The Year of No Return
Language: en
My parents died in an accident. My relatives fought over their inheritance while simultaneously treating me like a burden. Only my Uncle Xander, who wasn't related by blood, extended a hand when I had nowhere else to go. He asked if I wanted to go with him. He raised me well. Everyone said I was the rose he cherished most. And on the night of my twentieth birthday, he personally plucked the rose he had nurtured for years. The next day, as I endured the soreness all over my body, shy yet happy, I went to find him on the balcony. Instead, I heard him talking casually on the…