“So cold... I’m freezing... Please, give me my winter clothes back. Just give me something to eat...”
The bone-chilling cold cut to the marrow. Lu Yun curled up in the ice-covered stairwell, his whole body stiff with cold and his hands and feet covered in frostbite sores.
Before his eyes, the neighbors who once greeted him with smiles and the coworkers he saw every day carried off his last instant noodles and down jacket. They coldly shut their doors, leaving him to slowly lose consciousness in the merciless cold of more than seventy degrees below zero.