"Deep in her memory, she had her last meal with her parents and sister on her tenth birthday. She never thought that it was the last meal for her and her family. Six years later, when she thought about it carefully, she often sat in front of the stove and smacked the expressions on the faces of her parents and sister on her birthday, the reluctance of knowing she was going to be sent away, and the trace of guilt forced out of the reluctance. Six years is neither long nor short. It has gone by in a flash, and some of the rebellion has been smoothed away, and some of the unwillingness has been hidden. "