My 10-year-old daughter always rushed to the bathroom as soon as she came home from school. When I asked, “Why do you always take a bath right away?” she smiled and said, “I just like to be clean.” However, one day while cleaning the drain, I found something. The moment I saw it, my whole body started trembling, and I immediately…

me, and I instinctively stepped back from the tub. The house was silent. Lily was still at school, completely unaware of what I had just found.

My mind scrambled for harmless explanations—a scraped knee, a nosebleed, a torn hem—but none of them explained her urgency to bathe the second she got home. Not every day. Not like that.

My hands trembling, I continue reading …