Pokémon: What should I do? My father-in-law always wants to tear me apart

In Li Ye's understanding, happiness is not about success and glory, but about having family sitting around and enjoying the warmth of lights.

Ever since he vaguely understood the meaning of happiness, he firmly believed that he was a lucky person who was blessed with this warmth.

Li Ye grew up in a single-parent family. His father's face was always blurry in his memory, but this small flaw did not cast a shadow in his heart.

At home, his mother built a safe haven for him with endless tenderness. Her soft instructions, concerned eyes, and the quilt corners quietly tucked in late at night all flowed through the years like a warm current.

His younger sister is his source of joy. Her soft calls, innocent smiles, and laughter when the brother and sister play around fill every inch of the home.

With such a mother and sister by his side, Li Ye's heart is filled with satisfaction and he firmly grasps happiness in his ordinary daily life.

When Li Ye was a child, his incomplete family structure made his growth path full of thorns.

Without his father's company, he became a "soft persimmon" in the eyes of some naughty children in the collective environment of the kindergarten.

Li Ye was born with handsome features and a gentle and peaceful personality. He never argued with others, which instead encouraged the bullying behavior of those children.

When his toy was taken away, he silently clenched and unclenched his fists.

He was pushed to the ground, but he got up with tears in his eyes. Even though he was full of grievances, he just swallowed them alone and never complained to his mother.

One night, Li Ye was awakened from his sleep by the urge to urinate and walked to the bathroom with sleepy eyes.

As he passed by his mother's room, a ray of light coming through the crack in the door caught his attention.

He subconsciously moved closer, but the scene before him instantly made him lose all his sleepiness: a strange man pressed his mother down on the bed, and his mother's expression seemed to be in pain and struggling.

Li Ye's heart suddenly tightened, and he pricked up his ears to listen to the two people's conversation in low voices.

After a few words of conversation, the precocious boy had pieced together the shocking truth - this man was called Huang Tianjiao, and he was actually his and his sister's biological father.

But this relationship did not bring joy, but a deeper shock.

He realized that his mother was just the "canary" outside Huang Tianjiao's golden house, and their existence was a secret that could not be seen in the light.

For a moment, anger, shame, and confusion overwhelmed Li Ye like a tide.

Looking at his mother's trembling shoulders in the house, his eyes became redder and redder, his little hands clenched into fists, his nails digging deep into his palms, but in the end he just retreated back into the darkness without a word.

The little figure seemed particularly lonely and helpless in the silent night. In his ignorance, he was forced to face the unbearableness of the adult world.

As the morning light broke, Li Ye lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling, the unbearable scene of last night constantly churning in his mind.

After thinking for a long time, he decided not to go to kindergarten today.

He first pretended to have a headache and called for his mother weakly.

His mother rushed over and saw that his face was pale and his brows were furrowed. She was very worried and called the teacher to ask for sick leave.

After his sister skipped out to school, Li Ye sat up from the bed and walked straight towards his mother.

When his mother saw his burning gaze, she turned her head away in panic.

The emotions that had been suppressed all night suddenly exploded in Li Ye's chest, and he asked loudly:

"Mom, who was that man last night?"

The mother's body trembled, her hands unconsciously clenched the corners of her clothes, and she stammered but couldn't utter a word.

Li Ye's eyes were red, and his voice unconsciously rose: "Mom, why don't you say anything? I know everything!"

Tears welled up in the mother's eyes. Under Li Ye's relentless pressure, the scars of the past were torn open again.

She choked up and told the story of a girl who came to the imperial capital to study with dreams in her heart. She was full of longing for the future, but was targeted by her classmate Huang Tianjiao.

Her refusal and resistance were met with a drugged drink, and her innocent body was defiled.

Calling the police to defend their rights was like hitting a rock with an egg. The Huang Tianjiao family had absolute power in the imperial capital and easily suppressed the matter.

She had no relatives and was isolated and helpless. Under Huang Tianjiao's daily intimidation, she had no choice but to become a mistress and gave birth to Li Ye and her sister. From then on, she fell into this dark quagmire.

Huang Tianjiao’s sudden visit last night was not to rekindle their old relationship, but to announce the end of the relationship.

The man who brought endless pain to the mother in the darkness was about to enter the marriage hall, and he wanted to completely erase the three of them, mother and children, from his life, as decisively as brushing off the dust from his shoulders.

Li Ye questioned his mother angrily, asking why she had to compromise in front of such a man who trampled on their dignity.

The mother burst into tears and revealed the cruel truth under her son's repeated questioning.

It turned out that her mother suffered from congenital heart disease, and this "time bomb" had been with her since birth.

Back then, her biological parents cruelly abandoned her at the door of an orphanage when she was still a baby, leaving her to fend for herself.

Although the orphanage later closed down, fortunately, my mother's illness miraculously improved.

I thought the blow of fate had ended there, but the birth of my younger sister brought the haze back again.

My sister inherited her mother's heart disease, which is why she is much thinner and always a head shorter than her peers.

In order to treat her sister's illness, the mother ran around and spent all her money, but the astronomical medical expenses made this single-parent family overwhelmed.

In desperation, the mother could only put aside her dignity last night and beg Huang Tianjiao for the last sum of money, even though she knew that this was "life money" bought at the cost of her self-esteem.

After that day, Li Ye's memory seemed to be shrouded in a thick fog. He could not remember how he got through those moments or what he said to his mother.

He only felt that there was an invisible watershed that separated his childhood from his growth path. Overnight, his ignorance faded away and he became like an adult who had experienced many vicissitudes of life.

In Li Ye's heart, his mother had many frustrations and difficulties. Although she was not perfect, she tried her best to protect them.

And the so-called father Huang Tianjiao is simply the embodiment of evil. He abandoned his wife and children and disregarded human ethics. He is not worthy of the word "father" at all.

He knew very well that he was the only one who could save this family.

So he plunged into the sea of ​​books, paid full attention in class, and took the initiative to study extra after class. His grades rose rapidly like bamboo shoots after rain.

But life on campus was not easy. Those classmates who enjoyed bullying him were like a nightmare that could not be shaken off.

Li Ye clenched his fists countless times, wishing he could hit back fiercely, but every time the thought flashed through his mind, his mother's tired face appeared before his eyes. He was afraid that his momentary impulse would bring more trouble to his mother, so he could only endure it silently.

One weekend, Li Ye was walking on the street and saw a few bad boys and girls with colorful hair and exaggerated earrings.

Passersby looked sideways, their eyes full of disdain and disgust, but Li Ye keenly caught the "keep away" aura emanating from them.

At that moment, a bold idea came into his mind.

If I dress like this, can I keep those annoying people out?

On the weekend, Li Ye walked into the barber shop for the first time with a nervous mood. He pointed at the hair dye and said he wanted to dye his hair yellow.

When he walked into the campus with a striking hair color, the effect was immediate. Those classmates who used to find fault with him really stayed away from him.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the teacher's criticism came like a torrential rain. He was punished to stand in the corner of the classroom, listening to the teacher's earnest teachings, but he felt mixed emotions.