All Chapters of Blood of the Unwilling: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

8 Chapters

Chapter 1

I was dead.Perhaps out of pure lingering obsession, my soul remained tied to my mother, unable to stray even a single step away.Inside the hospital room, my family gathered around my younger sister Chloe’s bed. My mother was so overwhelmed with anxiety that she was on the verge of tears.It was jarring to see this usually calm, decisive career woman break down like this. Her expression was light-years away from the aggressive, relentless posture she had taken against me in court.When Chloe finally opened her eyes, the heavy weight hanging over my parents lifted at last.My mother held Chloe’s hand, tears spilling over her cheeks. “Darling, you’re finally awake! Are you feeling sick anywhere? I’ll go call the doctor right now.”Chloe squeezed our mother’s hand and shook her head. She glanced around the room and asked softly, “Where’s Lillian? Why didn’t she come? Is she still mad at me for taking her blood?”The second my name was uttered, my mother’s face instantly darkened.

Chapter 2

After spending a month in the hospital, Chloe was finally discharged and brought home.“Where is Lillian? Did she drop dead outside and decide never to come back?” The moment my mother stepped through the front door, she saw a thick layer of dust coating the floor and cabinets. Spotting the moldy food inside the refrigerator, she flew into a rage. “Her endless little tantrums are really getting out of hand!”It was deeply ironic. During Chloe’s month-long hospital stay, both of my parents had remained by her bedside every single day.Not once had they stopped to think about how I was supposed to survive all alone without a single cent.Seeing that the house was in disarray was the only thing that triggered their memory of my existence. Yet my mother’s very first words were not out of concern for where I had gone, but to criticize me for being unreasonable.I had long since grown cold and numb toward them. Their slander and misunderstandings no longer stirred even a ripple of emoti

Chapter 3

Chloe had been back home for half a month already. It seemed that after my parents mentioned me once on the day they returned, they completely forgot about my existence and never brought me up again.Early in the morning, my parents took Chloe to the hospital for a follow-up examination.Chloe’s attending physician reviewed her lab results and confirmed there were no issues. Just as my family was about to leave, they noticed a few nurses gathered around watching a video on a phone.“How can a woman be so inhumane? She actually dragged her own biological daughter to court!”“She’s a lawyer, too! Highly educated, yet playing favorites like this and driving her own daughter to her death.”My mother froze in her tracks when she heard the familiar voice emanating from the video.The video showed my mother passionately recounting my supposed offenses and presenting her legal arguments during our court trial, insisting that I undergo the blood transfusion.I had remained silent through

Chapter 4

My father numbly transferred money to the nurse to cover the cost of the broken phone, moving like a walking corpse.“Dad, don’t be like this,” Chloe whined nearby. “Lillian was so disrespectful to Mom and even fought her in court. A daughter like that doesn’t deserve to be mourned.”Overhearing Chloe badmouthing me behind her back, my mother turned around, marched over, and delivered a ringing slap across Chloe’s face.“I won’t allow you to speak about your sister like that!”Chloe was stunned by the slap. She had likely assumed that because our parents hated me to the bone, insulting me would earn her attention. She had never expected it to ignite my mother’s fury instead.Fortunately for Chloe, she reacted quickly. She slapped herself hard several times in succession, muttering repeatedly through her tears, “It’s my fault! I shouldn’t have been the cause of Lillian’s death! I’m the one who should die!”Seeing Chloe like this, the cold hardness on my mother’s face softened slig

Chapter 5

I found it laughable listening to her.Since when was I so powerful in Chloe’s eyes?Ever since I was born, my parents’ eyes had been glued to her. When had they ever lingered on me?When Chloe cried as a child, my mother would beat me, claiming I had made too much noise and frightened her.When Chloe failed an exam while I earned a perfect score, my mother delivered another slap across my face.She accused me of harboring ulterior motives—saying that instead of tutoring Chloe, I had chosen to show off in front of them just to humiliate her.Even when I fell ill and brought my medical diagnosis to my mother, she kicked me hard in the lower abdomen.She glared at me viciously. “Chloe is sick right now, and you’re actually fabricating a lie like this just to compete for attention? Lillian, how can you not have a single shred of conscience?”Every expectation I had ever harbored for this family had vanished piece by piece amidst their distrust and cold indifference.Inequality cu

Chapter 6

My parents were summoned to the school while the injured girl was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. Chloe, on the other hand, stood to one side with a defiant expression.When Principal Maxwell Hayes explained the sequence of events, my mother stared at Chloe in utter disbelief.“You’re someone who is usually scared to death of stepping on an ant! How could you harm someone like this?”My parents couldn’t bring themselves to believe it, but I did.When I was little, I had personally witnessed Chloe abusing small animals on multiple occasions.I had told my mother back then, but she had refused to believe me, even claiming that I was making up tales about Chloe just to compete for affection.She had even declared that Chloe was the kindest, soft-hearted child she had ever met.I knew my mother would never take my word for it.Yet Chloe was simply born with pure malice.A year ago, Chloe had nearly killed me by accident.While our parents were away on a trip, Chlo

Chapter 7

The victim’s family refused to accept any money. They insisted on taking the case to court and sending Chloe to prison.My mother acted as Chloe’s defense lawyer.Watching this, I felt only irony.My mother stood in this courtroom twice for her daughters. The first time was to force me to my death to save Chloe. The second time was to save Chloe yet again.Members of the jury looked at my mother and Chloe with cold, disgust-filled eyes.My mother pulled her suit coat tighter around herself, trying to hide behind her professional outfit. But she was only fooling herself.Just as my mother got into her zone and tried to deliver a speech, someone in the jury scoffed loudly.“Why even try to protect a monster like that? Like mother, like daughter. If I remember correctly, isn’t she that lawyer from the viral video?”“A woman like her doesn’t deserve to be a mother. If I were her dead eldest daughter, I’d want the younger sister dead too!”The speech my mother had prepared caught i

Chapter 8

In the middle of the flames, my mother looked at my floating soul and slowly reached out her hand, wanting to touch my face. But I took a step back.My mother closed her eyes, two lines of clear tears falling down her cheeks.“Go on, Lillian,” she whispered. “I hope you’re reborn into a family that loves you. I failed you in this life. Please... don’t choose me as your mother in the next.”As she spoke, tongues of fire licked across her body.If I wasn’t mistaken, my mother hadn’t looked surprised at all when she saw me. It was as if she had been able to see my spirit all along.I was just a ghost, completely unbothered by the fire. I stood there and watched with my own eyes as the home I had lived in for over ten years slowly burned to ashes. My father’s screams started off loud and powerful, turned raspy, and finally faded into complete silence.Through it all, my mother didn’t make a single sound.I should have felt a flood of mixed emotions, yet my heart remained entirely ca

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