Because We're Brothers

Chapter 11: Liu Wei (Part 1)

TW: Violence, Blood, Suicide thinking.
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Xu Liuwei has a "healthy" family.

He has successful parents, outstanding brothers, a well-fed family, and a good and complete education.

Even in this environment, he had nothing.

He has no one who listens to his words and affirms his actions. In this family, he is a dispensable existence.

How cruel they were to him.

It's not painful to have nothing. What's painful is knowing that he can have it and should be able to have it, so he tries his best to get it, but he can't get it.

(F***KKKKKKK I KNOW IT)

He stretched out his hand covered with mud and scars, but was waved away.

Liu Wei didn't resent his family, he just wanted some response - especially from his brothers - so he reached out again.

Until he no longer had the strength to raise his hand that couldn't grasp anything.

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Liu Wei was walking alone on the road at night. For a child in the second grade of an elementary school, it was already too late, so whenever there was any noise on the roadside, he was like a frightened child, jump like a chicken.

Today he was kept at school by his teacher because he did so poorly on the exam that even the teacher couldn't help but wonder if Liu Wei had a brain defect.

Although the teacher was very serious about teaching him how to write, Liu Wei still couldn't figure out that compared with those complicated questions, the cute patterns on the test paper caught his attention more.

When Liu Wei was holding a pencil and staring at the black and white words on the paper, the female teacher standing next to him suddenly asked: "Liu Wei, you...do you have any problems at home?"

"Wha, what?"

"Your family... ...Did they do something to you?" The teacher asked gently: "If so, just tell the teacher."

In fact, the teacher didn't know why she asked such a question. Liu Wei was a quiet child at school, although he occasionally would be bruises and cuts of various sizes, and he would always say they were injuries he got while playing with his brothers.

He seemed to be a well-behaved and peaceful child, and the family did not deprive him of adequate food or clothing, but some kind of faculty intuition drove her to ask this question.

Liu Wei tried hard to keep his voice from shaking, "No." Did the teacher discover something? Found out he was an unwanted kid at home? Find his family weird?

He remembered that there was an enthusiastic male teacher in the kindergarten who went to his home to pay attention to Liu Wei's abnormal behavior, and then he was beaten severely after the teacher left. And that teacher - after his father called the kindergarten to say something, Liu Wei  never looked at him again. He only knew that a different teacher came to teach his class the next day, and no one dared to ask about Liu Wei's family affairs.

"Really?"

Liu Wei stared at the test paper and nodded silently.

He likes this female teacher very much, and he doesn't want this female teacher to disappear from his life.

"If you have any difficulties in the future, you must tell the teacher."

"Okay...thank you, teacher..."