The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

Chapter 64

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  • Perhaps it was because he first shared his family stories so openly that I found it easier to speak.

  • Hesitating, I said,

  • “My mom passed away, and my dad, like yours, cut ties with me.”

  • That year, at my mom’s funeral, a sea of people came, all dressed in black.

  • The master of ceremonies gave a long eulogy, but I couldn’t fully understand it. My mind wandered midway.

  • I remember looking at my mom’s photo, where she seemed to smile at me, and I smiled back.

  • The next second, I was slapped to the ground by my father.

  • He roared, “Your mom’s dead! How can you still smile?”

  • Everyone turned to look at me as if I were some kind of monster.

  • In that moment, I was terrified.

  • Tears welled in my eyes, but I bit my lips and didn’t dare make a sound.

  • In the first year after my mom’s passing, my dad often sat in the living room at night, flipping through her letters and photos.

  • By the second year, he had packed her belongings into a few boxes and pushed them into a dusty

  • corner.

  • By the third year, he had remarried.

  • The new stepmom dumped the boxes into the yard, saying she wanted to burn them all.

  • I desperately rummaged through the pile and saved the camera, holding it tightly to my chest.

  • I burned myself in the process.

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  • From then on, the camera became the only thing left of my mom.

  • Later, my younger sister was born.

  • The love and attention of the whole family shifted to her.

  • I grew up as if invisible, turning eighteen without anyone noticing.

  • to college to study

  • dad handed me a thick stack of

  • adult now. Don’t come back.”

  • and counted it–30,000

  • blood ties between

  • my teachers and classmates praised me for being well–suited to

  • I could stay calm no

  • working, this became my professional strength.

  • my composure, but only I

  • ང་ད

  • day of the funeral, I hadn’t angered my dad,

  • still have abandoned

  • I’ve grown used

  • I ever laughed freely again or shed

  • would lose something even more

  • I let out a

  • my heart for so long, had never been shared with anyone before.

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  • usual faint smile at the corners of his lips had

  • was

  • only five years old at

  • little

  • laughing are a child’s

  • because no one

  • but it struck

  • funeral, my dad stopped speaking to

  • when my sister was born, my needs were always

  • I had to juggle my studies and find ways to support

  • wasn’t a single moment when I had

  • rely on, so I understood that my

  • to bury them deep

  • head, I

  • impossible to act like

  • or

  • sudden jolt ran through my ribs, like a

  • out a strange yelp and

  • Joseph poking

  • playful smile, he said, “Who says

  • dodge, but he grabbed me.

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  • stop laughing, no matter

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