The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

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. Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ FɪndNovᴇl.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

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

very young age, Melody understood that tears only held meaning when shed in front of someone who cared about her. Wendy only had to cry

down. Her knees

it hurts

the couch, eating potato chips in front of the TV, not even sparing her

was the housekeeper who tended to Melody's knees after seeing how badly scraped they were. Melody reached out her arms to Helen when she passed by, hoping to be comforted, but

even go down the stairs properly? You should be

found her troublesome. From that moment on, every time she got hurt, Melody did not dare to openly express her pain. She blamed

blames, causing her to increasingly doubt herself. As she grew

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 her down, further diminishing what little courage she had. She would eventually end up like