Lai Wei's home in the alley was extremely noisy, with all sorts of petty citizens who could make a huge fuss over the smallest things.
Lai Wei's mother wasn't in good health, but she had an excellent daughter. Lai Wei told Mi Lu that as a child, it was just her and her mother against the world.
The neighbors around them thought they, a mother and daughter alone, were easy to bully. But even at a young age, Lai Wei had rushed out with a kitchen knife in hand, terribly anxious inside, yet without showing it on her face.
She warned the neighbors that, as a minor, even if she were to kill someone, she would only be educated, but for the person killed, death would mean nothing.
Lai Wei didn't start out so extreme, but she couldn't stand how the neighbors would talk about her and her mother, sometimes with words that seemed trivial but were actually the most hurtful. Back then, her mother always cried, feeling sorry for her.
