Partiality Is the Knife That Kills a Child

Partiality Is the Knife That Kills a Child Plot:

Lin Xiaoman, from a blended family, grew up under the rule of “You’re the older sister, you have to let your brother.” Her brother tore up her admission ticket to the art academy, and her mother only said, “He doesn’t understand.” Her part-time earnings for tuition were embezzled by her mother to pay for her brother’s math cram school, with the excuse, “Boys need to build their future.” On her 18th birthday night, Xiaoman hid on the balcony with her rain-soaked sketches, listening to her mother singing a birthday song to her brother in the living room. She finally realized: the expectations shattered by partiality had long been a thorn in her heart. When her mother cried and apologized years later while holding Xiaoman’s childhood sketchbook, she discovered that her favored brother hadn’t escaped either—he lived under the枷锁 of “only being worthy of love if he’s excellent.” This “knife of partiality” had pierced both children’s lives.