Loneliness while waiting for an end that will never come. In a world where one is alone, without even a spectator, what significance does doing more hold?
Just 13 years old, she, of course, could not understand such despair, but after listening to Chen Xiao's words, she instinctively felt an inexplicable fear and sourness at the bottom of her heart.
Thus, she fell silent.
After a while, she began to mutter, feeling that she should say something.
...
"Mom spent all her savings, the best medicine, the best hospital room... but Dad still didn't get better... then Mom got sick too... One day, a doctor told me that they had gone to a very far place, where the best hospitals were, only that it would take a long time for them to return... I knew he was lying to me..."
The little girl spoke in a flat tone, but the emotion within her words was easily discernible.
"That night, I sat in the hallway, and an old man came by... He asked me if I liked those doctors?... I shook my head..."
