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I spent a whole year in this state of humiliation, and every day was torture.

On my ninth birthday, not only did my uncle and aunt not give me any gifts or blessings, they were even discovered by my aunt due to missing my parents who had secretly shed tears. She felt unlucky, so she beat me up for no reason, while scolding me, "Little jinx, why didn't you die with your unlucky dead parents!"

When she finished insulting me and started insulting my parents again, I broke down completely and hit her in the stomach with my head! She was caught off guard and fell to the ground screaming as she rolled down the stairs!

I didn't know that my aunt was already pregnant, and although she was rushed to the hospital, the child was not saved. What was even more serious was that she couldn't get pregnant again in her life due to the massive bleeding. To Xu Changsheng and her aunt, this news was undoubtedly like a bolt from the blue.

That night, I was hung in the living room by Xu Changsheng and beaten up. Wooden sticks, belts, almost everything he could use. I was beaten so badly that I woke up with cold water when I fainted; when I came to know the pain, he continued to beat me up, and my desperate pleas did not arouse a trace of his conscience, and finally the nanny of the house could not bear to call her old home, and her ignorant grandmother came limping from a remote village thousands of miles away in a car to the city.

When she arrived, it was already the morning of the second day. Nana, who didn't close her eyes the whole night, came in and scolded Xu Changsheng, but she was pushed down to the ground inhumanly. I looked at the grandmother who loved me dearly and fell on the ground and didn't get up for a long time, making me cry even harder.

Grandma looked at me, whose body was covered in blood from the beating, and forced herself to stand up, supporting herself on the wall little by little. She limped over to Xu Changsheng and kneeled down in front of him, kowtowing one after another, begging him to let me go …

I looked sorrowfully at the grandmother who knelt before Xu Changsheng. If it wasn't for me, she wouldn't have to suffer such humiliation at such an age.

Grandma said that if he didn't let her take me away, she would go to court and report his mistreatment of me and make him lose everything he had now.

Maybe Grandma's threat was really effective. Xu Changsheng agreed to her request and then informed some relatives to take me to the hospital. Not long after I was sent to the hospital for treatment, I heard the news that Grandma was accidentally killed by a car on the way there.

Grandmother's death almost destroyed me. I knelt in the mourning hall. Even if Xu Changsheng personally came to pull me, I still wouldn't let go of Grandmother's hand. Without any comfort, I only heard Xu Changsheng warn me viciously. He said, "Think carefully about what will happen to you if you go against me."

For three days, I ate and slept, sitting alone in the mourning hall holding my knees and crying. Everyone thought that I was scared silly by the sudden accident, but only I knew that I didn't want to face Xu Changsheng's hateful face. I didn't believe that my grandmother's death, including my parents' death, was an accident.

The car was driven by Xu Changsheng, so why was there a problem with the brakes the moment he walked? Grandmother came to my rescue in the middle of the night. Why did she get into a car accident when she threatened to take me away from Xu Changsheng? It all happened so coincidentally. Even though I'm still young, I can still see some clues, but none of my close friends raised any doubts. Instead, they were trying to comfort Xu Changsheng's family, trying to turn the situation around, trying to comfort them.

But there was nothing I could do. Everything was under his control, so I had to accept the arrangements of my kind relatives and go to the orphanage to live. I know that they were afraid that I would fall into an accident again, but in just a year, the young me witnessed the frigidness and reality of kinship, and also witnessed the greediest, most despicable, and most shameless side of human nature.