The hospital corridors seemed endless, each corner filled with mystery and the unknown.
There was only solemnity and sorrow there; almost everyone's face wore an indescribable sadness. Xia Lian disliked the atmosphere of the hospital, but she couldn't leave.
Staying there, she was always surrounded by a strange sense of suffocation, making it hard for her to breathe, as if she were carrying a lot of unknown weight.
"It's that girl again."
"It's so pitiful, I see her in the hospital almost every day."
"Hey, keep your voice down, don't let anyone hear you."
"He looks like he's only in his teens, sigh, poor thing..."
How long has it been since I took a bath like this...?
As she thought this, only a sense of sorrow appeared on her face, but this sorrow did not last long before it slowly flowed into the drain hole with the passing water.
The shyness from before had vanished, and her eyes returned to their previous emptiness. Xia Lian gently dried her body with a bath towel.
Mirrors are almost everywhere in the hospital; there's a large floor mirror almost everywhere.
She hates mirrors.
Whenever Xia Lian passed by, she would walk quickly, afraid of seeing her reflection in the mirror.
But this isn't a hospital; it's our new home.
After hesitating for a moment, Xia Lian finally slowly raised her eyes and looked at herself in the mirror.
The girl wasn't wearing a bath towel, and her entire upper body was visible in the mirror; her fair skin could be described as sickly.
Beneath that layer of white skin, numerous tiny scars emerged on her body: cuts, burns, kicks... The wounds had scabbed over, and the pain of the day was gone; only the slightly grayish-glossy scars resembled ravines that had been dug out and then abandoned.
Xia Lian's lips were completely bloodless, her eyebrows lay limply above her eyes, and her gaze remained lifeless and empty, as if she had lost focus, yet she was carefully observing her current appearance.
"Xiao Lian, don't cause trouble for others."
"Okay, Mom, I won't cause trouble for others."
Sure enough, she looked exactly like her in the hospital.
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