Ruan Jiaojiao found the voice familiar and curiously looked over to see a little boy sitting on Dr. Yuan's chair. He had been facing away from her before, which is why she hadn't taken a good look, but now she realized it was a classmate from her class.
"Ruan Jiaojiao, it really is you!" Yuan Xiaodong hopped down from the stool and hurried over to Ruan Jiaojiao, circling her with a face full of surprise, his eyes brimming with disbelief.
"You're actually still alive, everyone was saying you were dead..."
"..." Ruan Jiaojiao smiled, her teeth practically grinding as she asked, "Who said I was dead?"
"It was that guy from your village, called, called Xiu Cheng, that's right, the one who'd been beaten up by your brother, he said you were dead, that you fell down the stairs and died, and that you've been buried for several days now!"
"..." Ruan Jiaojiao.
Her smile couldn't hold out any longer.
God damn, dead and buried for several days already.
