"Amu, Amu...where did you die? Just like your mother...Bichi...pa, tell her to get out."

The violent beatings and scoldings echoed repeatedly, and the mother's painful pleas and wailings kept running into my head like the whispers of the devil.

Elmo curled up his young body and hid in a secret room under the floor. He covered his ears desperately with both hands, and his lower lip was unconsciously bitten by his teeth until it bled.

The man who broke into the home was her biological father. He drank, gambled, smoked marijuana, and never went to work.

Only when he had no money would he return home and take away every penny his mother had earned from her hard work.

And all she and her mother could get were vicious curses, kicks and threats.

The sound gradually faded away, and Elmo tried to loosen his hands covering his ears. Just as he was hesitating whether to go out and take a look, he heard a loud roar of 'Ah~~' from outside the house.

The nightmare footsteps wandered around the room again, and the vicious curses followed: "Next time you piss me off, you will get a scar on your face from the cigar, haha..."

I don’t know how long it took, but Elmo seemed to hear a call from afar.

The voice was full of love, as warm as the sun, calming her trembling body and mind.

"Elmo, it's okay." Being hugged tightly by her mother, Elmo saw her bruised eye circles and bleeding nose.

The corner of her mouth was torn with a sharp weapon and the blood was bleeding. It was the scar left by the broken wine bottle.

"Mom, divorce him! I don't want him to disturb our lives again. I hate him, and I want him... to die." There was a trace of resentment in Elmo's eyes.

"No, Elmo, don't say that... don't say that." Her mother stroked her cheek with her hand, and tears suddenly poured out of the corners of her eyes, unable to stop them.

"Baby, he will kill us, he will..."

"I can't let him hurt you - I love you angel, you know baby, I will always love you."

Little Elmo, who was only 8 years old, was held tightly in his mother's arms, looking numbly at the cold world.

One day, Elmo saw a piece of news in the newspaper he picked up: 'Lawyer Joseph won the case and became the nemesis of domestic violence, allowing women who suffered from domestic violence to be reborn...'

"Mom, I want to go to school." Ai Mo ran home quietly while the man was away, looking up at his mother with a light called 'hope' in his eyes.

She knew very well that her family could not afford a large sum of legal fees, and she also knew that her mother would only choose to swallow her anger.

So Elmo made a decision in his heart, 'Become a lawyer and get back my dignity and my mother's freedom.'

Her mother enrolled Elmo in a missionary school four blocks away, and used the money she secretly saved to bribe the priest so that little Elmo could stay at the school.

From then on, a girl appeared in the school who was always holding a book. Her clothes were always full of patches, her shoes had holes everywhere, and her body was thin and weak.

But as time went by, the light called "hope" in her eyes became brighter and brighter.

At night, when other children have gone home, or are sleeping soundly under the quilt in a warm room at school.

Elmo will appear at the corner of the office building, in the corridor outside the room where the priests rest, and next to the dirty sewage pool behind the building.

There was always a light on in these places every night, allowing her to stay up all night reading the books in her hands. Elmo greedily absorbed the knowledge in the books.

Her mind is not very bright, but she is willing to work ten times or a hundred times more than others. In that thin body, it seems that there is a giant holding the sky, supporting her forward.

Her mother rarely came to see her, and every time she came, she would leave some money in a hurry and leave in a hurry, covering her face full of scars.

If cold bread is cheap, eat cold bread. If there is no milk, drink cold water. When the weather is cold, fold the quilt into a double layer and curl up to sleep.

My shoes are rotten, so I wear old shoes that I found.

When the clothes were torn, she would cut bits and pieces of good cloth from the old clothes and sew them into a colorful, "fashionable" new dress.

Even if she received countless ridicules and cold looks, even if everyone called her a poor devil and a country bumpkin behind her back...

Ai Mo still persisted, persisting silently.

Only in the dead of night, when she was huddled under the street lamp and reading a book, would her tears wet the pages of the book drop by drop, and her silent sobs would bear witness to her growth and hard work.

Elmo squeezes every penny to the extreme, except for one thing.

Buy books!

Every weekend, Elmo would get up early and be energetic. Even if he only slept 4 hours a day, his body would be full of strength just thinking about learning new knowledge right away.

It was just dawn, and Elmo was already standing in front of the bookstore in the flea market. When the boss opened the door a crack, she scurried in like a cunning squirrel.

When flipping through books, Elmo would first select the ones he needed one by one, pile them all next to him, and then sit on them and read them carefully.

Until nightfall, Elmo would put the books he had finished back to their original places, and then he would not hesitate to buy old books that he had not yet had time to read.

