Huo Mian smiled in her sleep when she dreamt of this part…
Soon after, she woke up from her dream…
She realized that it was all a dream, a dream of her distant and beautiful past when high school had just started.
Immediately, her heart sank…
She sat up, no longer wanting to sleep. She picked up her phone and saw that it was already past midnight.
She got up quietly and carefully opened her babies' diapers.
She changed them into a new set of diapers and saw that the babies weren't awakened by the action.
Huo Mian took out a cigarette from the drawer and went into the bathroom...
She leaned against the sink and lit the cigarette…
Whenever she was extremely depressed, she would smoke. This had been a habit she had developed many years ago. She wasn't addicted to smoking; rather, smoking was a form of stress relief for her.
