Chapter 1

After my stepbrother discovered the secret that I liked him.

He sent me to a conversion center.

“You’re disgusting, liking your own brother.”

After I came out, he led the bullying against me.

Only when he realized I no longer liked him did he regret it.

He knelt in front of me and begged me to keep liking him.

“You’re disgusting, liking your own brother.”

Adrian Gray threw the diary where I had hidden my feelings straight into the fire.

With red-rimmed eyes, I tried to explain, “It’s not like that, Adrian…”

Adrian flicked the cigarette butt in his hand onto my hand.

“Don’t call me that, I find it disgusting.”

He had someone send me to a conversion center for treatment.

“This is an illness, and it needs to be cured. Once you’re cured, I’ll have someone bring you home.”

I looked at the electric shocks and batons inside the conversion center, and my whole body trembled uncontrollably.

I dropped to my knees with a thud. “Adrian, I was wrong. Don’t send me in there. I won’t like you anymore. Please take me home, okay?”

Adrian kicked my hand away. “Don’t touch me, I find you filthy.”

“You can come home when you’re cured.”

I was dragged into a room.

I listened to their filthy words. “Another one who fell for his own brother. How disgusting.”

They shocked me with stun batons and poured cold water over me again and again.

They even forced me to watch videos of men with men.

They wore me down until I had no desire left.

My illness was cured.

I became what everyone expected me to be.

A normal person.

Adrian had someone pick me up and bring me home.

I no longer had the energy I used to have, and I stood quietly to the side.

“Adrian, I’m back.”

Adrian looked me up and down.

“Looks like sending you in there was the right choice.”

“Your illness is cured. Dad and your mom will be happy when they see it too.”

At the dinner table, Mr. Gray and my mom looked at me and could not hide their delight.

“As long as you’re cured. As long as you’re cured.”

“Live a good life from now on.”

Mr. Gray arranged for me to return to school.

Everything that happened at the conversion center still remained vivid in my mind.

I became withdrawn and quiet, unwilling to interact with anyone.

Adrian glanced at me. “My brother had some issues before.”

“He liked men, and he was gay, but he also fell for his own brother.”

“Of course, everyone doesn’t need to be scared. His illness has already been cured.”

I stared at Adrian. “Why did you do this?”