After Tang Yuanxiao and Yu Le left, Su Li sat alone in her chair with her eyes closed for a long time.
It wasn't until a nurse, worried about her condition, woke her that Su Li mustered the energy to stand up.
She wanted to smile and thank the nurse, but her face was so swollen that even smiling was difficult.
'My hand is aching and swollen, a prickly, numb pain,' Su Li thought mockingly, her face expressionless.
'Having a high pain tolerance is a virtue, I guess. After a while, you just get used to the pain.'
She pulled herself together, went outside the hospital to buy some fruit, and visited the decorator's room to apologize again. Then, under the family's complex gazes of resentment, sympathy, and pity, she left the hospital.
As dusk fell, no one noticed Su Li's disheveled state.
Su Li had to stop and rest twice on her way, walking intermittently before finally getting home.
