The most ridiculous thing, however, was that she was not hard-hearted enough to end her life by biting off her tongue.

  She could not live in such humiliation and bear seeing herself becoming so ugly while greeting the bright, sunny morning with a smile.

  Every morning, as she looked out of the window to see the morning sun, she could feel that her world had permanently descended in darkness and despair; the bright sun rays would never be able to shine into her heart again.

  However, whenever she saw her mother crying her heart out and her father letting out a heavy sigh as they sat by her side, she would always try to motivate herself anew.

  As her bodily senses gradually recovered, though, the excruciating pain she felt soon ate away her willpower.

  She realized, there and then, that staying alive was, sometimes, the cruelest thing!

  It was torture to be alive!

  A cripple. That was what she would be for the remainder of her life. No longer could she hug her beloved man, wear beautiful dresses, and apply her favorite lipstick. In fact, there was no way she could stand seeing her monstrous face!

  Even having the ability to walk had become a luxury to her.

  She vaguely heard that the burned skin on her right leg was too big of a surface area to undergo skin-grafting. Should the infection worsen, she might have to amputate it.

  She nearly blacked out when she heard that. She was so shocked to the point that no tears came forth even though she wanted to break down in tears!

  Inwardly, she could feel herself crumbling apart as she asked herself,

  Her mother comforted her repeatedly, “Don’t be scared, Tiantian. I’ll take care of you for the rest of your life if you really have to amputate your legs.”


  Since the young lady could not speak, she could only cry in her heart as she wondered to herself,

  She was all drenched in a cold sweat, resulting in the bedsheets to be damp as well, when the changing of the dressings was finally over.

  The nurses had no choice but to move her to change the sheets into clean ones. This process, however, brought her unimaginable pain again.

  She was covered in injuries all over, so she would be in great agony no matter which part of her came into contact with something. She suffered a great deal of pain when the nurses had to shift her onto another bed.

  This thought played on a loop in her mind as she gritted her teeth and wondered nonstop,

  Once the doctors and the nurses left, her mother rushed in at once, only to see her lying ramrod straight in bed as she stared unblinkingly at the ceiling with eyes wide open. Alas, no amount of light could refract into her pupils.