Nighttime.
Cui Si lay on the floor, listening to her mother's suppressed coughing from the bed next to her, and gradually drifted to sleep.
Ever since her father went bankrupt and jumped off a building, she and her mother moved out of the big house in Green George District and rented a small room in the slums.
At that time, her mother started working in a factory until she was fired due to a lung disease. Since then, they've been barely making ends meet by making matchboxes and doing laundry for others, leading a life with an extremely unstable income.
Their financial situation improved slightly after Cui Si started "working." However, it didn't significantly change.
