The atmosphere of the surroundings was tense. The old man in the living room glared at the young girl with anger in his eyes, like he was ready to kill, and that's what the old lady in the same room feared. 

She feared for her daughter's life.

She wanted to intervene in between, but she was too scared of her husband, so she did what she had been doing: she looked at the horrifying scene unfolding in front of her eyes, as her husband looked at her daughter with disappointment.

The old man roared, glaring at his daughter, "What kind of girl are you, huh? Can't you even study? Look at your marks, so poor, so fuking dumb. 75% is this why I'm sending you to the world's best university??? So you could get this pathetic 75%, 75???"

He hit the girl on her head with her answer sheet, making her shrink down. 

Her shoulders were crunching up, and her face looked down with her eyes closed as she took the hit, "Tell me why you didn't study?? Did someone distract you? Do you have someone, any boy, who is distracting you?"

She stood still, looking down as she took each word her father said to her. Getting no answer from the girl, he pulled her head up, grabbed her hair, and slapped her once more right across the face. "Don't just stand still and tell me, or else I'll break your remaining bones"

Hearing the echo of the slap, the mother ran to her child and hugged her, protecting Lily from her own father's wrath, "Please stop it, please, she is scared, please don't do this."

The man pulled his wife away from his daughter and blamed, "It's all because of you, only because of you, you dumb woman...."

He was about to say more, but was interrupted by the call. Answering the call he moved from there, still glaring at both of them.

The moment Andrew Bloom left, his wife, Jessica Bloom, ran to her daughter and hugged her tight, letting the girl finally cry in her embrace.

"It's going to be fine my baby, everything will be fine" She whispered, rubbing Lily's back, assuring her that it will actually be fine.

Lily wailed, "im tired mom, im.... tired."

Hearing the broken voice of her bubbly child, she saw her world collapsing, gulping down the heavy lump in her throat, she said, "lemme take you to your room, come."

Andrew Bloom, the owner of BLOOM, a luxurious clothing brand known for its classic royal look, and highly famous. He inherited the empire after his father and took it to the next level, making it top 10 luxurious clothing brands in the world. He has given everything to his empire as he believed there was nothing more powerful than power itself, which comes from money.

He is an abusive and short-tempered man, who gets mad at basically anything that does not go according to his preference. He married Jessica because it was a good business to expand his empire and step into the footwear industry, too.

He had always wanted an heir, but when even after 5 years of marriage, Jessica couldn't get pregnant, he consulted a doctor. Finding out that he was infertile, he was shattered from the inside. He had only 5% of chance.

Not able to take the shock, he forced himself on his wife that day, which ended up resulting in Jessica's pregnancy.

The couple was extremely happy, after 5 years they were finally blessed with a child, and Andrew wanted it to be a boy so badly. But after 9 months of long wait, his hope died. When doc congratulated him for being the father of a beautiful baby girl.

He was disappointed.

He tried more times to get a son, but after continuous try, nothing happened, he gave up.

He neglected his daughter for the initial years as he still hoped for a boy, his son, his heir. But his dream of having an heir was brutally crushed, and he couldn't bear the sight of the girl who was, unfortunately, his daughter, his only child.

Accepting the reality, he decided he would make his daughter do everything he wanted for his son, he would make her independent so later she can take over the business and then get her married to a man who would be like a slave to him.

He knew his daughter wasn't particularly good in some subjects, so he became strict towards her.

Lily always tried her best to satisfy her father but everything seemed to be not enough. 

Her father wanted more, and she was getting tired.

She was exhausted.

19 years, she has been trying her best to prove to her father that she is not useless, she is not worthless, she is not a waste, not a mistake.

19 damn years.

Where her mom always supported her and gave her the love, she still craved for her father's affection.

She wanted her father to smile at her the way her mom did whenever she won any competition but all her father could say was "these competitions are a waste of time, which you could have invested in studying. But guess what? You are just a useless piece of shit. A fuking burden to me."

She grew up fearing her father and sympathising with her mother.

Oh, that poor lady,

When Jessica heard the news of her getting married to the owner of the BLOOM, she was beyond happy. She had always admired the man for his hard work and passion. She respected him and had fallen for him, too, somewhere.

She had so many dreams with her future husband, but all were broken when she realised that her husband was not what she wanted him to be. He was the total opposite of the person she dreamt of, but now she had accepted the reality, accepted that happiness wasn't meant for her, but she wanted her daughter to be happy and feel loved, so she poured all of her love into her daughter.

Jessica made her daughter lay down on her bed and made her sleep. Watching her drift into a peaceful world, she got up and brought a first aid box from the bathroom to clean the wound on her lip and the red marks of finger of her husband on her daughter's cheek.

"Sleep, my little angel."

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