"You probably know the rest. I ran desperately through the raging fire toward the edge of the warehouse, but in the end, I collapsed from exhaustion and passed out."
"When I woke up again, I was in the hospital, and my face had become this mess."
Gu Mian looked at the woman's face.
From the half of her face that wasn't burned, one could tell she was once a pretty girl. However, the other grotesque half was impossible to ignore.
"For a few days after waking up, I had constant nightmares, dreaming that Zhong Min was coming to take my life. My elder sister—my biological sister from my birth parents' home—visited me a few times."
"My sister told me she had held me when I was born, but I couldn't remember. She was very good to me. She noticed something was wrong with me and, without telling my parents, secretly went to the village to find a shamaness."