All Chapters of My Family Forced Me to Climb up the Chimney: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

10 Chapters

Chapter 1

“Rachel, are we really not taking Yannick to the hospital?“His body is full of burns and ulceration. Even his face has marks. If they’re not treated in time, his face will be ruined.”Mom looked at my terrible condition, and her voice trembled.My sister, Rachel Gale, interrupted her, “No way! The heir of the Gale family climbed up the chimney in a see-through outfit on New Year’s Eve. If other people find out about this, our reputation will be ruined. We can’t afford this embarrassment.”Mom remained silent for a while and then sighed. “Yannick suddenly came back to the family and took away Jason’s status. His suffering is also some sort of compensation.“It’s also his fault for being too stubborn. He insists on his marriage with the Jones family and refuses to let go. That’s why he’s suffering.“Both of them are my sons. He will understand me later.”Rachel reached out to wipe off the tears that kept streaming down my face. Her voice was full of doting affection.“Yannick, y

Chapter 2

Rachel’s expression instantly froze on her face. She looked away and avoided my eyes.“Yannick, the most important thing now is to take care of your health.“There’s a party every year. This year, we’ll just quietly rest at home. When you recover, we’ll organize a bigger one next year, okay?”She turned sideways with teary eyes. Her voice sounded choked up, but her tone still held affection and regret for me.“Yes, my boy,” said Mom as she stepped closer. She wanted to touch me but decided against it. She wiped away her tears. “I swear I’ll never let anyone hurt you ever again! Those kidnappers won’t escape!”But they knew.During my twenty years away from home, I endured nothing but disdain and abuse, and my only goal was to return home. The day we were reunited, they held me close and swore with tears in their eyes that they would do everything to make it up to me. They said they would not let me suffer any injustice ever again.Yet the people who threw me into this nightmar

Chapter 3

Her eyes turned bloodshot, and she bristled with anger.The group of people fell silent in fear and quickly ran away.Mom rushed to the bed and pulled the blanket tightly around me. “Yannick, don’t be afraid. I’m here…”I slowly closed my eyes and turned away from her.I was so exhausted that I didn’t even have the strength to expose their lame act.“Yannick, I just want to make you happy. Who would’ve known those jerks would do this?“It’s all my fault. You can yell at me…”How ridiculous!I turned around and buried my face into the pillow.I refused to watch their performance. I would simply play along for the moment.My skin felt like it was melting off. Then, I heard my mom crying on the phone and begging a doctor to come.In a daze, my blanket was gently lifted off of me.I was covered in open sores, black and red, and my skin peeled off in chunks.“It’s too late. The burns from the chimney heat, combined with deep friction wounds, coal dust, and toxic residue, are em

Chapter 4

My room was redecorated to Jason’s taste.My favorite food slowly disappeared from the dining table.The squeaky wheel got the grease, I suppose.With a single suicide note, Jason stole away all the love that I had longed for over twenty years.When no one was around, Jason appeared by my bedside.“Little rascal, how did you end up so miserable?“I’m afraid you’re not going anywhere with your face like this! But don’t worry. I’ll tell you every detail of the New Year’s Eve party tonight, including my proposal to Wendy…”The sole of his shoe hovered just above my bandaged cheek.I gripped the bedsheet so hard that my knuckles went white.“Yannick, why do you act so proud?“Your dumb chimney-climbing antics are all over the internet. You’ve disgraced our family. Thanks to you, my New Year’s Eve party with Wendy is getting quite the spotlight.“Everyone’s calling you a disgrace! Look at you, you disgusting little animal. You can’t even control yourself and will throw yourself a

Chapter 5

On New Year’s Eve, I was forced to wear a high-collared suit to hide the wounds all over my body that still had not healed.They gave me a sedative, which made me too weak to resist. I was dragged into the party like a puppet.“Smile!” Mom’s hand dug into my lower back, and she flashed a perfect motherly smile.“Today is your brother’s big day! Get that miserable look off your face!”Jason led Wendy by the hand. When he passed by my wheelchair, he “accidentally” bumped into me.He leaned down. His breath brushed my ear. “Loser, take a guess. How many of the guests tonight have watched the exciting livestream of you climbing the chimney?”Camera flashes went off one after another. The guests murmured among themselves about how gracious the Gale family was for letting a worthless and disgraced son like me show up at an occasion like this.The moment Wendy swept her gaze over at me, Paul and his gang circled in like sharks that had caught the scent of blood.“Mr. Gale, how about l

