Su Li's wound had indeed become infected.
Mrs. Tang had bitten her on her left hand, near the web of her thumb. When the gauze was removed, the area around the teeth marks was terribly red and swollen, showing no signs of healing at all.
"I'll have to disinfect and treat the wound again. It's going to hurt a little more than last time, so you'll have to bear with it," the doctor told Su Li after examining the wound.
Su Li nodded. "It's all right, Doctor. Please, go ahead."
"Okay. If it hurts so much you want to cry, just go ahead and cry. It's okay." Young girls often can't handle pain, so crying was normal.
Su Li forced a smile and said nothing.
'She had pain receptors; of course she knew it hurt. But she wouldn't be brought to tears by it.'
'If this little bit of pain was enough to make her cry, what about her past life, when the pain had her writhing on the ground and passing out? She could have cried herself to death back then.'
