I wanted to be the good child my mother desired. Even when she forced me to take pills that turned me into a useless shell, even when her gaze held nothing but disgust and suspicion. I believed I would live out my days as she wished--harmless and unremarkable. Until this morning, when the scent of blood roused me to find my mother's lifeless body lying below. Death revived everything. The fog of memory finally lifted, the shackles and chains shattered completely. The stories unfolding behind the curtain of my life, the secrets my mother would never have revealed to me had she lived--all were laid bare before me. "Only something truly extraordinary can make Yujin's heart beat. I don't know what that might be, so I feel fear." I recalled my mother's words again. With my heart pounding wildly, the razor opened its blade, waiting quietly in the palm of my right hand.
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