My sister regretted sending me to the correctional facility.

When I entered the house, Aunt Gu saw me.

She quickly got up, walked towards me with a concerned look on her face, and grabbed my hands tightly.

"Lu Yi! You've been gone for a year! I've been waiting for you so long, and finally you're back! You have no idea how much I've missed you this past year!"

My nose stung, and my voice trembled slightly: "Aunt Gu, I'm so sorry for making you worry..."

At this moment, Zhao Ming walked up behind Aunt Gu and gently patted her back.

"Auntie, the doctor said your heart isn't very strong, so please don't get too emotional because of someone."

Then Zhao Ming gave me a meaningful smile and looked me up and down.

"Cousin, you've finally come back. I thought you'd forgotten about this family."

Hearing Zhao Ming's words, my heart sank.

Zhao Ming deserves half the credit for my being sent to the reformatory back then!

Aunt Gu was naturally kept in the dark and read it.

She quickly greeted me, "Lu Yi, Gu Yao said you flew back from abroad, you must be hungry!"

Then, Aunt Gu pulled me to the dining table.

Before me lay a dazzling array of delicacies, a veritable feast of rare and exotic foods.

But for some reason, seeing all of this made me feel nauseous.

Gu Yao said coldly, "Lu Yi, these are all dishes that my mother has been busy since early this morning and specially prepared for you. You should eat more."

I nodded silently, thinking that I should not let Aunt Gu down.

Zhao Ming, who was standing next to me, was looking at me with a wicked grin.

"Cousin, the food abroad must be terrible, you've lost weight! Why did you have to go abroad and suffer like that? Isn't it better to stay at home?"

Zhao Ming's words contained a deeper meaning.

But I promised Gu Yao that I wouldn't reveal it to Aunt Gu, so as not to affect her heart disease relapse.

So I pretended not to hear what Zhao Ming said.

Aunt Gu warmly picked up a piece of braised pork for me, placed it in my bowl herself, and watched me eat it with great anticipation.

The moment I swallowed it, I couldn't hold it in any longer and immediately vomited what was in my mouth.

My action startled the people at the table.

Gu Yao was the first to get angry: "Lu Yi, what's wrong with you? My mom kindly made you a meal, and you threw it up in front of everyone?"

Zhao Ming followed up with a finishing blow, quickly picking up a piece of braised pork and putting it in his mouth, munching away with great relish.

"Auntie! Your braised pork is simply the most delicious food in the world! It's the best braised pork I've ever had in my life!"

A perfectly good family dinner was ruined by my vomiting.

Aunt Gu felt extremely guilty: "Lu Yi, has my cooking skill deteriorated? Maybe I just had a bad day. I wanted to cook your favorite dishes, but I didn't expect it to make you feel nauseous."

I shook my head as I vomited, my expression full of bitterness.

It's not that Aunt Gu did a bad job; on the contrary, she did an excellent job.

It's just that I haven't eaten meat for a year while I was in the correctional facility, so I don't know what meat tastes like.

This sudden eating caused my stomach to overwhelm me, and I vomited.

Ever since Gu Yao sent him to the reformatory.

I never ate a piece of meat or a full meal again.

Because the amount of meat available each day is limited.

Because of my status as an offender, I had a low status in the correctional facility.

Every time meals are served, other people come and snatch the meat from my plate.

If I resist, they swarm me and beat me up.

After they finished beating him, they threw the only clean steamed bun on the ground and stomped on it with their sweaty feet.

That was all the food I had left.

If I don't eat, I will starve to death.

To survive, I had no choice but to humbly pick it up and eat it, like a dog.

Moreover, in the collective dormitory of the correctional facility.

I was also one of the most severely ostracized people.

Besides sleeping in a place as close to the toilet as possible.

I prepare water for them to wash their feet every day.

Wash their feet.

We also need to give them massages.

If the massage is too light, they scold me for not eating enough and for being useless.

If the massage was too rough, they would corner me in the bathroom and beat me up.

I get a minor injury almost every three days and a serious injury every five days.

The director knew about my situation, but he always turned a blind eye.

As long as I have a breath left, she won't utter a single word about it.

Over time.

I learned to serve everyone in the correctional facility like a slave.

Gu Yao sent me to the instructors' camp.

I want the "teaching" here to perfectly transform me into a qualified and normal man.

But this kind of "teaching" completely crushed all my dignity.

If I want to get out alive, I can only crawl on the ground and eke out a living in a way that is as lowly as dust.

"Lu Yi, I'm so sorry. I'll practice my cooking skills these next few days and try my best to make dishes that suit your taste!"

I felt like crying. Whenever I was starving in the correctional facility, I would miss Aunt Gu's cooking.

But now that I've finally eaten the food I've been craving, I've embarrassingly thrown up.

"I'm sorry, Aunt Gu, I ate too much before I came..."

However, by then, my stomach was growling loudly with hunger.

Zhao Ming, standing to the side, said with ill intent.

"Auntie, Lu Yi doesn't eat too much! She just lives a comfortable life abroad, enjoying delicacies every day, so she looks down on your home-cooked meals!"

Upon hearing this, Aunt Gu's expression showed sadness and heartbreak.

Gu Yao, who was next to me, angrily raised her hand, as if to slap my head.

"Lu Yi, what's wrong with you! You have to eat the food my mom made today, whether you like it or not!"

The voice just fell.

I instinctively got off the chair and immediately squatted down on the ground, covering my head.

This is how I learned self-protection methods in the reformatory.

It can protect the body to the greatest extent and minimize the harm to oneself.

But Aunt Gu was terrified when she saw what I looked like.

She said angrily, "Gu Yao, what are you doing! Lu Yi is your brother, do you want to hit him?"

Gu Yao panicked and quickly explained, "Mom, I was just trying to scare him!"

"He's putting on an act with you! He's deliberately playing the victim to gain your sympathy."

Then Gu Yao kicked me.

"Lu Yi, are you out of your mind?! A grown man, why are you being so pretentious? What did I tell you before we came? Didn't you listen at all?"

I suddenly realized that this was not a correctional facility.

The people around me weren't the ones who bullied me every day.

My heart was filled with bitterness. I slowly stood up from the ground and remained silent without offering any explanation.

What can I explain?

From the day Gu Yao sent me to the reformatory.

She's forcing me to be an obedient man.

I have now done as she wished.

But she seemed even more dissatisfied.

I took a deep breath and recalled everything about the correctional facility.

Perhaps it's time for me to make a change.

I will take back the humiliation I suffered over the past year, bit by bit!