The story of Little Ironies

"Boom!" The thunder roared angrily and the lightning flashed across the dark sky. He was sitting down quietly in his jail cell, filled with remorse about killing his only daughter. He could not stop thinking about how badly he treated his family members: his wife and his daughter. He came home drunk and angry everyday. He was doing very well at banking, but when the stock market started to decline, he was fired from his job. Ever since, he came home grumpy and drunk.
He used to be a kind and caring father. He always brought home sweets and chocolates for his daughter and dresses and jewellery for his wife. After getting fired, he became the opposite of what he used to be. He caned and assaulted his wife and daughter and beat them up until they bled and had bruises all over their body. His neighbours saw him attacking his wife and daughters, but never did a thing, afraid that they would get beaten or tortured too.
He remembered the time when his daughter, Tan Goek Peng, came home with a F9 result for her A levels examination. He was already in a bad mood that day, after getting fined by the police for drink driving, and after hearing of the bad news, his hopes of letting his daughter go to a University were shattered. He beat his daughter until he knocked her unconscious, but he still kept on punching and beating her. His wife saw him brutally attacking her daughter, immediately rushed up and tried to prevent him from doing more damage. After trying for many times, he stopped beating her and stomped out of the house to the Toddy house.
The next morning, as his wife approached her daughters bed and wanted to wake her up for school, she noticed that she was not breathing. She quickly rushed to the phone and dialed for the ambulance, which arrived in minutes and brought the body to the hospital. Her daughter, who was already so weak, was proclaimed dead while on the ride to the hospital. Her father, upon hearing this, was filled with grief and remorse.
He was charged with manslaughter and was sent to jail for two years. He reflected on his behaviour and promised to treat his wife, the only one left in the family, better as he did not want the same thing to happen to him again