"You want to slap your father?"
Lin Shen raised his head and looked at Lin Yong, who was sitting at the head of the living room, holding a whip and looking at him coldly.
He walked over and just called "Dad", the whip in Lin Yong's hand suddenly swung at him.
Lin Shen frowned and said nothing after being whipped hard on the shoulder.
That night, Lin Shen was whipped ten times by Lin Yong. Then, he was sent to the Lin family's private hospital to have his stomach washed. After the washing, he was confined for half a month.
"Over at the school, I have already asked for a leave of absence for you. Once you are released from confinement, if you do it again, the consequences will be more serious than this time."
"Also, stay away from that girl in the future. If I find out that you have been bewitched by her and changed your principles, you will never see her again."
Lin Yong spoke emotionlessly, as if the person in front of him was not his son, but an unrelated stranger.
Mother Lin was crying so hard that she looked at Lin Shen, who was pale and bloodless, and begged Lin Yong countless times not to be so cruel, but Lin Yong still indifferently let the door of the forbidden room be opened.
"Xiao Shen, don't go."
Mother Lin went to pull Lin Shen away again, but Lin Shen avoided Mother Lin expressionlessly and walked into the forbidden room without looking back.
Mother Lin collapsed and shouted: "Lin Yong, what do you want to teach Xiao Shen to be before you give up?"
Lin Yong didn't answer, just stared indifferently as the door to the forbidden room was closed.
There was only a narrow window in the forbidden room, so no sunlight could penetrate.
Lin Shen walked to the bed and lay down.
The whiplash on his back was bleeding due to his movements. He seemed to have no feeling and just stared at the ceiling with his eyes open numbly.
After so many years, he has already become accustomed to it.
But thinking of what the girl said yesterday, his empty pupils suddenly shrank slightly.
"Lin Shen, you are a person, not a commodity."
"You can decide your own life, not be at the mercy of others."
Being at the mercy of others...
Lin Shen let go of his hand and looked at the lion-headed goldfish still stained with blood in his palm.
In a trance, I fell into the past.
Others are five years old, have loving parents, and are carefree.
When he was five years old, he had already started reading various books that were not suitable for his age. Lin Yong would come to check him every day. If he couldn't tell something, he would be beaten severely.
He also longs for friends and toys, but Lin Yong thinks that is just playing with toys to lose one's ambition.
In his life, there was nothing but reading, and he gradually accepted that status quo.
Until one day when he was returning home from elementary school, he met a fish seller on the road.
The boss was in a hurry to go home because he was afraid of being chased by the urban management. In his panic, a goldfish packed in a small bottle fell from the top and landed at his feet.
He picked it up and wanted to return it to the boss, but the boss, riding a tricycle, said "I gave it to you" and quickly disappeared from his sight.
He looked at the bottle in his hand, with a cute goldfish trapped inside.
At that time, he knew things about astronomy and geography that many people didn't know, but he didn't know how to raise a goldfish.
He knew that Lin Yong would not allow him to touch these, but he could not abandon a life.
He hid it in his schoolbag and took it home, put it in his bedroom, and carefully fed it according to the methods on the Internet.
He took the goldfish to school every day, thinking that he would return the fish to the boss next time he met him.
But he never met the boss.
And one day, he forgot to take the goldfish to school.
(End of chapter)
