Rebirth: I'll Ruin My Martyr Mother
All the pain, confusion, and fury I had carried from my past life surged forward, flooding out as tears I could no longer contain.
The media snapped away, but no one knew why I was crying.
Those tears were not hers to claim. They were for the dark past I had finally escaped, and for the boundless future that now lay before me.
I considered myself lucky. I had not become a sacrifice for her greed, nor had I become a stepping stone for her so-called pursuit of love.
Fragments of the past flickered through my mind like scattered photographs caught in the wind, and in that moment, a shaft of sunlight broke through the clouds, spilling gold across the ruins of everything I had survived.