- Professor: What did your cousin Bai do to you?
- Li Chao: He raped me.
- Professor: When?
- Li Chao: When I was 13. And when I was 14. And when I was 15. He would come to my room after I fell asleep. I didn't know what he was doing--I didn't want to know what he was doing. I knew he was something terrible. I couldn't tell Mother. I tried to convince myself it was something to do with love.
- Professor: I did not understand why she needed me to give myself to her. Why she was so insistent in possessing me. As the future did not matter, but I could feel the birth of terror. I felt on the edge of the abyxx