Left In The Fire: I Am Reborn

“Left with Nothing, I Am Reborn Five years ago, a car accident took away every memory I had of my family and my fiancé. They treated me. They encouraged me. And every time a memory came close to the surface, it vanished-until this time, when I told no one, and all of it came back. It turned out I had not been the only one in that crash. While I lay trapped in the flames, my fiancé peeled my fingers off him one by one. Simply because their adopted daughter had suffered a trivial fright, they abandoned me without hesitation and left me to be swallowed alive by the fire. To bury that filthy crime, they bribed doctors, again and again, to wash away my memories-molding me, stroke by stroke, into an obedient, hollow shell. For five whole years, I apologized like a criminal for being a "burden." At that moment, the last humble flicker of longing for family and love inside my chest died completely. So when they dragged me back to the clinic by force for one final memory wipe, I calmly met the psychologist's terrified gaze. "Begin. But leave the painful wounds untouched-what I want you to erase is every last scrap of love I hold for them. Not a shred of it may remain."”