Chapter 6

When the fire hoses finally stopped spraying, the once-elegant West Villa had been reduced to a charred ruin, with choking white smoke still rising from the rubble.Rachel’s face was full of scratches from Wendy’s nails, but she did not seem to feel the pain. She just stared at the wreckage with a vacant gaze.Meanwhile, Wendy looked like she had lost her mind.She shook off the firefighters who tried to hold her back and scrambled wildly through the scorching ashes with bare hands.Her fingers were burned to a bloody pulp, but she did not stop.Hatred flickered in Jason’s eyes. He stepped forward and said in a soft voice, “Wendy, please don’t do this. Yannick… he’s been carrying so much pain. But even then, he shouldn’t have done this today…“If you want to blame someone, blame me…”Like countless times before, he fished for sympathy from the others.Wendy pushed his hands away so forcefully that he staggered backward.“Get away!“I disappointed Yannick… I broke his heart!

Chapter 7

Her hands trembled as she opened it. The evidence inside was shocking. Jason’s biological mother was the head nurse of the maternity ward at that hospital back then.Also, Jason had secretly reunited with his biological parents two years ago.The most mind-blowing things were a few encrypted emails.[Mom, the two old fools in the Gale family transferred more shares to me again.][Dad, the money in the Cairnhold accounts is ready to move. It’d be safer to transfer them to the Veridian Isles.][Just wait a little longer. Once the two old farts are gone, our family can be together forever.]When Mom saw these, her eyes narrowed. She opened her mouth, but she could not make any sound. Then, she collapsed backward.The hospital diagnosed her with a brain hemorrhage. The left side of her body was paralyzed, and she could barely speak.Rachel pulled all the surveillance footage.On the screen, it was revealed that Jason’s so-called “golf time” every Wednesday was actually him visitin

Chapter 8

“I was never engaged to Mr. Jason Gale.” Before the cameras, her eyes were shadowed with dark circles, and her voice was hoarse. “All previous rumors on this matter were completely false.”This broke the internet.Jason rushed to the Jones family that night. He cried and begged, but Mrs. Jones gave him the cold shoulder.“Our family isn’t worthy of someone like you with such a venomous soul.”He had no choice but to slink back home in disgrace.He was met by Rachel’s disdainful gaze. She slammed the door in his face.“Don’t you ever set foot in this house again!”With nowhere left to go, he ended up hiding in a cheap rental on the outskirts of the city.There were no servants, no designer brands, and no entourage.He learned how to use public washing machines, haggled over prices at the wet market, and cursed the world at night with a bottle of beer in his hand.Meanwhile, Paul and his bunch, who used to hang around Jason, had long since deleted all photos with him. They post

Chapter 9

A week before New Year’s Eve the following year, Gale Corporation’s last remaining capital chain finally snapped.Through three offshore shell companies, I drained every last line of credit they had.The bank delivered its ultimatum on Christmas Eve. If the interest was not paid by the first working day after New Year’s Eve, a full asset freeze would be set in motion.At 3 p.m. on December 24, all of them received the same text message at the same time.[Tonight at 8 p.m., at the abandoned factory in the western suburbs, we’ll discuss an urgent bridge loan of $300,000,000. This is your only chance.]They arrived much earlier than the agreed time.The factory’s iron gate stood open, with light spilling from within.They supported each other as they walked in. Then, they saw me.“Yannick?” Mom sounded surprised. Then, she exclaimed in joy. “I knew it! I knew you were…”She lunged forward to grab my hand, but my bodyguards blocked her.Rachel fell to her knees in the snow with a

Chapter 10

Rachel stopped sobbing and started howling.Wendy dropped to her knees. Her hands plunged into the snow, and her shoulders heaved with silent sobs.Mom just lay sprawled on the ground with a hollow gaze. She kept murmuring, “It’s all coming back around... every single thing…”I walked to the rusted iron ladder beside the chimney and reached out to touch the frozen railing.“Did you know that every day, I thought about whether I should throw each of you up there and make you experience those eight hours for yourselves?“But I realized that death like that would be too easy for you.“I want you to live.“I want you to live the way you’re living now. I want you to be penniless, abandoned by everyone, drowning in regret every single day, and watching everything you ever treasured rot away piece by piece.”The New Year’s bells rang out in the distance. The sounds of the city’s celebrations drifted faintly through the air.But it felt like another world here. There was only wind, sn

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