LOGINAfter five years of being forcibly institutionalized in a mental hospital by my parents for “rehabilitation,” I awakened the “Slap System” skill. One slap, a million dollars deposited into my account. Another slap, my combat power skyrocketed. Just as I was thoroughly enjoying my slapping spree and preparing to leap over the asylum walls to break free, my parents suddenly arrived to take me home. The moment I stepped through the front door, I saw my adopted brother Atticus Hawthorne, eyes reddened, holding my fiancée, Cassandra Vaughn, in his arms. Meanwhile, my real brother Roman Montgomery was locked in a dog cage, bitten and torn by vicious hounds, covered in wounds, and breathing his last breath. The moment he saw me, a faint light flickered in his eyes. Using the last ounce of his strength, his lips trembled slightly. “Lysander... run…” Before the words could fully leave his mouth, his hand went limp and dropped. I smashed the dog cage open with everything I had, scooped up his still-warm body, and rushed outside like a madman. “Stop right there!” Cold-faced, my parents blocked the doorway. “Roman is pure evil. He tortured Atticus’s dog to death and drugged Cassandra. Suffering a little punishment like this is light for him! Why take him to a hospital over a tiny injury?” Atticus fell to his knees before me with a loud thud, tears streaming down his face. “Lysander, after five years, you still hate me this much... I’ll go die right now so I don’t stay in your sight…” Cassandra immediately shielded him behind her back, harshly berating me. “Lysander! The moment you return, you force Atticus to die! You should never have been released from the mental hospital!” I looked at their hypocritical, evil faces, then down at Roman’s closed eyes that would never open again, and slowly raised my hand. Bullying me? I could bear it. But torturing Roman to death... I was going to make them find out whether their bones were tougher, or my slaps were harder.
View MoreUpon hearing this, Seraphina’s icy gaze froze on my face.A second later, her grip loosened.Thud!Losing his balance, Atticus crashed heavily onto the ground.She strode toward me and grabbed me firmly by the shoulders, her voice trembling with emotion.“Lysander... is it really you? I’ve been looking for you for so long!“After escaping the asylum, I was sent to an orphanage before the Davenport family took me abroad... I went back to find you, but they only said you had been sent back home!”When Seraphina was young, she had been sold by human traffickers into the mountains, where the family beat and verbally abused her after having a biological son of their own.When she was sixteen, her adoptive parents even tried to force her to become their son’s child bride…She fought with everything she had to escape, covered in injuries as she climbed over the wall of the mental asylum.I was the one who hid her in the dormitory attic and gave her all the money I had on me.That n
I tossed her aside like a dead dog.My parents and Atticus had long gone into hiding. Unfortunately for them, this mansion had only one exit.There used to be a back door, but to punish my brother and me—and out of fear that we might escape—they had welded it shut with their own hands long ago.I picked up a gasoline canister and doused the entire mansion.Click.The lit lighter dropped, and towering flames shot into the sky.Before long, a few figures draped in wet blankets came scrambling out on all fours.I stood quietly in the courtyard, waiting for them.The judgment was far from over.The moment my father’s obese figure emerged, I flipped him to the ground with a single slap.I dragged his heavy, pig-like body into the courtyard and strung him up beneath the persimmon tree, leaving him dangling there.He roared in rage. “How dare you lay a hand on your own father! If I’d known you’d turn out like this, I should’ve smothered you in your cradle!”I turned a deaf ear, tu
Atticus shrieked in a high-pitched roar, “He’s lying! That bastard Lysander is framing me! Cassandra, you have to believe me!”Cassandra’s brows knitted tightly, but she let out a sigh. “Atticus, of course I believe you.”Just as Atticus’s tense shoulders relaxed, the man on the ground struggled to lift his head, shouting with every last bit of strength, “I swear... every word is true! May lightning strike me down if there’s a single lie!”“Shut up!” Atticus violently kicked him right in the temple.With a dull thud, the man was knocked out cold on the spot.Cassandra staggered back half a step, shocked by this sudden display of cruelty.The man with the contorted face in front of her was like a completely different person from the gentle, kindhearted Atticus of her memories.I watched coldly, scoffing in my heart. This hideously violent face was merely the tip of an iceberg she had never seen before.Watching them tear each other apart, and looking back at the so-called parent
I let out a cold sneer. “You think you’re worthy of being called ‘parents’?”My mother spread her arms, blocking me with a trembling voice.“Lysander! No matter what they’ve done, they’re still your family! If you insist on doing this, you’ll have to step over my dead body first!”I stared at her and actually burst into laughter. “I only have one question for you. Were Roman and I actually born from your own womb?”“Of course you came from my own flesh and blood!” She snapped back as if stung. “You ungrateful brat, are you trying to splash dirt on me too?!”I threw my head back, tears mixing with streaks of blood sliding down my face, my voice hoarse.“Then why do you shower an adopted son with endless affection while treating us like sworn enemies—wishing we were dead?!”Her throat caught, her face instantly draining of all color as she stammered, “B-Because Atticus is sensible and caring! Unlike you two, who never knew how to appreciate my struggles…”I let out a bitter laugh












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