The next day, Yang Banmei still got up at dawn, packed up her things, and took a thermos filled with congee and a boiled egg on the shuttle bus to the county hospital.
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A few days later, Chen Qiuyu was brought back to Yushu Village by the Niu family, pridefully content with how she had used her "foresight" to change her fate from being abandoned in the hospital and having to gnaw on corn cakes in her previous life.
In contrast to her smugness, Niu Shan wished he could just hack her to pieces, but he didn't have the guts to act on it. He couldn't bear to trade his own life for Chen Qiuyu's, so he hid away, out of sight out of mind.
Yang Banmei loathed Chen Qiuyu so much her teeth itched. During those days in the hospital, under the scornful and "knowing" stares of those around her, time passed painfully slowly. And Chen Qiuyu did not refrain from showing her two-faced nature to the extreme.
