A Promising Youth

Chapter 5 The Cannibalistic Conspiracy

When I returned home, it was still the same dark and closed environment, dark living room with small

doors and windows. There were too many unpleasant memories of my youth, and now I thought about

it, my bones were still chilled.

Master was right, although I learned my skills, the character flaws caused by my family of origin, the

cowardly inferiority complex in my bones, could not be changed through study.

It was like a hock, I couldn't shake it off, and it just ate away at my character, my self-confidence.

At dinner, my parents again talked about my brother's marriage and asked about the girl. At that time, I

was nervous, afraid that the pretty girl became my future sister-in-law.

I didn't dare to interrupt and ask, because I still had no status in the family. In their mere words, I heard

that the girl was in the same class as my brother, and then I felt relived, because the pretty girl was a

class higher than me.

Late at night after I got home, I couldn't sleep for a long time and took out a book from under my bed,

which was actually the most ordinary textbook, but inside it, there was a tissue paper which made it so

precious!

This tissue was handed to me by that pretty girl. I had never used it. Over many years, the fragrance of

magnolia flowers on the tissue, instead of dissipating, impregnated the pages of book with the

fragrance.

‘Girl, where are you?

Do we have a chance to see each other again in this life?

Do you know that your words and warm move changed my life and gave me the courage to live?’

Infinite emotions hit me and I held the book tightly into my arms, feeling like holding her, the girl of my

dreams.

Late at night there was the sound of a door opening outside. My brother and my mother went to the

living room.

“Anika, do you have enough money?” My mother asked.

“I asked all the villagers and borrowed 80,000 yuan.”

My father said as he sipped his water.

“You're useless parents!”

My brother was immediately upset, and he said indignantly, “

It's 160,000 for down payment, what about the remaining 80,000 yuan?”

My mother said,

“Keep your voice down, don't wake your brother up!”

Father said in a deep tone.

“The village wants to raise funds to build a factory. It just happens to use our family's land, an acre of

20,000. If it is all sold out, we will have 80,000, which will transfer to our account tomorrow morning and

then we can pay for the down payment of the house.”

Hearing that, I lay in my little room and was distraught that I couldn't breathe!

To buy a house for my brother, my parents went into debt and even sold the land they relied on to

survive!

And when did they ever think of me?

I was their son, too. Had they ever been so good to me?

But what happened next chilled me even more when my father spoke up and asked.

“Has it done with your brother’s business?”

At the time, I thought that they were talking about getting me a job, but my mother hurriedly interjected.

“Keep your voice down!

Get in the room and don’t let him hear that!”

Then I heard them went to my brother's room and closed the door. At that time I thought, it was not

something unseemly to introduce a job to me, why did they try to hide it?

If in the past, I would never dare to lie on the door to eavesdrop, but now was different. Although I was

still humble and timid, at least I understood that I should master my own destiny.

Barefoot, I tiptoed into the living room and bent down to the door of my brother's room, only to hear the

most horrible thing in the world, ever!

My brother said with great interest.

“It's all done. It's a black coal mine out of town. Once you send him in, he'll never get out again.”

“Hey, he is also our son, you guys do this ......”

My mother sighed. In that moment a warmth surged through my cold heart, but the next moment, she

asked.

“How much do they pay?”

“Eight thousand a month, it will transfer to my card.”

My brother grinned grimly.

“Then you'll have the money to pay off the mortgage.”

My mother breathed a long sigh of relief and followed up with the question,

“Will he run away?”

My brother said with sudden impatience.

“Why are you so long-winded?

That coal mine has background, what miner would dare to escape?”

Hearing this made my heart clench into a ball, my family was going to sell me out for money!

My mother said with relief.

“Good, we framed him before, he must hate us in his heart!

Hurry up and get rid of this time bomb, in case he succeeds, he may retaliate against us.”

Yes, I did think of revenge back then, but after all, blood was thicker than water, after all, they were my

families. And I had long since let go of what happened back then, but they wanted to do this to me!

My heart seemed to stop beating because I was completely dead to this family ......

“Mom, find my diploma, I will became official employee and I need to make a copy of my education

certificate for my files.”

My brother yelled.

My mother went to look for it, and my father said,

“Jemima, your identity is now Matteo, don’t make mistake about it.”

“Don't worry, I've been using this identity for five years now, I'll never make a mistake.”

My brother said smugly, yawning. Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“It's late, you guys go back to bed.”

“You go to bed, I'll watch from the living room tonight to save your brother from running away.

I won't be completely at ease until we get him to the black coal mine.”

Father said, and seemed to smoke.

Hearing that my father was coming out, I hurriedly turned and ran back to my room and lay on my bed,

staring numbly and wide-eyed. I could have literally fallen apart if I hadn't had that tissue in my arms,

clutching it and thinking of the girl who gave me hope!

This family's woeful plan fell on deaf ears, word for word, and it was hard to believe, even to hear it

myself!

How could they be so mean to me?

And what, exactly, did I do wrong?!

The next morning, my parents were surprisingly nice to me and cooked a lot of food, something I had

never been treated like before in my life.

My father even asked me to drink with him. While drinking, he shed tears, apologized to me for what

happened back then, saying they had harmed me and asking for my forgiveness. He said after buying

a house for my brother, he would immediately buy one for me and get me a wife.

If I hadn't listened to that “conspiracy” last night,

I would be impressed because the way my parents and brother acted was so sincere!

And all these years, what I'd been wishing for was that they were nice to me.

With desperate heart, I accompanied them to put on a show. When I left, my mother slipped 2,000 yuan

into my pocket, so that I could eat something nice outside.

If it was put in the past, that simple and cowardly me would be sold out without even knowing why, but

now, I was long gone from my old self.

Master once said that the only way to change my character flaws was to “rebel”!

The more I fear something, the more I had to rebel against it. Only in rebellion could I keep overcoming

your mental fears.

Don't force me. I might be honest, but if they forced me, I would dare to do anything!!!