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Partiality Is the Knife That Kills a Child

share time: 2025-12-22 00:30:23

Lin Xiaoman, a 14-year-old stepdaughter in a blended family, has endured her mother's blatant favoritism toward her biological daughter Su Xiao for three years—an extra poached egg for Su Xiao every morning, only attending Su Xiao's parent-teacher meetings, and even taking Xiaoman's comic book (saved up for half a year) to compensate for Su Xiao's broken vase. On her birthday, her mother walks in with a strawberry cake for Su Xiao and asks, "Why haven't you made Su Xiao's favorite tremella soup yet?" The handwritten note "Mom, I love you" hidden under Xiaoman's pillow is blown to the floor, but her mother steps on it to bring the cake to Su Xiao. That night, Xiaoman leaves a letter and disappears: "Mom, I spent three years proving your heart is locked, and only Su Xiao has the key." When her mother finds her huddled in the old bookstore Xiaoman often visits, she sees every photo of her mother laughing with Su Xiao saved on Xiaoman's phone, with the note "I want to smile like that too"...

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