"Why were you so good to me?"
"Li Wei, why were you so good to me?"
"Li Wei, why were you so good to me?"
"Why were you so good to..."
"...Why were you so good to me?"
"...So good..."
"Li Wei..."
"...Li Wei!"
"Why were you sad?"
"Why were you crying?"
"Why were you laughing?"
"Li Wei!!!"
"Li Wei!!!"
Li Wei hugged her knees and curled into a ball.
The surroundings were pitch-black. There was no light, no sound, no direction, no matter...
Only endless voices emerged from all directions, crawling out from every nonexistent corner.
They overlapped layer upon layer, mingled with countless bizarre and fantastical nightmares, as though they meant to drown her completely.
She desperately tried to bury her head deeper, hiding it in the crook of her arms.
Unfortunately, no matter how she tried to evade them, those voices followed like shadows, never stopping.
She was so sleepy.
She wanted to sleep.
Yet she could not fall asleep, no matter what.
Then she wanted to wake up again.
To break free from the endless nightmares.
To "strangle" the owner of that hateful voice...
But her eyelids felt as though they had been filled with lead. Her mind was hazy, and she could not move.
She felt that she was about to go mad...
Gradually, she gave in and answered every question in a mild, conciliatory voice.
"Mother passed away. I ought to be sad, shouldn't I?"
Her voice was very soft, like a feather drifting through the light and shadows beneath the roadside trees.
"I picked you up, so I'm your old man. Can you stop asking already?"
Another rough young man's voice, carrying an overbearing air of righteous certainty, was drowned out once more by the tumult of human voices.
But it