My wife, filled with rage, slapped me across the face and shouted, "How could you do this to your own child? He was only five years old! Are you even human?"
I had no way to defend myself and became a reviled father, a murderer, overnight. My parents suffered severe online harassment and eventually died in their own homes. As for me, I was thrown in prison, tortured and ultimately beaten to death.
Even in my last moments, I couldn't understand why everyone who had seen my son and I insisted we hadn't been at the kindergarten. Moreover, if I had never gone near that pond, then why did the surveillance footage show me drowning my own son?
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the day I took my son to school.
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"Honey, my mom isn't feeling well. I'm taking her to the hospital today. Can you drop our son off at kindergarten?" My wife, Ruby, supported Alice, speaking to me gently.
Those familiar words sent a chill down my spine. I turned to look at Ruby, realizing that I had been reborn. In my past life, I had agreed to take my son to school alone that day and that was when everything started to spiral out of control. In the end, my son drowned under mysterious circumstances.