After Traveling Through Time to Save My Kidnapped Mom, I Vanished

The Echo in the Mirror: My Mother's Escape

My mom was a university student, sold into an isolated rural community to be a breeder.

She always said her biggest regret was giving birth to me.

When Grandma forced her to do heavy labor, only allowing her a bowl of thin gruel, she called me a curse.

When her father-in-law groped her, she called me that little monster from the Miller family.

When Dad, drunk, beat her black and blue, she’d ask me when I was going to die.

“That year, I could have escaped. Why did you have to run out? Why did you call me 'Mom' and make me soft?”