Chapter 1

Once again, I was beaten bloody by my unpredictable wife, Gwen. As I lay there, on the verge of being beaten to death, my adopted daughter didn't shield me as she usually did. Instead, she sat nearby, casually counting money with a smirk on her face.

It was the money I had saved for a house, penny by penny, from sweeping streets and collecting garbage.

"Mom, don't kill him yet," she said. "While it's still dark, let's dump him on the road. If this cripple gets run over by a car, we might be able to scam some money."

The mother and daughter dragged me by my crippled right leg and threw me onto the road.

As I lay dying, I desperately tried to crawl away.

But my father, George, and my brother, William, came and dragged me back to the middle of the road.

Through my blurry vision, I saw my adopted daughter hugging my father and brother, unable to contain her laughter.

"Dad, once the cripple is dead, we can finally acknowledge our true relationship!"

I widened my eyes in disbelief.

Could it be that the abandoned child I had raised with such difficulty was actually the illegitimate daughter of one of them?

Before I could understand the truth, a speeding truck ran me over.

When I opened my eyes again, I had returned to the day I found my adopted daughter.