After Mother Remarried, I Laid Down Three Ground Rules With My Stepfather

Reborn into this life before the age of two, my Father vanished on his way to the provincial exam in the capital—alive, he was never found; dead, his body never returned. That very month, Grandfather passed away in grief. Grandmother, bedridden with illness for two years, eventually followed, leaving behind a mountain of debt. Years later, unable to bear the burdens of life any longer, Mother finally decided to remarry. Let her marry, then. I wasn’t unreasonable. But this man—I had to meet him. There were things that needed to be said, face to face, and made perfectly clear.