She had gone back to her workplace to retrieve the doll because she knew Rainy could not sleep without her doll.
She placed the doll in her daughter's arms, and immediately, Rainy hugged it tightly. Then, she reached out with one small hand and held onto Xia Ruoxin's finger.
"Mommy, are you cold? Let me blow your hand," she said. At the same time, she kept blowing at Xia Ruoxin. Sometimes, during the winter, she could remember her mother doing the same to her, and her hands would become warmer.
As she watched her daughter trying hard to blow into her hands, the tiny act of warmth caused Xia Ruoxin's eyes to redden again. She hugged her daughter's small frame and choked with a sob. "Mommy is not cold. Not a bit." She kept repeating that she was not cold, and yet her whole body was shaking.
How could such an obedient child contract this disease?
