A heartbreaking story has recently surfaced about a woman in Sarawak who was battling cancer and wrote a deeply emotional letter to her father.
In the letter, written on 9 January, Wong Qiu Yeu, poured out her long-suppressed feelings about her stepmother, whom she referred to as her father’s “mistress”, and alleged that both she and her younger sister had suffered abuse at her hands.
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M’sian woman pens heartbreaking letter to her father while battling cancer
According to the letter, Qiu Yeu questioned whether her father had ever truly loved her and her late mother.
“Dad, did you ever love me? Did you love Mum? Did you give all the love you had to us, your children?
“Ever since I returned to Sibu after undergoing treatment for bone cancer in Kuala Lumpur, my younger sister and I were subjected to daily abuse and mistreatment by your mistress. Why did you allow her to beat and abuse us?” she wrote.
She also recalled times when she and her sister were sent to school without food, leaving them hungry throughout the day.
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“In the mornings, when you drove us to school, you didn’t give us any pocket money, so we went to class on an empty stomach. Because your mistress didn’t allow you to pick us up, you let her fetch us instead. My leg was still injured and hadn’t fully healed, yet when she came, she wouldn’t even stop the car. She slowed down and told us to jump in. I endured the pain and did so. Eventually, she stopped picking us up altogether and made us walk home,” the letter read.
Qiu Yeu also shared that when they returned home from school, there was often no food, and they were not allowed to access the kitchen as it was locked.
“We weren’t allowed to use anything in the house. Even the toilet was off-limits, she left notes saying that if we needed to use it at night, we had to go to the outdoor corridor. We weren’t allowed to use the drying rack either and if she saw our clothes there, she would throw them away. We had no choice but to dry our clothes on the iron window bars in our room,” she added.
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“Didn’t your heart ache when you saw all this?”
Qiu Yeu questioned how her father could stay silent, watching everything happen right before his eyes, without doing anything.
“You watched as she fed us nothing but plain white rice and said nothing. At the dinner table, she wouldn’t allow us to eat anything except vegetables. When my sister tried to take some meat, she stopped her and asked, ‘For what?’ Then your mistress splashed soup onto my sister’s face, and you did nothing.”
In another incident, she recalled how her stepmother had cut her sister’s arm, yet her father did not take her to the hospital. She also alleged that her stepmother once locked her out of the house because she was unable to pay rent.
“Didn’t your heart ache when you saw all this? How could you watch your mistress hurt us and stay silent, only saying ‘That’s enough’ after a long time? Don’t you feel sorry for us when you see us being abused? Why, Dad? Why did you change like this after marrying her?”
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She went on to share that due to her illness, she was unable to hold a full-time job and could only work part-time to earn a small income. Despite that, she claimed her stepmother demanded RM250 in rent and RM100 for electricity.
“Dad, how could I afford that? Because I couldn’t pay, she never gave me a single peaceful day. She even locked me out of the house. How was I supposed to recover from my illness like that?”
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“This is the last letter I will ever write to you in this life”
Qiu Yeu later pleaded with her father to stand firm and find it in his heart to do what was right for his children.
“Just one day after I returned from the hospital, you and your mistress came at 6 AM to move everything out of the house. Later, she told me not to sleep on the bed because she bought the bedding, and said I should sleep on the floor. Dad, I had just been discharged from the hospital, how could I sleep on the floor?”
She then heartbreakingly shared how she had come to accept everything she suffered daily, especially after doctors told her that the cancer had spread throughout her body.
“Dad, have I already passed away? Do you really wish for my death that badly? My ‘good’ father, am I truly not worth saving? Even the doctors are doing everything they can to save me. Hearing you ask uncle for my MyKad to handle my funeral arrangements truly broke my heart. I am so sad, Dad. I really loved you.
“Dad, I am leaving now. I have entrusted uncle to pass this letter to you. I hope the choices you make will not leave you with regrets. Farewell. Calling you ‘Dad’ one last time. Written by your daughter, Wong Qiu Yeu.”
Qiu Yeu took her final breath and sadly passed away on 18 January at just 21 years old.
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