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.

tears only held meaning when shed in front of someone who cared about her. Wendy only had to cry a little for Helen to immediately put aside whatever

stairs and fell down. Her knees were scraped badly, and the pain

it hurts

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

it was the housekeeper who tended to Melody's knees after seeing how badly scraped they were. Melody reached

even go down the stairs properly? You should be more careful

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

her life, she endured countless blames, causing her to increasingly doubt herself. As she grew older, Melody realized that

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