Just got home and received a new message on my phone.

YL: "How's it going? Making progress smoothly?"

I put on the gold bracelet and took a photo to send to him.

Upon seeing the photo, he replied instantly: "Haha, bringing out the old tools, you never disappoint me."

Me: "Of course, I don't need you to worry unnecessarily. How is Xu Jie doing today?"

YL: "No self-harm today, situation is stable."

He sent a photo of a frail woman sitting in a wheelchair basking in the sun, her face serene.

It's hard to imagine that this woman, who looks like she could break at a touch, is uncontrollable when she goes mad and self-harms, even two adult men struggle to restrain her.

Xu Jie is a sister I've known since I was young.

A girl protected too well by her family, unaware of the dangers of the world, innocent, kind, gentle.

She was also the previous owner of the house I currently live in.

She lived here for two years.

Because she's too soft-hearted and doesn't know how to refuse people, like today when they said they wanted to recognize me as their goddaughter, on the first day Xu Jie moved in here, the elderly couple next door said they wanted to recognize Xu Jie as their goddaughter.

That was the beginning of Xu Jie's nightmare.