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Eight-year-old Xu Qingcheng suffered from a severe clotting disorder, and doctors once declared she would not live past five. She was the glass princess her whole family cherished. Her parents spent their entire fortune to keep her alive; her mother knelt and prayed, while her father rushed about day and night to earn money for medicine. Sensible Qingcheng hid all her pain and grievances. The notes in her piggy bank were filled with wishes: buy Dad a belt, buy Mom a dress, buy her little sister a doll.

On the day her younger sister Huanyi started school, Qingcheng had severe chest pain and wanted painkillers, but her physically and emotionally exhausted mother mistook it for jealousy of her sister and deliberate pretending. Her mother lost control and slapped her. The medicine bottle shattered, and the shards cut her skin, triggering a fatal hemorrhage.

Qingcheng hid alone in the bathroom to save herself, trembling as she called for help. Her father did not answer, and her mother impatiently hung up. She curled up in the bathtub filled with hot water, wrapped in a knitted sweater that carried the scent of jasmine, and passed away in endless pain.

After her soul left her body, Qingcheng watched helplessly as her family brought home a strawberry cake, thought she was throwing a tantrum, and threw the cake she loved into the trash. Only the next day, when her mother pushed open the bathroom door, did she see her daughter, already cold in a pool of blood.

When the terrible news arrived, her mother completely broke down, and her father’s hair turned white overnight. He murmured before the memorial altar and wept uncontrollably at the piggy bank. Qingcheng wanted to comfort her family, but her hands could only pass through emptiness.

At the cemetery, fine rain fell. Watching her family’s departing backs, her soul gradually faded away. With her last strength, she waved goodbye: This life had been too bitter. Love was a burden, and living was a drag. In her next life, she did not want to come to this world again.