Xiao Tao felt as if her head was being forcibly split open.
She even gained a sudden clarity, realizing that numbness wasn't the ultimate stage of pain; beyond it lay a pain that was stupefying.
In this stupor, she seemed to see herself as a child, when her father hadn't disappeared yet, and her mother was still young and beautiful.
The family of three would always travel around the city during holidays, with her father driving and carrying things, her mother preparing various delicious foods, and all she had to do was happily eat and play under her parents' doting attention.
But who would have thought that these happy days could come to an abrupt end?
Her mother suddenly contracted a disease of rapid aging, which no major hospital could diagnose. For this, her father sold the family's traditional Chinese medicine clinic and used the money to seek medical treatment everywhere, until he went out one time and never returned.
The life afterwards was like hell.