Parental Qualification Certificate

Chapter 7 - Origin of Pain

Lisa, taken aback by his certainty, looked at him suspiciously and questioned, "Did you count?"

"I counted from the very first time I made a mistake. I'm inherently sensitive to numbers. I don't need to count them deliberately. They are in my heart. Unfortunately." He grimly answered.

This confused Lisa. "How are you gifted to be so clever, yet get so many questions wrong before?"

Ok Taecyeon laughed bitterly and replied, "If it were just a mathematics paper, I'd get a perfect score. However, the tests he gave me included not only mathematics but a mix of many other subjects. How could I be so versatile?"

Lisa can only sigh at his situation.

Ok Taecyeon continued drowning on, "He implied that if I couldn't get ahead, I can only marry a low-life and cheap woman like mom and procreate a stupid and wacky child."

Ok Taecyeon then realized, "But since he despised my mother that much, why marry her? Why even give birth to me?"

As soon as the thought arose, it subsided with anguish and anger, "If I could've chosen, I wished I was never born!" His expression grew more and more violent.

"How many years have you lived alone with your father?" She suddenly asked Ok Taecyeon, seeming to disregard his angered state.

Surprisingly, he instantly replied, "Almost four years."

"How did you get away from it all?"

"My teacher often said that if you encounter domestic violence, you must report it. It is not something to be borne. At first, I didn't dare report my father since I couldn't support myself on my own. How would I live without my father? However, one day, I just couldn't stand it. I was fed up. I told my teacher. The teacher called the police, and I never looked back..."

Lisa eagerly asked like a little child listening to a bedtime story, "and after?"

"My father was deprived of my custody, and my mother came to fight for my custody after being notified. And although she was deemed irresponsible for leaving me, she cried in court for hating herself for being so weak. She hoped they would give her a chance to compensate. The jury decided to trust her and gave her my custody."

Lisa continued to probe, "Was your mother good to you?"

Would a woman who had left her son to a physically abusive husband really reflect on herself and compensate her son?

Ok Taecyeon was silent for a moment, and solemnly asked her, with no hint of pain, "What do you think?"

Lisa did not need to guess, yet she asked in a different way, "How did you get along with her?"

"Well, she didn't hit me, so that was a start. But she was very busy. She was busy at work, busy eating, drinking, and having fun." Ok Taecyeon's expression changed from mad at his dad for changing his life to disappointed at his mom for not being in it. Yet he continued to tell the test facilitator his back story, "She talked to me about the conditions. One of them was as long as I cooperated with her to cope with social workers, I could do whatever I wanted. She gave me living expenses and pocket money every month. And I would spend it on whatever I pleased."

Lisa understood his decisions.

Ok Taecyeon's mother was fighting for custody, only for the support of her son for her monetary gain. After that, there wasn't much sincerity for her son. Lisa thinks that the mother didn't care at all for his well-being and saw taking custody of him translates to more profit.

Ok Taecyeon's face had a faint shadow of sadness, and he expressed himself more.

"I thought it was good to live in peace that way. Just to act with her in front of the social worker and pretend to be very harmonious and cheerful. However, our acting skills were not good enough, and the social workers saw through our facade."

Ok Taecyeon sighed and continued to spare no detail left behind, "My mother was warned by the court. She then got so angry that she didn't want to carry me as a burden anymore. She simply beat me up and was deprived of custody by the court."

"She did tell me that she never liked me. Since the beginning, she only fought for my custody to support herself by getting dad's maintenance fee. But she didn't expect my father's income to be so low. That caused her a lot of trouble and she regretted it. Hehe..." There were faint tears in his eyes, ready to spill.

Lisa knew what happened to him next. Ok Taecyeon could only then be adopted.

"Did you not have any relatives?" Relatives had to adopt him.

Ok Taecyeon shook his head in dismay and said, "I was adopted by a couple living in South America. The man who adopted me was rich and had a reputation of high social status. Unfortunately, he was a pervert who liked Asian little boys. That pervert... he... did something unforgivable..." He trailed off, embarrassed.

Unforgivable things...

Lisa took a sharp breath. If she wasn't wrong, then he was ... sexually assaulted?!

Ok Taecyeon's breathing became extremely heavy, and cold sweat leached out of his forehead.

After a while, he continued to say, "My adoptive mother was the accomplice of the man. She helped the man control and imprisoned me. They also colluded with the doctor and forged my medical report repeatedly, making me practically disappear from the public's eye."

Ok Taecyeon took some time to accumulate the courage to admit the next words. "The man violated me again and again. I asked for help and had to pretend to be obedient. I did a lot of disgusting things. Later on, I finally found an opportunity to kill the bastard and escape ..."

There was pin-drop silence. Many hostages around him stared at him with sympathy. And Lisa was one of them.

There were many people with subconscious trauma syndrome, but most of them were primary or secondary. However, the higher the level, the fewer cases existed.

Patients with grade 6 latent trauma were extremely rare since they have all suffered severe trauma, without exception.

One of the more common situations is being repeatedly sexually assaulted in their adolescence. It completely destroys the spiritual world of a minor, which can be devastating.

Lisa thought that compared to Ok Taecyeon's past, she was the lucky one. At least she had a dad who loved her and had a very good adoptive mother.

As soon as the idea appeared, she was suddenly stunned as if the world turned black, and there were only two words that mattered "Stockholm syndrome".

Miao:-
Do you know how the name 'Stockholm syndrome' came from?

An escaped convict a bustling bank, the Sveriges Kreditbanken, on Stockholm's upscale Norrmalmstorg square and single-handedly held the place up. His friend joined him. He asked for money, guns, bulletproof vest and car.

By the second day, the hostages were on a first-name basis with their captors. When the police commissioner was allowed inside to inspect the hostages' health, he noticed that the captives appeared hostile to him but relaxed and jovial with the gunmen.