The web of lies.

"Are you feeling okay?" Lu An spoke when she saw Lu Feng opening her eyes when her fever came down after three days. She cupped Lu Feng's cheek and removed the almost dried towel from her forehead that was kept to cool down her temperature. Lu Feng took a while to recognise her and when she realized it, she hugged her mother like her life was dependent on it.

"Mama..." Lu Feng cried just calling her mother all the time and Lu An took her under her wings reckoning something bad must have happened.

"Feng... What happened? Why are you crying? Shhh..." She caressed her daughter rapidly to make her calm down a bit.

"See, I am here. Nothing bad will happen to you now." Lu An said and immediately felt her daughter get stiffened in her embrace.