It was no beautiful day. The dark clouds had covered the blue sky. It was raining everywhere and the wind was blowing strongly.

But I didn't care, because even this rain outside was warmer than the affection I received at home.

But today, I didn't come outside to shield myself from what happened inside. Today, I went outside so I could change my life.

I started running, I didn't care about the coldness that my body felt or the resistance that the wind made. I ran, and I ran till I finally arrived where I wanted to be.

Several Weeks Ago

"Lily sweetie, why don't you come home early today? My client said he wanted to give you a gift." My dad entered my room. Although his words didn't sound super strange. I was disgusted by them.

After all, he was a prostitute and his clients were mostly older women or men. Although it wasn't the first time a client wanted to give me a "Gift". And neither would it be the first time I also received that "Gift". That didn't mean it would become any less disgusting.

I didn't want to look or talk to my dad so I just went to school. My uniform all messy, dark circles under my eyes, and my stomach was very hungry.

But this was a normal morning for me. And I just went to school on foot, regretting being so hasty because I had forgotten to take some money with me.

"Today will be a hungry day." I liked talking to myself because I felt like I was the only person that I could trust.

Soon, I arrived at my school. It was a fancy private school. One that normally only people from rich families could attend. The only reason I could even attend was because my dad knew someone inside the school administration.

I entered my classroom, and just like any other day. No one greeted. I had no friends. Fortunately, the school was quite strict on violence because of a case a few years ago, so I was never bullied. Well, never to an extreme level.

"Yun Yu Xuan, please leave me alone. I know you like me, but I will never like you." A handsome man, who I could easily identify as my classmate, loudly said.

"So-s-s-soorry, Li Tao Hai, I-I just wanted to give you this." I also recognized the girl Li Tao Hai was talking to.

She was also one of my classmates. She had long messy black hair that hid most of her face. She was around average height, quite thin, and not many people liked her.

She and Li Tao Hai were childhood friends, and if I were to believe the rumors. She was madly in love with him, but he wasn't. Heck, rumors were going around that he was dating her cousin.

*SMACK*

Unlike anything I expected, he actually gave her a hard slap across the face. And he raised his hand to do it again.

"Li Tao Hai, the teachers are coming, you wouldn't want any problems." Although it was stupid, very stupid, for me to grab his wrist and block his next slap.

But I didn't like people slapping other people. I detested it because it made me remember when my father hit me like that.

"Fuck off." Although he said that, he roughly broke free from my grip and went to his seat. It was quite interesting, that despite him hitting her. I could still hear everyone whisper how hateful Yun Yu Xuan was.

"Are you alright?" I crouched down. I saw tears in her eyes. Although I didn't feel any pity for her, that didn't mean I was above helping her.

"Don't touch me." Although I just wanted to help. It seemed my help wasn't welcome. Slapping my hand away.

But I wasn't uncommon to this treatment. Most of the bullying against me wasn't violence. But it was how they treated me. 

They were the superior rich people while he was an inferior poor common man who was the son of a prostitute.

While I wasn't sure if Yun Yu Xuan was disgusted by me or just angry at the current situation. From how she treated me in the past, I guessed it was both.

I returned to my seat where I saw Li Tao Hai looking at me with a mocking smile.

'I'm gonna get a beating.' I already knew today wouldn't be a fun day. And just as I expected, when it became lunch, it seemed someone wanted to have a friendly chat with me.

The boy who called me over was tall and well-built, I knew him as a friend of Li Tao Hai. But I didn't know his name.

"Hey Luke, when you gripped my wrist like that, you got your dirty germs on me." I was brought to a corner of the school where Li Tao Hai and several of his friends were. "So, shouldn't I return them?" 

Li Tao Hai punched me hard in the stomach, and I fell to my knees while having a hard time grasping for breath.

2 people had also locked me by my arms. I knew I had no chance of resisting so I just submitted myself to my fate.

The punches kept coming, sometimes they became kicks. But they all remained away from places like my face or shoulders. Going after places that were more hidden and therefore wouldn't be noticed by teachers.

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After a while, they got bored from hitting me. And left after Li Tao Hai spit on my face.

I didn't care and used my remaining strength to sit against the wall and rest.

I was angry but also hopeless. I already knew there was little I could do. This was how the world worked.

The strong toyed with the weak while the weak could only grovel at the feet of the strong.

And I was someone weak, surrounded by the strong who didn't like me.

When the bell rang, I went back to the classroom where I acted like nothing ever happened.

Reporting them would do nothing. And it would just make my own life harder.

So with a bruised body, I tried my best to focus on class while waiting for school to end.

Well, that wasn't true. I wanted this pain to end. But I also wanted school to last forever. Because the hell that awaited me at home wasn't much better than the hell here.

But I had no choice, so when school ended, I went home, enveious of all the children in this school that had the luxury to attend their clubs or go to their comfy mansions.

"Nico, sir Henry is already here, it's not good to make your guests wait." When I arrived home, my dad came outside and started messing with my uniform. He opened a few buttons and rolled up my sleeves and pants before letting me enter.

Henry was the vice principal of my school, and also one of my dad's regulars. 