The boss is already used to this.

From the initial scolding, to the later silence, and now to the half-sale, half-free offer, Elmo also kept it in mind.

"You will definitely be successful and become a big shot in the future." The boss said with a hearty laugh.

That was the first time Elmo was encouraged. When those words passed through the ear holes and along the nerves and entered the brain, Elmo seemed to hear a loud noise like the beginning of the world.

Boom~~

The loud noise was so shocking that an unprecedented strength and confidence flowed through her limbs, but her clothes were wet with tears.

His thin body squatted in front of the table, Elmo tightly hugged his knees with his hands, and cried heartbreakingly for the first time in his life.

"I will, I will become a big shot, and I will do it for you." With her eyes red and swollen, Elmo struggled to carry a stack of books half as high as hers, and walked forward with her head held high.

As she grew older and accumulated knowledge, Elmo's performance became better and better. She was first admitted to St Paul's Girls' School (London St Paul's Girls' School) with her excellent results.

Later, he received a special offer from Harvard Law School and received a full scholarship.

When Elmo was marching towards her goal with firm steps and head held high, bad news came. Her mother slipped and fell from the roof of the building due to excessive fatigue and died on the spot.

Elmo ran home like a storm, only to see the open door and a room that looked like it had been ravaged by robbers. The man disappeared with the only valuable thing in the house.

After holding a simple funeral for her mother, Elmo began to investigate the cause of her mother's death. She did not believe that her mother died from a slip, and all this must be related to that man.

Because on her mother's body, she saw fresh scars all over her body, but no one took these seriously, so Elmo could only rely on herself to find out the truth.

While studying hard and investigating the cause of his mother's death, when he was about to graduate, Elmo finally collected enough evidence and found the whereabouts of the man.

"Your Honor, I request to defend myself as a litigant. I am a student at Harvard Law School and I am about to..." In court, Aimo tried his best to defend himself.

But the answer she got was: "The application is rejected."

There was even a cruel sarcastic comment from the jury, "What can a woman do?"

"They should just go home and do their housework."

"They can also be used to give birth to children, haha..." "No, no, that is to satisfy men's desires, and secondly, children..."

The result was no surprise. Elmo lost the case. The jury didn't even see her evidence, but relied on the man's words to decide the case.

"You bitch, I will find you, and I will let you know the price of offending me." The demonic curse entered his brain again, and Elmo just sat there, as if he was a soulless body.

"Prestige, status...rights, if I have higher rights, I can make them pay attention to me, and no one can despise me anymore." Ai Mo's eyes ignited with fierce flames.

Studying, studying, studying, Elmo appeared in various courts, with hundreds of notebooks filled with analysis of the case, the techniques and arguments of both the defense and the defense.

At the same time, her performance in school was even better, and she even overpowered other students, which attracted the attention of many tutors.

In the end, Elmo received 7 invitations to mentor, including the dean of the law school, and she chose the mentor who was not well-known but was from the royal bar.

Advising his mentor, writing complaints, and analyzing cases, Elmo became more and more experienced, and his behavior became more and more ruthless.

She has never been greedy for merit. With her selfless assistance, her mentor's reputation spread throughout Europe. Until one day, her mentor looked at her and asked, "Do you want to join the Royal Bar?"

Elmo showed a relieved smile and nodded firmly.

When she stood in court again, her sharp words and tricky questions left the judge and jury speechless. At that moment, Elmo shined brightly.

She finally avenged her mother. The man who had been pestering her for 16 years like a nightmare was finally sentenced to death for "murder, perjury, and violence."

At the moment when everyone left after the trial, she had not realized how bleak her future was.

"No, you can't follow up on this case..."

"No, you can't touch these..."

"We don't need women here, go away..."

"Go organize the files! Your intervention is not needed here."

"This is my case, get out of here..."

Elmo's performance was too eye-catching and her sharp words made it difficult for the judge and jury to stand down. She was isolated by the team and the legal community.

"A stupid woman who knows no good things," is what the judge said to her in private after the court hearing that day.

"Elmo, you have performed too well, but as you are a poor person, there will no longer be a place for you here, understand?" This was the answer she got from her mentor.

Elmo tried to contact outside law firms to get a job, but she suddenly discovered that there were no female lawyers in these law firms.

Even if there are a few women inside, they only do the work of organizing documents, receiving reception, and serving tea and water.

It was only at this moment that Elmo clearly realized that the biggest reason for her isolation was not her eye-catching performance, but simply because she was a woman.

Elmo left his hometown and came to America just to find new opportunities. Elmo wanted to tell the world that women can do anything men can do.
Chapter completed!