My mom hates Grandma.
When she first married into the Shen Family, Grandma set many rules for her.
For example, during autumn and winter, she had to wash clothes with cold water.
For another, she had to get out of bed and cook the day after giving birth.
Grandma used these rules to torment my mom.
In the Shen Family, my mom had no status at all.
Grandma often used me to threaten my mom.
Every time I called out "Mom," Grandma would add "bad" from behind.
Every time I called out "Grandma," Grandma would follow with "good."
"Good Grandma, bad Mom..."
When I was young, I often heard Grandma say this.
As I grew up, I realized that Grandma used this method to make it harder for my mom to live in the house.
In fact, my mom did have feelings for Grandma at one point.
After all, when my mom first arrived in the Shen Family, Grandma treated her quite well.
But later on, just like my dad, Grandma enjoyed tormenting my mom.
Yet my mom still endured it.
Because sometimes, Grandma would stand by my mom's side.
She would advise my dad: "Be nicer to her; you will have to live together in the future."
Grandma would also tell my mom: "Just bear with it; when Shen Lin grows up and becomes a mother, everything will get better."
But more often than not, she would join forces with my dad to torment my mom.
When I was young, I often heard Grandma scold my mom.
"You useless woman!"
"You can't even give birth to a son; what good are you alive?"
"If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have any status in the Shen Family!"
"You need to learn gratitude!"
...
When I was in elementary school, my grandmother's attitude towards me improved somewhat.
She would give me candy.
She would hold me while watching TV.
However, she still sided with my dad.
She often advised my mom, "Just endure it; so many years have passed, and Shen Lin is already so grown up."
"Just treat her like a disobedient child and don't argue with her."
"When she grows up and becomes a mother, everything will get better."
My grandmother also told me, "Your mother ran off with another man, which is immoral."
"You must not follow your mother's example when you grow up."
"Although your dad has a bad temper, he is still your father."
"Remember to listen more to your dad and not to your mom."
...
These words, while meant to teach me, also influenced my attitude towards my mom.
So when I said earlier that my mom killed Grandma, it might have been out of a sense of revenge.
Why should my mom treat her well after how she treated her back then?
The police were silent for a moment before asking me, "So you support your mom killing someone?"
I retorted, "Don't you support it?"
The police frowned and said, "The way you're speaking makes me feel like you're very cold-blooded."
I laughed and replied, "How am I cold-blooded?"
"I'm just stating the facts."
"Besides, my mom has shown signs of surrendering."
"And I will sign a letter of understanding."
"The court won't sentence her to death."
I smiled and said to the police, "If you sentence my mom to death, then I'll take a knife and threaten Grandma's two daughters."
"Whoever dares not sign the letter of understanding, I'll kill them."
The police looked at me in shock.
"You..."
"How can you say such things?"
I retorted, "Why can't I?"
"Don't you police ever threaten others?"
The police replied, "We do that for the needs of the case!"
I laughed, "I'm doing it for my mom's needs."
Just then, someone came in.
"Captain Gao, it's bad!"
"Yan Qingmin has committed suicide!"
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