He treated me like I was a son of his. But not in a good way, it was more like one of those fathers who had strange fantasies of their kids. But instead of pushing those fantasies on his actual sons, he pushed them on me.

"Nico, I heard from your dad that you received a good grade on your last test. I'm very proud of you, why don't you show it to me." Henry was an overweight older man. And the only way I could deal with him was by laughing at the fact that this man was a giant Homophoob, but well, he had hired my dad, a male prostitute, countless times.

Everyone knew the biggest homophobes were the gayest people.

I took my test, which my dad handed me, and started talking to Henry like I liked him.

"Nico is truly a good boy." He started rubbing my thigh, which he had done other times. I was very disgusted, but I managed to handle it.

But something he had done never before was moving higher than my thigh. He looked at me with a smile, a disgusting perverted smile. 

I realized my dad knew of this and smiled encouragingly. And I realized he had made a deal with this fucking human animal.

"Nico, you're getting older, so let me teach you some things." The smile on this pig's face became even more disgusting and I couldn't take it anymore.

I slapped Henry's hand anymore and ran out of the house. I couldn't fucking deal with it, I didn't want such a fucking pervert to touch me in that place.

And I hated my father for allowing it.

I ran to somewhere, I had no idea where. I didn't care where, as long as it wasn't anywhere near my house. 

Tears were coming out of my eyes, and soon, I couldn't run anymore and I just wanted to wail in my despair.

"We need to start filming, don't you understand that our budget is tight." The place I had gone to was a large bridge. Not to kill myself, but because I liked how the water just kept going. It never stopped moving.

"You know I won't start filming before I find a suitable actor for Bei Youyu. He is one of the more important supportive characters." Besides me, 2 middle-aged men were smoking on the bridge.

Having nothing better to do, I eavesdropped on their conversation. And realized they were working on a film.

Coincidentally, I knew about the film they were filming. 

It was a small-budget film created by a government organization and a charity organization. Since the charity organization was owned by a rich parent of my school.

They had decided filming would happen on school ground, and many students could play some small roles in the film.

I didn't really care, but I knew I would never be allowed to join it since my dad absolutely detested actors.

"Fuck Him." Why did I need to care about what he wanted for me? I didn't want to base my life on what he liked and didn't.

So I wanted to approach the 2 middle-aged men, but to my misfortune, they were already gone and I had taken too long to raise enough courage to approach them.

"HAHAHAH, FUCK, ISN'T MY FUCKING LIFE JUST GREAT," I screamed at the grand river. But in the end, I was but a teenage boy. And I dropped to my knees crying.

'Why did I think I could become some fucking actor.' I stood up and started walking home. I didn't want to go there, but I couldn't live alone. I was useless.

*SPLASH*

When I was about the cross the street, I heard a large plons in the river. I looked around and saw someone had jumped in the water.

*TUUUT* "Kid, you gonna cross." A car was angry with me standing in the middle of the room. And making an impulsive decision, I ran towards the river.

I jumped in it, only dropping 2 meters before entering the cold water. My body was freezing but it was alright.

The water was quite shallow and I could easily stand, but the current was very strong, which did work in my favor to catch up with the person that had jumped in the water.

I grabbed them by their clothes before holding them tightly by one arm. I wasn't very strong, but all the adrenaline in my body allowed me to keep going and I swam to land. Where there was a bit of land connected to the wall where I was able to finally leave the river, gaspting for air.

However, I didn't have a lot of time and decided to use my remaining strength to help the person next to me.

I did some CPR before moving on to doing some mouth-on-mouth resuscitation. Due to the dark, I couldn't recognize her, but she felt strangly familiar.

And soon, when she woke up, I recognized her.

"Finally Yun Yu Xuan, why would you jump in the river." I couldn't understand why she did what she did. I knew very little about her.

But I felt angry. My life was terrible but I had always kept going, kept living. But someone like her, who had so much, wanted to take her own life.

I felt angry, but I knew getting angry at someone who had just tried to take her own life wasn't the best.

She didn't answer me and just kept looking stunned into space.

 "What is the date?" She looked at me very confused before suddenly making a pained expression.

And before I could even answer her question, she ran away. Leaving me behind, very confused.

But with how wet I was, it wasn't good for me to remain here outside in the night, so I quickly hurried home.

"Nico, I'm very disappointed in you. Henry is a good client of mine and he has helped you a lot, he was very angry with you, but fortunately, I managed to calm him down." When I entered my house, I found my dad filing his nails, seriously looking at me. My knees started becoming weak, and I already regretted coming back.

"Come here, Nico." Without resistance I sat in front of him, my back turned to him.

I took off my shirt and my dad started whiping my back which was already full of scars.

I groaned but never screamed. "Sweetie, Nico, I really wished I didn't need to do this, but you need to learn to be obedient."

"Now, just go to school tomorrow and make sure no one sees these scars. I will deal with Henry, he acts like he is angry, but he nothing but a dog that needs me." Although my father was a prostitute, he knew how to hold his clients close. He was like a spider that spun a web and trapped you for eternity.

He knew how to seduce one, how to play with one's heart, how to control one's life.

My biggest fear was that I would become my father in the future. That I would use what he thaught me to become like him.

It scared me, but there was nothing I could currently do about it.