Every time he heard such a story, Bai Yan would feel pity in his heart. He lamented that he grew up in the mountains and rivers, and could not imagine that kind of purgatory on earth, let alone what the people who were buried in that kind of purgatory would feel like, and what kind of whimpering they would make.
But today, he saw it.
In other words, he is already in purgatory.
Concept: Three lives apart, is the person you love still there? Same soul, different circumstances, is that person still her?