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While it might look like a random string of numbers and letters,
Jun tried to protect Mei with half-smiles and long explanations about tradition. “He’s old,” he’d say. “He grew up in a different way.” Mei learned to parse “different” as shorthand for a man who mistook control for care. At dinner he recited the family code: lineage, duty, verification. He insisted on recording Mei’s recipes and noting each holiday’s fidelity to precedent. He catalogued Jun’s childhood achievements in a ledger, then sighed at the blank lines for Mei. ssis787 eng sub my abhorrent fatherinlaw720 verified