Chapter 10

But Chloe cried and said, "Sister, if you go with Dad, you'll die. I don't want to watch you die." But Chloe, I didn't want to see you suffer either. In the end, it was Chloe who went with Dad. She tricked me into drinking a glass of milk laced with sleeping pills. While I was fast asleep, she left with our father. As for me, I moved to another city with our mother. After that, we lost contact for five years. Once free from our father, who suffered from bipolar disorder, our mother focused on her career and quickly became a well-known entrepreneur in our city. To protect me, she created a fake identity for us—claiming that my biological father had died in a hiking accident abroad. From then on, Chloe and our biological father became a secret between us. But I knew—she couldn't bear to let go of Chloe. And neither could I. So once our lives had stabilized, we tried to find Chloe again. Finally, five years ago, we made contact. Our father's bipolar condition hadn't improv