The old woman said goodbye to Grandma Li.
As she turned away, the smile slowly faded from her face.
She thought of Nan Nan again.
The incident had left a deep impression on her.
Because in Nan Nan...
she had caught a glimpse of her own grandson.
As the days passed and her grandson showed no sign of improvement...
she still couldn't bring herself to take him to see a psychologist.
She was terrified...
that Lele would become the second Nan Nan.
She had repeatedly warned him not to talk about his parents when they were out.
She was worried he might say something strange and make people suspicious.
She had an explanation, of course, just like the one she'd given his teacher today...
that the child still hadn't come to terms with his parents' passing...
and almost everyone would understand and feel sorry for what he had been through.
But this couldn't go on forever.
The teacher had said it, too...
It had been two years...
and he still hadn't moved on from the accident.
They needed to do something.
They needed to take him to see a psychologist.
But...
she was really scared...
She didn't want anyone else to know there was something wrong with him.
She was afraid he would spend the rest of his life under the judgmental gaze of others.
Afraid he would be rejected, shunned, and isolated...
That would make him cling even more tightly to the fantasy that his parents were still with him.
She believed that as long as they stayed by his side, and his friends stayed by his side...
one day, he would accept the truth.
But as the days went by...
she wasn't so sure anymore.
Would that day really come?
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