One summer afternoon I was out doing errands for my step-mother and saw my brothers going into a liquor shop together. They came out with many bottles of beer and began to walk. Unconsciously and curiously, I manage to catch up to them.
"Hey! What are you guys doing?" I said looking at the few bottles of beer on their hand.
"None of your business," my youngest brother snaps back at me with an oddly familiar glare that he always use towards me.
"Qin-Yu, why are you always so nosy all the time? We can do whatever we want! You're not that much older than us anyways, so stop bossing us around!" My step-brother yelled back at me looking like he wants to get into a fight.
"I'm not bossing you around Li-Wei, you guys shouldn't be drinking at the age of 15. And plus what would father think if he saw you guys like this?"
"Stop using father as a threat all the time! He's not even here!" Li-Wei my stepbrother snaps back actually ready for a fight this time.
"Hey, stop Li-Wei. We shouldn't even associate with someone who killed my mother in her sleep," my brother glares at me once more.
Did he just accuse me of killing mother? I was only two when she passed away! "How many times do I have to tell you Li Wen, I didn't kill mother! She passed away in the hospital a few days after you are born due to complications!"
"Stop accusing me on causing her death, you know you did it. Don't deny it sis," my brother glared as he turns around and tries to walk away.
On the other hand, Li Wei snatched the grocery bag out of my hand as he said, "Hey, what do you have in this grocery bag?"
"Stop it! Give it back! Your mother wants to eat mangos today!"
"Sorry," Li-Wei says after he threw the whole bag of mangos onto the street.
No, I thought. I had used my last bit of money to help her buy mangos. I don't have more money to buy more for her. She's going to kill me if I didn't bring anything home.
I quickly scatter onto the street trying to pick up all the mangos on the ground. However, when I had consciously realize that I'm in the middle of the street. It's too late. A bus suddenly appears in front of me and...
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When the Flower Blooms Again
Ficción históricaFifteen years ago, after Qin Yu's mother passed away, her father remarried to another women. Years of abuse filled with complicated issue causes her in a car accident, ending up in the Manchurian grasslands and the imperial palace of the Qing Dynast...