both cautious and terrified, living in constant fear every day.

My half-brother, in particular, thought of ways to torture me daily. I remember once, he pushed me into the swimming pool and made me climb out on my own.

My legs couldn’t move at all, and I almost drowned in there.

things happened nearly every day. Later, I learned to endure in silence, not resisting. He found it boring and stopped torturing me every day, only occasionally

mother knew I was living with the Gu family and wanted to use me to squeeze into the Gu

Gu family? They could kill me without a second thought, let alone

family. She didn’t

jumped into the sea and committed suicide. But only I knew how much she cherished her life. Otherwise,

them. My heart was heavy with sorrow; after all, she was my mother. But my expression did not show grief,

gloomy and lifeless me was like a dirty

my lack of ambition and gloom, he too started to despise me. But in