Sarah has often wondered what the concept of freedom was all about from a young age. She realised at an early point in her life that it wasn't hers to live but she just happened to be a means to an end. 

This is not to say she was maltreated in any way by her family, it was actually quite the opposite as there was nothing she ever needed that she didn't get but she was forced to learn the hard way that this just came with a price or a clause as her baby sister fondly called it. 

The school has always been the only place where everyone seemed to get her. It was the only place where she found freedom and was allowed to express who and what she was. It was a place she could call her safe heaven because this was where she got to be free without being under public scrutiny and the incessant as well as constant nagging from her family about what to wear, how to speak, and even how to eat.

The curse of coming from one of the most affluent families in Detroit, New York, not just the richest but one of the most traditional Asian families in The States. This was what her best friend Rebecca had always described her situation whenever she complained of how she just wanted to escape from it all. 

For Sarah Chen, the title was a muzzle on her neck, the bars that held her prisoner to a life she wasn't interested in living. But what could she do? The more she attempted to get far away, the tighter the muzzle was on her neck. It was suffocating, and Sarah Chen, was definitely losing her mind.

This was why, when the only outlet away from her family presented itself in the form of marriage, she was more than willing to embrace it without assessing the risks. It indeed turned out to be one of the worst decisions she had ever made in her life, not once did she think she was switching her current prison for another.