Mom's face was streaked with tears mixing with the blood from her forehead. "No! Mommy won't do it! Mommy won't cut ties!"
I pressed my bleeding thumb onto the severance document, leaving a vivid red print.
The blood seeped into the paper, blooming like a deformed flower.
I held up the paper. "As of today, I have no father. No mother."
Curses erupted around me.
"Sinner! Why keep a daughter like this around?"
"Look what she did to her own mother!"
"Born defiant—a wolf that can never be tamed!"
Just then, a blue verified badge floated across the livestream comments:
[I'm a physician in the Endocrinology Department at a top-tier teaching hospital. These lab results don't add up. If hormone levels were really this chaotic, a normal person would already have severe kidney damage or even organ failure. There's no way she'd still be standing here.]
Mom lunged forward and snatched the severance document from my hands, tearing it to shreds. "Mommy can't lose you..."
I tried to pull away, but she held on too tight.
"I don't have a mother like you."