My Lawyer Mother Defended My Bully

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Beaten to disability by the school bully Jacob and his gang, Ethan watches his own mother—a top-tier lawyer—take the defendant's side in court. She dismantles her son's testimony with flawless precision and wins Jacob a not-guilty verdict, because Jacob's father Greg once funded her college tuition. When Ethan confronts her, she insists everyone is equal before the law and that she cannot ruin Jacob's life over a little impulsiveness.

Still in a wheelchair, Ethan is ordered to attend Greg's celebration dinner at The Golden Pavilion and to accept Jacob's apology. His father, timid and financially dependent, goes along with it. Days later, Ethan learns his mother has withdrawn his fifty-thousand-dollar medical deposit to lend to Greg's family for a house, leaving his second reconstructive surgery unpaid and his leg at risk.

Betrayed by both parents and abandoned in the hospital, Ethan stops pretending to be a good son and begins to sever himself from the family that sacrificed him.