The Buried TruthChapter 1 Body Under a High Threshold
Having become rich, I excitedly announced in public that I planned to build a mountaintop villa on the foundation of the old house.
However, as I began the construction, my father, Martin, threatened me with death, insisting that I must not stop.
Being willful since childhood, I had no intention of yielding.
Unable to persuade me, he finally yelled, "You bastard! That's your mother down there!"
I was stunned. My mother, Iris? Didn't my mother run away 20 years ago because our family was poor?
"Your mother committed suicide by jumping into a well," said my mother.
Everyone present believed it, but I knew my father was lying because 20 years ago, my mother and I had a secret, a secret known only to the two of us.
After ten years of hard work, I achieved wealth.
During over a decade of struggling in a foreign land, it wasn't the desire to bring honor to my family that propelled me forward. Instead, it was an incident from the past that had haunted my thoughts for 20 years.