"Thank you," she said to Xiaozuo and Xiaoyou. "You two can rest for a bit. All we can do now is wait."
Mai Mingle was very patient.
She recalled not long ago, when she had been bedridden. Back then, Mai Mingle had lost most of her interest in the news, feeling it was about another world that had nothing to do with her, a world she was about to leave behind.
She preferred watching a lively reality show about a family with more than ten members. She would lie in bed, motionless, watching the sunlight shift outside her window, listening to the news in the background as she waited for the reality show to start, her consciousness drifting in and out.
Life seemed like a pearl necklace. On the long thread of waiting, moments were strung together, each one prone to slipping away.
Mai Mingle was so exhausted she didn't even see the purple-haired woman walk out of the main gate.
