Do you remember the instance when you went to a supermarket with a list of ingredients but came out of that place with more than what was listed on your list?
Or when you go for window shopping and end up buying something?
What's that word again? Ah, Impulse buying. That's it.
You get sales talked by someone and after a couple of exchanges with them, you end with having one box of mandu that wasn't on your list.
Or that luxury bag Xiu Mei was just simply admiring from the glass window but somehow she was suddenly holding a paper bag of that same brand?
Xiu Mei felt that this scene seems quite familiar.
A momentarily lapse in judgment and then voila! You get to see half of your three month's salary, totally gone.
But right now, Xiu Mei knew that it wasn't just her three month's worth of salary gone. She felt like the rest of her life are being stolen away, including her civil status as a single person.
