Ste''s sobs and pleas went unanswered. Her stepmother was unmoved, relentlessly insulting her, calling her filthy and worthless.


    Then, the message from her father on her phone vanished.


    She confronted him, asking why he''d sent her to the office with documents sote at night, all by herself. He tly denied it and pped her hard across the face. "You have no shame, and now you want to me me for it? With an attitude like yours, what''s the point of college? You''ll just end up as a drain on society."


    That day, Ste''s tears flowed from dusk till dawn, and from dawn till the next sunset.


    She suddenly longed for her mother. She wanted to tell her mother she''d been hurt, to hide in her mother''s arms.


    But when she finally mustered all her strength to find her, her mother didn''t even ask if she was okay. She just pressed some money into Ste''s hand and hurriedly sent


    her away.


    With nowhere else to go, Ste trudged back to her father''s house in disgrace. Her only hope was the university eptance letter.


    But when she got home, she found the letter torn to shreds by her stepsister, who even taunted her, admitting she had hired the thugs who had assaulted her. The stepsister swore she would never let Ste go to college, vowing to make her rot in the gutter forever.


    Ste tried to fight back, but her stepsister had a video of the assault and threatened to post it on the university''s online forum if she dared to enroll.


    Then, at her stepmother''s urging, her own father tried to marry her off to a sixty- year-old man who was offering a handsome sum of eighty-eight thousand dors.


    Her stepmother wanted to use the money to buy a fake diploma for her own daughter.


    At that moment, something inside Ste finally died. If they were determined to ruin her life, then she would drag them all to hell with her.


    After hearing Ste''s story, even the police officers working the case felt a pang of sympathy for the girl whose life had been so difficult.


    The case caused a huge stir in society. Many people online argued that the father, stepmother, and stepsister had gotten what they deserved, and they hoped Ste would receive a lenient sentence.


    However, thew is impartial. Ste had murdered three people in an extremely brutal and cruel manner.


    In the end, Ste was sentenced to death.


    When Ste''s mother visited her for thest time, she dissolved into tears.


    "Ste, I''m so sorry. I really didn''t know.....”


    "You didn''t know, or you didn''t want to know?” Ste sneered. "After the divorce, you never visited me once You never cared if was okay it ifl had enough to eat, or if i was warm! You only ever cared about yourself, afraid I''d be a burden to you!"


    "If you didn''t love me, if you didn''t want to raise me, then why did you even have me?!" Ste shrieked hysterically before the guards led her away.


    Due to the case''s high profile, it received significant attention from the authorities, even being featured on a true-crime documentary series.


    The plight of children from divorced and blended families suddenly came into the spotlight.


    Ste''s case seemed to have served as a wake-up call for society.


    Because of her neglect and inaction, Ste''s mother was quickly doxxed byizens. She was pointed at and whispered about everywhere she went, bing too afraid to even leave her house.


    Under immense social pressure, her husband divorced her.


    After the divorce, he remarried quickly.


    When Ste''s mother went to visit her younger daughter, she saw the girl being


    beaten and cursed at by her ex-husband''s new wife.


    She ran over to intervene, but the new wife pointed a finger in her face. and scoffed, "You didn''t care when your older daughter was being abused by her stepmother, so don''t you dare meddle in this.