Chapter 1

My mother was assaulted by a vagrant on her way to take me to the hospital for a high fever. Shattered and crying, she fell into the river and drowned.

Blaming me for her death, my father and brother channeled all their hatred toward me, forcing me to kneel by the riverbank every single day as penance.

But then, I was targeted by the same monsters. After hours of brutal torment, I was dragged into the deep, lawless mountains.

I searched desperately for a chance to escape. Before my phone died, I made one last, desperate call to my brother, Damian.

But Damian only sneered over the line:

"Keep acting, Sienna! Even if you really got kidnapped, you brought it on yourself!"

"You were the one who should have been ruined that night, not Mom!"

I lost all hope. The villagers caught me, dragged me back, and broke my bones, tearing me apart in the name of "purifying the impure."

Later, my mother, who had actually survived and was on a classified undercover mission, returned home safely.

When she found out that my shattered bones were among the remains of the trafficking victims she had brought back, she went completely insane.