"I was really scared at the time, those people were touching me all over, I'd never been touched like that before, and I felt panic rising from the depths of my heart. Clutching my backpack, I threw it at them, but they were too many, and I couldn't hold them back. I was pinned down, and then they started to tear at my clothes. I was absolutely desperate."
"Shi'er, do you know? I've only felt truly desperate three times in my life. The first time was when my mother sold me. The second was that night, a kind of primal despair. I thought I was really done for, I even started to cry... But then, at the most critical moment, Brother Chengchi... he came."
"After all these years, I can still clearly picture that night's scene. He was wearing a white shirt, arriving as if he had stepped on clouds, so timely, so perfect, pulling those people away from me."
