Xiao Hua stared at her, he knew that she wouldn't make things difficult for him nor would she joke about him looking like a reddened apple but he was still hesitant. Once he trusted a woman, sweet and charming as she was she too told him that he was beautiful and kind. She was older than him and was of course one of those women who only came to the tavern to get some release like any other woman.
But he foolishly thought that he was different because she praised him and told him that he was a lot better than the others but one day he got caught up in the rain and under the lack of treatment he caught pneumonia.
Day by day he got weaker and without any medication, he couldn't even drink water without puking it all over, he felt sick and tired, back then he wasn't so obsessed with his looks. He thought that he was beautiful no matter how he looked but then the woman whom he has been pinning for told him that he was a fool.
